Word: arabization
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...Charter obliges the U.N. to promote "respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms"; Article 2 bars it from interfering in the "domestic" affairs of member nations. Last week, in the Special Political Committee of the General Assembly, these two principles collided head on. Invoking Article 1, Arab, Asian and African nations proposed a U.N. commission to "study the race situation" in South Africa. France, Britain and half a dozen others objected, citing Article 2. But the ayes had it, 35-2. Not voting: 22 nations, including the U.S., which "deplores" South Africa's racism, but does not want...
...horror. The Israeli government was sure that Jews were made the new scapegoats of Czechoslovakia's economic failings and wretched living conditions; it is noted too that the Communist Rude Pravo ominously referred to Israel as "a base of aggression against the peace camp and the enslaved Arab nations." Israel prepared to protest, both in Prague through its ambassador there, and in the U.N. Even Israel's Al Hamishmar, newspaper of the slavishly pro-Cominform Mapam Party, suddenly disillusioned, called the accusations against Oren "fantastic and absurd," an attempt to smear "a persecuted people...
...great problems facing the Egyptians today are overpopulation and "the terrific disparity between the upper classes and the peasants." Frye asserted, Egypt, leader of the Arab world, has a population of 20 million and a large area of arid, unproductive land. He said that their economic mainstay is cotton, grown on large feudal landholdings...
...Most American Jews view their Israeli brethren with love. Rabbi Berger hates the Israeli Jew as any anti-Semite would . . . Rabbi Berger remains a front man for the anti-Semite and the extremist Arab groups...
Last week there was one leader in the Arab world who seemed to know what to do and to be willing to do it. In a third-floor office in the Syrian general staff headquarters in Damascus, flanked by clanging phones and beset by sniffles and fatigue, Strongman Colonel Adib Shishekly held in his tough fists the key that might possibly unlock the refugee problem. He has just signed an agreement with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for a $30 million project to irrigate the potentially rich, unpopulated and undeveloped northern stretches of his country. On this reclaimed...