Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...situation was that Israel was refusing to get out of the last of its conquered territory (the Gaza Strip, the Gulf of Aqaba shore) without specific guarantees, and that the Arab-Asians were demanding U.N. sanctions.*If Israel did not withdraw, said Ike, there would almost surely be a new guerrilla war that might stoke up a general war, in which the Russians might once more be tempted to intervene. If the Israelis did not withdraw and the U.N. did not act, the U.N. would be more or less through. As for the Arabs, Ike pointed out that they could...
Israel and the U.S. could talk. The U.N.'s own tireless Dag Hammarskjold said he had got Egypt to agree to let the U.N. deploy into the Gaza Strip. The President received a letter from Israel's Ben-Gurion that was considered "constructive," whereupon Israel's Ambassador to the U.S..Abba Eban, flew back from Israel. Dulles held an unusual Sunday conference at his home with congressional leaders, then a few hours later met with Eban. and a new round of diplomacy got under way. But should Israel remain recalcitrant, the President of the U.S. intended...
...this reason, Israel would withdraw from Aqaba only if replaced by U.N. Emergency Force troops that would remain along the Gulf's shores until "peace is concluded with Egypt or until some other reliable and effective arrangement is made to this end." As for the Gaza Strip, Ben-Gurion, in an otherwise unyielding speech, appeared to have dropped his demand that Israel administer Gaza; Israel's main concern was that the Egyptians should not be allowed back "directly or indirectly...
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., March 1--The United Nations moved tonight to post its police forces in the Gaza Strip and along the Gulf of Aqaba as Israeli forces leave under the agreement announced today...
Kidron's announcement was reported by sources close to the delegation to mean Israel is preparing to pull her troops back from the Gulf of Aqua and the Gaza Strip...