Word: israell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THAT deadly shade spread farther across the hostile Middle East last week. Israel, concerned about the Arabs' increasing confidence and belligerency in recent weeks, abandoned any pretense of attacking only in reprisal and launched a limited offensive against its Arab foes. Egypt's official spokesman said: "We consider ourselves at war," and as much as admitted the reserves were being partially mobilized. The week also brought intensified artillery duels along the Syrian and Egyptian frontiers, spectacular aerial dogfights, and more commando raids by both sides, including Arab demolition of a power line pylon which cut off electricity...
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Main Front. The fedayeen, however, are of less concern to Israel than the standing threat from Egypt. Last week, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan warned that Egypt and Syria were stepping up their war efforts, and another round of the war "can happen," perhaps this year. "The Egyptian front is the main one," he added. "It won't start anywhere else...
Despite the new scope of struggle, there is some evidence that Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser is caught between conflicting pressures. On the one hand, he must appease his more zealous army officers, who are impatient for action against Israel, and he may need to demonstrate his independence in the face of Soviet counsels of caution. On the other hand, there are evanescent but tantalizing indications of counterpressures on Nasser from some army officers and middle-class bureaucrats who are weary of Egypt's bearing the main burden of the Arab cause. These men have begun...
...Egypt first" feeling is shared, but the proponents of a separate peace have so far been unable to make a noticeable dent in Nasser's foreign policy. During four months of talks in Washington, the U.S. had won from the Soviets a tacit agreement to let Israel and Egypt work out their new borders themselves. But after Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko visited Cairo last month, Russia switched its stance and in a hard-lining note delivered two weeks ago echoed Arab demands for total Israeli withdrawal on all fronts to prewar lines. The Soviets also called for demilitarized...