Moshe Dayan, former Minister of Agriculture and Chief of Staff of the Israeli armed forces during the Sinai campaign, warned here today that Israel would have to take the “initiative” to prevent Arab diversion of the headwaters of the Jordan River.
Israel, he said, “cannot and should not expect foreign powers like the United States, Britain or France to intervene in Israel’s favor” in the Jordan River water dispute, since “their actual influence in the region is negligible.” “If diversion is to be prevented,” he declared, “it will come about as a result of our force.”
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