Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your May 26 Middle East coverage makes me mad as hell. The Israelis have been harassed for years by Arab marauders; if they have occasionally hit back in desperation, that hardly equates them with those who sneak in at night to plant bombs and kill whomever they can. Our own country has reacted the same many times-against Indians, Mexicans and Tripoli pirates-and we react in similar ways today when our interests are threatened. And tell me, please, how would you react if somebody kept hitting you every time your back was turned...
...were to offer a Nation of the Year award, my vote would go to Israel. For the past 19 years, this bastion of democracy has survived in spite of the Arab commandment "harass thy neighbor." This tiny nation may yet fulfill the Biblical prophecy of being a "light unto all nations." Let's hope the U.A.R. is one of the first to see the light...
Suddenly, "the war" no longer meant just Viet Nam. Jason McManus and Ron Kriss, who have written a great deal about Viet Nam, now found themselves writing the cover story and the lead Nation article about the Middle East conflict. In the field, reporting the war from the Arab side proved difficult. For days after Egypt expelled U.S. citizens, no transport was available, so Correspondent Roger Stone was interned with 21 other newsmen in a dingy Cairo hotel called the Nile, where life, as he put it, "was a game of Stalag 17." In Beirut, Lee Griggs, reinforced by James...
Through the dawn and early morning hours, Lyndon Johnson pored over cables on the Arab-Israeli war in his White House bedroom. After two weeks in which the President had bent every effort to avert hostilities, the overwhelming peril was that the U.S. and Russia would now be sucked into a direct confrontation that neither superpower wanted. Around 8 a.m., Monday, the President's bedside phone brought some electrifying and potentially ominous news. Walt W. Rostow, the President's national security adviser, was calling to report that the "hot line" was being activated from Moscow...
America First. For the U.S. and Russia, the bargaining period could prove a perilous one-or a real opportunity to cool off the Arabs and lay the foundation for a durable peace. Both Washington and Moscow are in disrepute among the Arabs. As Israeli columns closed on Suez, Radio Cairo repeatedly shrilled that the Arabs were fighting "America first, America second and America third"-and many a fellah believed it. Washington is thus looking for some way of regaining a measure of influence in the petroliferous Arab world without sacrificing Israel's interests...