Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...housed, Israel's small army must somehow police them and weed out saboteurs-a task immensely complicated by the fact that perhaps one-third of Egypt's estimated 150,000-man army in the Sinai seems to have melted away into the Arab communities of the peninsula. There are also the restive Gaza refugees, who emerged as a commando army during the fighting and afterward slipped quietly back into their Casbah-like warrens of tinroofed shacks. To maintain order, Israel has had to keep about 80% of its 230,000 army reservists in uniform...
Hardly a Crater. Streaking in ahead of the dawn, the first waves of Israeli Mirage3 fighter-bombers simultaneously destroyed four Egyptian airbases in the Sinai Peninsula, site of Nasser's massive buildup against Israel in the past month. Some 200 of Nasser's frontline fighters, mostly Russian-built MIG-21s, were caught and destroyed on the ground. At almost the same time, Israeli jets hit Arab bases in Jordan, Syria and Iraq. They swept in from the sea to hit Egyptian bases deeper inside Egypt; and after landing only long enough to refuel, they hammered away until...
...aided by air. At the start of the war, both Israel and Egypt had some 1,000 tanks each. The Israelis' were largely American and British; Nasser's were Russian, like most of his other equipment. Some 800 on each side squared off to battle for the Sinai Peninsula, a hell's amphitheater of ankle-deep, choking velvet sand broken by the ocher slag heaps of hills and occasional grey-green scrub...
...Israel brimmed with the sense of victory. As Dayan's chief of staff, Major General Yitzhak Rabin, summed it up succinctly: "We have inflicted almost total destruction on the Egyptian army, delivered a crushing blow to the Jordanian army, captured most of the relevant parts of the Sinai Peninsula and the west bank of the Jordan, and we have destroyed almost totally the air forces of four countries." Eager young Israeli paratroopers prepared for a jump assault on Sharm el Sheikh, only to be advised that the Israeli navy had arrived first?and the Egyptians had fled. The disappointed troopers...
...this reason, many hawks in Israel would give in to the temptation to strike first and fast at the Arabs, knocking them off balance and freeing the Gulf of Aqaba by marching down the Sinai Peninsula to the sea. It is a natural temptation?but it is a measure of Israel's new maturity that it has so far been resisted. Risking national unpopularity and dissension even within his ruling Mapai party, Premier Eshkol, 71, has withheld Israel's sword, counting on diplomacy and the good will of such friends as the U.S. and Britain to work out the problem...