Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have been brainwashed by the Arabs. As for instance, "Israel's armed forces carried out a smashing blow in the Gaza Strip in reprisal for acts of individual Palestinian refugees who had crossed the border to their former holdings." Are you naive or are you a plain Israeliphobe? Mr. Editor, I never subscribe to a paper that lets Walter Winchell or Joe McCarthy air their views, and this goes for your Middle East correspondents. Louis B. BALL Long Beach, Calif...
Jordan (pop. 1,500,000, one-third Palestinian refugees). Has broken off relations with France, and London has announced "temporary withdrawal" of its military mission, foreshadowing the end of the $25 million British subsidy. Its Harrow-educated King Hussein, 21, is pro-British; its newly elected parliament is rabidly nationalist and leftist; its youthful, pro-Nasser army boss made a military pact with Egypt and Syria just before the invasion of Egypt. But the Arab Legion, now called the Jordanian army, is no longer the trim fighting force British commanders once made of it. Chaotic Jordan may turn...
...armistice of 1949 left Israel a misshapen territory about the size of New Jersey. It was hemmed around by the hate of 900,000 Palestinian refugees and the vengeful memories of five defeated Arab nations. Economically the infant country was dependent on world Jewry for $100 million a year in aid. The Arab conviction was that...
...neighbors if it was to survive as a nation. In 1953 Ben-Gurion suffered an election setback and retired to a pioneer desert community. Into office went Moshe Sharett, a modest, cautious lawyer who made some effort to diminish Arab hostility, to settle the problem of the 900,000 Palestinian refugees, to let some of them back into Israel and to join with Arab states in diverting Jordan water to desert land on which refugees could build new homes. The Arabs rejected all of Sharett's proposals...
...must attend in its own way to its border security. Ben-Gurion returned early last year from the Negev desert to active duty as Defense Minister. Just eleven days later Israeli armed forces carried out a smash ing raid on the Gaza Strip, in reprisal for acts of individual Palestinian refugees who had crossed the border to their former holdings. This was a turning point, not only for Israel but the Middle East. Egypt's Nasser has since justified a large part of his belligerent actions on the basis of that sudden, crunching blow. "Until...