Word: arabization
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Below the stormy surface of Middle Eastern unrest are Arab fears of Western exploitation, Russian aggression, and Israeli expansion, according to Sir Reader W. Bullard, former British Ambassador to Iran...
...thousand years ago, some earlier Moslem version of a Naguib and a Shishekly might have responded by rattling their damascene blades, leaping to Arab steeds and smiting the infidel to the cry of Allah il Allah! But now they rattled only their tongues. At a state dinner in his honor, eminent visitor Shishekly said: "We are prepared to strike back if necessary." Naguib echoed: "Ten blows for each "one in attack against...
Lost Ground. But as an indication of popular indignation, the jihad call last week deserved to be taken seriously, for it symbolized an upsurge of anti-Western feeling among the Arabs that threatens to lose what Arab friendship has been expensively gained in the past year...
Sources of Arab contention...
...Endorsement by Britain, France and the U.S. of the Israeli-supported U.N. resolution for direct Arab-Israeli talks. The Arabs argued that the U.N. should stick instead to its previous insistence that 1) Jerusalem be internationalized (the Jews are now trying to make it their capital), and 2) the 880,000 Arab refugees be allowed to return to their Palestine homes. Aided by Soviet and Latin American votes, the Arab bloc defeated the Israeli motion...