Word: israel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Policing the Vanquished. Such arrangements may be hard to put into practice. Still, it is people, not real estate, who are causing the most difficulty. From the stifling Sinai to the banks of the Jordan River and the Golan Heights of Syria, Israel is now responsible for the welfare of 1,330,000 hostile Arabs, more than a million of whom are impoverished refugees from the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict. Not only must those Arabs be fed and housed, Israel's small army must somehow police them and weed out saboteurs-a task immensely complicated by the fact that...
...blockade began the trouble. And there he announced that he was ready to talk peace with any Arab leader who would listen. "I hope that my outstretched hand will not be spurned by those who have the power to accept it," he said. Then he vowed that if rebuffed, "Israel is capable of taking care of itself." On that, there is no argument...
After the Arabs and the Soviet Union, the most frustrated diplomatic casualty of the Middle East warfare was Charles de Gaulle. Even though his longtime friend and ally, Israel, had won its victory by the skillful use of French planes and tanks, the French President felt that he had been doublecrossed. "I told them: 'Don't be the first to attack,' " he remarked bitterly to a French Deputy. "Despite that, they did attack first. I hold it against them for having done that...
...unleashed in Viet Nam by American intervention." Peace in the Middle East is only possible once conflict has ended in Viet Nam, he said, and that end can only be achieved "by America's pledging to withdraw its forces within a specified time." As for Israel, "France accepts as final none of the changes effected on the terrain through military action...
...ludicrous sight of a disappointed politician trying to talk himself into a position of prominence only made material for cartoonists' gibes. Everyone was quick to recall how France had continued to supply arms to Israel right up to the moment that fighting began-and perhaps well after. And even as President De Gaulle decried world tensions, his high-pressure salesmen were doing their best to contribute to another arms buildup-this one in Latin America of all places-by trying to sell their newest antitank missiles and supersonic jets to Peru...