In that same year. 1956. Egypts army was beaten again by the Israelis in a brief campaign that left a trail of ravaged roads and ruined equipment in jhe Sinai Desert. Israel is the Arabs greatest antiwestern griev-. ance. and. to the humiliation of defeat. you must add the bitterness of the dispossessed. of the 950.000 Palestinian refugees. who have lost their lands and their homes. and are still caught between Israels refusal to take them back. and the Arabs refusal to restttle them on Arab soil for fear of losing his political and moral issue. For the Arabs. Israel is a western creation. a reintrusion of western Imperialism in a new guise. and the Arab refugees in their camps are fully aware that the Israelis. in their first 10 years as a nation. have received $500 million in Government aid from the United States. nearly 3 times as much as all the Arab States combined. But misery extends far beyond the camps of the refugees. and the Nationalists everywhere aspire to rebuild their backward societies in the modern Image of the industrial West. Their nationalism is a radical social movement. Once again. in their eyes.
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