1 10,PROPPONIFIM.-
Israel in Full Control of Gaza Strip
High Morale Reported Among
Israelis; 30,000 Egyptians
Captured; Eban's Peace Plea
responsibility for the current position of neutrality between
situation to Egyptian dictator Israel and the Arab states, George M. Humphrey with Pres-
Gamal Abdel Nasser. He said will not suspend the flow of ident Eisenhower and Secretary
that Israel was the victim, not reparations goods to the Jew- of State Dulles. The U.S. De-
the author, of aggression, and ish State. Felix von Eckhardt, partment of Commerce an-
added that he spoke for a people Bonn Federal press chief, nounced on Nov. 1 that eco-
whose long history had shown pointed out that no arms or nomic measures against Israel
(Copyright 1956, By The Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
beyond any question that there other war material have ever have been deferred until after
The armed forces of Israel , and Abu Ageila. -
the election.
in a brilliantly planned an d
In special Arabic broadcasts was no profit in the appease- been included in the repara-
Israel's Prime Minister David
executed military operatio n directed at the 250,000 Arab in- ment of dictators.
tions shipments.
Ben-Gurion, in his message to
The Israel envoy asserted
against the forces of Egypt , habitants of the Gaza strip, -half
(The State Department ha s President Eisenhower, expressed
1
reached every objective set fo ✓ of them refugees from the 1948 that the Middle East was at notified West Germany that th e
deep appreciation of his efforts
a
"crossroads."
He
said
that
them in a lightning series o f war, the Israel radio announced
United States Governmen t to lessen tensions and pointed to
moves carried out in just unde ✓ that the only authority in the an aggressive dictatorship had would be sympathetic to th e
for the first time met "suc- withholding by Germany • o his country's action as having
one week's time. The Israeli s Gaza strip was that of the Is-
cessful and glorious resist- reparations shipments to Israel f been dictated by the necessity
had severed the Gaza strip from rael Army.
ance." He called on the UN it was made known by State , to defend the lives of its people.
Egypt, taken control of the en
In view of fresh action by
Travel to Israel was banned
to
recognize that the time had Department sources in Wash-
tire Siani Peninstila, smashed Arab fedayeen from Egyptian
come to replace, once and for ington. Such a move was seen by the U.S. State Department.
Egyptian armed forces in the territory, the radio warned the
American Zionist leaders will
area into complete rout, cap- fedayeen that they were known all, the shaky armistice agree- by the State Department as be prohibited from visiting
tured important stores of mili- to the Israelis by name and ments which had been design- clearly in the spirit of the UN Israel unless they establish
tary equipment and put their would be held accountable for ed to serve, for a few months General Assembly resolution.
only, as a transition to peace. The matter was discussed in a that their planned trips are
forces down. within hailing dis- their murderous activities.
And he reiterated that the UN meeting of German Ambassador in "the best interest of the
tance of the Suez Canal.
It was learned that a number
had no right to ask that Is- Krekeler and Robert D. Mur- United. States." Many Ameri-
Military observers in Jerusa- of Gaza inhabitants had fled the
rael alone abide by new ar- phy. Deputy Under Secretary can tourists left Israel aboard
lem and elsewhere, commenting strip in small boats, heading for
six U.S. Air Force planes.
rangements
while the Arab of State.)
on the military aspects of Is- Port Said, the nearest Egyptian
Sixteen major American Jew-
states
remained
free
to
dis-
rael's action, summed it up as port. Other panic-stricken Arab
Meanwhile, the 9,500 ton ish organizations issued a joint
amounting to a "copybook ex- civilians were attempting to es- regard the mandates of the freighter Har Carmel, built for statement appealing to the Uni-
world organization.
ercise" in how to carry out such cape along the coast toward
an Israeli firm under the terms
Observers here saw in the of the reparations pact, will be ted States Government to take
desert operations. The feeling Egypt.
