The Herut Party concluded its second annual national conference at Nahanya with a demand for new parliamentary elections and a warning that Israel, “confronting three potential attackers – Britain, the Arab states and Soviet Russia” must make its primary task “the prevention of world conflagration.”
The resolution warned that the threatening world conflict between the Soviet and its satellites and the free world menaced Israel externally and internally. It said that the British threat arose through Britain’s control of three-fourths of the traditionally national soil of Palestine through the rule of King Abdullah of Jordan. The Arab threat lay in the repeated announcements by Arab rulers of a “second round” in the Palestine war. The Soviet throat, It added, lay in the danger of a Red Army invasion of the Middle East and Israel which would end Israel’s sovereignty.
The people of Israel, it added, would fight any invader with all its military strength and with the aid of friendly powers struggling for freedom. In foreign policy, the party decreed, Israel must seek friendship of the United States and the Mediterranean powers, France, Italy and Turkey. It elected a 12-man central committee headed by Menacham Beigin.
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