Word: israelities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the job of getting U.S. arms for Israel is Abba Eban, 40, for five years Israeli ambassador to Washington...
Patient and persuasive, Abba Eban is rated highly by the U.S. and foreign diplomats who work with him. Sympathizers to Israel consider him one of the five ablest diplomats in Washington; opponents call him a nuisance or a menace, but none dispute his cleverness. "Eban is super-able," said one diplomat, a neutral. "He fences a beautiful duel with words...
Egypt's Strongman Gamal Abdel Nasser last week defended his purchase of arms from the Communists, denied that he intends to start a war with Israel, and behaved like a man convinced that his spoon is long enough to sup with the devil...
...Today, after we have made the arms deal, people are talking that Israel may start a preventive war. But I have been expecting them to start a war ever since they attacked Gaza on Feb. 28. Otherwise, I would not have bought arms and would have saved the money instead...
...These weapons are to defend Egypt. They are not to attack Israel. I cannot say how many weapons we need or will take. In war you cannot draw a hard line between defense and offense. As a military man, all I can tell you about that is that it depends on what the other fellow...