Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Calm View. While the Arabs shouted, Israel's Premier Levi Eshkol took a surprisingly calm view of the situation. In decidedly conciliatory tones, he said in a speech to the Knesset: "I would like to say to the Arab countries, particularly to Egypt and Syria, that we harbor no aggressive designs, we have no possible interest in violating either their security, their territory or their legitimate rights. We on our part expect the same principles to be applied to us." One reason for Eshkol's restraint, of course, was the knowledge that a good part of the Western...
Double Play. Meanwhile, though the Arabs continued to talk tough, they were busy looking for exits through which they could escape with honor. The plain fact was that, as Arab and Jew squared off for battle in the hazy heat of a khamsin desert wind, no one wanted the battle to start. From the beginning, the crisis had been the product of massive miscalculations. Nasser, who has repeatedly and publicly warned that the Arabs are not yet strong enough to take on Israel, made the first mistake by signing a mutual defense pact with his fellow leftists in Syria...
...United Nations peace-keeping force-which he had often in the past used as an excuse for not acting. With Israel threatening to invade Syria, he could hardly use that excuse again, so he made what could have been a good double play. To display his courage to his Arab brethren, he went through the motion of requesting the U.N. force to withdraw, expecting to meet considerable opposition...
Nightly Diatribes. In the eleven years since the Suez crisis, the Arabs have increased the power of their armies mightily. Egypt alone has received $1 billion in military hardware-tanks, planes and rockets-from Russia, and both Moscow and Peking have helped arm the Syrians. Jordan and Saudi Arabia have been able to beg and buy their share of power from the West, and Iraq has been getting guns from both sides. Yet Israel has been keeping pace with the Arabs in expanding its armed might, still believes that its army of 300,000 regulars and reservists can stand...
...Most Arab leaders know that the only way that they can hope to beat Israel in any military action is to combine and coordinate their forces. But the Arab world is so divided and its hatreds so deep that not even the threat of immediate war with Israel can bring it back together. Last week government-controlled radio stations in Cairo and Damascus never once let up on their nightly diatribes against such moderate Arab leaders as Jordan's King Hussein ("the Hashemite harlot") and Saudi Arabia's King Feisal ("the bearded bigot"). In a speech...