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...Siilasvuo ordered up an airplane and flew to Jerusalem to talk with Defense Minister Dayan. Siilasvuo said that he was willing to coordinate matters, then barked "but I don't have to ask any permission except from the U.N. to carry out my mandate." Replied Dayan defiantly: "If Suez is a free city, then why are the Egyptians negotiating with us? If they really think it is free, then let them try to take it." Eventually, the two men worked out an agreement on the agreement. Israel was to withdraw from the checkpoints, and at the same time...
...Israelis insisted that checkpoints along the road to Suez were to remain under their control, and that trucks carrying food, clothing and medicine to 15,000 civilians in Suez and to Egypt's trapped Third Army were to be inspected by them. They further claimed that they needed to retain control of the road to protect Israeli forces scattered to the south of it. Another reason for Israel's balking was that it wanted to use road-control leverage to get the P.O.W. exchange started quickly...
When blue-helmeted Finnish troops moved in to take over one checkpoint, they got into fistfights with the adamant Israelis. The Finns were winning until the Israelis brought up armored cars. A party of 114 journalists who sought to visit Suez City were also halted by the Israelis. "I was eyeball to eyeball with a shaggy Israeli holding his rifle at the ready," reported TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn, who was in the group. "I told him I was going to Suez. And he told me in no uncertain terms, 'I will not let you pass...
Arik's Complaint. The opening salvo in this war was fired by Major General Ariel ("Arik") Sharon, 45, who was called out of retirement to lead the successful Israeli thrust across the Suez Canal that helped trap Egypt's Third Army. In interviews with reporters from the New York Times and Los Angeles Times that were filed from Rome to skirt the tough Israeli censors, Sharon charged that his superiors were not prepared for the war. The General amplified his accusations in yet another in- -terview with American University Professor Amos Perlmutter: "The Southern Command collapsed completely...
What apparently prompted Sharon to speak out was a series of stories from Tel Aviv suggesting that the hero of the Suez crossing had himself disobeyed orders and erred by pushing westward to Cairo too quickly, rather than widening the bridgehead to the north and south. Sharon became convinced that he was being sabotaged by his superiors when Labor Union Secretary Yitzhak Ben-Aharon called the general "a nobody trying to build up a career...