“The Government of Israel has been gratified by the assurances it had received in recent weeks from leading figures in the United States Government that the friendship between the United States and Israel would be maintained and strengthened,” Ambassador Abba Eban of Israel declared today.
Mr. Eban, who spoke on the situation in the Middle East before a large audience at Town Hall, referred to press reports on increased American aid to the Arab states and commented: “International friendship is not a physical material limited in bulk. If it is bestowed in one place, that does not mean that there is any less of it to be bestowed elsewhere.”
Re-emphasizing Israel’s readiness for peace with its Arab neighbors, “a peace which should and could solve all the outstanding disputes between us and which must be based on mutual recognition by each of us of each other’s needs and existence,” Ambassador Eban stated that peace inside the Middle East was the central objective which would have to be attained before the Middle East area could organize itself for social: and economic progress and its mutual defense. “It is on the attainment of that peace settlement that statesmanship should now focus its entire vision, for it alone would open the way to the broad objective of effective regional cooperation in all spheres,” he declared.
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