Word: israell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flag tanker, on Israel's charter and carrying a full cargo of Persian Gulf oil, sailed up the Gulf of Aqaba last week in a blinding sandstorm and anchored at the Israeli port of Elath. En route, in the Red Sea, a U.S. warship had spoken the tanker and asked it to identify itself. "When we said we were American and on our way to Elath," said the skipper, "the reply was, 'Good luck.' " As the tanker passed through the narrow and disputed Strait of Tiran, the captain ordered the flag dipped in salute to the UNEF...
With the tanker's arrival the U.S. made good on its pledge to Israel, at the time Israel pulled its troops out of the Egyptian gun positions dominating the gulf narrows, to send in a ship flying the U.S. flag to help establish the right of "innocent passage" through gulf waters...
There still remains the question of Israel's right of access to the Suez Canal. Nasser, in a chat to visiting U.S. editors, said he would not let Israeli ships through. In Washington, President Eisenhower indicated that the U.S. had made no such binding commitment on Suez as on Aqaba, and that furthermore, Ben-Gurion. in his letter to Ike, had not even mentioned Suez. This brought Israel's Ambassador Abba Eban around to the U.S. State Department to say that his government attached great importance to the canal issue, and expected U.S. backing.* Through Cairo...
...broadcast to the nation in February, Ike said: "We should not assume that, if Israel withdraws, Egypt will prevent Israeli shipping from using the Suez Canal or the Gulf of Aqaba. If, unhappily, Egypt does hereafter violate the armistice agreement or other international obligations, then this should be dealt with firmly by the society of nations...
Where They Came From. That much is fairly certain about Qumran's Essenes. But when did they go into the desert and why? The answer must lie in the history of Israel from 200 B.C. to A.D. 68, the period indicated by paleography and archaeology for the existence of the Qumran community. It was a stretch of history so bloody and chaotic that it is easy to understand how people could believe that the End of Days was near. The tiny Jewish nation was torn and chivvied by powerful neighbors-first Egypt and Syria, later Rome. In the wake...