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...Illah was speaking for a bloc-Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, Iraq-which is already closely allied with the West through membership (with Britain) in the Baghdad Pact. Altogether it was a concert of Middle Eastern voices that seemed at last to triumph over the clanking dirge from Egypt's Nasser (who nonetheless still speaks with the most influential single voice in the area...
...world peace. The U.N. General Assembly had passed a U.S. compromise resolution calling on Secretary-General Hammarskjold to station U.N. Emergency Force units at the border trouble spots "in consultation with the parties concerned." But the Israelis protested that this only gave Nasser a veto over any UNEF moves. When Israeli officials asked Hammarskjold to seek a statement from Egypt renouncing warlike intentions, he not only refused but demanded an answer within 24 hours to two significant questions of his own: 1) Will Israel agree to the posting of U.N. forces on the Israeli side of the line? 2) Will...
Intransigence & Intransigence. There were other ominous notes in the situation. Out of Washington came reports that Nasser was once again receiving shipments of Soviet arms. The Egyptians had been deliberately delaying the U.N. task force's Suez Canal clearance work by failing to dredge around and remove explosives from the only two important wrecks still blocking the ditch. After Egypt's first Cabinet meeting in several months, Nasser's radio announced that the Canal would not be opened to navigation until the last Israeli clears out of Egypt...
...Israelis (who controlled Gaza in the days of King David) have driven the Egyptians out, as their ancestors once expelled the marauding Philistines circa 1000 B.C. The Israelis are determined to stay-first to make sure that Nasser's suicide raiders shall never return to resume their over-the-border raiding from Gaza against Israel's desert settlers, but also because they think the place belongs historically, geographically and economically with Israel. They have decided that they cannot now annex the strip, if only because that would mean absorbing the refugees and so increasing their Arab minority...
...Arabs from clustering to hear Cairo radio's nightly exhortations to "rise up and act for the glory of the Arab world," the Israelis face a crisis in cooperation. The Arabs feel the uncertainty of Gaza's status, and scent change. Urchins openly hawk cigarette lighters bearing Nasser's picture. Authorities last week arrested 20 Gaza teachers for assigning teen-age pupils to write essays on the need for killing Israelis. Merchants were refusing to accept Israeli money, and the only shop that the Israelis had opened in the strip reported no trade because purchases could...