Word: gaza
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gawking in Gaza. For Israel's civilian planners, the new territories that so please the army are wildly diverse in prospects and problems. Sinai is a vast empty space, valuable chiefly for the oil wells south of Suez, as a buffer against Egypt and an air route to the 14 tourist hotels at Elath. Syrian land, too, is largely deserted-abandoned by some 80,000 inhabitants who fled the Israeli advance. Gaza, however, constitutes a monumental nightmare, with its 330,000 Palestinian refugees in stucco and mud-hut camps, plus an impoverished civilian population of 100,000. And though...
...ruins of Nasser's tank corps, set down at Elath for lunch, then circle back via the Dead Sea and an aerial view of reunited Jerusalem. By the tens of thousands, blue-capped tourists in buses and cars race down the Mediterranean highway to gawk in Gaza and bargain-hunt for pottery, lamps and wicker goods in the bazaars. At first, miniskirted young Israeli sabras so excited Arab men, accustomed to women more thoroughly clothed, that an uncontrollable rash of pinching broke out. Now miniskirts are banned in Gaza...
...sides. They sent technicians into the Sinai desert to begin working the captured Egyptian oil wells, which could easily fulfill all of Israel's oil needs. And Premier Levi Eshkol, who had only a few weeks ago disavowed Defense Minister Moshe Dayan's statement about keeping the Gaza Strip, said last week that the area "must remain Israeli...
...last week between Egyptian and Israeli forces stationed along the Suez Canal. Egyptian artillery shelled Israeli positions on the east bank. The Israelis replied with withering rocket and cannon fire, finally sent in jets to strafe Egyptian artillery positions. They also sank two Soviet-made torpedo boats off the Gaza coast. As the week ended, the two sides were lobbing shells and bombs at each other across the canal in the heaviest battle since the U.N. imposed a cease-fire on June 10. In the air over Suez, the Israelis downed seven Egyptian planes, conceded one loss themselves...
Moreover, the longer the Arabs take to begin talking peace, the more conditions Israel is likely to add. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan last week said that Israel should keep the Gaza Strip -and, although the government denied that his words were official, it did not say that they were necessarily wrong. Another area that Israel is getting increasingly attached to is the west bank of the Jordan, where Israeli administrators are finding it easier than they had thought to govern a large Arab population. Not only that, but the fertile west bank would make an attractive place in which...