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Last week the debate was resolved. Ben-Gurion, wearing battle dress, and Sharett in his lawyer's business suit went to the Knesset (Parliament) together. Speaking before a packed assembly in Jerusalem, less than 500 yards from Jordan sentries' rifles, Ben-Gurion acknowledged that "security problems are bound up with foreign policy" and implied that he might have erred in ordering the Syrian raid when he did. But he defended Israel's determination to strike out at its enemy "with all the means at our disposal," whenever it felt the need. Ben-Gurion thus was firmly...
Socialist simplicity, he is happiest in the three-room prefab that is still kept for him in the Negev pioneer settlement of Sde Boker. Even in his state residence in Jerusalem, he goes about in shirtsleeves and prefers to eat with his wife, son and daughter-in-law in the kitchen. His wife still cooks his meals and darns his socks. His personality and manners, his leisured kindliness, have remained utterly unchanged by a generation in power. But he likes power, and he knows how to wield it. "The world," says Ben-Gurion, "is not yet accustomed to the revival...
Inviting the heads of Israel's Christian churches and communities to a New Year's tea, sad-faced old President Itzhak ben-Zvi of Israel begged his guests to "pray for the peace of Jerusalem." The peace of Jerusalem-and the Middle East -was standing in the need of prayer last week...
...alarm, King Hussein fired his new government just 72 hours after it had taken office, and dissolved Parliament. But instead of mollifying the rioters, his action seemed to embolden them. The U.S. consulate in the Jordanian half of Jerusalem was attacked for a second time in a week. The American flag was hauled down from a 30-ft. pole and trampled in the streets. Then the mob swarmed on the French consulate; the consul held off the crowd with a submachine gun. At the Turkish consulate, a 14-year-old boy was killed in the garden, and a 16-year...
...prayers in the mosques. Worshipers came storming forth, crying epithets against the Baghdad pact and the U.S., attacked emergency patrols of the Arab Legion with sticks and stones. A tight censorship closed down over the capital city of Amman, but some details got out. In the Arab half of Jerusalem, the U.S. consulate was surrounded and stoned, while the wives and children of the U.S. staff huddled in the safest place in the buildings: the stonewalled lavatories. At week's end El Maja-li's new government was still in control, but at least 40 people had been...