Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kidron's announcement was reported by sources close to the delegation to mean Israel is preparing to pull her troops back from the Gulf of Aqua and the Gaza Strip...
Israel has refused to get out of the Gaza Strip and Sharm El Sheikh, which commands the mouth of the Gulf of Aquaba, without guarantees against Egyptian attack from these areas...
...defying the U.N. As an inducement to the Israelis to cooperate, John Foster Dulles made them what seemed a good offer. As soon as Israel pulled back its troops, he told Ambassador Abba Eban, the U.S. would 1) itself underwrite Israel's right to free passage in the Gulf of Aqaba, and 2) support U.N. action to ensure that the Gaza Strip would not again be used as a base for guerrilla raids on Israel...
...thin from his three weeks' struggle against pneumonia, he brooded for three days before calling a Cabinet meeting to draft a reply. The U.S. offered nothing new on Gaza. But Dulles' implied willingness to back Israel's Aqaba rights by sending a U.S. ship through the gulf to establish the international right of "innocent passage" raised the possibility at last of opening Israel's southern port of Elath, blockaded by Egypt since 1949, to the potentialities of Asian trade. The catch was that Israel had first to withdraw, before the U.S. would pledge its help...
Next day Ben-Gurion's government submitted a "formulation" accepting the U.S. proposal on Aqaba in principle but asking U.S. pledges that 1) U.N. troops will occupy the old Egyptian gun positions commanding the entrance to the gulf, and 2) Egyptian troops will not be allowed back in Gaza. This reply, said Dulles, was "not responsive...