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Fattening the Waistline. Sinai is a worthless desert, Gaza an economic sinkhole. To try to integrate the 1,330,000 Arabs in all the occupied lands would be costly and perhaps dangerous.* What then did Israel want? For simple security, it wanted at least a buffer strip on the rocky heights of Syria and a slice of West Jordan to fatten out its own narrow waistline. It also wanted free passage through Aqaba, perhaps guaranteed by an Israeli garrison at Sharm el Shiekh...
...interviewed Dayan the week before, was in the office of Israeli Chief of Staff Yitzhak Rabin when word came that Egypt had accepted the ceasefire. "Where's the champagne?" asked Shenker. Tea was served instead. Meanwhile, Peter Forbath managed to see some of the fighting on three fronts-Gaza, Jordan and Sinai. The trouble was keeping up with the speeding Israeli army. "I saw grotesque dead and wounded, equipment abandoned intact, stunned and frightened captured Arabs," he said. "But in a way, I truly felt the reality of the war in blacked-out Tel Aviv, being shelled...
...Brooklyn-born Jew, Schutzer personally pleaded with Defense Minister Dayan to let him join the front-line assault on the Gaza Strip. "I feel terribly involved in this fight," he said. It was not the first time Schutzer had asked to be up front. A LIFE photographer since 1956, he had covered the Marine landing in Lebanon in 1958; the Algerian war; Richard Nixon's tempestuous Latin American tour; hurricanes; earthquakes. In 1965, he joined the Marines in an amphibious landing in Viet Nam, took pictures that eloquently expressed the human suffering of war. Dayan granted Schutzer...
...London-born Israeli, Ben Oyserman covered the 1956 Arab-Israeli war, was the only one on hand to record the surrender of the Egyptian commander to Israeli forces. When war broke out again, he headed for the front on an assignment for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Approaching Gaza in a private car, he found the road blocked by a pile of stones. He got out, pushed a rock aside. A mine exploded, and he was killed instantly...
There was scattered gunfire from the Jordan side of Jerusalem, including a barrage aimed at an Israeli helicopter that strayed across the wall of no man's land. Palestinian troops in the Gaza Strip lobbed mortar shells at Israeli positions for 40 minutes without hitting anything, and Egypt charged that the Israelis had fired on Arab farmers near Gaza. Along the straight-edged border that divides the Negev Desert (Israel) from the Sinai Desert (Egypt), the Israelis captured an Egyptian colonel and four of his men who had lost their way and wandered onto the wrong dune...