Word: levies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statement that the state of Israel has never seriously tried to make peace with the Arabs is absurd on its face in light of the repeated appeals by Prime Minister Levi Eshkol and by his predecessor, David Ben-Gurion, for a peace meeting between Israel and the Arab states, a meeting repeatedly rejected by Nasser and other Arab leaders...
...Calm View. While the Arabs shouted, Israel's Premier Levi Eshkol took a surprisingly calm view of the situation. In decidedly conciliatory tones, he said in a speech to the Knesset: "I would like to say to the Arab countries, particularly to Egypt and Syria, that we harbor no aggressive designs, we have no possible interest in violating either their security, their territory or their legitimate rights. We on our part expect the same principles to be applied to us." One reason for Eshkol's restraint, of course, was the knowledge that a good part of the Western...
...Israel's only outlet to Asia, East Africa, and the all-important oil of the Persian Gulf. His action is a violation of the right of free and innocent passage in the Strait of Tiran guaranteed under a 1956 U.N. resolution and an international convention. Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol has declared the blockade an act of war, to which Israel will respond unilaterally if necessary...
...stop Arab terrorist operations, which by last month had risen to an average of four incidents a day. "The Syrians are not good pupils," said Israel's army chief of staff, Yitzhak Rabin. "They do not learn from their mistakes." Unless the terrorism stopped immediately, warned Premier Levi Eshkol at the beginning of last week, "we may have to adopt measures no less drastic than those of April...
...same time, Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol said Israel would defend its right to ship through he Gulf of Aquaba, which Egypt has declared off-limits to Israeli boats...