Word: arab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long slow movement of events there is no real reason why Arab unity has to be against the West. The Arab world needs the techniques of the West to overcome its poverty, disease and ignorance. It needs the West's markets for its oil. But the misfortune of contemporary history is that any leader who tries to establish Arab unity in his own lifetime seems driven to make anti-Western emotion his main tool, and the more frenetic his outcry the more successful he is likely to be. Such is the destiny of Gamal Abdel Nasser, the Arab...
...position was an uneasy one. Its armed presence in Lebanon might even hasten what it sought to prevent. In all the Arab world east of Suez, not one ruler pledged to the West remained in power last week except by the presence of Western troops. Whatever existing boundaries might be, there was no blinking the fact: the most elemental force in the Middle East is the unifying passion of Al Umma al Arabia, and Nasser symbolizes...
After the last week's Middle East convulsion, the question was not whether Nasser is lost to the West (he was never the West's to lose), but whether he has forfeited the independence of the Arab unity movement-for Arab nationhood has no more desire to be Russia's slave than dependent on the West...
...Chamoun is a criminal. He adores everything foreign and hates everything Arab...
...Chamoun must go! So strike again and again, beloved Lebanese people. Tomorrow Chamoun and every Chamoun will fall, and the Arab people will dictate their desires...