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Early this year, land-hungry Israel sent bulldozers and workers to Lake Hula, began draining a marshland of 15,000 acres as a future home for 40,000 Israelis, forcibly evacuated 800 Arab villagers. But the Hula marshes are part of a disputed, 30-mile-long strip on the Syria-Israel border, theoretically under U.N. supervision; the sight of the bulldozers enraged the Syrians. They charged that the Israelis had abused the 1949 armistice agreement, that draining the land would give the Israelis a military advantage. When the Israelis ignored a U.N. order to call off their tractors, the Syrians...
...retaliation, eight Israeli planes bombed Syrian positions. The Israelis later apologized, but by last week, Israel and Syria were involved in small-scale border warfare. Israel charged that a Syrian patrol overran one mile of Israeli ground. Syria charged that Israeli troops provoked the outbreak by trying to steal Arab cattle...
Labonne's liberalism, approved in Paris, was not liked by the Morocco-born French colonials. In April 1947, Senegalese soldiers from French West Africa, provoked no one knows exactly how, ran amuck in the Medina. (Arab quarter) of Casablanca, killed 80 Arabs. The Sultan was shocked, announced that the time had come for Morocco to "acquire its full rights." The words hit Paris like a bomb. "Send 20 divisions or General Juin," a deputy shouted. Socialist Premier Ramadier, who did not have 20 divisions, sent General Juin to replace Labonne...
...Berbers Ride. On Feb. 25, thousands of pro-French El Glaoui's Berber horsemen, wearing their war medals and flying the French tricolor attached to spears and old muzzle-loading guns, descended from the Atlas Mountains, headed for Fez and Rabat. Nervous townsmen bolted their shops; Arab women were kept indoors...
...Berbers are the indigenous race of North Africa, distinct from and lighter in color than the Arabs who have invaded their lands. Warlike and industrious, the Berbers have never been fully subjugated. Though Mohammedans, they eat wild boar's flesh, drink fig brandy and reverence female saints. Monogamous Berbers buy their wives, but give them more freedom than Arab women enjoy...