Defense Minister Moshe Dayan said today that he foresaw the possibility of “a state of non-belligerency” between Israel and its Arab neighbors rather than a formal peace. “Such a state is rather nearer now than we have ever been to it.” Gen Dayan said in an interview published in the evening newspaper Maariv.
The Defense Minister was optimistic about the prospects of co-existence between Israel and the population of the occupied Arab territories. The experience of the past 11 months has been better than expected, he said. He aided that co-existence was possible under two conditions – that the Arabs in the occupied territories be allowed to maintain their family, social and cultural ties with the Arabs states and that they be permitted to maintain their own way of life. Gen. Dayan repeated his warning that the cease-fire lines will not be a one-way street, open to saboteurs but closed to Israel.
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