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Squandered Opportunity. On the defensive, as he has been ever since the General Assembly convened, Israel's Foreign Minister Abba Eban replied that Jordan had "squandered an opportunity for peace" by shelling Israeli cities. When fighting broke out in the Sinai desert, Eban said, his government sent Hussein a cable promising that "Israel will not attack any state which refrains from attacking Israel." That cable, he recalled, was ignored...
Somehow, says Foreign Minister Abba Eban, the Arabs will have to meet Israel at the conference table to negotiate a formal peace. "Peace itself contains the solution of other issues," says Eban. "If there is peace, then we shall all strive to ensure that those who are now refugees become the productive citizens of sovereign states...
...formal peace treaty, Eban concluded, would be Israel's best guarantee that its Arab neighbors would cease their "design at politicide-the murder of a state." Such a treaty, he insisted, would also bring enormous benefits to the whole troubled area. Israel, for example, would give Jordan-whose only present port is on the Gulf of Aqaba-an outlet to the Mediterranean. It would promote a joint program of economic and social advancement and a regional communications system that would permit rail and road traffic between Egypt and its Arab brothers from Saudi Arabia to Lebanon...
...whose leaders feel them selves bound to support Nasser in the cause of African unity. As speaker after speaker sounded off, the winner of the war in the Middle East found itself in the curious position of having to fight a defensive battle in the U.N. "Israel," said Abba Eban, "stands lonely amongst numerous and powerful adversaries...
...week wore on, though, Israel was reminded that it was not as lonely as Eban had thought. Communist Rumania's Premier Ion Gheorghe Maurer broke publicly with the Moscow line, called for direct "negotiations and agreements" between Israel and the Arabs. He promised his government's help in reaching a settlement based on peaceful coexistence. U.S. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg spoke up for Israel on the floor of the Assembly, and U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk worked energetically in a series of private sessions with delegates from Latin America and 13 French-speaking African nations...