The situation in the Middle East, and the tensions prevailing there now, are analyzed by Ambassador Abba Eban of Israel in an article in the current issue of Columbia University’s “Journal of International Affairs.”
Mr. Eban points out that Israel saw the Middle East, “where three continents converge, “as a potential force of conciliation in international conflicts. But before it could assume this role, the Middle East “must strive to live in peace and mutual tolerance within itself.”
Offering Israel as an example to the rest of the Middle East, Mr. Eban said that although it was “open to the scientific and technical impulses of the West, “yet it was “firmly attached to its own national civilization, born in the heart of the East.” He added that, although Israel’s population contains elements from the Occident and the Orient, “it is not alien to either.”
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