A new pro-government movement calling itself “Israelis for Israel,” surfaced this week. Speaking to reporters here, the 200-member group’s representatives stated their aims by sending an open letter to Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, asking that he abandon his uncompromising positions.
Such positions, according to group member Dr. Mordechai Nissan, a Hebrew University Orientalist, include concrete steps to prove the Egyptian leader’s desire for peace, such as ending the Arab boycott, opening the Suez Canal to Israel, and ending the anti-Semitic articles in Egypt’s press. The movement insists such steps be taken before a peace treaty is signed, and even prior to discussing withdrawal from occupied territories.
The group claims that in two months it has managed to obtain 2,500 signatures in support of its position. “We will not criticize the government,” said Nissan. “There are enough people doing that already.”
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