Word: egyptianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yehudah Nizan and Lt. Col. Israel Meidan of the Israeli army said yesterday that Israel's invasion of Egypt was a self-defensive measure, prompted by Egyptian military buildup and commando activity against Israel...
...Nizan felt that Egyptian fedayeen raids, more than anything else, brought about the Mideast uprising. These commandos, he said, exist for the sole purpose of murdering Israeli civilians. "Such a thing," he stated, cannot be long endured...
...government was propounding a new line: Britain had intervened to foil a Russian plot to take over the Middle East. Said President of the Board of Trade Peter Thorneycroft: "We intervened to stop the war, and we have perhaps stopped it in the nick of time before the Egyptian air force, organized by Russia, ran amok in the Middle East." Eden's Foreign Office had apparently not had the political word. The Foreign Office told inquiring reporters that stories of massive Russian moves came from Russian propaganda, which was systematically exaggerating what Russia has done or will...
Unlike the old Nasser, the new Nasser devoted a good deal of his time to defensive-sounding explanations. The singularly unimpressive performance of the Egyptian air force was explained away as a clever trick. "Our pilots," said he, "were ordered to stay grounded despite their protests . . . We put dummy planes on the airfields, and in this way we were able to save our air force." He went on to make the amazing assertions that no Egyptian tanks or armored cars were lost in battle against the Israelis, that the Egyptian air force had shot down 18 Israeli planes...
...Egyptians might well believe these stories. There were, in fact, no immediate signs that the war had done anything to shake the Egyptian public's confidence in Nasser. (In Port Said, when a newsman asked a captured Egyptian civilian, "What do you think of Nasser now?", the prisoner squared his shoulders and blurted back: "What do you think of Eden...