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...Middle East "power deficit" (the State Department avoids the word "vacuum" as offensive to Arab nationalist pride). The new U.S. policy, of which the Eisenhower Doctrine is the core, is by far the most important extension of foreign policy enunciated by the present Administration. In one sense, what Ben-Gurion accepted last week was worth more than what Dulles had suggested back on Feb. 11. What had begun as another several-sided statement by a Secretary of State had been reinforced and made authoritative by the public affirmations of the President...
...nine years since David Ben-Gurion founded the New Jerusalem by the force of a fanatical vision and the shrewdness of a gun-toting prophet, there have been times when much of the world has wondered just how big the tiny republic thinks it is. For one peaceful spell, Israel's unsleeping sentinel retired, full of years and honors, to Sde Boker, a pioneer desert settlement, to plough fields, search the writings of the philosophers for "universal truth" and ponder the mission of man-and of Israel. Then, white of mane but wearing the familiar khaki battle dress...
...Time for Optimism. Ben-Gurion is less impassioned about Gaza, although he says he would like to use the Gaza Strip to prove that the Israelis can do right by the Arab refugees driven from their homeland (this Israeli explanation rings hollow in Arab ears). Last week he had reduced his Gaza demands to this: "The Egyptians must not return. They must never return. We won't agree unless we are made to-forcibly." He added: "I don't overestimate our strength. I suppose the U.S. or U.N. could send in armies." He stopped and chuckled. Grinning slyly...
...soon as Israel pulled out, Dulles said, the U.S. would 1) itself proclaim the right of innocent 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. Ben-Gurion's response was so flatly negative that President Eisenhower cut short a Georgia vacation and took to the air to restate the U.S. proposals and warn of "pressure" if Israel should fail to cooperate...
Many Americans were inclined to think that the Israelis had put themselves in the wrong by going into Egypt, and ought to get out of there. But in the U.S. as well as elsewhere around the world, sympathy had built up for Ben-Gurion's position. Last week the Israeli government in Jerusalem and its consulates overseas reported receiving thousands of letters of support from places as far apart as Bangkok and Bangor, Me., Stockholm and Santa Ana, Calif. Samples: "Don't surrender to Nasserism"; "Stick to your guns and positions"; "Call Ike's bluff...