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Says Nasser of Ben-Gurion: "I have the impression that he is responsible for it. It was not that way when Sharett was running Israel. Sharett is not a cruel man, and it may be that he is a reasonable man. But Ben-Gurion is under the idea that terror must be raised, and he speaks only of force-of forcing a settlement on the Arabs...
...Gurion speaks of Nasser in the same reluctant-enmity fashion. He told TIME: "For a time I considered Nasser a patriot and an honest man. He has a fine figure, a pleasant smile, a nice face-really he gives the appearance of being a nice fellow-and all those people believe he is sincere. But when I asked General Burns [the U.N. mediator], an honest man, to get one little thing from Nasser-an order for a ceasefire, he couldn...
...both sides, grievances deepen. Israelis, confined in a land at some points only ten miles wide, feel themselves surrounded by nations that will never accept their existence, but U.S. diplomats in the area say that most responsible Arab leaders had become resigned to Israel's existence until Ben-Gurion began his smashing reprisal raids...
...passions increase, the West is agreed on one point: it will not finance an arms race in the Middle East. In Israel there is no longer agitation, as there had been a few weeks earlier, for a preventive war. Voices of moderation are being heard. Ben-Gurion himself said last week: "We believe the maintenance of peace is preferable even to victory in war. War is legitimate only in absolute self-defense. It is not legitimate if one's aim is the securing of peace or destruction of an evil regime...
...though most Middle East experts do not expect a new Arab-Israeli war, there is also little chance (barring a bold and successful diplomatic intervention by the West) of peace. Says Ben-Gurion: "We have come a long way without peace. We can go a long way in the future without...