Word: israell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...substantial amount may well come from France, where Israel enjoys vast popular support despite De Gaulle. The French President decreed the ban without consulting either Prime Minister Couve de Murville or Foreign Minister Michel Debré. Predictably, it raised a roar of political and editorial protest, especially so since De Gaulle has sold a dozen Mirage 3s to Lebanon and is dickering to sell 54 more to Iraq. Every major non-Communist paper in France denounced the ban on arms to Israel. In reply, De Gaulle harshly raised, through Information Minister Joël Le Theule, an old European phobia...
...embargo is unlikely to have much practical impact on Israel, despite that country's heavy investment in French arms, amounting to nearly $600 million over the past decade. Ever since De Gaulle stopped delivery of 50 Mirage fighters as a sign of his displeasure during the Six-Day War, Israel has been prudently making other arrangements. To compensate for the embargoed aircraft Israel has ordered from the U.S. 50 F-4 Phantoms, scheduled for delivery late this year...
...ISRAEL did not get away without cost from its commando raid on Beirut airport. Through Lloyd's of London, Israeli insurance firms were underwriters for $50,000 worth of policies held by Middle East Airlines on planes that were destroyed. Thus, ironically, Israel will pay part of the nearly $18 million that MEA will collect. It is Lebanon's only cause for cheer. For the reverberations from the raid brought an internal crisis to the tiny nation last week, along with the prospect of being drawn against its will into the whirlpool of Middle East hostilities...
...remaining aloof from the passions and wars of other Arab lands, Lebanon, alone of Israel's neighbors, has escaped losing territory to Israel. It has pursued the role of a Middle Eastern Switzerland, providing its 2,700,000 people with the highest living standard of any Arab country. Beirut is a cosmopolitan city of thriving banks and glittering beaches, excellent restaurants and gaudy nightclubs. Internally, Lebanon has maintained a delicate equilibrium since it gained independence from French mandate rule in 1943, by an unwritten "national covenant" apportioning political power between the Christian and Moslem halves of its population...
...first won an international name as leader of a brief, Nasser-supported rebellion that brought U.S. Marines rushing to Lebanon in 1958. Karami has since served as Premier five times, the last time during the Six-Day War, when he ordered Lebanon's army into battle against Israel. The army prudently refused to budge...