Word: arabization
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...position to dictate to the Arabs, since the Arab chieftains cannot keep power without American dollars for Arab oil. They would never so much as think of negotiating with the Russians-their feudal life cannot withstand the inroads of Communism, and their religious fanaticism recoils from Soviet irreligion...
...Arab world, trust of the U.S. had "gone down from 108% to 8%" as a result of the tragic fiasco of U.S. policy on the Palestine issue...
...make in the Council chamber than in the embattled Holy Land. The comic effort to make it, however, followed logically from past U.S. efforts to please everyone, which had ended by pleasing no one. Zionists were crying traitor at the U.S. The U.S. position in the strategically important Arab world was hurt in ways that might cost years and possibly blood to repair...
Ever since the United States decided to support the partition of Palestine, Arab leaders in the Middle East have wracked their brains for a way to neutralize American policy. Last week the best they could do was rage and turn an impotent purple. Then the Arab League began to squeeze American oil companies operating in member stated. Syria refused to ratify a giant pipeline deal with the Arabian-American Oil Co., and Lebanon truculently announced that it would spike every concession until the U.S. injected a more neutral flavor into its Palestine policy. Oil men hastily marshalled their lobbies...
...their side, the Jewish Agency laid before the U.N. Palestine Commission detailed charges against British rule in Palestine. Britain, said the Jews, had "persistently yielded" to Arab violence and had helped to arm the Arabs, but had hamstrung Jewish defense efforts by searching out arms caches and disarming Jewish defense forces. "A swift assertion of lawful authority," said the statement, "can nip the evil in the bud and prevent violent movements from gathering momentum...