Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Egypt's brash hero-for-hire has unshrewdly mortgaged the Arab world's future to the Russians, perhaps the most concise epilogue to the fateful transaction is A. E. Housman's lament on the demise of another imperceptive youth...
...show good faith by acting to restore Middle East stability. In conversation with Egyptian Foreign Minister Fawzi in Washington and President Nasser in Cairo, U.S. officials urged prompt resumption of talks aimed at clearing the Suez, settling its international status with Britain and France, and resolving the long-standing Arab-Israeli dispute...
Every day across the Arab world Eisenhower was hailed as a hero. While the ambassadors of Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and Turkey made a special call at the State Department in Washington and thanked the U.S. for its support, U.S. ambassadors in the Middle East reported a friendliness they had never known before...
...Israel's supreme desire is for peace, and the U.S. should use all its influence to insist that the Arab states end their hostility and agree to enter peace negotiations with Israel. David Ginsburg...
Curiously, none of the stories reflects the drama-packed years that marked the national struggle against Britain, the creation of Israel as a state, or the 1948 war against the Arab League. In David's Bower by Yitzhak Shenhar there are young men in uniform and offstage gunfire, but the plot deals with a day's events in a Jerusalem boarding house-marital intrigue, religious argument, family bickering-and could just as easily have taken place in any Western capital. Two of the tales-Barhash and Hamamah-are about Arabs, not Jews, and reveal a surprising attachment...