Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that has earned the Administration brick bats when it comes to Viet Nam. Tuchman concluded with what sounded remarkably like a Middle Eastern version of the "domino theory" that is so derisively scorned by Administration critics when applied to Asia. "Aqaba is the test from which the Arab nations, and behind them all the nations of Asia and Africa, will take their cue," she wrote. "If we fail to act to confirm the principle of freedom of navigation, every person in every one of these countries will take note...
Days or Weeks. That point could hardly have been lost on Johnson, who has repeatedly emphasized the damage to U.S. prestige that would result from a U.S. withdrawal in Viet Nam. If diplomacy fails to settle the Arab-Israeli impasse, and if the other seagoing nations continue to shrink from the idea of backing their principles with some punch, the U.S. and Britain may have to act on their own. Otherwise, Israel surely will move to break the blockade-not in a matter of months or years but, as Eban warned, days or weeks. And once Israel moves, as Harold...
...Eshkol and his people found themselves besieged and threatened as few nations have ever been in their history. Tiny, dagger-shaped Israel, whose 2,700,000 people cling to 7,993 sq. mi. on the shores of the eastern Mediterranean, faced the implacable hostility and cocked guns of 14 Arab nations and their 110 million people. Its borders were ringed with Arab troops on all sides; its important sea access through the Gulf of Aqaba remained blocked by Egyptian mines and patrol boats...
...exactly a weakling. The Israeli army, with 71,000 regulars and 230,000 reserves, is by far the most efficient fighting force in the Middle East?as it proved by soundly trouncing the Egyptians in the 1956 Sinai campaign. It could hold its own against almost any array of Arab armies, provided that the Arabs did not unite into a single force. What alarms Israel this time is the way in which the Arabs, though continuing to fight and squabble among themselves, have nonetheless joined firm ranks against Israel. Despite its superior military prowess, Israel might be hard pressed indeed...
...What the Arabs have repeatedly demanded?and the U.N. General Assembly has repeatedly recommended?is that Israel give all displaced Palestinians the choice of returning to their homes in Israel or accepting indemnity payments instead. Until now, Israel has always refused to consider such a solution. "To return to Israel hundreds of thousands of Arabs conditioned to hate it and incited to engineer its extinction," in the words of an official government document, "could only be an invitation to suicide." But would it? Many responsible Arabs believe that only a relatively few refugees would choose to live under Israeli rule...