Word: arabization
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...validated the statement that the struggle between the Arab and Israeli "is a conflict of right with right" and justified the Israeli right "because 4,000 years ago the narrow strip of Palestine became the cradle of their culture and religion...
Another time, Jones had touse American slang to get out of a tough spot. He and two staffers were covering an Arab nationalist uprising in Tunisia in 1952, when his car was stopped by a large band of Arabs. "After many minutes of trying to convince them that we were les Americains and not Frenchmen, who were being shot at the time, the sheik called for silence, indicated he would give me the test. In complete silence he stuck his wrinkled face up to mine and said, with a look of infinite cunning, the only American word he knew...
JORDAN "would long ago have ceased to exist as an independent state" but for the $200 million it got from Britain, U.N., aid to Palestine refugees and Point Four. One benefit: Jordan's Arab Legion is "the best-trained combat force in any of the Arab states...
With Lebanese-Brazilian links such as these, Chamoun's visit was sure to be friendly. He received the Grand Collar of the Southern Cross from Vargas, signed a "most-favored-nation" commercial treaty, addressed Congress. Everywhere he plugged Arab-Latin American solidarity in the United Nations...
...patrol unlimbered its Bren guns and disappeared into the night in the direction of the Jordan border. Soon the men came back with a prisoner. He was an Arab of medium height, and he tried to make himself smaller by pressing his hands against his belly. The Israelis searched him roughly, and one of them thrust the snout of a Tommy gun into his stomach. He made a noise like a wounded animal. Then Tryfus tried to thrust the land mine into the prisoner's hands. The Arab shrank back, and Tryfus laughed grimly. "He knows nothing," mimicked...