Word: aqaba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inevitable power-positioning that followed Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and from Sharm el Sheikh on the Gulf of Aqaba, Egypt's Dictator Nasser last week moved fast to send in one of his generals to administer Gaza's civil affairs. United Nations Representative Ralph Bunche infuriated Israel by announcing, after a 90-minute conference with President Nasser, that the U.N. would "cooperate" with the Egyptian administration...
Nasser also hurried reconnaissance troops to a base just 40 miles southwest of the Gaza Strip while the Cairo radio shrilled that Saudi Arabia would prevent Israeli shipping from passing through the Gulf of Aqaba. If true (and at week's end the Saudis had neither confirmed nor denied), this was a double challenge to the U.S. because it 1) considers Saudi Arabia's King Saud a force for stability and order in the Mideast, and 2) has pledged itself to the principle of free and innocent passage in the Gulf of Aqaba...
...have brought hope that Egypt will accept its obligation under the implied settlements which brought about the final Israeli troop withdrawals. The Egyptian government is now recommencing administration in the Gaza Strip, while the United Nations Emergency Force continues to patrol the border. Israeli ships have moved through the Aqaba Gulf and the Suez Canal soon may be reopened. Though peace-time operations seem about to be started the whole situation presents a complex of diplomatic problems whose particular solutions are interrelated and thus must be solved together...
...Secretray-General should impress upon Nasser that once this objection has been removed Egypt has little choice under international law but to declare non-belligerency and permit free passage in Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba. If the United States speaks out strongly on this point instead of equivocating with its usual pious phrases, Egypt will probably concede. For when Egypt has these securities, she will have no legal basis for interfering with Israeli shipping. But so long as Israel insists on occupying El Auja, Nasser will have some justification for keeping Israeli ships out of the canal...
This was reported by informed diplomats as Hammarskjold met Egyptian President Nasser tonight to explore the tangle of Middle East issues. They include such varied problems as the Gaza Strip, Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba that have become snarled in the same ball of twine...