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Says Isr 'Will Demand
Face-to-Faces Meeting with
Arabs at Summit Conference
BENG
Direct JTA Teletype Wires to the Jewish News
Ben-GurionS aid to Be Asking
USSR Arrange Meeting with
Nasser, Give Arms to Israel
Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News
JERUSALEM,—Official sources declined to comment on news•
paper reports that Israel had requested Moscow to arrange for
a meeting between Ben-Gurion and UAR President Nasser.
According to reports, the request was made by Ben-Gurion
himself through diplomatic channels, but no reply has yet been
received from Moscow.
According to reports circulating in Jerusalem at the same
time, Ben-Gurion also challenged the Soviets to supply Israel
with the same arms that Moscow is suplying Nasser.
(JTA reports from London that Cairo radio has been urging
in Hebrew-language broadcasts that Israelis "eliminate" Premier
Ben-Gurion in the way that Iraqis did away with Premier Nuri
As-Said of Iraq who was assas-
sinated in the Iraq revolution.
Periodic radio broadcasts heard
in Jerusalem from Cairo, Damas-
cus and Baghdad urge the as-
sassination of King Hussein of
Jordan. Palestinian refugees are
promised the booty of - Israel).
(At the United Nations it was
reported that the editor of the
Egypti.n daily Al Ahram quoted
Krushchev as having boasted to
Nasser during their meeting in
Moscow that the USSR had
enough poWerful weapons to
transform the "U.S. Sixth Fleet
into coffins of molten steel.").
David Ben-Gurion
If Israel is invited to the forthcoming Security Council Sum-
mit Conference on the Middle East she will demand that—in line with the United.
Nations Charter requirements—the Arabs meet her face to face for peace talks,
Premier David Ben-Gurion told the Israel Parliament Tuesday.
d b y
If Israel is not invited, he underlined, she will not consider herself boun
any decision of the conference. He further warned that any attempt to trun cate
Israel would "be met with the entire military force of the State."
Ben-Gurion's statements came in response to four questions by Deputies:
1. "If Israel is invited to the summit, she will demand among other matters
that United Nations members in this area be required to comply with the prin-
ciples of the United Nations charter, namely, to settle relations with Israel by
peaceful means, abstain from economic boycott, from blockading the Suez Canal
against Israel shipping and to put an- end to incitement against Israel's peace
and very existence, he said.
The Premier insisted that the Arab states "should be required to meet Israel
face to face in order to establish a permanent peace as they undertook in Arti-
cle One of the armistice agreements. '
2. Asked whether Israel would be willing to propose to the Great Powers that
they invite her and Egypt to peace talks, Ben-Gurion said: "There is no Great
Power in the West or in the East that is unaware we are prepared to sit down with
any of our neighbors on the basis of equality and mutuality."
3. "If the summit conference is held, Israel will not regard herself bound by
any decision adopted without her participation and without her consent in any
case in which the decision injuriously affects Israel directly or indirectly," Prem-
ier Ben-Gurion declared.
4. Asked whether there was danger that decisions at the summit parley might
u if
truncate Israel, the Premier said: "I have no knowledge of such designs. Bt
such an attempt is made it will be met with the entire military force of Israe l."
JERUSALEM —
Israel Ambassador Tsur. Seeks Aid from France
PARIS — Israel Ambassador Yaacov Tsur Tuesday conferred with French
Foreign minister Maurice Cour de Murville prior to the latter's departure
for
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The Map lieveals Serious Dangers to Israel
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Jewish News Correspondent at the UN —
UNITED NATIONS—Regardless of the results of all negotiations, here an
other high-level conferences, on the problems that have created the present
at
cold war, Israel's position must be viewed as grave.
The East-West cold war was hatched in the capitals of the world but had its
major objectives in the Middle East. Oil was and remains the chief bargaining
element. But ISrael has been the scapegoat in all controversies, and only an
effective peace agreement with all the Arab states could possibly have laid
that ghost to rest. Yet, peace appears remote at the present time, and there
not enough powerful men to pursue it. It is self-deluding, therefore, to
are
imagine that Israel's internal peaceful status can be transferred too speedily
to the entire area, or that Israel can be considered secure.
There are two major elements to be considered in viewing Israel's present
position: the map and Nasser's blueprints for a future united Arab empire—
and both are so closely related that we could well take them into account as one
element threatening not only Israel's security but the peace of the universe:
unify all Arab nations. He spoke of all the Moslems. He mentioned Libya,
all the known Middle -
Tunisia, Algeria. He even - spoke of Turkey. He meant
he
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also
Iran.
i Jordan—and
Eastern states —includng
If such "dreams" were to materialize, what would be Israel's position?
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Look at the map. Note the location of the various states eyed by Gamal
Abdul Nasser, the new hero of the Arab world, and the precarious position of
Israel is evident at once. Israel is not 'more than a pinprick on the proposed
Nasser Empire map. Already surrounded by enemies, her position would become
utterly perilous within a vast Arab empire.
Jawad was not speaking for himself and his fellow-rebels alone. He was
mouthing the credo of Nasser. He was preparing his listeners for the blueprint
of the Egyptian dictator.
Now the statesmen are beginning to study the 119-page Nasser • book,
"Egypt's Liberation: The Philosophy of the Revolution." It is now the acknowl-
edged Egyptian replica of Hitler's "Mein Kampf."
This little book is not only anti-Israel: it is anti-West, it is anti-democratic.
Nasser speaks not alone of "an Arab circle surrounding us," but of "an African
continent which fate decreed us to be a part of." It is clear that he means a
Nasserism.
In his TV interview last week, the delegate-designate to the UN from the
continent he aims to dominate over.
Nasser wrote that "within the Arab
rebel government of Iraq, Hashim Jawad, spoke frankly of Arab aims to
new
circle there is a role, wandering aim-
lessly in search of a hero." There is
cf.
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