Word: aqaba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...going back," cried the United Arab Republic's Gamal Abdel Nasser. "War is inevitable," echoed the editor of his tame newspaper, Al Ahram. Israel, warned Foreign Minister Abba Eban, "is like a coiled spring," and could only consider Nasser's blockade of the Gulf of Aqaba as a direct threat to "the kind of national interest for which a nation stakes all that...
...Britain teamed up to chart a different course of action, final details of which were approved when Wilson arrived for his one-day visit. Under the Anglo-American plan, a declaration would be circulated among the world's maritime nations affirming that 1) the Gulf of Aqaba is an international waterway, and 2) all signatories are entitled to exercise the right of "free and innocent passage...
They are going as part of the Israel Summer Work Program, which sends students to Israel every summer but is sending many more than usual this year in response to the crisis precipitated by Arab President Gamal Abdel Nasser's blockade of the Gulf of Aqaba...
...longer the blockade lasts, the more restless and apprehensive the Israelis are bound to become. They never forget that in 1956 it took Israeli troops only five days to reach Sharm el Sheikh and silence the guns that had closed the Gulf of Aqaba to their ships...
Israel cannot tolerate the blockade which UAR President Gamal Abdel Nasser has imposed on Israeli commerce in the Gulf of Aqaba. In destroying the precarious status quo that has prevailed since 1956, Nasser has cut off Israel's only outlet to Asia, East Africa, and the all-important oil of the Persian Gulf. His action is a violation of the right of free and innocent passage in the Strait of Tiran guaranteed under a 1956 U.N. resolution and an international convention. Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol has declared the blockade an act of war, to which Israel will respond unilaterally...