Word: nasserism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arab-Israeli confrontation had for years been taken for granted as the normal state of affairs. But as tensions mounted and public concern increased in the U.S., the Administration acknowledged that an edgy situation had indeed been transformed into a potentially explosive one. When Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser announced that he was sealing off the Gulf of Aqaba against all Israeli vessels and other ships that might be carrying "strategic" cargo to the Israeli port of Elath (see THE WORLD), Washington acted firmly. In so doing, the U.S. exerted a sobering effect on the excitable antagonists...
...break the blockade themselves. But many U.S. policymakers are disenchanted with U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, not only for his blatant partisanship on Viet Nam, but also for his aphronic action in pulling the entire U.N. peace-keeping force out of the Sinai desert, particularly since Nasser originally asked him to remove it from only half of the 120-mile truce line. In a rare public slap at Thant, Johnson said he was "dismayed at the hurried withdrawal...
...mile Sinai desert frontier between Israel and Egypt. Ever since Suez, the frontier has been guarded by a 3,400-man United Nations peace-keeping force whose only assignment has been to keep the two hostile nations from each other's throats. Last week Gamal Abdel Nasser ordered the U.N. troops to withdraw-"for their own protection"-not only from the border but from Egyptian soil entirely. Into their positions moved an Egyptian force estimated at 60,000 men, including one armored and four infantry divisions. It was the first time in ten years that Egyptian and Israeli troops...
Both raids were extremely embarrassing to Nasser in his self-appointed role as protector of the Arab world. But they failed to 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...
Telegraphed Punch. To the Damascus regime, Eshkol's meaning was all too clear. Syria declared a state of emergency, instructed its ambassador to the U.N., George Tomeh, to announce that "Syria expects an attack from Israel" -and demanded that Nasser come to its rescue. Nasser has no desire to take on the powerful Israeli army, which he knows is more than a match for all the Arab forces combined. His military interests, furthermore, lie not in Israel but in Yemen and in the South Arabian Federation, which is due to receive its independence from Britain next year. Despite...