Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart said today that he thought Israel’s insistence on direct peace talks with the Arabs was reasonable but that it was a mistake to make direct talks a pre-condition for a settlement. Mr. Stewart spoke at a meeting of Labor Party parliamentarians dealing with the Middle East. He said Israel must be convinced that the Arabs want to make a genuine peace. The Arab states have said they will not sign a peace treaty, but there has to be a binding document, Mr. Stewart said. He said that Israel’s destruction would not be in Britain’s own long term interests.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
