Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Considering the autocratic nature of the Arab states ruled by Abdullah and his partners in perfidy, the obvious democratic nature of Israel, the still-standing decision of the United Nations in favor of partition, the undisguised aggression of the Arab states into Palestine, and TIME's espousal of democratic causes and hatred of aggressors, don't you think a cover featuring the President of the new democratic state of Israel, Chaim Weizmann, would have been more fitting...
Last week a dove of peace shuttled hopefully between the Israeli and Arab capitals. It was a white Dakota plane, with red crosses painted on the wings and body. The wings also bore, in bold, black letters, the words "United Nations" in English and French. The plane's principal passenger was 53-year-old Count Folke Bernadotte of Sweden, president of the Swedish Red Cross and U.N. mediator for Palestine. His mission was to win Jewish and Arab acceptance of a cease-fire agreement...
Bernadotte would need all his diplomatic skill. Israel and the Arab governments said that they had "unconditionally" accepted the Security Council's call for a four-week truce. But there were conditions to the unconditional: the Israelis had attached "assumptions," the Arabs "explanations." One of the chief obstacles to agreement was the question of immigration. Jews insisted that the Security Council resolution allowed unlimited immigration, even of men of military age. The Arabs claimed that Jewish immigrants were potential soldiers and should be barred during the truce period. By week's end Bernadotte said that this quarrel...
Both sides were still talking belligerently and boasting of famous victories-by-communiqué. The sober facts were that fighting so far had been on a small scale,* that (except for Arab raids into Galilee) all of it had taken place outside Israel's borders as fixed by U.N., that Syrian and Lebanese troops had been driven from northern Palestine, that the Egyptians were hard-pressed south of Tel Aviv, and that the Jews had not been able to open the road to Jerusalem. Mediator Bernadotte might be helped by the fact that both Jews and Arabs seemed reluctant...
...wicked old man abhorred dictatorships, left or right. When the Germans came to Paris he fled first to Nice, then to North Africa. Already past 72, he went on writing in an Arab village near Tunis, completed his translation of Hamlet. He learned La Fontaine's fables by heart and later founded a literary review (L'Arche) in liberated Algiers. A stream of bigwigs came to his bedroom-study to pay their respects. Communists in the Algiers Consultative Assembly paid theirs by asking that he be tried and put to death. In the spring of 1945 he returned...