Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arab-Israeli relations, he argued that the problem "at the moment is essentially psychological," and that the important thing is to "gain time, without armed conflict, so as to allow passions to subside." To facilitate this he proposed that the United Nations military force should occupy "not only the Gaza Strip but a corridor of territory running from Gaza to the Gulf of Akbar...
...also asked "serious consideration" for a U.N. force to patrol the borders between Israel and other Arab states as well...
...Arab officialdom was more cautious. There was no vacuum, they maintained, that the Arab peoples could not fill. The Egyptians reaffirmed that they are cold war neutrals, that the only outside force they want in the Middle East is the U.N. In Washington, Syria's ambassador to the U.S., Farid Zeineddine, warned that no new U.S. moves into the Middle East could apply without "prior and explicit agreement" with the Arabs-which is a key provision of the U.S. plan...
...night the Sixth Fleet is kept in a state of "instant readiness" to handle its many and unpredictable assignments. It is poised to inhibit Soviet volunteers in the Arab world, to provide air cover (if sought) for the armies of a dozen friendly nations, to support and guard the southern flank of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, to land marines anywhere that they are needed, and even to reinforce the U.S. Air Force (if called upon) in a strategic bombing northward over the Black Sea to Moscow. It is uniquely fitted to move in on crises ranging from local riot...
After Suez. Not all Britons objected. Many recognized that in the Arab countries, Britain and France are currently so discredited that only the U.S. can save positions essential to all of them (a quite different thesis from the angry Tory backbench contention that U.S. interests are trying to drive the British out of the Middle East). They understood that the alliance stands as firm as ever in the geographical limits of its primary purpose-the defense of Europe-and that Britain remains the U.S.'s closest friend by blood, interests and sentiment. This fact was underlined last week when...