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There was anger in Israel as the Knesset met to debate Premier David Ben-Gurion's decision to pull his country's troops out of Gaza and Egypt's Gulf of Aqaba coast. But the barbed-wire barricades that police threw around the Parliament building last week proved an unnecessary precaution. The 5,000 Jerusalemites who turned out for the right-wing opposition Herut Party's mass-protest rally listened to speeches, shook their fists only when the newsreel cameras were on them, and shuffled off home without more than a jeer...
...Knesset, unruffled by boos and yells of "Resign!", Ben-Gurion was as frank as his opponents to acknowledge that he had won no ironclad guarantees: "I must state that there is no certainty and there is no clear and authoritative undertaking that Egyptians will not return or be restored to the Gaza Strip . . . As for the straits [of Tiran] there is no express U.N. decision that the U.N. force must remain until a peace settlement and safeguard freepassage." Nonetheless Ben-Gurion was ready to settle: "The problem of Israel's security has become a question of conscience for very...
...compensated the victims' families ($500 to $2,500). Despite efforts to keep the secret, in tiny Israel the word spread, and shocked citizens pressed Ben-Gurion to make public the disgrace. Every political party sent petitions. Last week the old man finally gave in and told the Knesset (parliament) some details of how Arab villagers "coming home in all innocence" were shot down by border police...
After the Prime Minister had finished speaking, the Knesset stood in solemn expression of contrition...
...days. Old (70) Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, abed with a virus infection and 102° temperature the day his troops struck into the Sinai peninsula, was a deeply happy man, hailed by his people. Though pale and sweat-beaded with fever, he appeared in the jammed, jubilant Knesset, and with rapt crowds listening at loudspeakers all over Jerusalem, triumphantly reviewed "the glorious military operation that lasted seven days...