The Israel Parliament today rejected a motion by Communist deputy Esther Wilenska to discuss the question of airfields for bombers allegedly being built–according to a report in a London newspaper–somewhere in Israel “on orders of the American State Department” with a view to use them” when the capitalist world will bomb the Soviet Union.”
The Parliament also rejected a motion introduced by deputy Chaim Landau, leader of the rightist Herut Party, demanding a parliamentary discussion on Israel’s security in the light of recent development in neighboring Arab countries.
Replying to both motions, Israel’s Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett asked the Parliament to remove them from the agenda since “it would not be in conformity with the Parliament’s dignity to discuss baseless fabricated reports and I hope that the Parliament would not waste its time on such bunk.”
With regard to the second motion, Mr. Sharett said that the government is constantly watching the situation on Israel’s borders, as well as developments in neighboring states, and keeps the Foreign Affairs and Security Committee of the Parliament well informed; however he emphasized that he did not think it advisable that the Parliament should enter into an open discussion on this subject.
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