Word: israel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russian doubletalk, a nation is "peace-loving" if the Soviets think it is to their advantage to support it. However, there is no doubt that the "peace-loving" Soviets are chiefly responsible for the Middle East crisis because they armed the Arab countries and incited them to attack Israel...
...Egyptian people had not yet been told of the extent of the debacle. There were no announced casualty figures, no lists of wounded or missing, no mention of the fact that Israel held the east bank of the Suez. Egyptian officials evacuated part of the population of El Qantara, site of a bridge across the canal, to prevent townsfolk from seeing the stream of ragged, bandaged soldiers dragging homeward. But the troops returned with tales, and the marketplaces of Cairo buzzed with rumors. In the streets of Cairo, people spat on their own army officers...
...that Egyptian tanks could defeat the Israelis in two days. Boasted one dapper general just before the fighting broke out: "Montgomery was a good general, but a little cautious. Now as for me, I say attack, attack and again attack." He was last seen at a P.O.W. camp in Israel. When the shooting started, the troops at the front found themselves with no more than a day's supply of food, water and ammunition. Led by their officers, entire units broke and ran at the first sight of Israeli tanks. Of the 150,000 soldiers reportedly massed along...
Many Arabs were still convinced that their prime enemies are the U.S. and Britain-along with Israel. Al Ahram, Nasser's favorite newspaper, charged that the CIA goaded Israel to attack, and that just before the war the Pentagon shipped Israel 450 warplanes, 400 tanks and 1,000 pilots and navigators. Throughout the Islamic world, Moslem mullahs proclaimed American and British products unholy. Libyan mobs destroyed liquor stores as symbols of Anglo-American "imperialism," and King Idris demanded that the U.S. abandon its Wheelus Air Force Base. Egypt and Syria closed their ports to U.S. and British ships; Sudanese...
With or without Russian aid, however, all Arab nations intend to pursue the battle against Israel. Almost without exception, their leaders reject Israeli peace terms, swear that they will neither negotiate with the Israelis nor recognize their existence. Last week, in the face of devastating defeat, the Arabs were quoting to each other an old saying by Mao Tse-tung: "Fight, fail, fight again, fail again, but fight on to final victory...