Word: egyptianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...center column, moving in past Kuntilla, drew blood only a few miles inside Sinai. It encountered Egyptian armor, mostly Soviet T-34 tanks. After 16 hours, it scattered the defenders...
...effect, cut off all southern Sinai, and was even turning some of Egypt's T-345 against the defenders. Egypt fought back mostly with windy communiques ("We have annihilated the invasion forces"), a few ineffectual air sorties at Tel Aviv, and a tragicomic attempt by an Egyptian frigate to shell Haifa. The ship was crippled by Israeli aircraft rockets, ran up its white flag. The bemused Egyptian didn't even scuttle his ship, and it was towed into port while Israelis cheered from harbor rooftops...
Official Isreali sources revealed this morning that their forces had siezed 50 million dollars worth of Russian-made Egyptian arms in four days of fighting...
...same sources also said that Israeli had achieved two objectives in the brief war. The first was to dramatize the eight years of conflict between the two countries and the second to forestall an Egyptian attack on Israel...
Were we to turn away from the urgent present to assess the blame for the crises in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, we would name, in reverse order, England and France--for defying the United Nations while claiming to uphold it; Israel--for replying to Egyptian provocations with her own tragic and wrong aggression; Egypt--for aiding suicide squads to fill Israel with terror; the Soviet Union--for encouraging Nasser in his heady confidence of playing East against West to his own advantage; and most important of all--the United States, through its Secretary of State, for conceiving that...