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Economists insist that, ideally, Israel could make its own way if it took its proper place in its own region, and that its manufactures can find their rightful markets in such undeveloped nearby lands as Ethiopia, Eritrea and in the Arab states themselves. But to find such trade in its own area would require a great change of heart among its hostile neighbors and a great change in its own attitude. Ben-Gurion's victory last week was an indication that Israel does not propose to make such a change itself. This was a victory over his own Cabinet...
...indifference reflected both in U.S. policy and the absence of it. The Truman Administration, reflecting not only the Jewish vote but a wider U.S. sympathy, made a policy of supplying as much aid, dollar for dollar, to Israel, whose population then stood at 700,000, as to all seven Arab nations in the area combined, with their 40 million people...
...Peace. As incidents multiply, involving so often innocent women and children on both sides, grievances deepen. Israelis, confined in a land at some points only ten miles wide, feel themselves surrounded by nations that will never accept their existence, but U.S. diplomats in the area say that most responsible Arab leaders had become resigned to Israel's existence until Ben-Gurion began his smashing reprisal raids...
Refugees: some form of resettlement or compensation for the 900,000 Arab refugees who fled Palestine during the 1948 war and have been encamped in unspeakable bitterness and misery around Israel's borders ever since. Their plight is the Arabs' most effective moral case against Israel. "Israel is not prepared under any circumstances," Sharett reiterated last week, "to return and resettle refugees." His previous offer to accept 100,000 Arab refugees is now withdrawn...
Boundaries: Dulles asks for "mutual concessions," with the understanding that once boundaries are set, the U.S. would guarantee them. Israel has privately indicated its willingness to allow landlocked Jordan commercial privileges at Haifa, and to give Egypt a land route across the Negev to its Arab neighbors, but Israel bristled at references to waste territory that has "only sentimental value," and angrily denounces the British Foreign Office hint that Israel give way in the Negev...