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Democraci i s ( "Blunders of 1956
Come Home to Roost as Nasser
Gains Strength in Middle East
As Israel's "noisy neighborhood" erupted into a chaotic state threatening the peace of the entire world, states-
men of many countries, editorial writers and columnists in many American newspapers and officials in Washing -ton joined
in blaming the newest and most serious crisis on the lack of vision of United States and United Nations officials during
the Suez and Sinai operations in 1956.
Now it is admitted that by giving Israel and her allies, Great Britain and France, an opportunity to complete their
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The world's most critical area—the hammer and sickle indicating the countries
under the influence of Nasser of the pro-Russian United Arab Republic.
campaign against the then-defeated Nasser, the Middle
East danger would have been averted and Nasserisrn
would have ended.
But President Eisenhower merely refers to the
events of 1956 as "water over the dam", and once
again the conflict has developed into an East-West
debate in the UN.
With Russia standing firmly .behind the pro-Soviet
United Arab Republic and the countries that are falling
under the influence of Nasser, fear is expressed that
Israel is in danger of being squeezed more threatening-
ly than ever before and that the multiple jaws of a
menacing vise are drawing closer upon her.
Israel's friends are showing deep concern over what
is happening now among her neighbors, and urgent
demands are being Made for assurance of security to
this little land whose autonomy is seriously endangered
by a union of all Arab nations under the dictatorship
of Gamal Abdel Nasser.
Five days before the new international crisis oc-
curred as a result of the pro-Nasser Iraqi revolt, the
New York Times recalled that "when Hitler began his
career of conquest his first victim after his electoral
victory in the Saar was Austria," and warned that "an
ominous parallel to the start of these tragic events
has arisen in the Middle East, where President Nasser
is engaged with Soviet backing in building a pan-Arab
empire in which Syria may be equated to the Saar
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Editorial: The Neu) Middle Eastern War-Threatening Crisis
Bitter Fruits Result from America's 1956 Policies
In the crucial days of October-November 1956, the Dwight D.
Eisenhower Administration joined in a most regrettable alliance with
Soviet Russia to nullify the results of the Anglo-French-Israeli actions
in the Sinai and Suez areas. Gamal Abdel. Nasser was completely
licked by the minute little Israeli State and Nasserism was all but
annihilated. But the U.S. - UN actions made a hero of the defeated
dictator who had been in hiding during the Sinai campaign.
The policies that were then pursued by our President, by Secretary
of State John Foster Dules, by our chief delegate to the United Nations.
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.,
Jr. and by the Labor. Party in England in its
actions against Prime
Anthony Eden, are now coming to
roost. The evil eggs are cracking open at our own very doorsteps.
Now the President, whose anger caused him to resort to a nation-
wide television broadcast to condemn Israel in 1956, is reported to
have said that the grave error of the anti-Israel act of November
1956 is `.!water over the darn."
The tragedy is that the errors of the concluding months of 1956
were accompanied by so much evil and wickedness. Yielding to
pressure from the oil interests and from Arab Jew-haters, our Govern-
ment screened its military forces and refused to send Jewish service-
men to Arab countries.
Now, in the wake of the new crisis, our Defense Department
assures us of adherence to the traditional American policy of non-
discrimination against members of the Jewish faith—by announcing
that Jews are among the 5,000-man contingent of U. S. Marines that
landed in Lebanon.
On this score, too, if the Administration had held firm to a
policy of nono-discrimination, we might, at the outset, have had a
firmer policy and serious crises might have been averted.
Have our statesmen learned the lessons they have been taught
by the blunders of the past?
Let them study the map. Let all who are motivated by prejudices
rather than by the reality of the situation and by the precariousness
of Israel's position, recognize the justice inherent in Israeli requests
for assurances of security from the world's powers. We are showing
here the map of the Near East, the relative positions of the countries
affected by the crisis, and the comparatve areas of the countries in
the area. A small, white speck indicates the minuteness of Israel.
Yet this minute white speck is the only peaceful portion of the area.
An assurance of peace for Israel and of security for the Israelis
will spell peace also for the entire area and for the world. A threat
to this minute country Will denote the threat to the peace of the world.
Should anything occur now to disrupt the peace of Israel, it will
be directly ascribable to the blunders of statesmen who prevented
that little country from eliminating the menace to the peace of the area.
A partnership with Russia, in the moves against the Anglo-French-
Israele alliance, in 1956, was inconsistent with American policies.
Now the struggle is, once again, not only one of Middle Eastern
challenges but primarily. an East-West conflict.
The best minds of our country must be called in to assist in
solving the problems our leaders helped to create. We must be better
prepared than merely to resort to debates in the United Nations.
At the moment, as we pray for peace, we utter the humble
query, with the Psaimisi (Ps. 121:1): me-ayeen yovo ezri — whence
cometh help?