Word: israelities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Israeli intervention, Ike is more committed than the U.S. perhaps originally intended to a peaceful and prosperous Israel in the Middle East. When the President of the U.S. summons the restive leaders of the Senate to a tough-talking session and then goes on the air to say what the U.S. is prepared to do to see that the Israelis do not have to face the same aggression again from Egypt, this amounts to more than sounding words of sympathy. The personal messages that Ike sent Ben-Gurion mark a further degree of commitment...
...four months Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, basking in much of the world's indulgence, has played the role of a wronged man. But once Israel's invading armies leave his soil, it will be time to examine Nasser's own conduct, past and future, and take new measure of him. The world has known Gamal Abdel Nasser for only four years; few men have undergone more violent alternations of public reputation in shorter time...
...smile was disarming; he confessed he knew little about running a country, but he was a plain man, plainly honest, eager to end the effete and selfish rule of the pashas. Fighting in the losing Palestine war he became convinced that his country's real problem was not Israel but the poverty of its people. The Eisenhower Administration pinned its hopes on him as the keystone of its new Middle East policy, backed his development programs with grants of $26 million, helped him lever the 80,000 troops of the British, grumbling, out of Suez. The U.S. sent...
...supervision were "too much like colonization." He fell under the flattering spell of Chou En-lai and Nehru at Bandung. Then, in September 1955, he suddenly announced that Egypt had made a deal for large amounts of Czech arms. He offered his habitual explanation: he was forced into it. Israel's massive Gaza raid earlier in the year, he explained, had convinced him that Egypt must have arms to defend itself, and the U.S. refused to provide them. It was just a commercial transaction, he said. Wary now, but still hopeful, the U.S. made a counterbid for Nasser...
...including $50 million worth sequestered by the U.S., $420 million by Britain), Nasser has become increasingly dependent on the Russians in his desperate efforts to shore up the economy. The Communists have supplied him with shiploads of wheat, sold him tankersful of oil to replace the wells seized by Israel in Sinai. More and more Russians and satellite Communists are seen in Cairo nightclubs. Worse still, Nasser's own movement is infected with fellow travelers, though Nasser seems unaware...