Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down from an airliner at Lydda airport for a ten-day tour of Israel. Just in case things got too hot for Izzat, the Israelis gave him an armed guard and a false name. As George Ibrahim Habib, a "South American journalist," he saw lots of communal settlements, some Arab villages, no military installations. Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett chitted with him in Arabic, and David Ben-Gurion's secretary handed him a message for Egypt's Nasser that Israel's Premier was ready to meet him and talk peace any time, anywhere. By the time he left...
Back in Cairo, Izzat wrote his impressions ("Israel lives on one single hope-peace with the Arabs, above all Egypt"). Though most of what he reported was widely known in the rest of the world, the significant point was that the Egyptian government allowed it to be published in Cairo. In his first article, Izzat exploded one basic Arab belief: that the Arab boycott is strangling Israel's economy...
Israelis we're too pleased that the world had seen them peacefully welcoming an Egyptian to care about the criticisms he made, e.g., of Arab poverty amidst Jewish productivity. In Washington John Foster Dulles announced that the whole episode made the U.S. Government "very happy," and London diplomats called it a hopeful augury for relaxing tension in the Middle East. The U.N. Palestine truce chief, Canada's Major General Eedson L. M. Burns, announced that the two countries had finally accepted the U.N. plan to set up a dozen observation posts to strengthen the Israeli-Egyptian border ceasefire...
...national thrill that Jordan got three months ago by expelling Britain's longtime commander of Jordan's crack Arab Legion, Glubb Pasha, had spent itself. But Jordan, a poor desert kingdom crowded with 500,000 Palestinian refugees, had found no peace...
...through a free officers' group, Abu Nuwar is an anti-Communist who believes in "using" Moscow both economically and diplomatically. But his first public statement in his new job was a wish to maintain close ties with Britain and to refuse Egypt's offers to join the Arab neutralist bloc. Much as the mili tants among the refugees want to make common cause with Nasser, young King Hussein the Hashemite seems eager to keep his country out of Nasser's embrace...