Word: israelities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ORGANIZATIONS Dollars for Israel Beneath the warm smile of Israel's visiting Foreign Minister Golda Meir, some 300 U.S. Jewish leaders met in Manhattan's Savoy-Plaza Hotel last week to plan a great new outpouring of American dollars for Israel. Before Feb. 28, said the Israel Bond Organization, it hoped to raise $20 million; before the end of 1957 it hoped to raise a total of $75 million designed to improve immigrant housing, speed up industrialization and "fill the gap in Israel's development budget created by the loss of other sources of economic...
...comment that the U.S. attempt to send military aid to the Mideast "will lead to trouble." Other critics in Britain and the U.S. added that the new doctrine meant nothing without specific policies for solving the internal problems of the Middle East, e.g., the status of the Suez Canal, Israel v. the Arabs-which the U.S. intends to work for through...
...Cold-shouldered Israeli attempts to commit the U.S., in advance of Tel Aviv's full compliance with U.N. resolutions, to support her demands that in any Mideast settlement Israel be guaranteed free passage through the Suez, protection from further Egyptian commando raids, etc. The State Department, determined that Israel not be rewarded for her attack on Egypt, told the Israeli Foreign Ministry in effect: first things first, i.e., no U.S. commitments until Israel withdraws behind the 1949 armistice lines. On the other side of the ledger, the U.S. Treasury gave no sign of heeding fervent Egyptian requests that...
...successful beginning of the canal clearance also put new pressure on Nasser, who had counted on the blocked canal as Egypt's best lever for getting the world to pry Israel out of Sinai and Gaza. The Israelis, who have so far given up barely half of Sinai, are demanding U.N. guarantees that Egypt will neither reoccupy Gaza nor obstruct passage for Israeli ships through the Gulf of Aqaba...
...just beginning to appear: to make sure that no conditions are put in the way of clearing the Suez Canal, and to become one means by which the U.N. can impose a solution of some sort on that area--perhaps as permanent border guards in an international corridor separating Israel from Egypt, if the General Assembly follows the suggestion of the British Labor Party...