Defense Minister Shimon Peres suggests the erection of a joint Israel-Jordan warning system along the Jordan River, similar to the warning system operating in the Sinai between Israel and Egypt. The suggestion is in a book to be published shortly. In one chapter of the book which appeared today in the military publication, “Ma’arachot,” Peres wrote, “I am afraid that those who demand that Israel present a peace plan with geographical maps are dreamers who can push us all toward a new war” because neither the Arabs nor the Israelis are about to accept each other’s maps.
Thus Peres suggests: “Rather than draw an agreed borders map, I regard it as more sensible to build a joint warning system along the Jordan River, and subsequently build the infrastructure for economic cooperation between the three main factors in the West Bank (Israel, Jordan, and the local population.” Peres also wrote that the development of means of warfare in the Arab-Israeli conflict is reaching what he noted was a balance.
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