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...wall of his unpretentious office in infant Israel's ancient capital of Jerusalem, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion keeps a huge map. It is a map of the Moslem world; and in the midst of it the New Jersey-sized state of Israel, heavily outlined in black, looks like a jagged, tiny black arrowhead. "This is to remind me always," he says, "how small...
...nine years since David Ben-Gurion founded the New Jerusalem by the force of a fanatical vision and the shrewdness of a gun-toting prophet, there have been times when much of the world has wondered just how big the tiny republic thinks it is. For one peaceful spell, Israel's unsleeping sentinel retired, full of years and honors, to Sde Boker, a pioneer desert settlement, to plough fields, search the writings of the philosophers for "universal truth" and ponder the mission of man-and of Israel. Then, white of mane but wearing the familiar khaki battle dress...
...think that the Israelis had put themselves in the wrong by going into Egypt, and ought to get out of there. But in the U.S. as well as elsewhere around the world, sympathy had built up for Ben-Gurion's position. Last week the Israeli government in Jerusalem and its consulates overseas reported receiving thousands of letters of support from places as far apart as Bangkok and Bangor, Me., Stockholm and Santa Ana, Calif. Samples: "Don't surrender to Nasserism"; "Stick to your guns and positions"; "Call Ike's bluff"; "Don't give an inch"; "Stand...
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., March 4--While Israeli students rioted in Jerusalem in protest, Israel today completed technical arrangement for the transfer of Sharm el Sheikh and the Gaza Strip to the U.N. Emergency Force...
...deserve it. Some men as sensible as Voltaire, and more charitable, recalled what Jesus said on the occasion of a mishap in the Holy Land: "Those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? I tell...