Word: israel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Syrian Sukh017 fighter-bombers streaked across Israel's northern bor der and bombed an Israeli military post on Mount Hermon. Syrian artillery opened up against the town of Ku-neitra, key military headquarters in the occupied Golan Heights. Israel denied that either attack caused casualties. The real victim was the last mutually respected cease-fire line in the Middle East. Now, besides Egypt and Jordan, Is rael must deal with an active Arab enemy on a third front...
Four-minute Raid. For once, the Ar abs could readily blame Israel for the newest escalation. The day before the Syrian raid, Israeli jets attacked inside Syria's border for the first time since the 1967 war; the planes rocketed and strafed a guerrilla camp, wounding elev en soldiers. After Syria's riposte, Israel, if past patterns held true, could be expected to reply. That, in turn, would set off another cycle of violence...
...posts, but that rule is largely ignored by both sides. U Thant complained last May that the Egyptians had wheeled artillery within two yards of some posts, inviting Israeli counterfire. In the last two months, the U.N. has lodged 74 such complaints against Egypt and 15 against Israel...
...missile sites. For three hours, the Israeli planes had the skies to themselves. Then, at dusk, Egyptian MIGs and Sukh017 fighter-bombers raked Israeli military installations along the canal and swooped some 60 miles into Israeli-held Sinai, in their deepest penetration since 1967. In the dogfights that developed, Israel claimed five Egyptian jets downed-and, for the first time since 1967, admitted losing a plane to enemy air action (Cairo's ever-optimistic government spokesmen enthusiastically claimed that 19 Israeli jets had been knocked down...
...shall fight for the restoration of our land, not only Egyptian lands but all Arab lands." Calling for a war of attrition, he warned that "we are now engaged in a long battle to drain the enemy's strength." In an attempt to create more Arab cooperation against Israel, he called for a new Arab summit conference, noting that "conditions now are very different from what they were when we last met in Khartoum in August 1967." Nasser paid specific tribute to one of those-"changed conditions": he hailed the Palestinian resistance movement as "an almost unbelievable phenomenon...