Word: israels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More black than white, more poor than rich, the Commonwealth so far has been able to bear apartheid, Kashmir, trade wars, internal snobbery and even Suez, when Britain joined with France and Israel in the 1956 attack on Egypt. India violently opposed the invasion, and Canada, noted a British newsman, felt as though it had found a "beloved uncle arrested for rape." In this crisis Canada put preservation of the Commonwealth above affection for the mother country, and at the United Nations joined the U.S. in pressing for a ceasefire. With Australia and New Zealand backing Britain, Canada...
...have often wondered how a man in his early 30s (I am 31) would stand up under such intensive grilling, and I was heartened by Reid's sensible, forthright answers to difficult questions. Young Ogden Reid should do well in young Israel...
...stranger on the road to Jericho and given him succor-or, in modern specifications, emergency medical treatment, food, clothing and shelter. For ten years, since the end of the Israeli war in 1949, UNRWA has been helping support 1,000,000 Arab refugees in 58 camps around Israel's borders. Richer Arabs say it is up to the West to help their poor Arab brethren, because it was the West that invited Israel in to become a nation. The Israelis, for their part, are willing to take back only a selected few of the refugees. The U.S., which pays...
...much improved, but refugees still live as political hostages in an atmosphere of hatred. Egypt's President Nasser still says, "The sole way of settling the refugee problem is by restoring the land, which was stolen, to its owners," but he hardly expects any more to conquer Israel. U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, avoiding the inflamed question of repatriation altogether, suggests that to get the refugees off the dole, UNRWA's vocational training program should be greatly expanded. Then if UNRWA disappears, a new agency, possibly with World Bank financial backing, should give refugees jobs building such public...
Last week in Beirut, in a marked break from past refugee attitudes, four Palestinians formed a committee to petition Arab countries to allow them to accept compensation from Israel for their lost lands, thus giving up all hope of returning. Not many years ago for any Arab to make such a proposal would have been to invite assassination...