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Here stood Israel's leonine David Ben-Gurion, vowing that Israel's tough little army would not give up conquered Gaza and the entrance to the Gulf of Aqaba until it got guarantees that Egypt could not again use these bases to attack Israel or strangle her commerce. There sat Egypt's deep-chested Gamal Abdel Nasser, shirtsleeved before his nine telephones, a hard-pressed, unpredictable man who was hearing the arguments with unaccustomed mildness...
...authoritative diplomatic source who would not be identified said there had been no change in the situation despite Eban's dash to talk to Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion...
Innocent Passage. When word of the U.S. offer flashed through Israel, citizens who had just paraded in defiant anticipation of sanctions could hardly conceal their satisfaction. "We have forced on the State Department a transformation in its thinking," said one. But in Jerusalem, old (70) Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion was being stubborn. Looking drawn and thin from his three weeks' struggle against pneumonia, he brooded for three days before calling a Cabinet meeting to draft a reply. The U.S. offered nothing new on Gaza. But Dulles' implied willingness to back Israel's Aqaba rights by sending...
...Next day Ben-Gurion's government submitted a "formulation" accepting the U.S. proposal on Aqaba in principle but asking U.S. pledges that 1) U.N. troops will occupy the old Egyptian gun positions commanding the entrance to the gulf, and 2) Egyptian troops will not be allowed back in Gaza. This reply, said Dulles, was "not responsive...
After the Israelis refused to answer these questions which Jerusalem newspapers termed "an ultimatum," the Arab-Asian bloc this week moved to debate sanctions against Israel. Washington's hopes that Ben-Gurion would accept private U.S. assurances of support arid pull out gave way to pessimism; U.S. officials predicted that Israel's holdout would damage its own long-term self-interest...