Word: negeb
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...Palestine last week, an earnest gesture of peace became a clever pretext for war. Last September, U.N.'s Count Bernadotte made a ruling on the hotly contested supply routes in the northern tip of the Negeb desert. The Egyptian army, he said, could use the roads for six hours each afternoon to supply their forces in the interior across an east-west road running under Jewish guns. The Jews, in turn, would have six hours each morning to supply their settlements in the Negeb across a north-south road blocked by Arab troops. When the Egyptians rejected the ruling...
This worked all right through the summer, but now the rainy season is approaching; floods from the hills of Hebron will soon make the airlift impossible. Ben-Gurion met last week with his chiefs and decided to act. Having ordered picked Israeli troops to the Negeb front, the government (as required by the Bernadotte ruling) informed U.N. truce officials that they would move a convoy over the disputed highway between the stipulated hours. When the convoy moved down the highway, the Egyptians (as the Israelis had foreseen) opened fire. The second U.N. truce came to a blazing...
...fighting that followed was in deadly earnest. The same evening, as prearranged, Israeli bombers took off on what the government called an "action to open and keep open the convoy routes to and in the Negeb." Some of the heaviest bomb-loads yet dropped in the Holy
...late Count Bernadotte's proposal to turn Negeb over to Egypt has indirectly resulted in new outbreaks of violence in the Near East. Such reactions to new proposals make it more apparent than ever that the United Nations should revert to the less distasteful original partition plan, or face the certainty of continued...
...Negeb crisis lights up once more the Security Council's failure to assert itself. Although the Council has suggested that Arab and Jewish forces cease fighting, it made no strong resolution to carry out the move...