Word: raid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Israel was involved in another crisis, brought on by its own fears for its survival, and the means by which it had chosen to "defend" itself-including the deliberate Israeli Army raid on Syrian outposts near the Sea of Galilee border in which 56 Syrians and six Israelis were killed (TIME, Dec. 19). Before the U.N. Security Council is a Syrian resolution asking sanctions against Israel and its expulsion from the U.N.; the official U.N. mediator has denounced the Israeli raid as disproportionate to the provocation, and Britain, France and the U.S. agreed last week to censure Israel in "strong...
...survive. By defiant militancy that disregards world opinion, or by securing world, and especially Western, sympathy? The question had a false simplicity, because the partisans of securing sympathy, led by Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett, agreed on the need of military readiness: in fact, their argument was that the Syrian raid, happening as it did in the midst of Sharett's delicate negotiations with the U.S. State Department, had "wrecked" the chances of getting U.S. arms. Public opinion abroad, argued Sharett, "is a precious moral and political asset which we must reassure and protect." The partisans of militancy...
Early Career: Built a prosperous law practice in Liverpool, specializing in insurance; at 32 became chairman of local town council, imposed air-raid precautions long before most Britons admitted possibility of war. Three months before war began, quit law practice to join territorial army; rose rapidly to colonel on staff of British Second Army, where he served as observer at Sicily landings, helped plan Normandy, where he landed on D-day-plus-one. Brigadier at war's end, he emerged with the O.B.E. for services in invasion planning...
...explanation, many of Israel's best friends were shocked, especially in the U.S. Senator Herbert H. Lehman of New York, speaking to 18,000 people at an Israeli bond-drive meeting in Madison Square Garden, warned Israel to "show restraint." The New York Times called the border raid "deplorable." The incident appeared likely to delay, if not to block, a favorable reply to Israel's request for U.S. arms to match Communist shipments to Egypt...
...Israel itself, after the first satisfaction, misgivings began to be heard. The independent newspaper Haaretz took note of the fact that the raid happened while Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett, a moderate, was out of the country, and accused tough-minded Premier David Ben-Gurion of an unconstitutional act in ordering the raid without consulting a single Cabinet member in advance. This, said Haaretz, "brought Israel dangerously close to dictatorship by the chief of government . . . How can Israel succeed in persuading the world that she resorts to force only when her security and integrity are at stake...