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Mankind will never forgive Ben-Gurion, Eden and Mollet for the dirtiest blow to international justice and freedom...
...order a cease-fire in Egypt (he made it clear in the process that the U.S. would not feel compelled to protect British-French forces in Egypt from Soviet attack). Next day he sent a bristling message to Israel's electric-haired Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, who had accepted a cease-fire but stalled on withdrawing his troops from conquered Egyptian soil. Sternly the President reminded Ben-Gurion of "the various elements of our policy of support to Israel in so many ways," and he hoped indeed that Israel would not choose to "impair" these fruitful relations. (Privately...
...Peace but a Sword. Seven months ago Dag Hammarskjold rushed to the Middle East and signed all parties to a ceasefire. In a major speech to the Knesset, Ben-Gurion declaimed: "Preventive war would be madness." But all the time Israel prepared. Last month, when Iraqi troops were reported massing to enter a weakened Jordan, Ben-Gurion disappointed some of his followers by his mild response. Army Chief of Staff Moshe Dayan rose in the middle of the speech and stomped out of the Knesset gallery...
...Gurion the No. 1 enemy for attack was not Jordan but Egypt, and last week the time was right. It did not matter that for weeks there had been comparative quiet on the Egyptian border (Nasser was too busy with the Suez crisis) nor that Egypt did not even have its usual strong Jorces on the frontier. After the big push began, Israel justified its attack by saying that it had arrested three Egyptian-trained fedayeen (self-sacrificers) units that had penetrated into Israel. Israel did not even mother to accuse them of any overt act after entering Israel...
Four years ago Ben-Gurion wrote in his best Biblical style: "Ahead of us are the campaigns and the conquests, the splendors and the portents still to come." As Gaza fell last week, Israel's Ambassador to Britain Eliahu Elath announced that his country had no designs on Egyptian territory. But he added: "Nobody can expect us to lose a military advantage...