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Quiet Toughness. Late Wednesday David Ben-Gurion got a personal message from President Eisenhower. Its gist, as relayed by Israeli Ambassador Abba Eban, was that the U.S. had reached a stern decision: unless Ben-Gurion backed down and agreed to retreat from the Sinai peninsula as the United Nations asked, he could not expect any U.S. aid in the event of a Soviet attack. The White House had already made clear to Paris and London that the U.S. did not conceive its NATO commitment to include the Middle East or Cyprus if the Anglo-French persisted in their...
...Dayan, still sweaty and crumpled from the Sinai fighting, exuberantly declared: "The whole thing worked just the way we planned it. We planned it for six days, and it took just six. We really finished up the Egyptians in four days, but it took six to occupy the whole peninsula...
...Israelis felt last week-for exactly two days. Old (70) Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, abed with a virus infection and 102° temperature the day his troops struck into the Sinai peninsula, was a deeply happy man, hailed by his people. Though pale and sweat-beaded with fever, he appeared in the jammed, jubilant Knesset, and with rapt crowds listening at loudspeakers all over Jerusalem, triumphantly reviewed "the glorious military operation that lasted seven days...
...words of Isaiah the Prophet were fulfilled," he began. "In that day shall the Egyptians be like unto women, and they shall tremble with fear because of the shaking of the hand of the Lord of Hosts, which He shaketh over them." Practically laying claim to the whole Sinai peninsula (he had not invaded "Egypt proper"), Ben-Gurion pronounced the 1949 armistice lines with Egypt "dead," and called upon that government to discuss peace "under conditions of direct negotiations." No force, "whatever it is called," was going to make Israel evacuate Sinai...
Israel, its hardy soldiers quickly masters of a peninsula twice the size of their own nation, did not even wait to mop up last Egyptian resistance before switching from Egyptian to Israeli currency in the Gaza Strip. After midnight Tuesday, little more than a week after the operation began, Israeli army GHQ announced: "The campaign in Sinai has ended . . . and there is no more fighting." At that moment, the British-French invasion of the Canal Zone was already under...