Word: etzion
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...hold this area with military installations. At Bir Gifgafa, 15 miles north of the Giddi Pass, is a giant forward base containing tank-repair shops and jet-fighter strips that could be relinquished. But closer to Israel, newer and more sophisticated airbases have been or are being built. Etzion, near Eilat, and Etam, about 30 miles south of Rafah, are already operational. A third base between them is still under construction...
...between countries would be changed in two minor ways. The Latrun salient, a bit of Jordanian land that juts into Israel at the Trappist monastery of Latrun on the road to Jerusalem, would be given to Israel. So would a small chunk of land farther south in the Kfar Etzion area...
...Arish-once the headquarters of Egyptian military forces in the Sinai-scores of bronzed and bearded young Israeli soldiers have staked out a fishing kibbutz that is the first Jewish settlement in the peninsula since Moses led his people out of Egypt. Another colony of Jews has moved into Etzion, in the Hebron hills of Arab Palestine, and a third has begun farming land at Baniyas, below the Golan Heights. In Jerusalem, rabbinical students have set up housekeeping in three abandoned yeshivot (theological seminaries) within the walls of the Old City, and the government plans an extensive resettlement of Jews...
...heavy pressure to permit Jews to move into and settle choice farm areas in the occupied Arab territories. He has been asked to allow 150 separate sites to be so settled, and last week he finally gave in-on one. He allowed a dozen paramilitary farm youths to reoccupy Etzion on the West Bank, sacred to Israelis as the site where four kibbutzim were wiped out in 1948 in a gallant stand that helped save Jerusalem from the Arab Legion. Fearing that the move might be a test for further permanent Israeli settlements in conquered territory, the U.S. State Department...
Still other Arab contingents were on the move. The Legion destroyed the Jewish settlement of Kfar Etzion and four others. In southern Palestine, Egyptian troops crossed the border into the sandy wastes of the Negeb Desert to seize Jewish settlements on the road to Gaza. In northern Palestine, where Haganah was trying to secure the Galilee region, Syrian and Lebanese detachments attacked Jewish settlements. Egyptian air force planes swooped over Tel Aviv in the first strafing and bombing raids of the war.* But these Arab moves were, for the moment, token attacks with token forces. The important question...