Word: haaretz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...open letter to Lubar Steinberg, the first serious writing he had ever published, Israel's leading humorist, Ephraim Kishon, said that "this nightmare of yours is shared by many of us." Editorialized the daily Haaretz: "The basic question is whether Israel is a state of free citizens whose rights are equal without discrimination of race, or whether it is the preserve only of those who have entered the covenant of our father Abraham. The answer of the rabbinate and the religious parties is unequivocal. The fence that separated Aharon Steinberg from the other dead of Pardes Hanna symbolizes...
...Arab mothers are weeping this morning-but such tears bring no ease to bitter hearts." Instead of compelling the Jordan government to impose its authority to restrain the border troublemakers, com plained the independent newspaper Haaretz, Israel's policy of five eyes for an eye will undoubtedly weaken the Jordan government and consequently lessen the chances of border quiet. In Manhattan the U.N.'s Dag Hammarskjold warned that unless both Israel and Jordan establish "a discipline sufficiently firm to forestall" such outbreaks, the cease-fire that he negotiated last April will become a "dead letter...
...Israel itself, after the first satisfaction, misgivings began to be heard. The independent newspaper Haaretz took note of the fact that the raid happened while Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett, a moderate, was out of the country, and accused tough-minded Premier David Ben-Gurion of an unconstitutional act in ordering the raid without consulting a single Cabinet member in advance. This, said Haaretz, "brought Israel dangerously close to dictatorship by the chief of government . . . How can Israel succeed in persuading the world that she resorts to force only when her security and integrity are at stake...