Word: arabization
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...Egyptian arm of the Arab League...
After hearing these profitless exchanges, delegates decided that not Korea but colonialism gave most promise of lively fights to come. The 13 anticolonial Arab-Asian powers, defeated in the last session, got together and succeeded in placing on the agenda a proposal to debate 1) France's rule in Tunisia and Morocco, and 2) South Africa's virulent racism. They won despite protests from France, Britain, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand that such debates constitute "meddling" in internal affairs. The U.S. haplessly reversed its stand of last year, opposed its European allies and joined the anti-colonials...
...Alphonse Juin, commander of the NATO ground forces in Europe, was born at Bone in Algeria. Last week Juin (onetime Resident-General of Morocco, 1947-51) strongly attacked the U.S.'s wavering attitude. "There was nothing to get excited about so long as our opponents were only the Arab bloc, bound together by Moslem solidarity, and the U.S.S.R. with her satellites . . . but today we are seriously threatened with the possibility of seeing the U.S. join this group . . . This fact is very grave for it wounds us sentimentally and strikes at our idea of what should be the international solidarity...
...with a partly Socialist government and a farming population that is generally far from Orthodox in its religious views, Israel's modern Orthodox rabbinate was hard put to observe the Law. To avoid flouting it openly, the rabbis technically "sold" the entire territory of Israel to an obliging Arab named Mahmoud. Mahmoud gave the rabbis power of attorney, which enabled them to "sell"the state back to themselves, at the close of the sabbatical year...
This device satisfied some Orthodox Jews, but not the strictly observant. In a handful of Orthodox settlements, hungry farmers stoically watched their idle fields and the fruit rotting on their trees. To vary their meat diet, some Orthodox city dwellers furtively bought apples and tomatoes from Arab hawkers, determined not to purchase produce grown by Jews...