Word: arabization
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...Then the story of America will be repeated on tom-toms of the African jungle, in the gossip of Arab bazaars, under the shady trees of the Champs Elysées, in the temples and along the holy rivers of the East. The ring of truth around the world will drown the strident lies of Moscow's propaganda. One hundred years ago America was the wonder of humanity and the symbol of man's hopes and goals everywhere...
...country's 175,000 Arabs were forced by the law to go through complicated technicalities before they were accepted as citizens. Arab members of Israel's Parliament protested that at least half of Israel's Arabs would fail to qualify, would thus be aliens in their native land...
...Arab war in 1948 left the Israelis with only a tantalizing toe hold in Jerusalem. The Arab Legion held the Old City. Since then, the U.N. in three separate resolutions has urged that the entire city be internationalized. But as the Israelis learned during their war for independence, one fait accompli is worth a dozen U.N. resolutions. They set out to make the toe hold a foothold...
...Arab tale which inspired Horace Walpole to add a word to the language...
...caught up with him. He looked out of the huge window of his office in the summer palace in Alexandria, saw tanks and cannons of a hostile army -his own-advancing under cover of Egyptian Royal Air Force planes. Farouk had made and unmade Premiers and generals, manipulated the Arab League, and lost $140,000 in a single night of gambling. But last week, at the payoff, he couldn't command a battalion. His order to the bodyguards to resist never reached them because the messenger was intercepted. A few loyal bodyguards shot up three soldiers, and with that...