Ben-Gurin's Speech in Knesset
Reiterates Israel's Desire for Peace
(Continued from Page 1)
balance of power differs from the Soviet attitude towards Is-
Observers described this avoid- the local military balance."
rael might change if Israel
ance of extremes as a crystal-
The Israel Premier expressed adopted a less pro-Western
lization of Israel's posture to- regret that there had been no policy.
day in foreign affairs.
improvement in Soviet - Israel
One report had it that the
Ben-Gurion's speech made relations "despite all our ef- Soviets hinted they would end
seven major points: (1) there forts to improve our relations their anti-Israel campaign if
is no change in Israel's foreign with this mighty power which the Israel Government came
policy; (2) Israel's intentions contains 3,000,000 Jews and is out publicly against the Bagh-
are peaceful; (3) military vic- one of the decisive factors in dad Pact.
tories are insufficient to world policy."
In Washington Israel Am-
achieve a solution in the Mid-
He described the Soviet
dle East; (4) Israel's primary Union's- early attitude of friend- bassador Abba Eban charac-
task is the internal social and ship to Israel and noted that terized the Middle East situa-
economic consolidation of the "since the Egyptian dictator tion as an issue of "cosmic
country; (5) the importance of opened the gate of the Middle survival" that removes front
developing closer relations be- East to the Soviet Union, there lines and causes the danger
tween Israel and the countries has been a very clear and sur- facing Israel to be a matter
of Asia and Africa; (6) the prising deterioration in this of immediate concern to
time is not far off when Israel great power's attitude to Israel others.
will use the atom for agricul- and this attitude, of course, has
Speaking at an Israel bond
tural and industrial purposes, not been weakened with the function, Eban suggested that
and (7) arms in Arab lands, growing influence of the Soviet the regional crisis is such that
whether from the Communists Union in Syria.
it now directly involves the
or from the West, are actually
"intimate interests" of the two
"The change that has now greatest world powers.
aimed at Israel.
come about in the Middle
He said he had no doubt of
The premier spoke before a East," continued Ben-Gurion,
survival. He pointed out
packed house and a distin
"is that it is no longer local Israel's
ten years ago Israel stood
guished group of spectators in
forces but powerful external that
eluding President Itzhak Ben - forces that aggravate the ten- alone while today some of the
Zvi. His speech was followed sion in the region and only strongest nations are "in
by a report from Mrs. Golda parallel and complimentary honor" committed to Israel's
Meir, the Foreign Minister, on world forces can reduce this independence.
the United Nations, and on her tension."
In Sydney, Australian Prime
talks in Washington and Rome,
Minister Robert G. Menzies
Meanwhile, a ranking Soviet called for United Nations spon-
after which the Knesset began
diplomat was quoted here as sorship of urgent, high level
its debate on foreign policy.
having advised a prominent
Ben - Gurion congratulated Jewish personality that the discussions aimed at ending the
"Russian science and the peo- question of Jewish emigration tension in the Middle East.
Speaking at a conference of
ple" on the successful dis- from the Soviet Union to Israel
patch into space of an earth in the form of "reunion of the Liberal Party's Federal
satellite but noted that "our families" was an "open ques- Council, the Prime Minister in-
joy over this scientific and tion," the answer to which sisted that at the head of the
technological milestone has, might depend on Israel policy area's needs was a final, guar-
however, been overshadowed in the present Middle East anteed settlement of the Arab-
Israel borders.
to no little extent by the re- crisis.
sultant increase in world ten-
Next in priority, Menzies
News of the Soviet admoni- listed: settlement of the Arab
sion which is associated with
the artificial satellite either tion came as reports were in- refugee problem, provision of
as a cause or consequence." creasingly circulated here that economic aid without strings to
Moscow, simultaneously with the nations of the region and
He said Israel could not help its public attacks on Israel, was encouragement
of peaceful
but be concerned by the in- giving hints to the effect that trade.
crease in tension in the world
and in the Middle East whether
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the satellite. "The Middle East
has been a focal point of ten-
sion between East and West for
more than two years, since the
beginning of the copiOus flow
of arms from the Soviet bloc
to Egypt," he declared.
"Israel has been aware, since
the rise of the state, that it
lives in two spheres, the region
which comprises itself and its
Arab neighbors, and the greater
world sphere which devotes
considerable attention to the
affairs of this region for his-
torical and geo-political rea-
sons.
"The events of the last 10
years," said Ben-Gurion. "have
proven that a military cam-
paign cannot, by itself, be de-
cisive, because the Middle
Eastern sphere is involved, per-
haps more than any other area,
in the world sphere where the
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Actor's Arrest Strains Relations
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rest to start a diplomatic tussle
with Israel. The Hungarian
government has threatened to
cut Israel's diplOmatic staff in
Budapest over refusal of Israel
authorities to halt criminal
proceedings against the actor.
Greguss claimed that the
girl, whom he said he knew
previously, had come to his
hotel to ask for an autographed
-photo, but he insisted nothing
had happened to the girl.
The trial continued in a Tel
Aviv District Court Tuesday.
TEL AVIV—Hungarian actor
Zoltan Greguss, whose arrest on
charges of raping a 12-year-old
Israeli girl has created strained
relations between Israel and
the Communist satellite re-
gime, said Tuesday he was not
accusing the Israel government
in his arrest, but that he was
the victim of personal enmity.
The actor made a statement
to a Tel Aviv newspaper be-
fore he knew the Budapest
government was using his ar-
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