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Scarcely had Bourguiba opened his mouth when Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser-bent, as ever, on bolstering his claim to leadership of the Arab world -stepped in and offered Tunisia a shipload of guns. So did Communist Czechoslovakia. (The Western guess was that the arms offered by Nasser would come from Czechoslovakia, too.) Bourguiba accepted the Egyptian offer, but continued to make it clear that he would rather be supplied by the West. Bourguiba is one of the West's staunchest friends in the Arab world. To the U.S. State Department the alternatives seemed clear: either...
...time Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser commended himself to the world as a strongman of reason, more concerned to put his impoverished country on its feet than to stir trouble in the Middle East. But Nasser has increasingly resorted to the incendiary propaganda of the totalitarian dictator, has persistently used his radio Voice of the Arabs to incite the Palestinian refugees in Jordan, who brood in bitter idleness over their lost lands across the border in Israel...
...economic consequences of his adventurism have piled up round him, Nasser has leaped as recklessly as Hitler for the big lie. Last July, linking Israel, the U.S. and Jordan together, the Cairo Voice screamed: "Brethren in Palestine, imagine that the intention is to solve the Palestine problem. Imagine that the government of Jordan, which is serving American imperialism, wants to sell the Palestinian refugees and to remove them to Iraq . . . hand you over to your American enemy to annihilate...
Last week, in a refinement that included names, time and places, Nasser's Voice of the Arabs began broadcasting a story that Jordan's Foreign Minister Samir Rifai had met secretly last September with Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and Foreign Minister Golda Meir near the Jordanian town of Nablus, and with King Hussein's full approval arranged to resettle Jordan's 500,000 refugees in return for $30 million that the U.S. would make available through Israel. "They will annihilate him," shrilled the Voice of the Arabs, and Cairo's newspaper...
...recognized that the U.S.'s quiet insistence that the gulf was an international waterway until proved otherwise had achieved the same result and stirred far less Arab rancor. Israel had its port, was taking full advantage of its busy new trade route to Africa and the East. Nasser had even allowed some Israel-bound cargoes through the Suez Canal. And at week's end Israel opened the Lake Huleh reclamation project, designed to drain 15,000 acres of malarial swamp that lie partly in the neutral zone along the Syrian border. In its six years of construction, Syria...