Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Come and Talk Peace." Any Russo-Arab attempt to make capital of that will not likely make much headway among the rest of the delegates. The Arabs, after all, have for 19 years insisted that they were in a "state of war" with Israel, and were clearly massing for their own first strike from the Sinai when the war began. The Russians will probably find more support in the argument that Israel's victorious armies should pull back to their own frontiers...
...Jerusalem. For reasons deeper than strategy or security, Jerusalem is the one Israeli prize that is not negotiable. Any government that returned Old Jerusalem to Jordan would surely collapse. Already the Israelis have razed the bunkers and blockhouses dividing the city's two sectors, and bulldozers have leveled Arab huts to open a broad square before the Wailing Wall -all that remains of the Second Temple, destroyed by the Romans in A.D. 70. Last week, for the festival of Shavouth, which commemorates the handing down of the Law to Moses, the Old City was opened for the first time...
...contrast, Gaza and West Jordan teemed with Arabs, and the conquerors hastily set up military governments headed by Israeli brigadier generals. In the war, the Israelis had surrounded Gaza so quickly that few soldiers or civilians had a chance to escape. General Moshe Goren and his military-government staff first had to disband all enemy units and ferret out potential terrorists, sending the most dangerous ones to the Athlit P.O.W. camp south of Haifa. Then he turned to the task of supplying food and water to the abysmally poor people-mostly jobless Palestinian refugees who had been living...
...other hand, Israel's 325,000 Arab citizens performed with surprising energy and loyalty in the brief war, knocking down government fears that they might constitute a fifth column...
...conquered territory it has a right to keep. That debate, while important, is secondary. The real issue is not Israel's specific size or shape but its basic right to exist. Most of the world has accepted and acknowledged that right, but not the Arabs. After their disastrous defeat, the Arab leaders still proclaim that their ambition is to build up enough strength to eradicate the state of Israel some day, even if it takes generations. They sound a little like Russian Czar Peter the Great, who remarked that he would force the Swedes to defeat him until "they...