Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was certainly an unreal, surrealistic quality about the Arab-Israeli crisis in the Middle East last week-as if none of the parties quite knew how or why it had got just where it was. Yet the threat to world peace was real enough. Egypt, having already moved some 80,000 troops into the Gaza Strip and all along its 117-mile border with Israel, announced that it would not permit Israeli ships or vessels bearing strategic materials to Israel to enter the Gulf of Aqaba, at the head of which sits the important Israeli port of Elath...
...sent torpedo boats and jets to patrol the waters. Israel announced that it would consider a blockade of the Gulf of Aqaba "an act of war." The U.S., joined by Britain and France, made it clear that it considered the gulf to be international waters and would oppose any Arab attempt to close it off indefinitely...
...While Egypt's troops and 5,000 men of the Palestinian Liberation Army faced Israel on the West, 40,000 Syrians to the north squinted into Israel, as Major General Hafez Assad put it, "with their fingers tight on their triggers." Jordan's 40,000-man Arab Legion moved into position in the west, and Iraq sent 5,000 troops to help out in Syria. Algeria promised an airlift of troops, and Saudi Arabia's King Feisal, ordering 20,000 of his men into Jordan, proclaimed that "any Arab who falters in this battle is not worthy...
...best Arab manner, shouting won out over shooting-at least for the time being; in fact, hardly a shot was fired in anger all week along the tense borders. Damascus radio called on all Arabs "to undertake the liberation battle that will tear the hearts from the bodies of the hateful Jews and trample them in the dust." Said Radio Cairo...
...Arabs, prepare to die as martyrs so that we may be assured of victory. Martyrdom is the hope of every fighter." At week's end Nasser once more went on the radio to say that any war with Israel "will be total, and the objective will be to destroy Israel. We feel confident that we can win a war with Israel, with God's help." It was, in short, the week in which the Arab countries declared talk on Israel...