Word: israelities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after Western Europe; its loss, he recently said, would be "worse than the loss of China" to the Western cause. The sale of Communist arms to Egypt thus presented an active threat to U.S. interests in the area. It also provided Ben-Gurion with justification for his new militancy: "Israel stands in imminent danger of attack by Egypt," he told his Parliament last week. "The [Communist] arms are intended only and exclusively for an attack against Israel...
...Egypt's Nasser replies that he accepted Communist aid only after Israel's attack on Gaza. Nasser told TIME last week: "Until last Feb. 28 I felt the possibility of real peace was near. The borders between Israel and Egypt had been quiet since 1952, and I felt at peace." When the Jews struck at Gaza, that feeling left. "That is why I bought arms from Czechoslovakia. I would rather have spent the money on social development...
Says Nasser of Ben-Gurion: "I have the impression that he is responsible for it. It was not that way when Sharett was running Israel. Sharett is not a cruel man, and it may be that he is a reasonable man. But Ben-Gurion is under the idea that terror must be raised, and he speaks only of force-of forcing a settlement on the Arabs...
...often innocent women and children on both sides, grievances deepen. Israelis, confined in a land at some points only ten miles wide, feel themselves surrounded by nations that will never accept their existence, but U.S. diplomats in the area say that most responsible Arab leaders had become resigned to Israel's existence until Ben-Gurion began his smashing reprisal raids...
Refugees: some form of resettlement or compensation for the 900,000 Arab refugees who fled Palestine during the 1948 war and have been encamped in unspeakable bitterness and misery around Israel's borders ever since. Their plight is the Arabs' most effective moral case against Israel. "Israel is not prepared under any circumstances," Sharett reiterated last week, "to return and resettle refugees." His previous offer to accept 100,000 Arab refugees is now withdrawn...