Word: gaza
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ayub spoke plainly on his view of the long-festering problem of refugees along the Israeli border, where more than a million Palestinians-those who fled or were ejected by Israel, and the children born to them since-still inhabit squalid detention camps in Jordan, Syria and the Gaza Strip. The Arabs have let the U.N. look after them, arguing that to provide the refugees with permanent homes and jobs would seem to be acquiescing in the existence of Israel. Ayub remarked pointedly that after partition, his own Pakistan made room for 9,000,000 Moslem refugees from India...
...Moderate Moshe Sharett, who was more susceptible to the argument that Israel must try to quiet the fears of its Arab neighbors if it is to live in peace with them. Eleven days after Ben-Gurion's return, the Israeli army carried out the massive reprisal raid on Gaza in which Israelis blew up the Egyptian headquarters and killed 38 Egyptians...
...directed from U.S.A.F.E. headquarters in Wiesbaden, West Germany, delivered hundreds of tons of flour from U.S. depots in France and West Germany, ferried in troops from Ghana, Morocco, Tunisia and Guinea. U.S. planes touched down at Cairo, swallowed up 650 blue-helmeted Swedish troops from the UNEF force at Gaza, disgorged them again 2,700 miles away in Leopoldville. Out of the shuttling intercontinental planes came food rations, Jeeps, heavy trucks, communications equipment, dismantled light planes. At the request of the U.N. command, the U.S. flew in ten Douglas C-47s, turned them over to U.N. pilots to help ferry...
...response to this diplomatic slight was to send the consul packing. Nasser's next move was to propose that the Arabs re-create an entity called Palestine, with its own army. What is left to the Arabs of what used to be Palestine, except for the Gaza Strip wedge that Nasser controls, has been absorbed into Jordan, adding an educated and restless population to what used to be a desert kingdom...