Word: israel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Frenchmen. They often left the impression that the old man was getting erratic. Perhaps the most damaging stance involved the Arabs and Israelis. Though France has only 520,000 Jews, many more French were incensed when De Gaulle extended an earlier arms embargo to include spare-parts shipments to Israel...
...world is accustomed to Nasser's words outrunning his intentions, and he did add a promise to "think ten times" before plunging Egypt into all-out war with Israel. He might consider thinking even one or two times more. Egypt lacks the equipment to cross the canal in force, and the best that it could hope would be to damage Israeli bases with its 20 Russian-supplied tactical missiles, which have a range of 45 miles. But, as 1967 proved, the option to attack is not Nasser's alone. There would be no quicker way to draw wrath...
Intensified Scare. In the deadly Middle East pattern of blow and counterblow, Nasser's threat was made in response to an Israeli raid into Egypt -which in turn was in retaliation for continued Egyptian shelling along the Suez Canal. As the barrages continued into their fifth week, Israel counted ten more dead...
...past, Israel has tried to dampen Arab belligerence by punitive raids. Now, any heavy retaliation would only play into Nasser's hands by intensifying a war scare that Israel wants to play down. Accordingly, Israel struck back in a manner obviously intended to impress the Egyptians with a display of its capability, without exacerbating big-power fears of a new war. Tel Aviv announced that its commandos had penetrated deep into Egypt, cutting a power line and damaging a bridge and the Nag Hammadi dam 270 miles south of Cairo...
...Fists. Toynbee's Olympian tone almost makes palatable a set of contemporary prejudices that has become familiar enough from other writings. Among them: the U.S. is "trying to build up a colonial empire of the traditional kind"; Madison Avenue is an abomination; Israel and the U.S. are the only two powers left in the world that believe...