Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...estimated 10 to 40 Harvard and Radcliffe students are going to work in fields and factories in Israel this summer, a good number because of the Arab-Israeli crisis...
Throughout the crisis, in fact, the only actual casualties so far have been caused by fighting between the Arab states themselves. Sixteen people were killed when a booby-trapped Syrian car exploded at the Jordanian customs post of Ramtha. Jordan accused the Baathist regime of "premeditated sabotage," ordered Syria to close down its embassy in Amman and recalled its own diplomats from Damascus. In Yemen, Egyptian troops launched a new campaign aimed at driving Yemeni royalists from a stronghold in the northern mountains; in raids during the previous week, Egyptian planes had bombed two Saudi Arabian towns. Forgotten entirely last...
...United Arab Republic bullies the Middle East toward another war, it becomes increasingly clear that the Western powers will have to intervene to maintain the right of free navigation in the Strait of Tiran...
...Israel acts alone, however, war is inevitable. Nasser cannot back down now without sacrificing forever his claim to leadership in the Middle East--and perhaps even his position in the United Arab Republic. His latest adventure was probably directed less at harming Israel than at reviving Arab unity, forcing Jordan and Saudi Arabia, his avowed enemies, to join him in an anti-Israeli coalition...
Such costs, however, would be intangible and short-lived. The costs of war, particularly if the U.S. had to intervene to prevent an Arab victory, would be far greater. And it remains in the national interest of the U.S. to fulfill the commitment which this country made in 1956 to protect free passage in the Gulf and to defend that territorial integrity of all Middle Eastern states...