Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have become thoroughly convinced that Ben-Gurion is nothing but a treacherous hypocrite, full of hatred for the Arab, deceit for the Christian, and malice for everything not Hebrew...
...Announcement of the U.S. decision drew a prompt response from the Kremlin. U.S. membership on the military committee, shrilled an Arabic-language broadcast from the Soviet Union, is dangerous to the existence of peace-loving Arab states. It "provides the Pentagon with new opportunities of encouraging Baghdad Pact members to organize various provocations and plots and to interfere with the affairs of Arab countries...
...such an attitude, the first response of many Americans was apt to be apoplectic. But the summary objection to getting tougher with Nasser is that it only builds him up. So long as his position in Egypt and his influence on the Arab world depend on his keeping international and interracial conflict inflamed, Western badgering and blustering is apt only to enhance the fanatic image of Nasser as champion of the Arab masses...
Simon reports that one prominent Arab swore that his interrogation by a French army major and two captains lasted 57 hours, during which he was tortured by electrodes attached to his fingers, ears and testicles, later by immersion in water and beating with a riding crop. Concludes angry Author Simon: "We, who have fought against the racist monstrosity . . . are today conquered by Hitler, if our nation has adopted his ideas and methods...
...Croix Militaire for the Algerian campaign: Lieut. Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, starbright editor of the weekly L'Express. Servan-Schreiber tells, in dramatic narrative form (a legalistic precaution against military inquiry), of a French patrol which is ordered to get the killers of a pro-French Arab, finds a truck with five Arabs in it, and kills all five on suspicion. That night in the officers' mess, Captain Julienne (newly arrived in Algeria) suggests: "It is perhaps bad practice to kill innocent...