Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...believe that to some degree the conflict has destroyed Egyptian military potential. Egypt's air force has been practically annihilated, and many of her tanks and other armaments have been destroyed, they reported. Furthermore, they stated, Egypt probably realizes now that Israel will not sit meekly by while the Arab states arm for her destruction...
...canal, and Nasser was still in power. The canal was blocked, the Iraq pipeline sabotaged, and Britain faced a winter of cold homes and industrial shutdowns. Not for this should he have risked the good will of Britain's most powerful ally, outraged the Commonwealth, aroused the Arab world to outspoken hostility, incurred the opprobrium of the world, and divided his own country...
...that no Egyptian tanks or armored cars were lost in battle against the Israelis, that the Egyptian air force had shot down 18 Israeli planes and had been "in control of the battlefield" until the "great deception, treachery, perfidy" of Anthony Eden. The fact that none of the other Arab states gave Egypt active military assistance was also, said Nasser, part of Egyptian strategy. "King Saud called me by telephone," said the Egyptian President, "and told me that the Saudi Arabian army and money were at Egypt's service." So, he declared, did Jordan's young King Hussein...
Frail Reed. But to anyone outside Egypt it was evident that Nasser's Trendex rating had dropped severely. Not only had his military machine been badly damaged, but it had been made abundantly clear to other Arab nations that to rely on Egypt to crush the hated Israelis would be to rely on a frail reed indeed. If they had achieved nothing else, the British, French and Israelis had dealt a severe blow, perhaps a fatal one. to Gamal Abdel Nasser's dream of dominating the Arab world...
Some oilmen expect the oil-rich Arab nations to come to terms soon and get the oil flowing again, since they are losing heavily. Iraq is losing about $450,000 daily because it cannot move its oil, has had to cut production at its Kirkuk field drastically; Syria sacrifices $50,000 daily in pipeline earnings alone; Saudi Arabia gets an estimated 85% of its income from oil (some $290 million in 1955). On the other hand, as one old Middle East hand grumbled last week, "You can never really depend on the Arabs' not hurting themselves. They...