Word: lydda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went to jail in 1939 for fighting in the Jewish underground against the British; two years later he lost his left eye fighting for the British against the Vichy French in Syria. In the Palestine war of 1948-49, Colonel Dayan's motorized Israeli units captured Lydda and Ramie, cleared the Negev desert. In 1953 Dayan became chief of staff of Israel's armed forces, plotted the brilliant blitzkrieg in which Israel's army overran the Sinai peninsula and chewed up a fourth of Egypt's army in six days. Last week, a sinewy 42, Major...
...denied only one specific-that Ben-Gurion had flown to France for a private pre-ihvasion talk with Mollet. Among the assertions not denied: that the day Israel invaded Egypt three French destroyers protectively patrolled Israel's coast, three squadrons of French fighters and fighter-bombers were at Lydda Airdrome, and a French-not an Israeli-destroyer, the Kersaint, played a leading role in the shelling and capture of the Egyptian warship Ibrahim Awal off Haifa...
...True," answered Izzat, "but I wish I could." Less than a week later, Izzat climbed tensely down from an airliner at Lydda airport for a ten-day tour of Israel. Just in case things got too hot for Izzat, the Israelis gave him an armed guard and a false name. As George Ibrahim Habib, a "South American journalist," he saw lots of communal settlements, some Arab villages, no military installations. Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett chitted with him in Arabic, and David Ben-Gurion's secretary handed him a message for Egypt's Nasser that Israel's Premier...
...Dulles 'went marching through the Middle East. ¶ Israel, his first stop after Egypt, went to great lengths to protect the most important official visitor the new state has welcomed in its five years. Hours before his Constellation arrived (an hour late), 1,000 police cordoned off the Lydda airport, banned other plane movements and unofficial phone calls, mounted machine guns, patrolled side roads with police dogs...
...airport at Lydda, a chubby man in dark glasses stepped out of the plane just in from Amsterdam. An Israeli security officer approached him and asked, "Are you the traveler to Cyprus?" "Yes," replied the man, "I am." "Then follow...