Word: israell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist Parties outside the Iron Curtain, more than 30, according to the Communists' own count, are illegal. In the Middle East they are legal only in Israel and, until recently, in Syria and Lebanon...
...stepped solemnly down King George Avenue to the pale gold building, crossed the pastel rose and green entrance hall and climbed the Galilee-marble staircase (or took the elevator) to the huge reception hall on the fifth floor. They mingled there with a crush of notables as international as Israel herself: robed prelates of the Greek Orthodox and Coptic Churches, Moslem and Druse dignitaries, and members of the diplomatic corps (who kept their hats on like their Israeli hosts). There were even some English ladies in picture hats-guests of Benefactor Wolf-son-bobbing like exotic flowers in the wilderness...
...tangible advantage Israel got out of the Sinai invasion was to open up its now bustling southernmost port of Elath to the sea, so that its ships could trade with East Africa and Asia while bypassing Nasser's Suez Canal. Invading Israeli armies, routing the Egyptians from the Sinai peninsula, spiked the Egyptian guns placed to menace any vessel seeking entrance from the Red Sea through the narrow, four-mile-wide Strait of Tiran into the Gulf of Aqaba and thence to Elath. Now the U.N. Emergency Force guards the strait and permits Israel "innocent passage" into the gulf...
...final session adopted, 62 to 1, an article permitting "innocent passage" between straits connecting two parts of the "high seas" as well as those that lead from the high seas into "territorial waters of a foreign state." The Arabs, insisting they are technically at war with Israel and therefore innocent passage does not apply, abstained. The practical situation was not altered, but a step had been taken in the codification of international law that gave Israel's rights the backing of world legal opinion...
...fable about a serious-minded student named Fidelman who goes to Italy to write a monograph on Giotto. He scarcely steps from his train in Rome before his personal Old Man of the Sea latches onto him: one Shimon Susskind, a slat-thin Jewish refugee from, of all places, Israel ("The desert air makes me constipated...