Word: israel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inflamed rhetoric emanating from Mideast capitals heightened the air of unreality that had cloaked the impasse from the outset. "There is no going back," cried the United Arab Republic's Gamal Abdel Nasser. "War is inevitable," echoed the editor of his tame newspaper, Al Ahram. Israel, warned Foreign Minister Abba Eban, "is like a coiled spring," and could only consider Nasser's blockade of the Gulf of Aqaba as a direct threat to "the kind of national interest for which a nation stakes all that...
...Israel, facing yet another climactic point in her 19-year struggle for survival (see cover), remains the biggest imponderable. Last week Premier Levi Eshkol indicated that he would defer an immediate riposte to Nasser's challenge, saying that he had decided on the "continuation of political activity in the international sphere." But he is under heavy domestic pressure to act, and the point may soon come when he will be forced to choose between political oblivion and a move against the Arabs...
...clucked with concern. Japan, after all, does a lot of business with the Arabs. So does West Germany. Charles de Gaulle refused to sign the proposed declaration or even acknowledge the validity of the 1950 Tripartite Declaration by which France, Britain and the U.S. pledged to protect Israel's territorial integrity. Any nation resorting to arms, he declared with Olympian loftiness, would have "neither the approval nor support" of France-though, considering his country's impotence in the situation, neither would be worth much...
...resorting to undiplomatic language, urged "ramming a ship up Nasser's channel." In the upper house of Parliament, Lord Avon-the former Anthony Eden, who resigned as Britain's Foreign Minister in protest against Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasement and in 1956 joined France and Israel in the Suez invasion-even raised the specter of Munich. "I do not feel myself back ten years ago-I feel myself very much in the 1930s at the present time," said Avon. "I should be willing to support whatever action the Government and the U.S., and I hope some...
...despite a solemn pledge to Israel in 1957 that there would be free access to the Gulf of Aqaba, was still intent on lining up a few other nations before threatening to test the blockade. Should diplomacy or threats fail to solve the impasse, Lyndon Johnson is bound to become the target of heavy fire unless he actually does challenge Nasser. Nor would such criticism be unjustified, since failure to act would amount to a dismal retreat from a clear-cut commitment...