Mrs. Golda Meir. Israel’s Foreign Minister, will formally address the United Nations General Assembly next week and will reply to the anti-Israel out bursts of President Nasser of the United Arab Republic and other leaders of Arab delegations to the United Nations.
Addressing a meeting of the Israel bond drive here last night, Mrs. Meir pointed out that Nasser who posed as a spokesman for peace in his address at the UN Assembly has consistently refused to act for peace in the Middle East. While he urged a meeting between President Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Khrushchev, he was unwilling to meet with Israel’s Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, she emphasized.
There was no indication that Nasser was interested in peace in the Middle East, she stated. “He talks in terms of boycott and threats of war,” she said. She described Nasser’s belligerent policy in the Middle East as a “waste of money, blood and effort, not for us alone but for the Arabs as well.” Because of this, she added, Israel “must be well protected and be so strong that nobody will dare touch us. So far we have not done so badly.”
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