Word: israel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ayub spoke plainly on his view of the long-festering problem of refugees along the Israeli border, where more than a million Palestinians-those who fled or were ejected by Israel, and the children born to them since-still inhabit squalid detention camps in Jordan, Syria and the Gaza Strip. The Arabs have let the U.N. look after them, arguing that to provide the refugees with permanent homes and jobs would seem to be acquiescing in the existence of Israel. Ayub remarked pointedly that after partition, his own Pakistan made room for 9,000,000 Moslem refugees from India...
...site of the excavations is mentioned in the Bible as the first capital of the northern kingdom of Israel, which was formed when certain tribes seceded from Solomon's empire. The group intends to return there for further study...
Road to Power. Poland-born Pinhas Lavon was Israel's Minister of Defense and touted as likely prime-ministerial material until 1955-when he was abruptly forced out of office. Ever since, he has insisted that the charges brought against him were false, but his claims were ignored. Then last August a government official, brought to court for misconduct in another matter, unexpectedly volunteered that "on orders from above," he perjured himself and forged the evidence on which Lavon was compelled to resign five years...
...clear fact was that Lavon's resignation in February 1955 brought Ben-Gurion back from 15 months' retirement in the Negev to take Lavon's post. Shortly afterward, Ben-Gurion became Prime Minister, replacing Moderate Moshe Sharett, who was more susceptible to the argument that Israel must try to quiet the fears of its Arab neighbors if it is to live in peace with them. Eleven days after Ben-Gurion's return, the Israeli army carried out the massive reprisal raid on Gaza in which Israelis blew up the Egyptian headquarters and killed 38 Egyptians...
...quickly, could he save Egypt. Failing to get them in the West, Nasser turned to make the cotton-for-guns deal with the Russians that brought Communist influence into the Middle East. As more Israeli raids followed, young Shimon Peres flew to Paris to negotiate the alliance that armed Israel with French jets and tanks and paved the way for the Anglo-French-Israeli invasion of Egypt in the fall...