The Israeli reply to the proposed meeting with Arab representatives and members of the U.N. Conciliation Commission at some neutral site in Europe, probably Geneva, is expected to be in the affirmative. Announcement of acceptance of the invitation will probably be made Tuesday, a Commission spokesman asserted here today.
An informed source, however, stated that considerable pessimism exists among Commission members over any solution arising from an Arab-Israeli meeting insofar as internationalization of the Holy City is concerned. The informant pointed out that Israel had “accepted neither the letter nor the spirit of the United Nations decision’ and had rejected internationalization for the new city of Jerusalem in any form.
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