Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite such difficulties, the Israelis have succeeded in restoring normality to an astonishing degree. They have patterned their occupational activities on U.S. methods in Japan, and they have handed back authority to the mayors and the city councils of the Arab towns. Arab officials have been encouraged to restore water service, electricity and garbage collection to their communities. New currency systems have been devised, and shops have been reopened...
...hard to put into practice. Still, it is people, not real estate, who are causing the most difficulty. From the stifling Sinai to the banks of the Jordan River and the Golan Heights of Syria, Israel is now responsible for the welfare of 1,330,000 hostile Arabs, more than a million of whom are impoverished refugees from the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict. Not only must those Arabs be fed and housed, Israel's small army must somehow police them and weed out saboteurs-a task immensely complicated by the fact that perhaps one-third of Egypt...
...reflects an impatience to get on with the job of peacemaking. Premier Eshkol visited the Sharm el Sheikh garrison, reminded its men that there, on the Strait of Tiran, Nasser's blockade began the trouble. And there he announced that he was ready to talk peace with any Arab leader who would listen. "I hope that my outstretched hand will not be spurned by those who have the power to accept it," he said. Then he vowed that if rebuffed, "Israel is capable of taking care of itself." On that, there is no argument...
...French people, who are overwhelmingly in support of Israel, were outraged at De Gaulle's cynicism. And they made their displeasure known. Even the usually Gaullist daily, Paris Presse, reported that De Gaulle was being accused of "an acute attack of visceral anti-Americanism, megalomania, soliciting of Arab customers, and sabotage of the Johnson-Kosygin meeting." The editors' conclusion: "Not everything is wrong in these explanations...
...humane sensitivities of most modern Jews. An even greater obstacle is that the Temple must be constructed on its original site; this could only be done by demolishing Islam's sacred Dome of the Rock, the spot from which Mohammed ascended into heaven. Despite their enmity with Arab nations, devout Jews would be reluctant to destroy the shrine of another faith...