Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MIDDLE EAST PERSPECTIVE: "CAN PEACE BREAK OUT?" (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Interviews with Israeli Premier Levi Eshkol and top Arab leaders. Mike Wallace is the anchor man, backed up by Winston Burdett in Israel, Richard C. Hottelet from the U.N., and Marvin Kalb, Bob Evans and Bill McLaughlin in Jordan...
...TIME'S cheerful acceptance of the Israeli conquest of Arab Jerusalem and other Arab areas [Aug. 4 and 11] acquires considerable irony in view of recent developments, which inevitably attend extended military occupation. Your assertion that "emotional and fiscal" motives sway the Arabs as much as religion in their concern for the holy places would seem even truer of the predominantly secularist Israelis now vigorously exploiting the commercial advantages of the sacred sites. May I point out that in Arab eyes, those hordes of "festive" Israeli tourists visiting the occupied areas are analogous to the Germans who flocked eagerly...
...Also in Atlanta, far-out racists of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee moved deeper into black isolationism and drew angry denunciations from Jewish-American organizations for a shoddily printed anti-Israeli broadside featuring smudgy photographs of an alleged "massacre" of Arabs by Jews and 32 "facts" about Israel that could have been written by Gamal Abdel Nasser. The newsletter also revealed that S.N.C.C. had its own problems. Accused of seeking Arab money, S.N.C.C. confessed it was financially in extremis. Pleaded its newsletter: "Help! Help! We're sinking fast...
...gibe that quickly made the rounds in Warsaw: Tel Aviv was going to retaliate by withdrawing the Polish government. Gomulka, whose wife is Jewish, was not amused. In a scarcely veiled effort to draw on the old well spring of Polish antiSemitism, he charged: "The Israeli aggression on Arab countries has met with applause from Zionist circles of Jews who are Polish citizens and who even gave drinking parties on the occasion. We do not wish a fifth column to be created in our country...
...soon turns up dead, murdered by a delayed-action poison. The judge, of course, finds his culprit after dealing with a clutch of lively characters: the blind and beautiful Lan-lee, who collects crickets; Zumurrud, a half-caste belly dancer; Mansur, the arrogant, sybaritic leader of Canton's Arab community...