Premier Levi Eshkol said here today that the possibility of Viet Cong “or other Far East Asian” participation in training and material support for Arab guerrilla organizations must be taken with all seriousness which it warrants. He made the comment in a response to a question at a press luncheon dealing with reports that the Viet Cong were cooperating with the El Fatah guerrilla organization which repeatedly sent marauders into Israel.
(The Christian Science Monitor reported last week that more Middle East Liason is developing between the Viet Cong and the Palestine Liberation Organization. The paper said the Cairo mission of the Viet Cong is the largest and most active and its members have met with Palestinian Arabs to arrange for combat training in North Viet Nam for PLO members. The report said the first contingent of PLO men has already returned to bases in Syria from training in Communist China and that the latest development is the agreement for a Viet Cong mission in Syria, the main base for PLO activities against Israel.)
The Premier also said that Israel had made numerous concessions to the Arabs and supported partition of its territory three times and this is why “we can make no more concessions nor receive any Arab refugees.”
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