Word: arabization
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...annual meeting in Atlantic City, the National Lutheran Council, representing 4,500,000 members in eight church groups, called upon the U.N. General Assembly to request the Arab countries and Israel to meet at a peace table. The council, which re-elected Dr. Oscar A. Benson of Minneapolis president for his second one-year term, also heard a report from its Latin American division calling for a"full-scale spiritual invasion" of the Roman Catholic countries of Latin America...
...most critical natural resource in the arid Middle East is water. Israel needs water to support a population doubled in the past five years. The Arab states need it to settle and feed 900,000 Palestine refugees. But there is not enough for both. Today, only 5% of the Middle East's land is cultivated; the rest thirsts. Meanwhile, the Jordan River, which meanders part of its course between Israel and Jordan, wastefully pours 44 billion cu.ft. of fresh water annually into the salty Dead...
Last week, after three months, the Council voted. A majority agreed to let the Israelis resume work on the canal, providing that General Bennike found the project endangered no legitimate Arab interest. This was sure to madden the Syrians, and gave the Russians a chance to curry Arab favor. Russia cast its 57th Security Council veto, its first in a Middle East dispute and its first against Israel. Warned Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb: "This is a melancholy and sinister occasion-melancholy . . . for future international cooperation; sinister, because of its implications for the cause of peace in the Arab...
...begin with, the West did not even bother to consult Egypt, the biggest Arab state, in advance. Egypt at that time was rioting against the British in the Suez, and it immediately decided that the MEDO scheme was just a clever British trick to perpetuate imperialism. Moreover, disregarding the fact that the Arabs and Israelis were still technically at war, it was proposed that they sit down together at headquarters and swap secrets. The plan was hastily revised to answer objections, but again was spurned by the Arabs...
Countries Willing. Last May, U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, touring the area in search of allies, arrived in Saudi Arabia, a dusty, disillusioned man. He had found the Arab world fragmented by fears and quarrels. In Riyadh, Dulles got the advice he needed from the dying old desert King, Ibn Saud. Arabs, explained Ibn Saud, would never agree to MEDO. They detest legalistic documents so crammed with fine print and annexes "as to resemble a telephone book...