Menachem Beigin, an Israeli Cabinet minister, said here last night the main reason the Nixon Administration was delaying the sale of more jets to Israel was its desire to keep the way open for talks with Soviet Russian and make certain concessions. He dismissed the threats by Arab countries to withhold oil from the West. “The Arabs cannot drink their oil but need to sell it,” he said. Mr. Beigin, who heads the right-wing, nationalist Herut faction spoke at a reception given him by the Buenos Aires Jewish community. Later he told newsmen at a press conference that the so-called Palestinian liberation movements were making some Jews fell that the Jewish and Israeli causes were morally unjust. He said such feelings were dangerous and Jews should not be ashamed. “The Arab nation exerts self-determination in 14 states while we claim only one relatively small state,” Mr. Beigin said.
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