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...Nasser's death, followed with an apt quote from Proverbs 24:17: "Do not rejoice when your enemy falls and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles." The Cabinet, hastily summoned, ordered Israeli front-line troops on alert until events were sorted out. Foreign Minister Abba Eban pointedly offered Nasser's potential successor a nonbelligerent atmosphere in which to operate. With the 90-day cease-fire between his country and Egypt due to expire early next month, Eban said at the United Nations: "We do not recognize a deadline. Israel will not open fire just because a certain...
...Britain, West Germany, Switzerland and Israel?also added to the confusion. The West Germans once again contemplated trading unilaterally for the release of two citizens by freeing three Arabs imprisoned by Bonn. British Foreign Minister Alec Douglas-Home, anxious to speed up deliberations, interrupted Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban's private visit to England to press for a promise to release more Arab prisoners. The Israelis agreed, among other things, to give up the two Algerian intelligence agents they had been holding. For its part, the U.S., which had dispatched Sixth Fleet ships with 1,500 battle-ready Marines...
...Gaulle appears to be acid-tongued, vengeful and often petty. Yet he also emerges as a man with an obviously brilliant political mind. Almost three weeks before the Six-Day War in 1967, he informed a Cabinet meeting that he was about to meet with Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban, who was then in Paris. The general, with almost incredible prescience, told his ministers that he planned to tell Eban...
...Europe. Finally, the Palestinian problem, which is still only one of refugees, will become a great national cause. We wish Israel nothing but well. All our warnings must be considered as signs of our interest and friendship. Don't jump to the wrong conclusions." After the meeting with Eban. De Gaulle prophetically told Pompidou that the imminent war "will last less than ten days...
...Eban fails, as seems likely, the journey of Premier Golda Meir will become even more important. She will fly to Washington for discussions with President Nixon. Mrs. Meir is bringing an $800 million shopping list that includes U.S. jet fighters, antiaircraft missiles, electronic equipment and helicopters...