Word: israelities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...armed force to retake Suez, according to the Brombergers, was begun in a secret bombproof bunker beneath the Thames in early September. The operation, known as "Project Terrapin," was in military readiness by Sept. 20. At this time there had been no mention of the inclusion of Israel. But on Oct. 14 the Israelis advised Defense Minister Bourges-Maunoury of their intention to invade Sinai, asking at the same time for extra military supplies. Bourges-Maunoury rushed over to the Hotel Matignon, say the Brombergers, bringing to Premier Guy Mollet "on a silver platter the long-awaited occasion for intervention...
...Quai d'Orsay dutifully denounced the book as "the highest fantasy." French officials denied only one specific-that Ben-Gurion had flown to France for a private pre-ihvasion talk with Mollet. Among the assertions not denied: that the day Israel invaded Egypt three French destroyers protectively patrolled Israel's coast, three squadrons of French fighters and fighter-bombers were at Lydda Airdrome, and a French-not an Israeli-destroyer, the Kersaint, played a leading role in the shelling and capture of the Egyptian warship Ibrahim Awal off Haifa...
...Aqaba "from a political to a legal question." He got Nasser's oral agreement to allow the UNEF to remain at Sharm el Sheikh indefinitely while the U.N. seeks an advisory opinion from the World Court as to whether the Gulf of Aqaba is an international waterway, as Israel and the U.S. contend. Nasser reportedly also agreed not to rush Egyptian troops back into Gaza and to try to restrain his fedayeen. (Presumably Nasser is willing to have the UNEF between him and the superior Israeli army.) But Nasser refused to modify his claim of "belligerent" rights against Israel...
...referral of both Suez and Aqaba to the World Court. While judgment is being sought, the situation will be shaped to the local preponderance of strength: in Suez, where Egypt has the means and authority to make it stick, Israeli shipping will be barred pending the decision; in Aqaba, Israel is determined and the U.S. is committed to send through ships unless and until the World Court rules otherwise...
...paying 6,000 DM to any Jew who returns to Germany and helping him to find housing and a job; by providing him with preferences in government loans and contracts if he sets up in business. In addition, Germany agreed to deliver $822 million in goods and services to Israel over a twelve-year period; and individual indemnifications to Nazi victims may total $1.5 billion. No one argues that this is payment in full. But Jewish organizations agree that "the shame factor" is widespread. "The local railroad-ticket seller," said one embarrassed young man in Bonn last week, "knows...