Word: nasser
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...Russia's arming of Egypt and Syria. The U.S., whose foreign policy has made a sacred cow out of the status quo everywhere in the world, did little to help Israel. Those who think the Arab-Israeli confrontation is over are living in a dream world. Nasser will be back. Syria will be back. And if Israel has a right to exist, it also has the right to the means to continue that existence...
...perennial Middle East threat to the peace re-emphasizes the need for a permanent solution to control of key international waterways. The Suez Canal and the Gulf of Aqaba should be internationalized under irrevocable U.N. control. The world cannot permit Nasser to use those shipping lanes as instruments of national policy, to be turned on or off at will. Although Nasser wished to be the hero of a holy war of annihilation of Israel, the would-be tiger of the Nile has now earned the title of Papyrus Tiger...
Precise Estimates. Even after the visible debris of war has been cleaned up, the stain left on Arab pride by the furious events of last week may well remain for years. "Our estimates of the enemy's strength were precise," said Nasser in his postmortem. "They showed us that our armed forces had reached a level of equipment and training at which they were capable of deterring and repelling the enemy." The failure to do just that may sooner or later bring down Arab rulers all over the Middle East, and it will make the Arab dream of unity...
...settling on this city," he cabled. "There is very little relationship here between word and action. The government seems to be provoking trouble without preparing for the consequences." The Cairo airport, he noted, was more open to attack than La Guardia airport in New York. The men around Nasser, he reported, were more preoccupied with past humiliations than present dangers...
...reporters to display much individual enterprise. Yet here and there, a correspondent came up with some arresting insight or detail. Covering the war for the Chicago Sun-Times, Cartoonist Bill Mauldin reported that at least some Arabs living in Israel were content with their lot and even fearful of Nasser. Los Angeles Times Correspondent Joe Alex Morris Jr. reported from Jerusalem that the Palestinians blamed King Hussein or the Arabs in general for not fighting harder. "But at the same time, there were greetings of 'shalom' to Israeli patrols as they crept up the narrow, sun-baked streets...