Word: arab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...article in your issue of Nov. 2, on the boycott of Israel by Arab nations, you included this company in a list of firms that "have removed themselves from the Arab League blacklist by deciding that doing business in Israel is uneconomic." We were never on such a blacklist. The facts are that for a few years we owned a company that did a relatively small (about 5% of the market) business selling oil in Israel. Problems of foreign exchange and competition from the government-owned oil-marketing company in Israel made the operation unattractive from a purely commercial standpoint...
Nations at odds often share with taunting children and shrewish wives an inspired instinct for the stinging epithet that penetrates and festers. Arab maps sometimes refer to Israel as "Jewish Occupied Palestine." Russians in the U.N. call Nationalist China delegates the "representatives of the Kuomintang." And for some twelve years since the acrimonious partition of the Indian subcontinent, the Pakistani press, with considered malice and conscientious glee, has called India "Bharat" and referred to Indians as "Bharatis...
Armed with powers second only to those of the President himself, Amer arrived secretly by destroyer-a security measure made necessary by the fact that the United Arab Republic is separated by Israel-and promptly went to work on the Syrian army. It was suffering from the familiar fear of Syria's 4,200,000 citizens that they are about to be reduced to a parity with Egypt's poorer 24,800,000. "My brethren," cried Amer, "be cautious of the intrigues of the opportunists and of destructive rumors." There was nothing, he added fervently, to the rumors...
...United Arab Republic frontier guards and camel corps began a search...
...current blacklist, drawn up in Cairo, names 48 American firms. Included are Empire Brushes Inc., Kaiser Industries Corp., Dow Chemical Co. and Plough Sales Corp., because they have branches or agencies in Israel. Individual Arab countries have their own blacklists, which are even more capriciously kept. Philco radios and air conditioners were banned in Saudi Arabia even after the firm's name was removed from the Arab League blacklist. Last February, after Elizabeth Taylor bought $100,000 worth of Israeli bonds, the United Arab Republic banned any further showing of her films in Syria and Egypt. Presumably the boycott...