Moscow Continues to Blast Israel; Says Ben Gurion is “puppet” of U.S.

The barrage of anti-Israel broadcasts continued today over the Moscow radio, with Israel being presented to Soviet listeners as a “puppet” of the “imperialist colonizers”, particularly of the United States.

The broadcast continued to urge the people in the Soviet Union to acquire an anti-Israel book published recently by the State Publishing House under the title “The State of Israel; Its Position and Policy”. It emphasized that “the facts presented in this book show that during the armed intervention by Britain and the United States in Jordan and Lebanon, the Israeli ruling circles were in collusion with the aggressors and provided the territory of their country as a transit base for their troops and also for the flyover of the U.S. and British planes.”

“It is quite reasonable to ask what fosters the unaccommodating bellicosity of the Israeli rulers, the broadcast continued. “The answer to this question should be sought not in casual events or in the diplomatic mistakes of individuals who form part of the Israeli Government, but deeper. The causes are to be found in the vicious nature of the basic political line of the circles at the helm of the Israeli state.”

“The group of extreme bourgeois Zionists now in power in Israel fail to see, nor do they wish to see, the historically dictated doom of imperialism and its inevitable end. On the contrary, they hope, with the aid of colonialism to strengthen and widen the boundaries of the Israeli state. Thus the state of Israel has been made to become the forward post of imperialism in the Near East and a battle line (point d’appui) of expiring imperialism,” the Moscow radio asserted.

“The United States and the other imperialist countries are having their way with Israel, thanks to their close contacts with the main Zionist parties which form the government coalition in Israel,” the broadcast said. “The main role in this coalition is played by the ruling party, Mapai, headed by Premier Ben Gurion. This party stands for an aggressive policy in relation to the Arabs. It is characteristic that it is this very pro-U.S. party which was one of the instigators of Israel’s attack on Egypt. Another party which supports U.S. imperialism in Israel is the Herut Party.”