Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...derives from the territorial mandate that the British received from the League of Nations after the collapse of Turkey in World War I and later passed on to the U.N. That mandate incorporated the Balfour Declaration, promising the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine. Most of the Arab states now contesting Israel's claim did not exist themselves at the time, but a few Arab leaders agreed to the Balfour Declaration (whose meaning may or may not have been clear to them). The majority of Arabs probably disagreed...
...long can the Arabs hold out against negotiating a peace, and thus against the fact of Israel? Perhaps longer than most Westerners can imagine. Too much of Islam is an arrested culture that has never undergone a true political revolution or a religious reformation that could move it into the modern world. What divides the Arabs from Israel is not merely tradition or religion-for centuries past, Jews were far more tolerantly treated by Arabs than by Christians-but a culture gap. Israel, which in size constitutes less than .2% of the Arab lands, is hated by the Arabs...
...persistence of the Arab attitude is perhaps the strongest argument for Israel's need to protect itself. Since the U.N. has shown its inability to protect them, Israelis argue that they can give up the real estate they deem essential to their security only if the Arabs agree to peace-and to reality, transported to Suez and released, to go home. Some also got food and water from the desert's Bedouins-if they were willing to pay their fellow Arabs...
Captured: Nine Generals. The human cost of the war reflected its unequal outcome. The military death toll was estimated by Jerusalem at 2,000 Syrians, 8,000 Jordanians, 10,000 Egyptians-and 679 Israelis. The Israelis captured 11,500 Arab soldiers (including nine generals), returned 6,000 of them, and offered to send back the rest in exchange for the 16 Israeli P.O.W.s, mostly downed pilots, held by the Arabs. In money terms, Israel estimated that the war cost it only $100 million, against $2 billion for the Arabs. The Israelis captured several times their own outlay's worth...
Stunned beyond belief, shaken beyond admission, still unable to comprehend the disaster, the Arab world last week lurched violently between collapse and retribution. It could no longer make war, but refused to make peace. It had lost its armies, but was desperately determined not to lose its face. Instead, it indulged in an orgy of breast-beating, rationalizing, complaining and threatening that seemed intended to prove both that the Arabs had won the war and that someone else was to blame because they had lost it. "Defeat exists only for those who admit it," said Cairo's semiofficial newspaper...