Word: aqaba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Insistence of the President and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles on unconditional withdrawal by Israel from the Gaza Strip and Gulf of Aqaba area has touched off a new row. Britain and France are opposed to this policy combined as it is with the threat of economic, moral or military sanctions...
...inducement to the Israelis to cooperate, John Foster Dulles made them what seemed a good offer. As soon as Israel pulled back its troops, he told Ambassador Abba Eban, the U.S. would 1) itself underwrite Israel's right to free passage in the Gulf of Aqaba, and 2) support U.N. action to ensure that the Gaza Strip would not again be used as a base for guerrilla raids on Israel...
...David Ben-Gurion was being stubborn. Looking drawn and thin from his three weeks' struggle against pneumonia, he brooded for three days before calling a Cabinet meeting to draft a reply. The U.S. offered nothing new on Gaza. But Dulles' implied willingness to back Israel's Aqaba rights by sending a U.S. ship through the gulf to establish the international right of "innocent passage" raised the possibility at last of opening Israel's southern port of Elath, blockaded by Egypt since 1949, to the potentialities of Asian trade. The catch was that Israel had first...
Next day Ben-Gurion's government submitted a "formulation" accepting the U.S. proposal on Aqaba in principle but asking U.S. pledges that 1) U.N. troops will occupy the old Egyptian gun positions commanding the entrance to the gulf, and 2) Egyptian troops will not be allowed back in Gaza. This reply, said Dulles, was "not responsive...
Eisenhower reported failure of today's Dulles-Eban talks in another way. The President said: "Israel persists in its occupation of Egyptian territory around the entrance of the Gulf of Aqaba and of the Gaza Strip...