Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Call for Peace. The new leaders are the mayors and politicians who remained in their posts when the Israelis marched in. Where Shukairy had been fanatic, they are pragmatic. Where Shukairy had depended on other Arab states to "drive the Israelis into the sea," the new men call for a purely "Palestine initiative"-the essence of which is to make an acceptable peace with Israel. "The Israelis have all along offered the Arab states peace," says Aziz Shihadeh, 50, a lawyer in the occupied town of Ramallah. "They have been offering it to the wrong people. We, the Palestinians...
...still disagree about whether to hold out for full independence, try to become part of Jordan again or accept Israeli citizenship in return for full local autonomy and Israeli economic aid. No date has yet been set for the conference, but Ja'abari expects it to appoint an Arab Palestinian to begin negotiations with the Israeli authorities...
...supply since the war, and the West Bank telephone system, sabotaged by the departing Jordanians, is still a shambles. But food is plentiful, including the fresh sea fish that Palestinians love and the Jordanians were unable to supply. More important, there have been no mass repressions, no raping of Arab women, no wholesale expropriations of Arab property. Palestinian businessmen have shucked their coats and ties, adopted the more comfortable Israeli practice of coming to work in their shirtsleeves. "From the very first day," says Bethlehem's Mayor Elias Bandak, "the Israelis and our people mixed together as old friends...
Said Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban, 52, as he wearily prepared to return from Tel Aviv to the word wars at the U.N. General Assembly in Manhattan: "If the Arab League made a motion at the U.N. Assembly that the world was flat, they would get 40 votes...
...WAVA, which covers Washington, D.C., from Arlington, Va. While admitting that the location has built-in advantages, WAVA's executive vice president, John Burgreen, points to fan mail from Congressmen, Government officials and businessmen complimenting the station for its continuous, up-to-the-minute coverage of the Arab-Israeli war. Even the President has had his office wired so he can monitor WAVA instantly...