Word: negev
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After two minor attacks on Israelis in the Negev desert, two parties of Israelis carried out separate ambushes inside the Gaza Strip in which nine Egyptian soldiers were killed. Usually this kind of outbreak rouses the anger of Egypt's Dictator Nasser and the fury of the Cairo press. Both were too busy with the Suez last week, and played down the incident. But Dag Hammarskjold was not looking the other way. He told Israel: "What I said in my [earlier] statement applies with equal strength to these new incidents...
...Western European nations would double "in just over 20 years." In the Middle East Egypt's aggressive Prime Minister Nasser and Israel's combative Ben-Gurion both promised U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold to enforce a ceasefire along the Gaza strip and the Negev. In London the touring Russians, Khrushchev and Bulganin (or Bim and Bom, in the oblique language of Russian jokesters), got the kind of social, personal and diplomatic chill that only the British can apply (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Along the Arab-Israeli border, gangs of workers went on shoveling ditches for pipes to water new fields in the Negev, while soldiers dug out gun emplacements, trenches and foxholes. Troops joined with raw settlers from Morocco and Kurdistan to turn farm communities into flimsy fortresses. In Tel Aviv thousands of white-collar workers left their desks and went to the borders to help dig defenses. At the annual convention of the powerful Israeli General Federation of Labor (Histadrut), there were no ringing calls to arms in the labor leaders' speeches. "I prefer even this miserable peace to either...
Long lines of volunteers sprang up outside Tel Aviv and Jerusalem headquarters, and by week's end the first 500 volunteers left Jerusalem for Negev villages. When trade union federation bosses voted to demand a 5% wage rise, Premier David Ben-Gurion delivered a slashing attack on them for blindness to the need for sacrifices. "The question is," he said, "shall we equip army, navy and air force to enable them to repel the enemy or shall we raise our standard of living?" The answer came from the trade union's own newspaper Davar: "The nation must gird...
Boundaries: Dulles asks for "mutual concessions," with the understanding that once boundaries are set, the U.S. would guarantee them. Israel has privately indicated its willingness to allow landlocked Jordan commercial privileges at Haifa, and to give Egypt a land route across the Negev to its Arab neighbors, but Israel bristled at references to waste territory that has "only sentimental value," and angrily denounces the British Foreign Office hint that Israel give way in the Negev...