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According to Israeli sources, the scroll was in the possession of a Bethlehem antique dealer for seven years and was seized by the Israeli government after the occupation of the Jordanian city last June. Less than one-tenth of a millimeter thick, the parchment is in extremely fragile condition; insects had begun to gnaw at its fringes, and the outer portion, said Yadin, looked like "melted chocolate." Unrolled, the scroll measures 28 ft. 3 in. in length, more than four feet longer than Qumran's complete scroll of Isaiah...
...story, of course, is the same all over Israel. Until last June, Tel Aviv itself lay within range of Jordanian guns. But the Israelis did not grumble. And when war came, involvement was total, not just because it had to be, but because the Israelis went to battle with a spirit which is conquering the desert...
Such actions may have impressed Arabs-but not their Israeli conquerors, to whom true peace seems as distant as ever. Jordanian and Egyptian troops fired on Israeli border positions five times last week. During one skirmish at the mouth of the Suez Canal, the irritated Israelis finally wheeled up tanks and mortars and bombarded the Egyptian resort town of Port Tewfic, killing 44 and wounding 170 others. Two days later, Israeli Premier Levi Eshkol flew to the Suez battlefront and told his troops that "we must be on our guard and hold the positions and frontiers that our forces have...
Reluctance & Fear. Most of the fault for the delay lies with the Jordanian government, which was eager to see the refugees go, but inefficient about helping them on their way. To make matters worse, many approved applicants got cold feet when it came their turn, either out of reluctance to live under Israeli rule, or for fear that they might be cut off from remittance checks sent to them by relatives working in the high-paying oil fields of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. All of which caused the refugee flow to slow to a trickle. But for the time...
Even as the Arabs worked out their first, tentative compromise with Israel, and Jordanian refugees began returning to occupied territory, the Arabs continued to demonstrate their inability to face up to the problems of negotiating a peace. In a week of frenzied activity, Iraq's President Abdel Rahman Aref flew off to Syria, then to Jordan, then back home again to receive Syrian Head of State Noureddin Attassi on a return call. After receiving Aref in Amman, Jordan's King Hussein took off on a whirlwind visit to nine other Middle Eastern and Arab countries that would last...