Word: israell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proposed before any such meeting to "begin immediate consultations with other powers, notably European ones, which are interested." If Khrushchev wanted a special U.N. Security Council session, "considering, apparently, that the urgency of the questions relating to the Middle East has diminished," then such nations as Turkey, Iran and Israel should be included, as well as Khrushchev's own choices, India and the Arab states. But such a meeting "would not have any relation" to a summit meeting, said De Gaulle, which he thought should be held in Geneva or some other European city...
...Israel was anxious for British and U.S. forces to stay where they are, convinced that Lebanon and Jordan would fall to Nasserites if the Western powers left. Israel was not particularly interested in a summit meeting. Said one Cabinet minister: "The decisions are likely to be in accordance with Big Power interests, not regional interests, and certainly not Israel's." Israel's immediate wants were simple: more arms from the West...
Predictable was the Soviet bloc's denunciation of the U.S. move ("shameful aggression"): the Reds were delighted to change the subject from Hungary. Also predictable was the tiresome volley of "I told you so's" that poured forth from Israel, Britain and France, from those who believed that the West's troubles would be over by now had the Suez invaders been allowed "another 48 hours" in November 1956 to topple Nasser. To allies of the West, such as Turkey and Iran, one undeniable gain of the week's events was the fact that this time...
...Israel the public's first reaction to the Iraqi coup-"When do we march?"-gave way to relief after the Lebanon landing. Austria, which got its independence by promising to be neutral, protested the flight of Mideast-bound troops over its territory...
...thousands of years Jews have generally interpreted the Talmud to mean that only the offspring of a Jewish mother can be a Jew, and the orthodox consider the matter settled. But for the last four months the question "What is a Jew?" has been hotly debated in Israel...