Word: israel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American Jew is typical evidence for this charge. I am referring specifically to his naive and one-sided narration of all the things that he didn't see and of all the events that never took place. e.g. "It is horrifying to speculate what would have happened had Israel been over-run by Arab forces at the outbreak of hostilities. Not only would the blood-shed have surpassed anything in recent history...
...Sunday, June 4, Israel stood alone, surrounded by the largest Arab military build-up ever amassed on her borders. Israel amazed the world with the speed and ferocity of her attack. Vastly outnumbered and not nearly as well equipped as their Arab neighbors, the Israelis (without help from either Britain or France as they had received in the 1956 campaign) chased the bulk of Nasser's forces out of Sinai, recaptured Old Jerusalem and the lands West of the Jordan River, and drove to the suburbs of Damascus...
...hide the fact of their military defeat from their people forever. One of the worst things that can happen to a leader in the Arab nations is to lose face with the people. Some excuse had to be found for the defeat of countries many times the size of Israel; the truth would have meant political suicide. And so in an telephone conversation between Nasser and King Hussein which was intercepted by Israeli Intelligence, Nasser suggested that the Arab nations tell their people that they had lost the war because Britain and the U.S. had given Israel air support. Nothing...
...Palestinian refugees who live in incredibly compact refugee camps around Gaza City. With a little work by the Egyptians, many of the 215,000 refuges could have been resettled, but Nasser has left them on the Israeli border as a potential weapon in any all-out attack on Israel. Although I was refused access to the camps themselves, an UNRWA representative, who had just come from distributing the first food and water the camps had received for days, said that there had been some 500 casualties in the camp of Jabalia alone. An Israel officer in Gaza City admitted that...
Syria was last on the Israli agenda. For the first three days of fighting Syrian artillery shelled border settlements in the Northern region of Israel around Tel Dan and Gonen while armor units made slight headway into Israeli territory. By the 7th, Israeli armor columns were transferred to the North and fought their way up the heavily fortified Syrian hills toward Mas'ada and Qunetra...