Word: gaza
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Middle East, there is at least a fifty percent chance that Russia will agree to intervene through the United Nations. Should the Israelis initiate the attack, the Soviets might possibly agree to let the U.N. intervene, since it would allow the Russians themselves to send troops to the Gaza. Even though to let a Middle Eastern war run on unimpeded would be to permit their semi-allies, the Arabs, gradually to crush Israel, the chances are that the Russians would wish to intervene--without the Arab-Israeli balance of forces Russia would lose one of her strongest selling points...
...Egypt's Nasser replies that he accepted Communist aid only after Israel's attack on Gaza. Nasser told TIME last week: "Until last Feb. 28 I felt the possibility of real peace was near. The borders between Israel and Egypt had been quiet since 1952, and I felt at peace." When the Jews struck at Gaza, that feeling left. "That is why I bought arms from Czechoslovakia. I would rather have spent the money on social development...
Just one shooting scrape-in which the Egyptians claimed four Israelis killed, the Israelis acknowledged no casualties at all-broke the edgy calm along the Middle East's tensest frontier last week. Yet this skirmish disturbed many Isaelis more than the bloody battles at Gaza and El Auja. What mattered most to them was the site of battle: Elath, a new town which Premier David Ben-Gurion likes to call Israel's own "up-and-coming Los Angeles...
...Today, after we have made the arms deal, people are talking that Israel may start a preventive war. But I have been expecting them to start a war ever since they attacked Gaza on Feb. 28. Otherwise, I would not have bought arms and would have saved the money instead...
Israel struck oil last week, right on the fringe of the Negeb desert and only six miles from the Gaza strip. Rushing to the spot from Tel Aviv, Premier Designate David Ben-Gurion clambered down into a pit and dug to watch the first flow of the stuff. "Mazel Tov [Congratulations]," he murmured to the drillers. "When can we start to use the stuff?" Development Minister Dov Joseph hurried off by car to the Weizmann Institute of Science 25 miles away with a pop-bottleful to be assayed...