Word: negeb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Palestine war). The Israeli offer to admit some of the refugees provided they can get the Gaza strip from Egypt is generally regarded as an evasion, because no one seriously expects Egypt to cede the Gaza strip unless Israel, in return, gives up part of the Negeb area. This possibility is considered even more fantastic because the Negeb, Israel's southern desert, has become a burning symbol of Israeli nationalism. Said a Lausanne observer last week: "Three Jews in Tel Aviv can't get together for a drink without singing the Song of the Negeb...
Correspondents knew what to expect when, on the day before the signing, Greek porters unloaded cartons and crates of Arabic goodies, obviously for a celebration, from a DC-3 that had flown in from Cairo. Historic Beersheba, crossroads of the Negeb desert, had been the last stumbling block. By dint of arms, the Jews had Beersheba, and they believed it indispensable as a base for their desert reclamation projects. Before Seif edDin would give it up formally, he had to fly to Cairo for his government's consent. If he got consent, he told the correspondents, he would bring...
...During Business Hours." What Israel wanted most was the Negeb, and it got that. The Arabs, however, got a 20-mile strip of coast around Gaza, and Israel agreed to a semi-demilitarization (only small defensive forces, no airplanes) of the Israeli-Egyptian border. Egypt was allowed to withdraw from the famed Fa-luja pocket, and last week her half-starved troops, who had been marooned in the pocket for 20 weeks, began a joyful exodus, heads held high...
...days they agreed on a six-point agenda, and approved an impressive armistice preamble in which they agreed to stop fighting, and to respect each other's territory. Then they settled down to tackle the prickly questions of armistice frontiers, withdrawals and reduction of their armies in the Negeb desert. To give the Egyptians a prod, the Israelis announced that they were already holding armistice talks with the Lebanese, and were giving up control of Lebanese villages across the border...
...three of the British planes had been shot down over Palestine, and they had the charred wreckage of one to prove it. The British troop landings at Aquaba, cried an official spokesman, "can have no purpose but to threaten Israel's territory in the southern part of the Negeb...