Neuva Presencia, a weekly Spanish-language supplement of the Yiddish daily Die Welt, and As Saalam, an Arabic daily, have published a joint declaration hailing Israeli-Egyptian peace efforts in the Middle East. It was signed by staff members of both publications who described themselves as “Argentine newspapermen descended from Arab and Jewish immigrants” and called for harmony and brotherly cooperation between the Arab and Jewish communities in Argentina.
The declaration, which was re-printed in the major dailies, Clarin and La Opinion, expressed hope that Arab-Jewish hostilities in the Middle East “shall forever be buried by history in that key part of the world. The recent Egyptian-Israeli talks developed at the highest level towards getting a just peace for all peoples in that region, a transcendental fact observed with admiration and which nobody can ignore.”
Referring to the setback in direct Israeli-Egyptian peace negotiations, the signatories expressed the view that it was the “product of circumstantial differences that, we do not believe, are definitive.” (By Carlos Radbil)
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