Israel expects no dramatic developments related to the Middle East to emerge from President Nixon’s meetings with Soviet leaders in Moscow next month, informed sources here said today. That was the general concensus following last night’s briefing on the Washington situation by Ambassador Yitzhak Rabin.
Rabin reported to Premier Golda Meir at a meeting attended by Deputy Premier Yigal Allon, Foreign Minister Abba Eban, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan and Minister-Without-Portfolio Israel Galili. Allon and Eban will visit Washington separately during the next few weeks and both are expected to meet with Secretary of State William P. Rogers.
The sources said that the Israeli leaders are convinced that President Nixon will make no concessions to Moscow on the Middle East during this election year nor is any formula acceptable to both the US and the USSR likely to be proposed in Moscow. According to Rabin’s report, the US still gives an interim Suez agreement between Israel and Egypt priority over an overall settlement worked out under the auspices of United Nations mediator Gunnar V. Jarring.
It was learned that Israel does not propose to present the US with a map outlining its ideas for future borders before Nixon goes to Moscow. Sources said, however, that this decision could be revised after Eban and Allon visit Washington.
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