Word: israel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...repelling the enemy." The failure to do just that may sooner or later bring down Arab rulers all over the Middle East, and it will make the Arab dream of unity more ephemeral than ever. Such substance as the dream once had was rooted in common military cause against Israel. Now, even in the often surrealistic logic of Arab leaders, that dream can hardly be evoked seriously for a generation to come...
Wishful Trickle. The Israelis, of course, were winning, and the Arabs were losing. If the roles had been reversed, so might have been the treatment of reporters. As it was, all the legitimate news was coming out of Israel, and little more than wishful thinking was trickling out of the Arab states; most newspapers decided early to distrust Arab victory claims. The New York Times displayed a hardly necessary impartiality by publishing Arab and Israeli accounts side by side, with little indication of which was the more credible. The paper did get unusually excited, though; for four days straight...
...ended too quickly for other reporters to display much individual enterprise. Yet here and there, a correspondent came up with some arresting insight or detail. Covering the war for the Chicago Sun-Times, Cartoonist Bill Mauldin reported that at least some Arabs living in Israel were content with their lot and even fearful of Nasser. Los Angeles Times Correspondent Joe Alex Morris Jr. reported from Jerusalem that the Palestinians blamed King Hussein or the Arabs in general for not fighting harder. "But at the same time, there were greetings of 'shalom' to Israeli patrols as they crept...
Consensus on Caution. In general, editorial opinion stood foursquare behind Israel. Minor irritation was expressed by some newspapers at the lack of U.S. preparedness for the crisis, but few editorials took issue with President Johnson's policy of cautious watchfulness. The commitment to Israel had to be upheld, said the editorials, but it would be better for the U.S. to rally allies to its side and not try to go it alone. All newspapers agreed that the great powers must now get together and try to keep the peace permanently in the area. "The Arabs and Israelis alone cannot...
...what was actually happening. "Many years of diplomacy and spending," he mourned, "were going down the drain," since Russia would replace the U.S. as the dominant influence in the Middle East. NBC's David Brinkley doubted that Russia would do so well. "The U.S.," he said, "gave Israel no help, which it did not need, and the Russians gave the Arab countries no help, which they did need...