Word: elath
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Nasser on East-West issues, they appeared bent on making it up to their brother Arab by re-emphasizing their solidarity against Israel. After the U.S. flag tanker Kern Hills, on Israeli charter, sailed through the Gulf of Aqaba to unload Iranian oil at the Israeli port of Elath, the Saudis informed U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold that they considered the gulf a closed Arab sea, and that if Israeli ships tried to pass they would "oppose" them. In rapid succession Iran, Iraq, Syria, and even the West's staunch friend Lebanon, registered their solidarity with Nasser over...
...Reaffirmed, in the face of Saudi Arabian threats to bar foreign shipping from the Gulf of Aqaba, its support of the principle of "innocent passage." The U.S. view: the gulf, gateway to the Israeli port of Elath, has international status, i.e., no nation may blockade it unless the International Court of Justice rules otherwise...
...flag tanker, on Israel's charter and carrying a full cargo of Persian Gulf oil, sailed up the Gulf of Aqaba last week in a blinding sandstorm and anchored at the Israeli port of Elath. En route, in the Red Sea, a U.S. warship had spoken the tanker and asked it to identify itself. "When we said we were American and on our way to Elath," said the skipper, "the reply was, 'Good luck.' " As the tanker passed through the narrow and disputed Strait of Tiran, the captain ordered the flag dipped in salute to the UNEF...
...reply. The U.S. offered nothing new on Gaza. But Dulles' implied willingness to back Israel's Aqaba rights by sending a U.S. ship through the gulf to establish the international right of "innocent passage" raised the possibility at last of opening Israel's southern port of Elath, blockaded by Egypt since 1949, to the potentialities of Asian trade. The catch was that Israel had first to withdraw, before the U.S. would pledge its help...
...forts commanding the entrance to the Gulf of Aqaba. The Israelis said they would withdraw their troops if the U.N. would guarantee that Egypt would not use Gaza for a raiding base again and the forts as a strongpoint for blockading Israel's access to its port of Elath. The U.S. said that it was all a matter...