The Israel Government’s policy of combining diplomatic and political negotiations with readiness to repel all aggression on its Syrian border was approved by the Knesset (Parliament) here last night by a vote of 54 to 21. “Negotiations with Syria,” the Premier told Parliament, “are worth undertaking even if the chances for success are not high.” Replying to those critics who had charged the Government with “softness,” Mr. Eshkol said that, in the last two years, “Israel has given as good as she got from the Arab states.”
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