Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When word leaked out a year ago that West Germany was supplying Israel with $80 million worth of "secondhand" Patton tanks, the response from the Arab world was torrential in its outrage. All but three of the 13 Arab countries (Morocco, Tunisia and Libya) broke diplomatic ties with Bonn, and Egypt's Nasser threatened the ultimate retaliatory blow: recognition of East Germany. Chancellor Ludwig Erhard hastily suspended the shipments and vowed never to panzer to Israel again. Last week the U.S. confirmed that it had picked up the tank deal with Israel where Bonn had left off. This time...
Tactical Edge. Apart from an editorial yelp or two in Syria and Egypt, plus the predictable pro forma tongue-lashings for U.S. ambassadors in Arab capitals, the Arabs reacted to the announcement of U.S. sales to the Israelis with an aplomb that made it seem that they had known about the deal all along. Increasing Arab disunity and Egypt's heavy reliance on American foodstuffs put a damper on indignation-and so did the nimble manner in which Washington handled the revelation. By sending 100 tanks to Jordan last fall and then teaming with the British...
...sees no inconsistency in providing weapons to both sides of the unstable Middle Eastern power equation. For more than a decade, sometimes by proxy, the U.S. has been engaged in an effort to maintain a "balance of weaponry" between Israel and the Arabs. Indeed, it was the U.S. that financed Bonn's embarrassing tank deal. The Soviet Union has pumped a cool $1 billion worth of arms and aircraft into the Arab world in an effort to unbalance the situation. Earlier this month, a flight of supersonic MIG-21D fighters roared into Cairo, giving Egypt a clear tactical edge...
Retiring to Palaces. Despite such problems, Libyans recognize good times when they see them; U.S. Ambassador David Newsom calls Libya "the most stable country in the Arab world today." Reform-minded King Idris, 76, has built more than 100 new schools outside Tripoli, has pledged 70% of the government's $200 million-a-year budget for more housing, hospitals, roads and other welfare and public works projects. To keep Libya steady as well as rich, he has built a well-trained, 7,000-man army, and has quietly warned Egypt's Nasser that in case of aggression...
...slaughterhouse. Through all this there clings to him "the typical boiled cabbage smell of all immigrants." It is his fault. He clings throughout to a cabbage, the "authentic proof of my innocence and my simplicity"-and of his official guilt. To the police, it makes him an Arab. He loses his cabbage and it is mistaken for a bomb: he regains it and it is taken from him by the police and photographed on a pile of confiscated weapons. About the cabbage and its owner swirls a succession of sharp images designed to exalt the brute facts of political life...