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...lines and forging their own solution out of the status quo. So far, they have formally annexed only Arab Jerusalem, but in accordance with a plan proposed by Deputy Premier Yigal Alton and secretly approved by the Cabinet four weeks ago (TIME, Feb. 7), they are settling the Golan Heights, cutting roads for new villages in the Sinai, and establishing a string of fortified settlements overlooking the Jordan River. One such settlement is at Kallia, on the northwest tip of the Dead Sea. TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin visited Kallia and last week sent this report...
...square miles of Arab territory occupied by Israel. Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser demands the return of "every inch" of that territory as a prior condition to any peaceful settlement. Israel, claiming the spoils of victory, has formally annexed Jerusalem's Arab section and taken over the Golan Heights, from which Syrian guns shelled Israeli kibbutzim for ten years. But Israel has-until now-left open the larger questions of what it intends to do with the populous West Bank of the Jordan River, and with the broad sands of Sinai, which have been a tank battleground...
...sudden bequest of weapons left by the retreating Arab armies. The battlefields were littered with arms, and for two weeks, El Fatah teams took camels into the Sinai desert to collect machine guns, rifles, grenades and bazookas before the Israeli salvage squads. Four heavy trucks were found in Golan, along with two tons of ammunition and weapons. A Bedouin offered to sell 150 Kalashnikov rifles for $140. El Fatah gave him twice as much. Another Bedouin found a Syrian helicopter and built a tent to hide it for the El Fatah men. But when they arrived, they had no helicopter...
...early June, the kibbutz youth of the country gathered for a two-day conclave at the base of what used to be the Syrian Heights but is now called the Golan Heights. All young kibbtuzniks belong to a national movement of kibbutz youth, which holds four meetings a year to discuss the goals of their mode of living. The affair has all the trappings of a boy scout jamboree...
...itself, which has a population of 100,000 people. They killed or wounded over 100 Jordanian civilians. You might be interested to know that most of the damage to the city was a result of the Israelis using Russian 130-mm. guns, which were brought up to the occupied Golan Heights especially for bombarding the city...