Word: arab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Never have I seen anything so gruesome. If this is a manifestation of that "inevitable force"-Arab nationalism-then Arab nationalism poses as great a threat to the civilized world as Communism, since both appear to revel in savagery and slaughter...
...found Nasser more interested in the rights of minorities and less bitterly intransigent against Israel than most other Arab leaders whom I met. Most of Washington's Arab friends in Iraq and Saudi Arabia are (or were) extreme social reactionaries: kings, sheiks and corrupt and extortionate landlords. We Americans loved anyone who professed antiCommunism, especially if he had oil property. As for Nasser, he clearly wants to be a Tito, not a Kadar, vis-à-vis Moscow...
...strike at one of the underlying causes of the political upheavals in the Arab world, there should be joint action by the Arab states and the U.N. in a far-ranging economic development program...
...tiny Persian Gulf sheikdom of Kuwait, Arab boys end a strenuous schoolyard military drill by hauling down an Israeli flag from a makeshift pole, trampling it exultantly. At a school for royalty in Saudi Arabia, King Saud's sons dress up as modern Egyptians, act out a playlet called Heroes of Port Said by fiercely vanquishing the "cowardly" British and Israelis, and-stretching a point-Americans. Behind these and similar exercises in Arab nationalism are hundreds of Egyptian schoolteachers, exported to education-hungry Mid-East nations by Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, paid partly by local governments, partly...
...teachers refrain from much direct praise of Nasser, instead tell of the achievements of his regime. They come equipped with stacks of picture postcards showing modern developments to be seen in Egypt, and, when pressed, admit that Nasser is the author of these wonders. They stress the awakening of Arab nationalism, the need for Arab union under Nasser's general direction, and the doom of the imperialist West. Children are told they must fight for complete emancipation of the Arab people from all foreign control and political influence. The teachers file regular reports to Cairo, and villagers are further...