Word: izzat
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Dates: during 1956-1956
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...Ibrahim Izzat, a 29-year-old magazine writer, was arguing about Israel at a London party last April when an Israeli diplomat walked up and asked: "What do you know about it? You've never been there...
...True," answered Izzat, "but I wish I could." Less than a week later, Izzat climbed tensely down from an airliner at Lydda airport for a ten-day tour of Israel. Just in case things got too hot for Izzat, the Israelis gave him an armed guard and a false name. As George Ibrahim Habib, a "South American journalist," he saw lots of communal settlements, some Arab villages, no military installations. Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett chitted with him in Arabic, and David Ben-Gurion's secretary handed him a message for Egypt's Nasser that Israel's Premier...
Back in Cairo, Izzat wrote his impressions ("Israel lives on one single hope-peace with the Arabs, above all Egypt"). Though most of what he reported was widely known in the rest of the world, the significant point was that the Egyptian government allowed it to be published in Cairo. In his first article, Izzat exploded one basic Arab belief: that the Arab boycott is strangling Israel's economy...
...sales of Izzat's magazine, Rose el Youssef, doubled; readers sent him 80 congratulatory wires. Some doffed their tarbooshes to Izzat as a sort of journalistic guerrilla who had sneaked into the land of the "enemy" and returned safely...