Word: nasserism
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Last fall, after Nasser and Jordan's King Hussein had seemingly patched up their quarrel and agreed to resume diplomatic relations, all went well until the United Arab Republic assigned a new man to head its consulate in Arab Jerusalem. His credentials, as if calculated to give offense, defined the post as in "the area west of the Jordan River which is occupied at present by the forces of The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan." It has been part of Jordan for ten years...
...border last month, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion launched Israel's first reprisal raid since the 1956 Sinai invasion, blasting and leveling a Syrian village in a demilitarized zone. The U.N. Mixed Armistice Commission called it a "flagrant violation" of the armistice, "contrary to elementary humanitarian principles." President Nasser evidently thought it was more than that-the kind of muscle-flexing that preceded the Sinai invasion...
...last week, on a visit to his northern province of Syria, Nasser tossed off incendiary speeches, pledging never to let Israeli ships or goods through the Suez Canal, damning the 1950 U.S.-British-French guarantee of Middle East borders as "dead and buried," summoning all Arabs to follow him in a "sacred march" to "liberate Palestine...
...jittery Cairo, the rumor spread that the Israelis were mobilizing secretly to attack while Nasser was in Damascus...
...Nasser moved 2½ to three divisions back to the Sinai frontier, where 5,300 U.N. Emergency Force troops have kept the peace for three years. British and U.S. diplomats questioned the reality of the Arab fears, and Ben-Gurion himself announced that he would shortly leave for a trip to the U.S., as if to show there was no reason for war scares. In the U.S., BenGurion will also seek assurance of American sympathy prior to the summit meeting, when he fears that the U.S. and Russia might compromise Israel in an effort to arrange a Middle East settlement...