Word: gaza
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Insistence of the President and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles on unconditional withdrawal by Israel from the Gaza Strip and Gulf of Aqaba area has touched off a new row. Britain and France are opposed to this policy combined as it is with the threat of economic, moral or military sanctions...
Despite the worldwide speculation about the future of Gaza, the Israelis seemed to have no doubt at all. Eighteen Israeli government agencies have just started work on an ambitious program to raise the standard of living to that of surrounding Israeli farm settlements. Israeli engineers are busy paving dusty streets, repairing broken-down harbor jetties, and surveying the ancient towns of Khan Yunis, Rafa and Deir el Balah for their first municipal water, electricity and drainage systems. Trains are hauling in supplies from Tel Aviv 40 miles away; mail is arriving marked "Gaza via Israel." Work is expected to start...
...Zion's newest marches are not to be won lightly. In crowded Gaza, where the 9 p.m. curfew has not prevented Arabs from clustering to hear Cairo radio's nightly exhortations to "rise up and act for the glory of the Arab world," the Israelis face a crisis in cooperation. The Arabs feel the uncertainty of Gaza's status, and scent change. Urchins openly hawk cigarette lighters bearing Nasser's picture. Authorities last week arrested 20 Gaza teachers for assigning teen-age pupils to write essays on the need for killing Israelis. Merchants were refusing...
...Under Gaza's pale minarets and scraggly date palms, locally recruited Arab police and Israeli constables patrol in pairs, distinguishable from each other in their air-force-blue uniforms only because the Arab wears a beret, the Israeli a garrison cap. But while the persistent Israelis clean up the towns and modernize the farms, the inhabitants of much-conquered Gaza wait warily. Said one, when asked last week for his view of Gaza's future: "Tell me who is going to be our master, and I'll tell you what I think...
Eisenhower reported failure of today's Dulles-Eban talks in another way. The President said: "Israel persists in its occupation of Egyptian territory around the entrance of the Gulf of Aqaba and of the Gaza Strip...