Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Suggestion to the Brothers. Nasser's destination was Khartoum, where the leaders of the Arab world were gathering at one more summit in one more attempt to forge a united front against Israel. And once more, all hopes for unity were shot down even before the meetings began. Fearing that the old cries for jihad (holy war) were about to be toned down, Algeria's leftist President, Houari Boumediene, decided the meeting was not worth bothering about...
...letter to Magazine Editor Ralph Ginzburg, he even insisted that it was the "Hebes in Moscow" who provoked the Arab-Israeli war in order to give Israel more territory, including "that glorified gentlemen's pissoir, the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem." In the fantasies of Rockwell's chimerical world, he envisioned shipping 20 million American Negroes to Africa and gassing Jews after a grateful nation elected him President in 1972. After the depression that Rockwell predicted for 1969, the U.S. would clamor for "a white leader with the guts of a Malcolm...
...agenda was a special message from Jordan's King Hussein and Kuwait's Crown Prince and Prime Minister, Sheik Jaber al Ahmed es Sabah. The gist of their joint communication as delivered by the Shah: the U.S. must find some way of expressing concrete support for the Arab moderates, lest pressure from the left force them to look to Russia for future support and assistance. The most practical support, suggested the Shah, would be arms. Not only was the Shah concerned about Senators who want to limit or end U.S. arms sales abroad; there was also the problem...
...kibbutz of Kfar Szold (see map) and grind up into the forbidding Syrian hills. So tortuous was the terrain that the lead battalion of 35 Sherman tanks was forced to snake up the cliffside in single file. Despite heavy Israeli air and artillery strikes on the Syrian gun emplacements, Arab 130-and 122-mm. shells rained down on the slender column at the rate of ten tons a minute. Barreling straight into bazookas and antitank guns leveled to fire in flat trajectory, the Israeli tankers hit the first fortification, Gu el Aska, head-on at full speed. They pushed aside...
Even as the Arabs worked out their first, tentative compromise with Israel, and Jordanian refugees began returning to occupied territory, the Arabs continued to demonstrate their inability to face up to the problems of negotiating a peace. In a week of frenzied activity, Iraq's President Abdel Rahman Aref flew off to Syria, then to Jordan, then back home again to receive Syrian Head of State Noureddin Attassi on a return call. After receiving Aref in Amman, Jordan's King Hussein took off on a whirlwind visit to nine other Middle Eastern and Arab countries that would last...