Word: negeb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chief item for study was a master plan for peace in the Near East proposed by U.N. Mediator Dr. Ralph Bunche. The plan would order Jews and Arabs to evacuate designated zones, settle all outstanding truce problems, reduce military forces and declare a permanent armistice. The Negeb desert, Bunche thought, would provide a good starting point. According to blueprints produced by a U.N. subcommittee, the Jews would be ordered to quit all of the Negeb (except for a small corner in the north); the Egyptians would abandon their few remaining pockets, keeping only the coastal area and a narrow strip...
...spokesman: "Absolutely astounding ... a shameful proposal." The U.N., he said, had come "dangerously close to the prerogatives . . . held by God of quickening the dead." Even Israel's gentle, scholarly President Chaim Weizmann was moved to truculence. "No force on earth," he declared, "can remove the Jews from the Negeb, short of carrying them bodily-and they are a heavy burden...
History in the Making. Meanwhile, in Tel Aviv, Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion stepped up colonization schedules for the Jerusalem corridor and the Negeb, planned to settle 5,000 to 10,000 Jews in the southern desert within the next three years. Within two months, he announced, several hundred Jewish pioneers would move into Beersheba to make it a Jewish town. He also announced that Israeli representatives were holding secret talks with leaders of two Arab nations (probably Lebanon and Egypt...
...made it clear what boundaries he would want. Going to a map on the wall, he traced the present Israeli lines in the Negeb. The pointer he used was a rifle cartridge stamped with the date 1948 and two tiny Stars of David. "Our own manufacture," he said proudly...
...isolate Israel and thus neutralize the supposedly dangerous new state. Great Britain will succeed if the United States can be influenced to follow British leadership in the U.N. The first step would be to ram through the U.N. a modified version of Count Bernadotte's plan giving the entire Negeb to Arabian states. The second step would be enforcement of the plan by stringent economic sanctions...