Word: israell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wake of the latest flare-up in the Middle East, occasioned by the Arab terrorist attack on an El Al plane in Athens and Israel's reprisal raid on Beirut airport, the Soviet Union last week stepped up its latest diplomatic offensive. Its aim: a four-power agreement among the U.S., Russia, Britain and France on a peace package to offer to the Middle East's antagonists...
...Russia into a showdown that neither wants. The Russians also want to protect their Arab clients from another military defeat, and have artfully shaped their proposal to tempt-and perhaps confuse-the U.S. as it changes administrations. For the first time, the Soviets do not peremptorily demand that Israel withdraw from its occupied territories before negotiations begin, as the Arabs have always insisted. Instead, the Soviets propose a package that would include Israeli withdrawal-to what lines the Soviets do not clearly say-along with declarations by Arab states of nonbelligerency. The Russians support guaranteed use of the Strait...
...Israelis insist that declarations of Arab nonbelligerency have not protected them in the past. Neither did the Security Council's guarantee of free passage in the Strait of Tiran when Israel withdrew after the 1956 Suez campaign; the U.N. did not prevent Egypt from blockading the Strait just before the June War. Therefore withdrawal from the occupied territories in exchange for such concessions from the Arabs is unacceptable to the Israelis. What they want is more time. By simply sitting tight since the Six-Day War, the Israelis argue, they have induced the Arabs to hold indirect talks through...
...latest diplomatic battle took shape, the Israelis appeared to have made significant gains in their brief for the Beirut raid. A second wave of evaluation and editorial comment in the U.S. and abroad recognized that the U.N., in condemning Israel alone, had not been quite fair. Pope Paul VI told the head of a visiting Jewish delegation that his message of sympathy to Lebanon had been "misinterpreted" as deploring only one side of the violence. But in assessing the reaction, Israel did not reckon with another factor-Charles de Gaulle. He regards Lebanon, a French mandate until World...
...much as anything else, De Gaulle took offense at the symbolism he perceived in the Beirut airport attack. "The fact that French helicopters were used to destroy French Caravelles is altogether unacceptable," he told his Cabinet, reportedly adding: "They could at least have used American Sikorskys." Angered at Israel's "unspeakable and unacceptable" behavior, De Gaulle went further than the simple resolution of censure voted in the U.N. He decreed a total embargo on all shipments of French arms to Israel...