The Times of London was sharply critical today of the United Nations protest to Israel over next Thursday’s Independence Day parade in Jerusalem. It called Saturday night’s Security Council resolution urging that the parade be cancelled, “pointless” in view of current events in the Middle East. “Continuing battles across the cease-fire line, the infiltration of terrorists, the failure of the Jarring mission and the depressing possibility that there will be yet another Arab-Israel war in a few years’ time should surely concern the United Nations more than protesting at Israel’s celebration of an event 20 years in the past,” The Times said.
(The Paris daily, Aurore advised Israel today not to give into the Security Council and to hold its Independence Day military parade in Jerusalem as scheduled.)
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