The recent decision of the 13 Arab states, at the Arab summit meeting in Egypt, to liquidate Israel, will be discussed in detail here tomorrow at a meeting of the Security and Foreign Affairs Committee of the Knesset, Israel’s Parliament, it was revealed today.
Meanwhile, it was disclosed that, in addition to presenting a letter on this issue to the United Nations Security Council, Israel’s ambassadors in major capitals have also notified the governments to which they are accredited regarding Israel’s view of the renewed Arab threats to annihilate Israel.
A proposal that Israel call up her armed forces reserves, and notify Arab as well as other nations that it is ready to defend itself, was made here by Gen. Yigael Yadin, former chief of staff of Israel’s defense forces. In an interview in the daily newspaper, Haboker, Gen. Yadin also recommended that Israel send inquiries to the Arab states that signed the armistice agreements of 1949, asking them whether they still adhere to the first paragraph in each of those pacts. That paragraph had pledged Israel and the Arab signatories–Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon–to use the armistices as a stepping stone to peace.
If the Arab states ignore such an inquiry, Gen. Yadin said, or give “a negative or an evasive answer,” then Israel “will have to draw her own conclusions, even far-reaching conclusions.”
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