If the United Nations adopts sanctions against Israel, the Jewish State would find it difficult to see in the United Nations an impartial, neutral body, Dr. Walter Eytan, director general of the foreign Ministry, told a press conference today. However, he indicated nothing new had come up in this respect in the last two days.
Dr. Eytan added that sanctions would “reduce the United Nations Truce Supervisory Organization to impotence” and “make it impossible for the United Nations to appear in Israel’s eyes in any mediating, constructive and conciliatory capacity.”
Repeatedly using the phrase “if sanctions are approved and acted upon.” the Foreign Ministry chief further warned that sanctions would mean the “end of new prospects offered by Israel” for resetting Arab refugees. Sanctions would make such a step “completely impossible for Israel,” he continued.
On the basis of “hard information,” he charged that fedayeen headquarters had been reestablished in El Arish, in the Sinai Peninsula, “under the very eyes of the UN Emergency Force which has its Sinai headquarters there.” He emphasized that the almost dotty raiding of Israel by fedayeen crossing through UNEF lines has confirmed Israel’s worst fears that UNEF would be unable to end fedayeen activities.
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