Word: arabization
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...much more harmonious here today, from an architectural standpoint," decided Sir Laurence Olivier, after absenting himself from Hollywood a while. "In 1930, it made me dizzy to find an Arab mosque looking unflinchingly at an English abbey...
...France and Britain have jointly guaranteed the status quo of this troubled region. The three-power statement said that: 1) Israel and six Arab states need arms for self-defense and to help defend the area as a whole; 2) all seven Near East nations* had given assurances that the arms they buy will not be used for aggression; 3) the Western powers will take immediate action "both within and outside the United Nations" if any Near Eastern state should violate "frontiers or armistice lines...
From the first, ambitious King Abdullah of Jordan had no intention of giving up the large chunk of eastern Palestine which his Arab Legion seized during the war with Israel. A few days after his cease-fire agreement with Israel in 1949, the King set up a civil administration for all of Palestine under his control, an area which includes the Old City of Jerusalem. Later he admitted Palestinian Arabs to his cabinet, then allowed the people of eastern Palestine to vote in Jordan's elections last April 11. Last week the King prodded his Parliament into formally unifying...
...Arab League came pained outcries. "Human patience has a limit, even an Arab's patience," glowered League Secretary General Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha. Non-Jordan Arabs were angry at Abdullah, whose designs on eastern Palestine had long been a sore point with them. They were even angrier at Britain both for its support of Jordan and its recognition of Israel. And they strongly suspected the U.S. of winking at British maneuvers in the Middle East. Outraged as most Arab League nations were, however, there was little they could do but bark indignantly in the direction of Abdullah. With British...
King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan turned out to be the only ruler with an effective army and the only one who might have been strong enough to carry out the Arab League's threats. But he preferred to work towards the consolidation of Arab Palestine and Trans-Jordan under his "Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan," and now thinks he can profit more from a peace agreement with Israel than from...