Word: arab
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Though everyone involved, each for his own reasons, tried to play it down, the steady, almost stealthy, exodus of 17,000 Jews from Communist Rumania to Israel in the past six months (TIME, Jan. 26) was bound to attract the notice of the Arab world. This week the largely ineffectual Arab League is scheduling a protest meeting; Nasser's Cairo and Damascus radios agonized day and night over "the new Zionist plot aided by the imperialists to bring in 3,000,000 Eastern European Jews" to "occupied Palestine...
...quiet the Arabs, Russia's Izvestia declared that the Soviet Union would never think of alienating its Arab friends by permitting the emigration of Russia's 3,000,000 Jews to Israel. The Rumanian Communist government, while denouncing "infamous slanders" by "leading circles in Israel and Zionism" about "a mass migration of Jews" from Rumania, last week officially admitted for the first time that it was permitting Jews to leave for Israel, and would continue "on humanitarian grounds" to allow Jews to "reunite with their relatives in Israel...
...Nasser-You are our Beloved, 0 Gamal," shrilled the marchers of Damascus as they streamed in thousands-girl scouts, militia, mullahs, mothers, cadets and kerchiefed workers-through Liberation Square and the Street Called Straight. Students shuffling under the eucalyptus leafed arches chanted in unison: "Neither internationalism nor Communism but Arab nationalism." At the municipal stadium a festive crowd roared as desert riders staged a camel race. Thus, as their hero arrived from Cairo this week with his guest and fellow neutralist, Tito of Yugoslavia, the people of Nasser's northern province (pop. 4,000,000) began celebrating the first...
Only a year before, when Syrians welcomed Nasser as the new Saladin and his merger as "a turning point in world events," it seemed to his followers as if the tide of Arab nationalism might wash the whole Arab East into one Nasser ruled state. But the West threw up its dikes in Lebanon and Jordan, and the Communism that Nasser had invited into the Middle East was now helping Iraq's Premier Kassem to roll back the Arab nationalist flood from Baghdad...
...months ago, in his first recognition that Communist agitation threatened him, Nasser had jailed 100-odd Syrian Communists, and received a warning blast from Nikita Khrushchev himself that it was "wrong" and "naive" to "accuse Communists of helping to weaken and divide" the Arab nationalist movement...