Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Azimuth Defense. Possibly Pompidou or another new President of France will relax De Gaulle's pro-Arab stance in the Middle East. This would simplify the task of the U.S., Britain and the Soviet Union in proposing an Arab-Israeli settlement during the current four-power discussions. France's next President, whoever he is, probably will not bring French forces back into NATO or soon abandon the force de frappe. De Gaulle emphasized that French defenses had been reoriented to repel an attack from any direction: from the U.S.S.R., from a European neighbor -even from the U.S. Before...
...most important difference between the time just before the Arab-Israeli war of 1967 and today is the widely held conviction that the Arabs would get licked in any new adventure. In other ways, the similarities between the two periods are proving quite remarkable. Last week United Nations Secretary-General U Thant warned both sides that U.N. observers cannot "continue indefinitely" to be exposed to artillery fire across the Suez Canal. Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser, in a May Day speech that was his most belligerent since the war, declared: "We are planning for attack. Our forces...
...past, Israel has tried to dampen Arab belligerence by punitive raids. Now, any heavy retaliation would only play into Nasser's hands by intensifying a war scare that Israel wants to play down. Accordingly, Israel struck back in a manner obviously intended to impress the Egyptians with a display of its capability, without exacerbating big-power fears of a new war. Tel Aviv announced that its commandos had penetrated deep into Egypt, cutting a power line and damaging a bridge and the Nag Hammadi dam 270 miles south of Cairo...
...crisis has endangered Lebanon's delicate political balance between its Christians, who generally oppose involvement in the Arab wars, and its Moslems, who are predominantly pro-fedayeen. Trying to tip the scales to the militants, Syria last week sent a group of guerrillas to attack a Lebanese military post. They were driven off when reinforcements arrived. No matter what the politicians agree on, the 15,000-man Lebanese army will find it difficult to control the 1,000 guerrillas camped on the lower slopes of Mount Hermon. The guerrillas are determined, in the words of the Palestine Liberation Organization...
Whatever long-run effect the Soviet pressure may have on Arab governments, it has dented neither the belligerence nor the armory of the fedayeen. One reason is that they have another source of guns, mines and ammunition from an increasingly important friend: China. Peking is taking full advantage of the opportunity to make trouble simultaneously for both the U.S. and Russia in the Middle East...