Word: arabization
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...Egypt's insistence that Britain's right to reoccupy the base apply only in cases of direct land assault on an Arab state. Britain insists that it might also be invoked if the U.N. should declare that a global war exists...
...Joined in invoking an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council to consider the suddenly worsened relations between Israel and the Arab world (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...sullen enmity between infant Israel and its Arab neighbors, long acknowledged and long passed over by Western diplomacy, erupted last week with a violence that could no longer be ignored...
...Arab crowds in Amman, Nablus and Old Jerusalem cried for arms to "avenge ourselves." Jordan begged her fellow Arab League states for troops, planes and tanks. John Bagot Glubb, British commander of Jordan's crack 15,000-man Arab Legion, the strongest force in the Arab world, announced a shoot-on-sight order directed at any Israeli cau^it in Jordan. But further he would not go, though Jordanian Deputies demanded retaliation. Said Glubb: "The Jews of Israel must be as well aware as anyone else who knows the Arab world that every one of the survivors of such...
Israel was in deep trouble and knew it. The subsidy and sympathy of Western public opinion, which had sustained Israel in its first five years, was ebbing. Besieged from without, overcrowded within, Israel was near bankruptcy. It blamed the Arab economic boycott for depriving Israel of its natural regional markets and $60 million a year in trade. Israel needed water for irrigation, but a sensible water development program required mutual agreements with hostile neighbors. Last week, against the objections of Syria and in open defiance of the U.N., Israel went steadily ahead day & night with a canal project to divert...