The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 72)

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The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 72)

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Rather than subdue the Arab Nationalists, the above
measures prepared the stage for them to carry on their
political activities. Indeed they lost no time in inaugurating
a propaganda campaign alleging that the administration of the
American University was attempting to suppress Arab nationalist
opinion. Since the political climate in Lebanon as elsewhere
in the Arab World was essentially anti-West the agitation
against the above administration rallied larger segments of
the student body around the Arab Nationalists and strikes
broke out in that university and many other educational
institutions in Lebanon demanding the return of the expelled
students to the university. The administration had no
alternative but to back down and withdraw its disciplinary
measures against the students,
The Arab Nationalists were so excited by their success
in defying both the Lebanese authorities and the administration
of the American University that they decided to extend their
political activities far beyond the university campus. To
this end they engaged in propaganda and agitation among the
Masses. They found in the Western attempt to organize a
Middle East defense organization a favorite target to arouse
public opinion at this time. In a public lecture sponsored
by al-Urwah, Dr. George Habash attacked the Western proposals
for the defense of the Middle East alleging that the concept
of an Allied Middle East Command was designed to preserve
Western dominance. in the Middle East and to use the Arab

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The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party

تاريخ

1971-02-07

المنشئ

Basil R. Al-Kubaisi

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