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Actually, Israel appeared to have given up one thing: obstinacy over talks with Egypt toward a reopening of the Suez Canal. The U.S. last year attempted to arbitrate such a discussion, but it was suspended after Israel objected to a U.N. speech by Secretary of State William Rogers. Rogers proposed that the Israelis withdraw some troops from the Bar-Lev Line, that a U.N. peace-keeping force be stationed in the Sinai, and that Egyptian "police" be allowed to cross the canal to the Israeli-occupied east bank...
...Egyptian sniper with a keen eye and an impulse to start a new war could easily have done so last week. Atop a Suez Canal embankment, only 250 yards from peering Egyptian soldiers across the waterway, stood Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan; Major General David Elazar, the new chief of staff; and a cadre of other ranking officers. On an inspection visit to Israel's Bar-Lev Line, Dayan and his commanders seemed to be almost daring the Egyptians to start something. The remarks of various Israeli leaders during the week suggested that...
...Israelis' confidence that they can handle any attack seems well founded. Egypt can easily put commandos across the canal by helicopter and assault boat. But they probably could hold only until Israel moved up reserves; the Israelis, moreover, have the capacity to retaliate massively by knocking out Egypt's rebuilt air force and its missile defenses west of the canal. An all-out Israeli assault would surely kill some of Egypt's Russian military advisers. But the Soviets, Washington feels, are not likely to overreact for fear of a U.S. response...
Egypt and Israel, on the other hand, could very well provoke another full-scale war between themselves. Neither seems to want that; even if the Jarring talks get nowhere, both governments are apparently amenable to another round of U.S.-sponsored talks aimed at reopening the Suez Canal. But if peace discussions bog down now, the Middle East's indecisive year of decision could easily be followed by a year of debacle...
...South Shore Mussolini. "In dealing with him [Nasser], every display of timidity or weakness was seized upon and exploited. No action, however generous or fairminded, could reap any reward." As for Dulles, his "vanity more than equalled his talents." At first Dulles told Britain that after seizing the canal, Nasser must be made to "disgorge what he was attempting to swallow." Then the "strange uncertainty of Dulles' own character and the light rein with which the President chose to ride him" began leading American policy along an erratic course. By Macmillan's count, Dulles switched signals at least...