Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British and French forces were shooed out of Egypt. The case of the Israelis was less clear. They too had violated the Charter by attacking Egypt, and brought down on their heads the same clear-cut Assembly order to get out. But the Israelis refused to leave the Gaza Strip and the Egyptian gun positions on the Gulf of Aqaba without guarantees that the Egyptians would not again use the bases to raid and blockade them. The U.S. State Department, for one, thought the Israelis had some right on their side...
...Israelis could not hope for outright conversions. But they were well content with the reaction of a typical Egyptian officer, who said: "From the Gaza Strip all I saw of Israel was two broken houses in Nahal Oz. I thought all Israel was like that. I thought Haifa was like an Egyptian fishing village. I had no idea you had such modern hospitals, industries and cities." He added thoughtfully: "It would not be easy to destroy Israel...
JERUSALEM, Israeli Sector, Feb. 7--Reports indicate that Israel is intensifying plans to hold on in the Gaza Strip and along the Gulf of Aqaba despite a personal message from President Eisenhower...
Dulles told newsmen he had good grounds for hoping Israel would comply with the latest United Nations withdrawal of all Israeli forces from Egypt's Gulf of Aqaba as well as the Gaza Strip...
...Syrians said they would start the Iraq Petroleum Co.'s big pipeline pumping again only when the Israelis cleared out of Egypt. The Egyptians said they would start talking about a Suez Canal settlement if the Israelis would pull their remaining troops back from the Gaza strip and from the Egyptian forts commanding the entrance to the Gulf of Aqaba. The Israelis said they would withdraw their troops if the U.N. would guarantee that Egypt would not use Gaza for a raiding base again and the forts as a strongpoint for blockading Israel's access to its port...