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Israelis, who greeted the Soviet arms delivery to Egypt with hints that it might find itself driven to preventive war, and denounced Eden's talk of border compromises as "dismemberment," last week admitted privately they might have been too abrupt. They talked of a corridor across the Negev, of giving Jordan free access to the port of Haifa, of compensation for the 900,000 Palestine Arab refugees huddled on its borders. (The U.N. commission which feeds and shelters the refugees believes the problem will never be solved until the Israelis offer to take back a token number of them...
When Israeli troops drove south across the Negev Desert seven years ago to seize an elevenmile coastline at the head of the Red Sea's Gulf of Aqaba, Elath was just a name on the edge of the barren red cliffs. Today Elath is a port settlement of 500, with a jetty, barracks, airfield, a prefab town hall, a power plant, botanical garden and stadium. By next year Elath is to house the first of up to 12,000 Israelis, who will smelt and ship 7000 tons of copper a year from the newly reopened King Solomon...
...Once the Negev is developed and a railway built to Elath," said the Egyptian newspaper A Sareeh, "Israel will be able enormously to expand her trade with the Far East, and our boycott will become nothing but ink on paper." The hope of restoring Egypt's land link with Jordan and the Moslem East will vanish...
...Auja, the sun-blasted crossroads on the rocky southern route which may have been Joseph, Mary and the Christ child's on their flight into Egypt. Since 1949 the 100-sq.-mi. demilitarized zone created under the U.N. armistice has bulged like a blister into Israel's Negev desert holdings. In recent weeks Canadian Major General Edson L.M. Burns, the U.N. truce supervisor., has repeatedly warned the Egyptians to stop putting up "check points" inside the zone. The Israelis chose this area to attack...
...procedure. In the new immigrant village of Ta'oz in the Judean hills, a fragile-boned Yemenite, who a year ago had been forced to step off the pavement of his native town if an Arab went by, cast the first vote of his life. Down in the Negev, the Bedouins in their black cloaks tethered donkeys and camels outside the polling stations, stood patienlly alongside their Jewish neighbors, waiting their turn. Brooklyn's Grand Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum, of the Congregation Yetv Lev, in an effort to persuade Orthodox Jews not to take part in secular elections...