Word: israel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most Arab leaders know that the only way that they can hope to beat Israel in any military action is to combine and coordinate their forces. But the Arab world is so divided and its hatreds so deep that not even the threat of immediate war with Israel can bring it back together. Last week government-controlled radio stations in Cairo and Damascus never once let up on their nightly diatribes against such moderate Arab leaders as Jordan's King Hussein ("the Hashemite harlot") and Saudi Arabia's King Feisal ("the bearded bigot"). In a speech...
...launched a new campaign aimed at driving Yemeni royalists from a stronghold in the northern mountains; in raids during the previous week, Egyptian planes had bombed two Saudi Arabian towns. Forgotten entirely last week was unified Arab military command, established three years ago to oversee any joint effort against Israel. Both Egypt and Syria refused under any circumstances to coordinate their military plans with their brother Arabs of the non-leftist nations. Jordan's Army...
...confront Israel together if we won't trust each other...
...Though the crisis had so far stopped short of actual fighting, the cities of both sides were still on what amounted to a war footing. Cairo's streets were clogged with military convoys heading eastward. Airraid drills blacked out Cairo, Alexandria and the Jordanian section of Jerusalem. In Israel, schoolchildren were put to work sandbagging their schools, and car owners were drafted for emergency duty hauling food supplies to supermarkets mobbed by panic buyers. Tourists, warned by their governments to get out of the Middle East, scuffled with one another for seats on outgoing flights, and airlines rushed...
...world's eyes centered on the Gulf of Aqaba, where the danger of an episode that could cause open warfare was greatest. Ever since Nasser closed the Suez Canal to Israeli shipping in 1956, the port of Elath has been Israel's main outlet for its growing export trade with Asia and East Africa. More important, it has become the port of entry for nearly 90% of the country's oil supplies. The Strait of Tiran, where coral reefs and the hulk of an ancient sunken ship make passage difficult under the best conditions, is easy...