Word: israelism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nations at odds often share with taunting children and shrewish wives an inspired instinct for the stinging epithet that penetrates and festers. Arab maps sometimes refer to Israel as "Jewish Occupied Palestine." Russians in the U.N. call Nationalist China delegates the "representatives of the Kuomintang." And for some twelve years since the acrimonious partition of the Indian subcontinent, the Pakistani press, with considered malice and conscientious glee, has called India "Bharat" and referred to Indians as "Bharatis...
...Israel's first general election since 1955, Ben-Gurion's Mapai (Labor) Party had not only defended its No. 1 position against 20 rival parties, but boosted its strength in the 120-member Knesset from 40 to at least 47 seats, a gain the campaign manager himself had ruled out beforehand as "impossible." "The fight of the 20 against one has ended with the complete failure of the 20," crowed Ben-Gurion. His nimbus of white hair awhirl, the old (73) warrior jubilantly raised a glass of vermouth, proclaimed his victory toast: "To life...
...assure "Oriental" (i.e., non-European) immigrants that the Mapai Party would fight to break down social divisions in Israel springing from which people arrived first in the country, Dayan, Peres and Ben-Gurion himself campaigned door to door through Tel Aviv slums. Cape Town-born Abba Eban, who had never lived in Israel before his return from the U.S. last summer, got off to an awkward start by turning up in statesman's coat and tie for a Mapai rally at which Ben-Gurion and everybody else on the platform wore open-necked shirts. As quickly as was diplomatically...
...Arabs' economic blockade of Israel has probably caused Israel more injury than Arab armies did in two wars. It has effectively deterred Israel's plans to set itself up as an industrial nucleus to serve Middle East markets. Such well-known U.S. firms as Philco Corp., Standard Oil (New Jersey), British-Shell and Socony Mobil Oil Co., Inc. have removed themselves from the Arab League blacklist by deciding that doing business in Israel is uneconomic...
...current blacklist, drawn up in Cairo, names 48 American firms. Included are Empire Brushes Inc., Kaiser Industries Corp., Dow Chemical Co. and Plough Sales Corp., because they have branches or agencies in Israel. Individual Arab countries have their own blacklists, which are even more capriciously kept. Philco radios and air conditioners were banned in Saudi Arabia even after the firm's name was removed from the Arab League blacklist. Last February, after Elizabeth Taylor bought $100,000 worth of Israeli bonds, the United Arab Republic banned any further showing of her films in Syria and Egypt. Presumably the boycott...