A joint communique, issued in East Berlin by the East German Communist party on behalf of itself and the Communist splinter party in Israel, called Israel the aggressor in the June war and demanded Israeli withdrawal from occupied Arab territories, it was reported here.
Issuance of the declaration followed several days of talks with East German party officials by Meir Wilner, leader of the Israeli party, who also said, in an interview in East Berlin with the Communist paper, Neues Deutschland, that the meeting early this month between Israeli Premier Lavi Eshkol and President Johnson about peace talks with the Arabs was a “political maneuver.” The Israeli Communist also asserted that Israel was becoming “more and more isolated” and had “lost sympathy” in many countries. He also charged that Israel was seeking “new adventures.”
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