Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion asserted today that any public impression that there had been a decrease in dangers to Israel from President Nasser”the Egyptian dictator, ” was the result of “wishful thinking and blindness to the facts.”
Asserting that the “grave truth” was just the opposite of any such impression, the prime Minister said in an interview that all of the military preparations of Nasser were aimed at Israel. He added that Nasser’s propaganda did not differ greatly from the Nazi global campaign against Jews.
He also denounced suggestions that Israel was not making sufficient efforts for peace as just “as true and fair as if someone had suggested that Europe’s Jews had not taken steps to appease Hitler, ” The Prime Minister said that the difference between Israeli Jewry and Jewish communities abroad “is that we here are not solely dependent on the mercies of our neighbors.”
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