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...Israel, where flags flew at half-staff in mourning, Premier Levi Eshkol vowed that "the Lord shall avenge their blood." Israelis speculated on earthly reprisals, from bombing the 17,000 Iraqi troops stationed in Jordan to knocking out Baghdad TV. However, the executions presented Israel with a cruel dilemma: any reprisal would inevitably endanger the 2,500 Jews still living in Iraq...
...Bank. But the new settlements and towns represent the "operative stage" of a far larger plan that encompasses these Arabs as well. That plan bears the signature of Deputy Premier Yigal Allon and dates back to the 1967 war, when he offered it as a suggestion to Premier Levi Eshkol while the guns were still firing. A month and three days after the fighting stopped, he presented his plan to the Cabinet, and has been refining it and pressing for its adoption ever since. Last week's action did not deal with all of the Allon proposals, only...
...Israelis found De Gaulle's maneuvers too much to bear. Students staged mass demonstrations before the French embassy in Tel Aviv. One poster showed a De Gaulle-nosed poodle sniffing a mongrel sporting an Arab headdress. The caption: HE SMELLS OIL. In the Knesset, Premier Levi Eshkol condemned France's expressed reasons for the embargo (Israeli "aggression") as a "mendacious libel...
Everything Except Aircraft. De Gaulle's embargo was in turn blasted as "a one-sided and indefensible act," by Premier Levi Eshkol, who called a Cabinet meeting for this week to consider an appropriate response. Still, some Israelis found a silver lining. The embargo makes more palatable to voters the $2.3 billion "war budget to prevent war" that Finance Minister Zeev Sha-ref presented to the Knesset last week. And it will likely produce millions of dollars in new funds from Jews around the world...
Cast suddenly on the diplomatic defensive, Premier Eshkol said in Jerusalem that "we could not but exercise our right of self-defense. Any tourist knows where to find the terrorist organization in Beirut. International law clearly says that a country that harbors aggressors is an aggressor...