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Despite a sixth order from the U.N. General Assembly and a personal appeal from the President of the U.S., Israel dug in on the Gaza Strip and along the Gulf of Aqaba, flatly and firmly refusing to get out. To the U.N. and to Dwight Eisenhower's plea for "a decent respect for the opinions of mankind," Israel last week answered pointedly that "no guarantees have been obtained yet for definite stoppage of Egypt's belligerence and sea blockade of Israel." Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's Cabinet had decided that until such guarantees are obtained, Israel...
...invading British and French forces were shooed out of Egypt. The case of the Israelis was less clear. They too had violated the Charter by attacking Egypt, and brought down on their heads the same clear-cut Assembly order to get out. But the Israelis refused to leave the Gaza Strip and the Egyptian gun positions on the Gulf of Aqaba without guarantees that the Egyptians would not again use the bases to raid and blockade them. The U.S. State Department, for one, thought the Israelis had some right on their side...
...second. But Cabot Lodge was after a resolution that would satisfy enough Afro-Asians, and teamed up with India's Krishna Menon to achieve it. Once the Israelis withdrew, said Lodge, the U.N. troops would be "deployed on both sides of the armistice line, particularly in the sensitive Gaza and El Auja sectors" and "at the Strait of Tiran." Their mission. he said, would be "to restrain any attempt to exercise belligerent rights" contrary to the 1949 armistice agreement: in short, it was warlike of Israel to invade Egypt, but it was also warlike of Egypt to blockade...
...Tiran. U.S. delegates, however, were not completely discouraged. In a sense, the fact that the Israelis are still at Gaza and the Tiran Straits would further U.S. purposes. For Nasser, it is an absolute political necessity to get the Israelis out of his country-and there is no present prospect that the U.S. would support economic sanctions in the U.N. to get them...
...Israelis could not hope for outright conversions. But they were well content with the reaction of a typical Egyptian officer, who said: "From the Gaza Strip all I saw of Israel was two broken houses in Nahal Oz. I thought all Israel was like that. I thought Haifa was like an Egyptian fishing village. I had no idea you had such modern hospitals, industries and cities." He added thoughtfully: "It would not be easy to destroy Israel...