The Egyptian Government has set two conditions for peace with Israel, it was learned here today from authoritative sources. These are: 1, Israel must accept all Arab refugees living in the Gaza strip, along the Egyptian border, since the Cairo government is now willing to return this area to the Jews; 2, Israel must not recognize Jordan rule over any part of Palestine.
The Egyptian Government’s willingness to return the Gaza strip to Israel–which it seized in the Arab-Israel war–is understood here to originate from the fact that Britain is insistent on establishing a military base in that region.
In Tel Aviv, a government spokesman, commenting on “persistent reports of eventual Israel-Egyptian peace talks in the near future,” repeated the Jowish state’s readiness to enter into such discussions with any Arab neighbor. He said that “no official opening has as yet been made by Egypt.”
Earlier, a Foreign Minstry spokesman said that the Israel Government has not yet received any notice from Egypt that the latter desires to begin peace talks with the Jewish state on Feb. 26.
The statement was made in comment on an announcement in Cairo by Mostapha Nosrat Bey, Egyptian Minister of War, that Israel had been asked to begin poace parleys on that date in the presence of United Nations representatives. The Egyptian Minister also said that if the peace talks prove unsuccessful his government will present its case to the United Nations.
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