Word: aqaba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hammarskjold also recognized Israel's right of "innocent passage" in the Gulf of Aqaba, and thus began at last to work his way out of the dead-end U.N. legalism that Nasser had been the unoffending victim of aggression, and the U.N.'s only responsibility was not to reward aggression. Hammarskjold had to operate within the mandate of the Assembly, where the Arab-Asian bloc, when joined by the Communists, can muster up to 36 out of 80 votes. He suggested that if Israel withdrew to the 1949 armistice line, it might be possible to enforce...
...pipeline pumping again only when the Israelis cleared out of Egypt. The Egyptians said they would start talking about a Suez Canal settlement if the Israelis would pull their remaining troops back from the Gaza strip and from the Egyptian forts commanding the entrance to the Gulf of Aqaba. The Israelis said they would withdraw their troops if the U.N. would guarantee that Egypt would not use Gaza for a raiding base again and the forts as a strongpoint for blockading Israel's access to its port of Elath. The U.S. said that it was all a matter...
...must never return to Gaza, which was in fact a part of the old Palestine mandate and had never been Egyptian soil since the days of Rameses the Great, 3,500 years before. The Israelis also demanded guaranties of free navigation through the Red Sea's Gulf of Aqaba before withdrawing from Sharm el Sheikh and Tiran, the strongholds from which Nasser had blocked their access to the gulf and the port of Elath...
Bypassing Suez. The Israelis stood a chance to salvage one gain from their spoilsless victory. They have sent two frigates to patrol the Gulf of Aqaba and have placed four chartered merchant vessels in service between Elath and East African ports. Turning even the Suez blockage to advantage, the enterprising Israelis are already offering all comers overland transport by truck and rail to the Mediterranean. This week some 500 tons of Ethiopian hides and coffee are scheduled to be transshipped to Europe over this route, which, while costlier than the Suez passage, can compete with transport around the Cape...
Washington is swinging round to the view that the U.N. Emergency Force in Sinai should occupy the Aqaba strongpoints as the Israelis withdraw, and stay until a settlement can be negotiated, to assure Israeli ships continued free passage to the Red Sea and the markets of Asia...