Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weekly Nation, but they had a different reason. Forrestal had stirred them up by wanting to put Germany back on her feet, as essential to European recovery. He had enraged them in the Palestine dispute by urging that the U.S. be mindful at the same time of Arab friendship. As Secretary of National Defense he stoutly defended this policy as necessary to protect the U.S.'s Middle East oil supplies and its vital chain of Middle East air bases. His critics did not give him credit for that kind of reasoning, whether it was wrong or right; they merely...
...join with the rest of Cairo in honoring his dead friend. The day after his appointment, he took his place in the mile-long procession behind Nokrashy's immediate family and the gun carriage that bore the flagdraped coffin. The coffin was preceded by a magnificent Arab stallion whose rider tolled the funeral step on two giant, richly brocaded drums. Behind came units of Egypt's armed forces, members of the diplomatic corps wearing bright tarbooshes and sashes, and notable sheiks in brocaded turbans and gowns glistening with gold and silver. Last of all came the vengeful members...
...Israel would try it with guns. Said one Israeli spokesman: "If the Egyptians want peace, they can have it. If they want war, they will get it. It is up to them." The Egyptians, meanwhile, were demanding an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council and calling on all Arab states to resume hostilities against the Jews. King Abdullah of Transjordan, who has the only effective Arab fighting force in the area, stood pat. If the Egyptians were beaten, his position would be improved...
Peace was also on the march elsewhere in Palestine. On the northern front, where Israel's army still held a strip of Lebanon, Arab villagers were doing a brisk business with Jewish troops in nylons and wrist watches smuggled from Beirut. Lebanese village muktars (village chiefs) were giving banquets for Israeli staff officers, who in turn supplied them with sugar and other foods scarce in Lebanon. At Beersheba in the Negeb desert, 19 sheiks, with a solemn signing with rings, had petitioned Israel for protection. An Arab leader in a Jaffa jail complained to his lawyer that...
Words into Action. When Abdullah a month ago advised the Jews to be "more reasonable" and the Arabs "to accept the logical," Ben-Gurion was quick to reply. Said he: "I hope that Abdullah's words will be promptly translated into action." By last week, Abdullah's work of translation was making progress. Meeting in Jericho, 500 Palestine Arab leaders had proclaimed him "King of all Palestine," and demanded union with Transjordan. Cagey Abdullah took a modest line. He would consult with his government and other members of the Arab League. Last week his cabinet gave its consent...