No matter what happens in the Sinai Peninsula, there will be no return to the situation which prevailed before Israel’s campaign. Premier David Ben Gurion said here. Addressing a meeting of his Mapai Party’s central committee, the Premier said that the Sinai action had assured Israel several years of peace which should be used to bring in persecuted Jews from various countries and to attain economic independence for Israel.
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