Word: israel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they were inspired by hashish as well as hubris, managed to talk like winners. Even in the past, Washington had limited leverage in the region. Now, in the face of Israeli distrust and Arab hatred-fanned by Nasser's face-saving lie about U.S. and British intervention on Israel's behalf-its influence is virtually nonexistent...
...sympathy for Israel was strong.* Of 438 Congressmen who replied to an Associated Press poll, an overwhelming 364 urged that Israel be given assurances of national security and access to the Gulf of Aqaba and the Suez Canal before withdrawing its troops from occupied Arab lands. The other 74 qualified their answers or refused to state a position, but not one urged Israel to withdraw without guarantees. U.S. officials-at least in private-also sympathize with Israel's demands for recognition by the Arab nations and a territorial realignment giving Israel defensible borders...
Beyond encouraging direct Arab-Israeli negotiations and resisting Russia's attempts to brand Israel the aggressor and strip away all of its gains, U.S. policymakers are looking toward the future-far into the future. Lyndon Johnson characteristically visualizes a TVA-style project for the Jordan River basin. White House Aide Walt Rostow, in a commencement address at Vermont's Middlebury College, proposed a regional economic program. But no long-range plan can work, as Johnson conceded at a weekend fund-raising dinner in Austin, unless each nation in the area accepts "the right of its neighbors to stable...
...Liberty that cost 34 dead, 75 wounded. One officer of the stricken vessel, which was strafed and torpedoed some 15 miles off the Sinai coast, said: "To put it bluntly, she was there to spy for us. We moved in close to monitor the communications of both Egypt and Israel. We have to. We must be informed of what's going on in a matter of minutes." Some of the crew maintained that the attack was deliberate, though Israel denied...
...Kremlin maximum amplification for its diplomatic offensive. His presence also elevated the level of representation in the Assembly's blue and gold auditorium. The roster of scheduled participants included U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, French Foreign Minister Couve de Mur-ville, British Foreign Secretary George Brown, Israel's Foreign Minister Abba Eban, Denmark's Prime Minister Jens Otto Krag, plus a flock of Communist Eastern European Premiers and Asian and Arab foreign ministers...