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...three fronts-Gaza, Jordan and Sinai. The trouble was keeping up with the speeding Israeli army. "I saw grotesque dead and wounded, equipment abandoned intact, stunned and frightened captured Arabs," he said. "But in a way, I truly felt the reality of the war in blacked-out Tel Aviv, being shelled by the Jordanians, as I huddled in a doorway with people who remembered World War II and Nazi Europe...
Other TIME staffers appeared. Marvin Zim, on his way to the U.S. from New Delhi, joined the Sixth Fleet. From New York came World Editor Ed Jamieson and Chief of Correspondents Richard Clurman. When Clurman stepped off the plane at Tel Aviv, one dusty correspondent fresh from the front cracked: "You can really tell the war is over when guys like you start arriving...
There was little doubt as to where the majority of Americans stood. In Chicago's Loop, Mayor's Row restaurant changed the name of one of its dining rooms from "Little Egypt" to the "Tel Aviv Room." In Miami, a group of Cuban exiles approached a rabbi and offered to fight against the Arabs. In Boston, Cardinal Gushing and 18 other high-ranking Catholic and Protestant churchmen came out for Israel. So did more than 3,700 university professors from around the country in a signed newspaper statement...
Half the nation seemed to be in uniform. The winding highway from the rugged wooded hills of Jerusalem to Tel Aviv on the coast was crowded with reservists hitchhiking to join their units. In the cities, girls in khaki miniskirts and pertly cocked overseas caps were on round-the-clock duty at sandbagged gun positions. Middle-aged men volunteered for temporary police duty, and middle-aged housewives enlisted for service as air-raid wardens. Schoolchildren delivered the mail, and university students paid their own way to remote kibbutzim (collective farms) to replace teachers called to arms. In Jerusalem, two wealthy...
...Arab reaction was immediate and violent. Charging that the Jew had usurped Arab land, the combined armies of Egypt, Transjordan, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria marched on Israel the following day and bombers attacked Tel Aviv. The Arabs were roundly drubbed. Outnumbered at first by 20 to 1, Israeli soldiers outfought, outmaneuvered and outgunned the Arabs, who were finally forced to ask for a cease-fire after eight months of fighting. But although they put down their guns, the Arabs still refused to recognize the existence of Israel. Their pride was stung, and they swore vengeance. During the war, moreover...