Word: syria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other Arab nations were in any position to help Nasser-or themselves. As a result of the Middle East oil embargo (see WORLD BUSINESS), Iraq's gold reserves are expected to dip perilously low. In Syria, which lost the vital revenues from two oil pipelines, the capital city of Damascus began rationing food last week. Lebanon's $85 million-a-year tourist industry, meantime, has all but dried up. Hardest hit is Jordan: it lost not only the tourist-rich Old City of Jerusalem but, at least for the time being, the agricultural lands on the west bank...
...problem, which for the past 19 years has probably been the greatest single source of enmity between Israel and the Arab states, has been made vastly more complex by the war. Tens of thousands of new refu gees have left their homes in Israeli-held portions of Jordan and Syria. About 600,000 old refugees, most of them in the festering, hate-ridden camps of the Gaza Strip, have come under Israeli control. For Israel, it is vital that the refugees be taken out of the camps and resettled where they can lead productive lives. To most Arab leaders, however...
...face of the earth," charged that "Israeli neocolonialism is based in its essence on the total extermination of the Arab people." And Israel would not stop with the Arabs, warned Egypt's Deputy Prime Minister Mahmoud Fawzi: "In 1956, Egypt was singled out for attack. In 1967, Syria and Jordan have been brought in. Who is next? You? You? You? You in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Balkans and God knows where else...
...live in peace. "Our watchword is not backward to belligerency, but forward to peace," explained its ever-eloquent Foreign Minister Abba Eban. Israel's prime demand, he said, is Arab acceptance of its right to exist. And Israel is pressing for direct peace talks with Egypt, Jordan and Syria, the Arab nations whose armies it defeated. It also demands the right of passage through the Suez Canal and the Gulf of Aqaba...
Policing the Vanquished. Such arrangements may be hard to put into practice. Still, it is people, not real estate, who are causing the most difficulty. From the stifling Sinai to the banks of the Jordan River and the Golan Heights of Syria, Israel is now responsible for the welfare of 1,330,000 hostile Arabs, more than a million of whom are impoverished refugees from the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict. Not only must those Arabs be fed and housed, Israel's small army must somehow police them and weed out saboteurs-a task immensely complicated by the fact that...