Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other side, the Arab world--which the United States has been wooing in an attempt to block Communist expansion in the Middle East--was crying for United Nations economic sanctions if Israel doesn't pull...
...Zion's newest marches are not to be won lightly. In crowded Gaza, where the 9 p.m. curfew has not prevented Arabs from clustering to hear Cairo radio's nightly exhortations to "rise up and act for the glory of the Arab world," the Israelis face a crisis in cooperation. The Arabs feel the uncertainty of Gaza's status, and scent change. Urchins openly hawk cigarette lighters bearing Nasser's picture. Authorities last week arrested 20 Gaza teachers for assigning teen-age pupils to write essays on the need for killing Israelis. Merchants were refusing...
Under Gaza's pale minarets and scraggly date palms, locally recruited Arab police and Israeli constables patrol in pairs, distinguishable from each other in their air-force-blue uniforms only because the Arab wears a beret, the Israeli a garrison cap. But while the persistent Israelis clean up the towns and modernize the farms, the inhabitants of much-conquered Gaza wait warily. Said one, when asked last week for his view of Gaza's future: "Tell me who is going to be our master, and I'll tell you what I think...
Pineau's vision of Eurafrica did nothing to dampen the perfervid anticolonialism of the Arab-Asian countries. "The reputation of France at the present time," growled Syria's Delegate Farid Zeineddine, "is at its lowest ebb." Then, accusing the French of everything from cowardice to genocide, 18 Arab-Asian nations proposed just what France most dreaded: a resolution demanding that the people of Algeria be granted "their fundamental right of self-determination...
...Long Embarrassment. For the U.S., torn between its friendship for France and its post-Suez vocation of winning Arab-Asian friendship, the debate was one long embarrassment. But when the chips were down the U.S. lined up foursquare behind France. The U.S. delegation, announced Henry Cabot Lodge, would oppose not only the 18-power resolution but all other proposals "which we believe constitute intervention in matters essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of France...