The left-wing Mapam Party has instructed former Minister of Health Israel Barzilai, who is in Ireland now, to try to contact “advanced Arab circles” in Europe and discuss with them a Mapam plan for peace between Israel and the Arab states, it was reported here today.
Mapam recently adopted a peace plan which calls for immediate Arab-Israeli neogtiations concerning the Palestine refugees and denuclearization of the Middle East region. The evening paper Yediot Achronoth said today that Mr. Barzilai had been requested to follow through on this plan in view of recent pacification statements made by Tunisia’s President Habib Bourguiba.
The Mapam Party is quoted in the paper as stating that “the time and the hour are right, now, for Israel to appear as the initiator of a peace plan.” Mr. Barzilai, a member of Israel’s Parliament, is in Dublin now as one of Israel’s delegates to the conference being held there by the Antiparliamentary Union.
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