Word: israelities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...security pacts such as NATO and SEATO, the Good Neighbor policy, bipartisan conduct of foreign affairs, a release of U.S. prisoners in China, and reciprocal trade hedged by selective but vaguely defined protective tariffs. At issue: in the explosive Middle East, the Democrats advocate sale of "defensive weapons" to Israel; the Republicans pledge themselves to "support the independence of Israel against armed aggression...
Until last fortnight there had been many incidents but no serious outbreaks on Israel's borders since U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold won his cease-fire last April. At that point, however, Hammarskjold, the usually quiet Swede, felt impelled to make a loud protest. He announced that he would demand that the Jordan government "punish the transgressors" who killed four Israeli bus passengers a few nights earlier. He had no sooner fired off his warning shot than another flare-up occurred on Israel's touchier border with Egypt...
...soldiers were killed. Usually this kind of outbreak rouses the anger of Egypt's Dictator Nasser and the fury of the Cairo press. Both were too busy with the Suez last week, and played down the incident. But Dag Hammarskjold was not looking the other way. He told Israel: "What I said in my [earlier] statement applies with equal strength to these new incidents...
...interest in the village of Beit Safafa, in the bare hills of Jerusalem, is the 2-ft.-high coil of barbed wire snaking down the middle of its main street. On opposite sides of the barricade, rifle-slung Arab Legionnaires of Jordan and rifle-slung border guards of Israel enforce the division day and night in the name of their jealous sovereignties. One day last week, all Beit Safafa was excited by the wedding of two of its children-Fatma Bint, 20, and Moussa Ayasha, 23, a gardener at the Belgian consulate in Jerusalem...
...Great Chance. Last week, still believing in his plan and still unable to keep silent Zarchin, 59, citizen of Israel, happily checked the calculations of another test project that may prove his point. The Israeli government had given him $270,000 to build a pilot plant in the Negev the vast, parched area in southern Israel. The plant will use water pumped from the Mediterranean Sea. "We are too poor a country to reject dreams," said one official. Only men who do nothing are always right...