Word: israel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Amid the first tentative steps toward peace in Southeast Asia, the Middle East edged closer to an explosive new war between the Arabs and Israel. The fresh hostilities flared, as usual, in the name of retaliation-that modern word for the Biblical "eye for an eye" that both sides have employed to justify repeated violations of the 17-month-old ceasefire. Last week it was Israel's turn to retaliate. A few days earlier, the Egyptians had unleashed a sudden Sabbath rocket and artillery barrage that killed 15 Israeli soldiers guarding the right bank of the Suez Canal. Israel...
Helping the Hawks. Even so, Israel's response was unusually restrained. Israelis have increasingly been goaded by raiding commandos based in Jordan and Egypt and encouraged by the extremist government of Syria. The new attack could only undermine Israel's doves, at a time when Foreign Minister Abba Eban was in Jerusalem for a Cabinet decision on how far to go toward peace with Egypt and Jordan. Eban's hawkish opponents argue that Jordan's King Hussein is not strong enough to make a peace agreement stick, given the adamant opposition of Jordan-based commandos...
...moment, Israel and Jordan seemed willing to go on talking indirectly through the U.N.'s go-between, Gunnar Jarring. But it is questionable how much longer the slim restraints of Jarring's mission can keep the Israelis from resorting to a major retaliation against the newly bellicose Arabs...
...Israel 3,491 WESTERN EUROPE
...succession of spectacular causes from the 1920s on; after a stroke; in Pittsburgh. Musmanno was one of the lawyers who defended Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti in 1927, the judge who sentenced 14 Nazis to death at one of the Nurnberg trials in 1948, the witness who traveled to Israel to testify against Eichmann...