Word: israel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Somehow, amid all the jostling for platform time, the combatants also managed to make themselves heard. Jordan's King Hussein, who had not been anxious to go to war but gave the Israelis a respectable fight, demanded that Israel be condemned and that it give up "the fruits of aggression" before any peace talks could be considered. Unlike the intransigent Syrians and Egyptians, Hussein did not accuse the U.S. of tak ing part in the scrap. Instead of looking for scapegoats, he admitted that the Arabs had lost all by themselves. "It is apparent that we have...
Squandered Opportunity. On the defensive, as he has been ever since the General Assembly convened, Israel's Foreign Minister Abba Eban replied that Jordan had "squandered an opportunity for peace" by shelling Israeli cities. When fighting broke out in the Sinai desert, Eban said, his government sent Hussein a cable promising that "Israel will not attack any state which refrains from attacking Israel." That cable, he recalled, was ignored...
...pedestrians safely on the sidewalks, and their job was made no easier by emotional Arabs who insisted on embracing each other and everyone else within reach-including Jewish police. "This is the most beautiful day of my life," announced Youssef Hannah, an aging Palestinian writer who has attacked Israel for years. "Jews and Arabs, we are brothers again...
...chiefly confined to Jerusalem. Long streams of Arab refugees who felt anything but brotherhood for the Jews were still scrambling over the wreckage of the Allenby Bridge into what remained of Jordan. Nearly 200,000 Arabs have fled from the west bank of the Jordan since its capture by Israel four weeks ago, and the flow shows no signs of stopping...
...exodus is hardly pleasing to either side. Jordan is simply not equipped to take care of so many hungry, homeless people. Israel, which at first was delighted by the mass departure, was growing increasingly embarrassed by it all. Last week the government ruled that no Arab could cross into Jordan with out a signed statement from the mayor of his town testifying that he was not leaving because of Israeli coercion. Pictures of Arabs fleeing from Jewish oppression, real or imagined, were hardly what Israel needed to convince the world that its objectives were not conquest but peace...