A “second round” of Arab war against Israel is frankly threatened while Arab use of the weapons of economic boycott, blockade and threats of war as means to force Israel into costly military expenditures are candidly acknowledged in the latest issue of “The Egyptian Economic and Political Review” received here from Cairo today. The publication is a quasi-official propaganda mouthpiece circulated among diplomats here.
Israel’s existence is accepted with rare candor for an Arab organ, as “an established fact.” However the Review sees possibilities for making trouble. saying that “the second round, which cannot be eliminated and must still be considered as an active possibility compels the Israelis to maintain a state of military preparedness which can hardly be called cheap.”
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