The United States “should encourage direct negotiations between Israel and the Arab states so as to end tension and to promote a just and lasting peace settlement,” Sen. Alexander Wiley, ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told a meeting in honor of Hebrew University.
Addressing an audience at the University of Rochester, Sen. Wiley said: “The continued bloody border warfare in the Gaza strip and elsewhere, the almost unending series of raids and counter-raids, ambushes and counter-ambushes, and the terror and counter-terror, the sniping, the throwing of hand grenades–all this must come to an end.”
The Senator expressed belief “that the United States should continue vigorously to use its good offices toward urging the ending of the blockade of Israel, ending the denial of the Suez Canal to her, and ending all of the other acts of non-intercourse including the boycott which have been arbitrarily effected by the Arab states, but which are utterly harmful both to themselves and to Israel.”
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