Word: stripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite a sixth order from the U.N. General Assembly and a personal appeal from the President of the U.S., Israel dug in on the Gaza Strip and along the Gulf of Aqaba, flatly and firmly refusing to get out. To the U.N. and to Dwight Eisenhower's plea for "a decent respect for the opinions of mankind," Israel last week answered pointedly that "no guarantees have been obtained yet for definite stoppage of Egypt's belligerence and sea blockade of Israel." Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's Cabinet had decided that until such guarantees are obtained, Israel...
...independence was proclaimed in 1948. In Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa, Israelis paraded by the thousands through the streets in mass protest "against the return of the Egyptian murderers to Gaza." At Nahal Oz, the Israeli settlement across from Egypt's old gun positions in the Gaza Strip (see box), delegates from 14 frontier communities passed a resolution against the "strangulation policy of the U.N. majority." For Orthodox Jews who could not express their feelings at public meetings on the Sabbath, rabbis intoned special prayers in Israel's synagogues for the safety of their country...
...only refused but demanded an answer within 24 hours to two significant questions of his own: 1) Will Israel agree to the posting of U.N. forces on the Israeli side of the line? 2) Will Israel evacuate its civilian as well as military units out of the Gaza Strip...
Thus intransigence fed intransigence. If there is no early settlement in the Middle East, the standing of both the U.S. and the U.N., as the key peacemakers, will suffer a serious blow. Even more serious is the prospect that the exchange across the Gaza Strip might once again shift from words to bullets and bombs...
...Gaza Strip is a geographic absurdity-an ownerless, 5-by-25-mile enclave of sand, hate and history (Samson pulled down the temple in Gaza), jutting from the world's most troubled frontier. The last surviving bit of the old British Palestinian mandate, this narrow ribbon of primitive coastal land was administered from 1949 until last fall by the Egyptians, who kept lackadaisical order among its 90,000 poverty-stricken, disease-ridden Arab natives, and left to the U.N. relief agency the care and feeding of the 219,000 Palestinian refugees huddled there since the 1949 armistice...