Conflicting views regarding the chances for peace between Israel and the Arab states were put forth here in addresses last night by former Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and by Minister of Labor Yigal Allon. Both addressed the Congress of the World Association of Jewish Students which opened here.
Mr. Ben-Gurion held that only the intervention of the Big Powers could bring peace to this region. Direct approaches to the Arab states, he maintained, are “doomed to failure.” Mr. Allon, on the other hand, told the students that chances for peace with the Arabs “are great.” Egypt’s President Gamal Abdel Nasser, he declared, is “a clever man” and it is possible that he may have realized by this time that he had been attempting to implement a policy that “exceeded the sociological potential of his nation.”
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