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...that the Soviets would go along with his proposal. Anxious Security Council delegates, who had been listening to Kissinger's press conference over transistor radios or watching it on TV, quickly accepted his proposed amendment. Altogether, a force of 7,000 men was authorized to serve as a buffer between Israeli and Egyptian armies...
...that the peace-keeping force be geographically equitable and not limited to NATO nations. The resolution passed, and at week's end 900 U.N. peace-keepers on Cyprus were being airlifted to Egypt. Two hundred Finns among them were immediately rushed to the city of Suez as a buffer...
...served with distinction in fighting against the Egyptians. When he returns to civilian life, Sharon is expected to attack Dayan's lack of preparedness and will urge Israel to consolidate its hold on the occupied territories. He and other Likud candidates will stress the strategic importance of a buffer zone to protect Israeli population centers from future surprise attacks...
...would never fight. The fighting spirit of the American colonies came about because you refused the serenity of living under the British Crown. Well, we don't like the serenity-Mr. Eban's word-of being occupied. The argument that this occupied territory serves as a protective buffer for Israel-that was the argument of Hitler. What we're asking for is very simple: that our territorial integrity and the rights of the Palestinians be respected. These two elements are the sine qua non conditions for peace in the Middle East...
...battle rages distantly and violently on both sides of the canal, anyone who questions Israel's wisdom in having hung onto the vast uninhabited buffer space that it seized in the Sinai apparently cannot now get much of a hearing in the streets of Tel Aviv. The answer that will not be listened to is really a question: Would the fourth round of fighting have come so soon, and would it have been fought with such Arab tenacity, had not the Egyptians felt a just grievance at the loss of their lands east of Suez, and believed that what...