Word: gaza
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...task is to establish its Emergency Force along the Egyptian-Israeli 1949 armistice line, some 120 miles to the east. To judge by the beginnings, this may take a long time. In Jerusalem Premier David Ben-Gurion announced that "under no circumstances" would Israel agree to return the captured Gaza Strip of Palestine territory to Egypt. And in the Sinai desert, advancing Yugoslav elements of the UNEF found that the retreating Israelis had skillfully scorched the earth...
...canalside headquarters UNEF Commander General Eedson L.M. Burns noted that the Israelis had agreed to withdraw 35 miles from the canal by mid-December, and to pull back 15 miles a week from then on. At that rate, which Burns called "not conformable with the U.N. resolution," Gaza was five weeks away. "There's nothing to prevent their going right back to the line immediately," he added tartly...
...have been brainwashed by the Arabs. As for instance, "Israel's armed forces carried out a smashing blow in the Gaza Strip in reprisal for acts of individual Palestinian refugees who had crossed the border to their former holdings." Are you naive or are you a plain Israeliphobe? Mr. Editor, I never subscribe to a paper that lets Walter Winchell or Joe McCarthy air their views, and this goes for your Middle East correspondents. Louis B. BALL Long Beach, Calif...
Pending a general settlement, who occupies such contested geographical points as the Gaza strip and the strategic islands in the Gulf of Aqaha? To save face for both sides, the U.N. might well administer Gaza temporarily (where 217,000 Arab refugees are already on the U.N. dole). On the other hand, the Egyptian islands and adjacent coastline of the Gulf of Aqaba should go back to Egypt, but might well be demilitarized...
What about the Arab refugees from Israel? Israel has refused to admit the 217,000 Arab refugees in the Gaza strip, fearing a fifth column; the Arab countries have lagged in resettling them, keeping them in a disgruntled corps to dramatize the Arab contention that Israel is not permanent and that the refugees will in time go home. It is time to work out a resettlement plan under which the Israelis should be prevailed upon to take back the refugees in sizable numbers, or contribute sizably toward their resettlement in Arab lands. The U.S. stands ready to help with...