Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...becoming more and more difficult to be both an "Eisenhower Republican" and a Jew. If the Administration continues to maintain its present policy of possible sanctions against Israel and just a slap on the wrist towards Nasser, Saud and the other decadent Arab leaders, it will have the unfortunate effect of driving us into the arms of the Democrats...
Next day, as Nasser's "Voice of the Arabs" broadcast "Arab Victory!" to the refugee camp and café radios of the Middle East, his general rattled into Gaza with a task force of 72 (including 50 MPs, ten army officers). Sending a liaison officer round to notify General Burns that he would be wanting the police station for his own headquarters, Latif rushed off to press $288 into the hands of Moushref's refugee father. "You all know where the UNEF is going to be," he told reporters, with a wave of his hand toward the Israeli...
...going a little further, Cairo announced that Nasser had decided to deny passage to Israeli shipping in the Suez Canal and that his Saudi Arabian allies, who control the Gulf of Aqaba's southeastern shore, were determined to bar any assertion of Israeli shipping rights in such "absolute Arab territory...
Macmillan has other topics he is anxious to discuss with Ike. He would like the U.S. to join the Baghdad Pact, at least as a member of the military committee. (The U.S. will probably refuse, on the ground that to do so would alienate other Arab countries which the U.S. is trying to influence through the more amorphous Eisenhower Doctrine.) Macmillan may seek support for some modification of U.N. procedure so that the great powers will not be so much at the mercy of the Afro-Asian bloc in the General Assembly. He is prepared to discuss Britain...
Only after these steps are taken can the truly basic issues be treated again. Clearly the root problem of Arab-Israeli hatred will not disappear no matter how effective the Suez settlement is. Conditions of the Arab refugees inside Palestine and Arab poverty outside Israel can begin to be alleviated. The United States, preferably in coordination with the UN, must be ready to extend economic aid to these peoples. While this will not restore amity between the Arabs and Israel, amelioration of the refugees' lot and improvement of the Egyptian and other Arab nations' living conditions will somewhat remove...