into consideration the fact that
among them was that no matter
Israel's other borders were change of the United States launched on schedule Nov. 12, it the Egyptian ruler Col. Nasser
position—as
between
its
Secur-
what political decisions might quiet, as they have been ever
was learned from the Deutsche has demonstrated "implacable
be taken, there could be no since Israeli forces jumped off ity Council and General Assem- Werft of Hamburg, the builders. hostility" to the Western democ-
In Frankfurt, police used racies while Israel has demon-
question that the nature of the into Sinai. (A report from bly resolutions—the start of re-
.
victory—complete and unchal-
Damascus boasted that a Syr- appraisal of American policy clubs to break up a threatened strated basic identity with the
lenged — had radically trans- ian patrol had entered Israel and an attempt to seek an over- march of Arab students pro- free world. The statement was
formed the security question in territory and had returned all agreement on the question. testing the Anglo-French action adopted at the conclusion of
a
the Middle East.
safely to base after carrying Washington, it appeared, had against Egypt.
two-d'ay emergency meeting on
come to the conclusion that Is-
The announcement of the cap- out "certain duties.")
Refugee Jewish immigra- the developments in the Middle
ture of Gaza and El Arish, on
tion into Israel "will neither Eastt.
The General Assembly of the rael should not be condemned
A
-
the coast, completed the picture United Nations, in an unprece- alone for the single action rep-
be curtailed nor lialted" as a
the
United
Nations, Sir
of total Israeli control of the dented emergency special ses- resented by the Sinai operation.
result of Israel's security in- Pierson Dixon, chairman of the
Gaza strip — the p r i n c i p al sion, adopted by a vote of 64 President Eisenhower, in his volvement in the Sinai Pen- British UN delegation, said he
launching site for fedayeen to 5 a resolution introduced by address to the nation, conceded insula "but gives every prom- foresaw Israel's eventual with-
raids into Israel. It was reported the United States calling for an the existence of Egyptian pro- ise of reaching an even higher drawal of its forces from the
that the fedayeen in a "last immediate cease-fire and a halt vocation vis-a-vis-Israel, Britain rate than in the past," Rabbi "neighborhood of the Suez
gasp" attempt to create havoc to the movement of military and France.
Herbert A Friedman, execu-
Israel's operation against tive vice-chairman of the Canal." But in the House of
in Israel, had made incursions forces and men into the area of
Commons, Prime Minister Sir
and had killed a total of 10 Is- conflict in the Middle East. The Egypt in the Sinai peninsula United Jewish Appeal, report- Anthony Eden said Israel should
elicited
little
support
frod
raelis. Israeli units had engaged five nations which voted "No"
ed Sunday at an emergency not be required to withdraw
one such unit, killing four of to the resolution were Israel, world opinion. Reaction gener-
meeting of the UJA's top- from Egyptian territory without
ally ranged from understanding level National Campaign Cab- first being given
the Arab terrorists.
Britain, France, Australia and of
guarantees
)
Israel's position, coupled with inet.
The Israel radio was calling New Zealand.
that its security would be safe-
regret at her action in the face
Rabbi
Friedman
on two divisions of Egyptian
warned,
how-
guarded.
The resolution, as it finally of that position,
to outright con- ever, that "despite Israel's reso-
troops encircled in central
Israeli Morale High
emerged here, was consider-
demnation
of
Israel
as
an
ag-
lute humanitarian decision to
Sinai to "lay down your arms
ably altered from the original
NEW YORK, (JTA) The
gressor and one which, more- keep its immigration gates as picture of a calm people, re-
and save your lives." An esti-
United States proposals to the
mated 30,00 troops together
Security Council. That earlier Over, had brought the world to wide open as ever, the hard- solved to see through whatever
the brink of a general war.
