The Arab League Council which opens in Cairo this Saturday will consider measures to tighten the Arab blockade against Israel, the London Times reported today. The newspaper pointed out that the ratification of the German-Israel reparations pact presents the Arab League with an “awkward problem.”
After detailing the serious effects of the blockade up to now, the Times said that “‘there is now a proposal(before the Council) to ban every bank and business house which has dealings of any kind with Israel. ” At the same time, the Times pointed out that Israel will receive an economic impetus from the German reparations payments and that the Arabs are faced with the choice of seeing their blockade negated or of extending it to Germany at a time when the Arabs themselves need German goods.
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