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...they demonstrated again in last year's Six-Day War, the Israelis are tough, wily soldiers. Their ancestors weren't bad either. In a new book called Great Battles of Biblical History (published in England by Hutchinson & Co. Ltd.), retired British General Sir Richard Gale analyzes scriptural warfare from Abraham to the Maccabees. Gale suggests that, more often than not, the Hebrew military commanders anticipated many of the tactics employed by later and more celebrated generals...
...barrage signaled yet another notch of military escalation by the Egyptians, who are now more belligerent than at any other time since last year's Six-Day War. All week, Cairo had feted a group of MIG fighter pilots who claimed to have recently shot down three Israeli planes (the Israelis dryly commented that "all of our planes returned safely to base"). Now Egypt's War Minister and Commander in Chief, Lieut. General Muhammad Fawzi, visited the Suez front, liberally passing out medals and praise...
Then came the Six-Day War. It cost the nation of 2,669,000 people more than $1 billion, and Israel is still paying the price of victory. Since the war, the military budget has more than doubled, to $800 million - equal to 18% of the gross national product - partly because of the burden of defending conquered Arab lands. Just to administer the "new territories" costs $40 million a year. The bills are so big that Israel recently had to cut $100 million from public-works projects in order to meet the government's payrolls...
...candidates claim that there can be no peace in the Middle-East unless Israel is assured weapon superiority over the Arab states. Thus, they say, since the Russians have made up for the Arab losses in the six-day war, we must provide Israel with the bombers to put them ahead again...
...where U.N. intervention is possible, if unpromising. After ten months of mediation by Special Representative Gunnar Jarring, another arms buildup threatens the area. In fact, the Russians have signed an agreement with Cairo providing for massive new military aid beyond replacement of Arab losses during last year's Six-Day War. Shipments are now leaving Russia carrying the first installments of a promised 500 tanks, 200 MIG-21 and MIG-23 jets, and several hundred self-propelled artillery pieces. Meantime, Russian peace proposals, such as the one made public last week, reiterated Arab demands for prior return of their...