Word: israel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this is a representative sample of Israel's plans to "develop the Old City," then God help Jerusalem...
...object to what I consider a doctrine of "might makes right" in your Essay on Israel [June 23]. It is a fact that "ability to stake out a territory" with force if necessary will establish a sovereign state, but is that also its justification? What about groups that have identity and tradition but no power, for example, the American Indian and South Africa's Negro population? I am surprised at your lack of a sense of moral consciousness; or should I be glad that a national publication has had the candor to admit that for all of our 20th...
...Your Essay quoted accurately one half of what 1 said: that the establishment of Israel in 1947-48 and its recognition by most countries could be compared to an act of eminent domain by the international community. The other half of what I said was this: that therefore the world community, and not only Israel, in justice owes the Arab nations substantial compensation for resettling permanently the Arab refugees, and for replacing the pre-1947 Arab-tilled land in Israel by a larger acreage of improved and irrigated land, created in other Arab countries with international aid within a reasonable...
...responsible for the flare-up by the canal, it was obvious that it is going to be a painfully slow business to work out a settlement in the Middle East. Nor is the U.N. offering much practical help. After Soviet Russia weighed in with a draft resolution demanding that Israel give up all it had won, delegates from Zambia, Somalia, Malaysia and Burundi read off lengthy speeches asking that Israel be condemned for attacking the Arabs and forced to retreat from Arab territory. Yugoslavia, supported by 16 pro-Arab nations, submitted a resolution calling for Israel's unconditional withdrawal...
Farthest out of all was Foreign Minister Nesti Nase of Peking-lining Albania, who proposed a formal resolution to condemn not only Israel but also the U.S. and Britain. Russia, he indicated, should really be included as well. "The American-Soviet alliance is so flagrant," announced Nase, "that if there were women aboard the warships of these two powers, there would be dancing every night on the decks." Then he added: "You know very well, you American imperialists, that the so-called aid of the Soviet leaders is a vast fraud...