Maki, the pro-Israeli Communist Party, warned that Soviet pilots flying Egyptian warplanes could cause a new Arab-Israel war with a “likely threat” to world peace. The party also declared that the Soviet action contradicted declarations that it favored a peaceful solution to the Middle East conflict.
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