Foreign Minister Abba Eban said last night that he was confident that US policy toward Israel would not change after the American Presidential elections Nov. 7. He said that US policy over the last two years has proved to be in America’s best interests and that the American position in the Arab world has not deteriorated as a result of Washington’s support for Israel.
On the contrary, Eban told the closing session of the conference of the American Women’s ORT, that several Arab states–Yemen, Sudan and Algeria–are lining up to re-establish diplomatic relations with the US. The Foreign Minister stressed that Israel was determined not to return to its pre-war boundaries. “We will never reconstruct the map of our vulnerability…the blasphemy of a divided capital…control of the jugular vein of Sharm el-Sheikh and the settlements in the Jordan Valley endangered by Arab guns.”
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