Word: israel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would like to commend you on your very careful, well-developed and painfully true discussion of the massive problems that Egypt faces in trying to enter into the modern industrial world that Israel has reveled in since its inception...
However, I feel that your position regarding the ability of Nasser to compromise and reach out for a settlement while Israel, seeking an illusory military security, refuses figuratively and literally to give ground, is like Alice's at the Mad Hatter's tea party. Logic simply has no place in the aura of the Middle East...
...Palestinian, and this phrase shocked me: "The Palestinian children were being taught as their primary subject hatred for Israel." It's not true. I am 20 years old now, and from the time my father left Tiberias in 1948 until the 1967 war, we never spoke of Israel in our house. If I am thinking of joining the fedayeen now, it's not because I hate Israel, but because I love my country...
...Jewish war before there is any hope whatsoever of peace with the Arabs? What do I mean? There are differences of opinion among this people. When the day comes when we sit with Nasser, and he will say here, and we will say here, and the negotiators representing Israel will think, well, maybe not exactly this, maybe here, maybe there. They will bring it to the Cabinet, and the Cabinet will have to discuss it and take a position. The Cabinet will break up. We will go to the Knesset and have new elections. But why should...
What will you do if the Big Four agree on a Middle East settlement that Israel does not like...