Ruling Christian Democratic Party President Aldo Moro last Thursday called on Israel to be more flexible in peace talks with Egypt. Moro was the second Italian politician in two days last week to criticize Israel. Communist Party Directorate member Giancarlo Pajetta said on his return last Wednesday from talks with Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasir Arafat, Syrian President Hafez Assad and Iraqi President Hassan Al Bakr that there could be no stable Middle East peace plan without a Palestinian national state. The representatives of Italy’s two biggest parties were speaking two weeks after Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan saw Italian political leaders and the Pope and expressed hope that Israel was better understood.
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