Word: negeb
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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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...
...nation violently opposed to negotiations which would leave Israel dominant in the Middle East. British strategists view the emergence of a powerful state in Palestine as a direct threat to the Suez Canal, to the vital oil deposits in Iraq, and to the proposed airbases in the Negeb. For these purely military reasons, plus the fact that the Middle East is the one remaining area where Great Britain can exert Imperial power, the British have consistently supported the Arab cause and have pressed for adoption of the inequitable Bernadotte partition of Negeb...
...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...
...Security Council bade the Israelis and Egyptians withdraw all their troops in the Palestine Negeb to the positions occupied on Oct. 14, put a subcommittee to work studying what could be done about it if they refused...
...Paris one day last week, George Marshall and his U.N. delegates seemed all set to tell the Israelis to disgorge their recent military gains in the Palestine Negeb. The day after, however, U.N. watched in momentary amazement as the U.S. fell all over itself to send the whole touchy subject to a subcommittee. What was up? Said one delegate, when asked by reporters, "Address all your questions to the White House." President Harry Truman had made up his mind that nothing should be done to "embarrass" the Israelis...