pressed people of Israel will not may come, emerged here from
with artillery, tanks and
resolution, vetoed by Britain
transports were believed cut
and France, was far harsher ti One possible difference of at, be able to spare a single dollar broadcasts of Israel's overseas
off.,These two divisions were
toward Israel—branding her D tude, however, was outlined by for immigration purposes." Re- radio voice—"Kol Zion Lago-
r. Walter Eytan, director Cen- sponding to this warning, the lah" as
once the pride of the Egyptian
as an aggressor and calling for
monitored by the Jew-
Army, the largest and most
sanctions -unless Israel with- is ral of the Israel Foreign Min- UJA Cabinet voted into force a ish Telegraphic Agency here.
try,
in
a
broadcast
monitored
special plan for the "full mobil-
powerful of the Arab states. drew. The measure adopted
Morale was high in Israel.
Earlier, the Israelis, slashing . by the General Assembly rec- by the Jewish Telegraphic ization by Nov. 30 of $30,000,000 There was a general closing of
Agency
here.
in cash as an urgent minimum ranks, as citizens joined in get-
northward behind El Auja, cap- ognized that the armistice
He asserted that Israel had requirement."
ttred Rafah. With the taking of agreements had been violated
ting ahead with- their own af-
been the recipient of a great
The American Jewish Com- fairs and giving every support
Rafah, one stage of the Sinai
by all "parties" to them, and
many
privqte
assurances
of
mittee urged this week that the to the tasks of the nation. -
operation was completed. The called for the withdrawal of
support from various quarters. Arab states and Israel should be
action was the key to the clos- all forces behind the armis-
The people of Israel, unaccus-
These quarters, he said, had brought together to negotiate tomed to the current predomi-
ing off of the Gaza strip and it tice lines.
shut off Egyptian forces in the
The vote followed an address made the assurances privately directly a "just and durable nance of older faces in their
because they were in no posi- peace" under the aegis of the s treets, offices and shops, hoped
area. Those forces were caught to the delegates by Israel's Abba
tion to do so publicly.
UN General Assembly.
in a pocket between El Auja S. Eban, in which he laid the
or one thing only, the Israel
Dr. Eytan added that many
International occurrences af- radio reported.
"including even some of the fecting the Middle East situa-
That hope was simple, and in
Arabs themselves" had found a tion during the past week in- i is simplicity an expression of
MEDITERRANEAN
way to tell Israel that they eluded the following:
HISTORY OF. THE
he true spirit of this little State
SINAI PENINSULA
would "rather see Nasser dead
Possible economic measures —that their young ones would
than alive."
against Israel, as a part of con- n ever again have to leave them,
E - 4,Qtsktb.
JTA reports from Bonn that templated U. S. acts, were dis- t hat they and their children
Route of Persian
conquest 500 8.C.
the B o n n government, al- cussed at the White House by s
a nd of Abraham
hould be granted. the right to
though anxious to maintain a Secretary of the Treasury 1 ive in peace.
and Jacob's cross-
ing into Egypt.
—
,
and Caesar's Ro-
man legions used
Sinai's carnettrails.
SINAI PENINSULA
frittrilLO
Major battle-
ground during
World War I and of
Israel-Arab fight-
ing in 1948.
Moses issued Ten
Commandments on
Mt. Sinai; believed
to be one of these
three mountains.
Route of Israelites'
Exodus across Red
Sea, from bondage
under Pharaoh.
A , L E S
./E4 1 - 5/1
—Central Press Photo
Historic Sinai Routes:
0
The trian-
gular, barren Sinai Peninsula, route of Israel's invasion
into Egypt, has been a battleground since Biblical times.
Smaller in area than New Hampshire and Vermont, it is
bounded on the north by the Mediterranean, on the west
by the Suez Canal and the Gulf of Suez and on the east
by Israel and the Gulf of Aqaba. The boxes on the above
map show some of the many historic events that have
taken place in this bleak area.
—international Radiophoto
Israelis Rest in. Desert Drive:
rsraeli troops in action in the
Sinai Peninsula take a break as they drive within 20 miles of the Suez Canal. In the center,
one of the soldiers is shown cleaning his gun.