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...fitting and yet how ironic that your cover portrait of Ben-Gurion with rays of light descending upon his head should remind one of Moses leading Israel out of Egypt...
Israel matched Egypt shout for shout, threat for threat. The Egyptian move to take over Gaza's civil administration was a long way from the unilateral "assumptions" that Israel had depended upon in agreeing to withdraw from Gaza. Premier Ben-Gurion gravely faced the Knesset and warned that Israel's troops might soon have to march again. Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Abba Eban was called away from a well-earned Florida vacation to present to Acting State Secretary Christian Herter a Ben-Gurion message describing the situation as extremely critical...
Against such sounding threats, Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion called on the U.S. to support the "assumptions" on which Israel withdrew, and sent Foreign Minister Golda Meir back to the U.S. to press the point. The moment had not yet come, said Ben-Gurion, when "other action is appropriate and necessary," but he added: "Should this time come, the government will not give prior notice of its actions...
...think it would be better," he added, "to have Nasser and Ben Gurion sit down together than to have Shepilov or America or England fish into the matter...
Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion said Israel's army will march against Egypt again if President Nasser "tries to block our historic and legal passage into the Gulf of Aqaba...