Word: israel
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Atrocity Charges. But no Israel effort could stop the refugees from bringing with them loud and bitter charges of atrocities. Jewish troops were raping Arab women, they said. Arab property was being usurped; innocent men, women and children were being killed. No reliable proof was offered for any of the charges, and no Arab went out of his way to report that when houses or cars had been temporarily taken over by the Israeli army, the owners were given receipts. In most cases, the property has already been returned...
...refugee problem, which for the past 19 years has probably been the greatest single source of enmity between Israel and the Arab states, has been made vastly more complex by the war. Tens of thousands of new refu gees have left their homes in Israeli-held portions of Jordan and Syria. About 600,000 old refugees, most of them in the festering, hate-ridden camps of the Gaza Strip, have come under Israeli control. For Israel, it is vital that the refugees be taken out of the camps and resettled where they can lead productive lives. To most Arab leaders...
Peace Somehow. In the wake of the war, some Israeli leaders-most notably ex-Premier David Ben-Gurion-have proposed that the west bank of the Jordan be turned into a semiautonomous Palestinian Arab state where all refugees could be settled. But without Arab cooperation, Israel could hardly expect to set up an Arab Palestine as a satellite state...
Somehow, says Foreign Minister Abba Eban, the Arabs will have to meet Israel at the conference table to negotiate a formal peace. "Peace itself contains the solution of other issues," says Eban. "If there is peace, then we shall all strive to ensure that those who are now refugees become the productive citizens of sovereign states...
...Arabs are merely angling for more profitable revenue concessions from the oil companies. Yet the cost of such gains may well be a permanent loss of customers forced to find alternative oil sources during the boycott. The Arab strategy is having virtually no effect on either the U.S. or Israel.*The U.S. had been getting less than 3% of its oil from Arab states. Israel, of course, never got any-that is, not until three Egyptian oilfields in the Sinai fell into Israeli hands during the war. Israel might try to resume production; just one of the fields could supply...