Word: israel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time, Africa-instead of what is now Israel-might have become the homeland of the Jews. When Czarist pogroms drove hundreds of thousands of Jews out of Russia before World War I, Britain's Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain drew up a grant of 5,000 sq. mi., in what is now Kenya's white highlands, to serve as a Zionist refuge until the Holy Land should be opened to them. But a Zionist commission inspecting this temporary Promised Land took fright after being nearly crushed by stampeding elephants, surrounded by Masai warriors, and rendered sleepless by roaring lions...
Last week the Israelis were back in force in Africa-and enjoying it. This time they were not homeless Jews but bustling commercial travelers and dispensers of technical assistance and capital. Many a newly independent African state finds its own economic development problems strikingly similar to those Israel faced only a decade ago. But British and French interests find the Israelis are now moving in as fast as they themselves move or are pushed out. Items...
...Nigeria, due to become independent in October, Israel's Water Resources Development Ltd. recently joined an ambitious plan for agricultural, industrial and municipal water development and Israelis will supervise twelve plantations of 1,500 acres each, patterned on Israel's cooperative farms...
Fewer Strings. The Israeli penetration of Africa is primarily economic, but it has political overtones too: in busily cultivating the new African nations, Israel naturally hopes for their support in the U.N. against Arab boycotts of Israeli products and Nasser's denial of the Suez Canal to Israeli cargoes...
...their part, newly independent Africans, needing and wanting help but leery of the hand offered by the old colonial powers, suspect fewer strings to Israeli assistance. As a mixed economy itself with a flair for socialist forms, e.g., the agricultural kibbutzim, Israel is also psychologically more in tune with smaller nations who think their problems so vast and their time so short that they do not trust free enterprise alone. Besides, says one Israeli official, "we are working on the same scale as other small nations, and our shoes happen to fit them...