Word: aqaba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion said Israel's army will march against Egypt again if President Nasser "tries to block our historic and legal passage into the Gulf of Aqaba...
JERUSALEM, March 19--The open threat of a new war emerged today from Israel's dismay at Gaza Strip and Aqaba Gulf developments since she turned over those battle-won territories to the United Nations...
Crown Prince Faisal, brother of King Saud, arrived today for talks with Nasser on action to keep the Israelis from using the Aqaba Gulf as a channel for high seas commerce. "We accept no bargaining on this point," he told newsmen. "We will fight every effort to decrease the Arabs' sovereignty over their territorial waters...
Dulles was quoted as saying there were no commitments beyond the expression of "hopes and expectations" that Israel's withdrawal of military forces from the Gaza Strip would lead to that county's having free passage through the Gulf of Aqaba...
...suggested several ways of implementing his "power policy." If the United States would place one of her "fat, sleek, new cruisers" in the Gulf of Aqaba, there would be little chance of the Egyptians trying to stop Israeli shipping, he said. He also felt that a U.S. destroyer could safely lead an Israeli freighter through the Suez. These steps should only be taken if all other diplomatic measures failed, however, he pointed...