Basic HTML Version
ASARABSAND ISRAEL/S
STRUGGLE FOR
INTHE
MIDDLE EAST
To examine
the key issues standing in the way ol Middle
East
peace,
Executive Editor
Garner Ted
Armstrong
and
members
ol
our
television production
team
interviewed
Arab
and
lsraeli diplomats
and
political leaders al the
United
Nations and
in the Middle East. Here is their
report.
Wid• World
Photo
T
HERE
JS
no question that both
Israel and the Arab states fer–
vently desire peace. During inter·
views and talks with officials on both
sides, it was not difficult to detect a
series of like sounding desires from
both sides for a cessation of hostilities.
Ambassador Toukan, chief represen·
tative of Jordan at the United Nations
told us: "On behalf of the Arabs,
J
say that
nobody
would like to resume
hostilities."
Mayor Teddy Kollek of Jerusalem
and other lsraelis we talked with ex·
pressed the same sentiments on behalf
of Israel.
A
Common Grouod?
In view of the apparent animosity
evidenced in the Middle East, we
asked: "Do Israelis and Arabs have a
deepseated, irreconcilable hatred for one
another?"
"1'11 speak for the Israelis," said Ezer
Weizman, former Israelí Air Force
commandcr. "There's definitely little
batred, vecy little hatred." Speaking for
the Arabs, former Jordanian Defense
Minister Anwar Nusseibeh, a lifelong
resident of Jerusalem said, "We have
nothing against the Jews as Jews,
neither racially speaking - we believe
that we come from the same roots -