Word: israel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There is nothing to justify pinning the badge of courage on Hussein. On the eve of the Arab-Israeli war, Hussein cringingly entered into a military alliance with his archfoe Nasser. The basis for this groveling was Hussein's miscalculation that Egypt this time would surely annihilate Israel, in which event Nasser would emerge as the supreme master of Arabia. Hussein figured that he had better end his hostility with his master-to-be. This does not show courage; instead, it shows sniveling opportunism...
...which won approval from both Egypt and Israel to station truce observers along the canal, hopes that the situation will cool off at Suez when the observers take up their posts this week, though the Israelis believe that the observers are likely to be ineffectual. The truce teams, which will be composed mainly of Finnish and Swedish officers, will eventually number about 30 men to cover the 107-mile front at Suez. U.N. truce observers have been patrolling the cease-fire line in the Golan Heights 40 miles south of Damascus for the past six weeks...
...began, a sizable number of Arab leaders met last week in a series of whirling minisummits to discuss "nullifying the effects of Zionist aggression." First, Algerian President Houari Boumediene flew into Cairo and excited Cairo crowds with a shrill cry for an immediate resumption of the war with Israel. He was shortly joined in Cairo by Jordan's King Hussein, who privately pleaded for some sort of accommodation with Israel-but got nowhere with his fellow Arabs. After he flew home to Amman, the leaders of the Arab left all converged on Cairo; Syria's Noureddin Attassi, Iraqi...
Among such irrational hawks as Aref and Boumediene, Nasser sounded almost like a dove. He counseled against a renewal of fighting with Israel, the skirmishing at Suez notwithstanding, until the Arabs were rearmed and united-a condition that is not imminent. Nasser realizes, however, that he cannot coo too loudly without running the danger of being brushed aside as leader of the Arab left by someone like Boumediene. Even the most hawkish leader at the Cairo conference must have known deep down a horrifying thing: that if full-scale fighting broke out again, the Israeli army could undoubtedly occupy Cairo...
...Moscow show provided Western experts with just a glimpse of new Soviet weaponry. A more leisurely look has recently been made possible through the courtesy of the Israelis, who captured tons of the latest Soviet equipment from the fleeing Egyptians. At bases in the Sinai and in Israel, the Israelis have been showing off some of the weaponry to Western technicians and, on at least one occasion, even lending it out. The U.S. sent transport planes to Israel to pick up three captured MIG-21s, the Soviet Union's best fighters. Two MIG-21s, the first ever to fall...