Israel’s Cabinet has reportedly reached the fundamental political conclusion that Israel can no longer rely on the United Nations as a restraining factor in the Middle East, it was revealed here today.
The Cabinet completed yesterday its discussion of Israel’s present security situation. The opinion in the Cabinet, it was learned, has crystallized into the conclusion that the United Nations as such, and Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold personally, have failed to obtain the slightest modification in the intransigent stand taken by United Arab Republic President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
Consideration for the United Nations has been an important element in the past, when Israel had to restrain its reactions to Arab aggressions and provocations.
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