Word: egyptianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Egyptian army doctors were taken to see Israeli hospitals and medical schools. The Israeli hosts were not armed. Israelis seemed to take the Egyptians for granted, even those still in uniform...
...WEST PLOTTING BEHIND-SCENES CONSPIRACY, headlined Cairo's semiofficial Al Ahram), the U.S.'s Henry Cabot Lodge drafted two compromise resolutions. One repeated for the sixth time the Assembly's demand for Israeli withdrawal. The other called vaguely for "the placing of the UNEF on the Egyptian-Israeli armistice demarcation line...
...most of the 5,000 Egyptians captured in the Sinai campaign, the image of Israel was the one Nasser's radio had given them-a contemptible land of near starvation kept alive by U.S. subsidies, needing only one quick and timely push by the Arabs to shove it into final oblivion. But a few Egyptians were more curious. Israel's Foreign Ministry, learning that some Egyptian officers wanted to see Israel for themselves, jumped at the chance...
Haifa clothing merchants agreed to lend each officer a civilian suit for a day, and a tour usually began with host (recruited among Haifa doctors, lawyers, engineers and architects) and his Egyptian "guest" in a tailor shop amiably debating the fit or fashion of assorted suits or shirts. The host took his Egyptian wherever he wanted to go, to see whatever he wanted to see. Some went to the movies, to concerts, sipped coffee in cafés, went shopping in Haifa or Jerusalem. Others visited factories, cooperative villages and kibbutzim...
...only rule was to avoid political discussions. "We knew we couldn't change an Egyptian's point of view by arguing with him," said a Foreign Ministry spokesman. "The most we could hope to do was to open his eyes." Some were hard to convince. One Egyptian refused to believe Israel was not starving until he ordered a ten-egg omelette in a café, was served it by the owner without comment...