Word: aqaba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CAIRO, March 18-President Nasser has pulled a diplomatic reverse play on the United States by letting Saudi Arabia carry the ball for the Arabs on the Aqaba Gulf issue...
Belligerent State. Egypt has not yet decided whether to allow Israeli ships to pass through the canal. In the past Egypt has barred Israeli ships from the canal-and from the Gulf of Aqaba-on grounds of Egypt's continued "state of belligerency" against Israel. Back in 1951 the U.N. Security Council ruled out this claim as incompatible with the 1949 Egyptian-Israeli armistice...
Nasser last week promised a group of student visitors from Gaza "to win back all Palestine." Diplomats in Cairo believe that Nasser may accept indefinite stationing of U.N. Emergency Force troops to keep peace along the border, but will insist on control over Gaza and the Gulf of Aqaba. Last week John Foster Dulles made plain that the U.S. will not be disposed to release the $50 million in blocked Egyptian funds so long as Nasser shows himself intractable...
There was anger in Israel as the Knesset met to debate Premier David Ben-Gurion's decision to pull his country's troops out of Gaza and Egypt's Gulf of Aqaba coast. But the barbed-wire barricades that police threw around the Parliament building last week proved an unnecessary precaution. The 5,000 Jerusalemites who turned out for the right-wing opposition Herut Party's mass-protest rally listened to speeches, shook their fists only when the newsreel cameras were on them, and shuffled off home without more than a jeer...
...midnight Israel's one-eyed Army Chief Moshe Dayan met Lieut. Colonel Carl Engholm, UNEF commander in Gaza, in the town square. "Everything is going well," said Engholm. Less than 48 hours later, fast-moving General Dayan handed over the wrecked Egyptian gun positions overlooking the Gulf of Aqaba narrows, and Israel's army was gone from Egypt after a 126-day stay...