ISRAEL SAYS IT WILL ACT IN CRISIS IF NECESSARY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400130016-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 13, 2000
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: May 30, 1967
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Israeli Foreign Minister Abba
Eban today said his nation will
act alone to break the Arab
blockade of the Gulf of Aqaba
unless i ternational efforts to
settle the key iss.:o in the Middle
East crisis are successful soon.
At a Jerusalem news confer-
ence, Eban did not specify just
how long This country will wait
but aid. "I mean a short time,
I cc _.o, want to say whether
L -L mars a few days or weeks
b.: certa my does not mean
::ar?s or years."
-5;'e wui act atone if we must,.
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s .d. Former Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-
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JAR President Gamal Abdel major supplier to Israel's air'
_ sser welcomed him at the force. Two of the three jets left
part with open arms and the' in the middle of the night. The
o leaders signed a treaty I third left early today, the
committing both nations to sources said.
rogard an attack on one as an' Well-informed sources in
:cl o: both. 'Paris said the jets' mission
treaty aligned Jordan's confirmed French determination
c. 03-man army with the to continue delivering spare
~..t's 300,000-man force. The parts and material to Israel
S_?aelis make no bones about. which is chiefly armed with
respect fe the Jordanian French military hardware.
army.
I Well-informed sources in Vital to Israel's Interests
!Paris said said three Israeli jet. Eban said Israel's vital inter-
airliners made a hush-hush stop ests are affected by the U.A.R.
at a French air force base last blockade of the gulf and the,
night and picked up Frech-pro- U.A.R. military buildup in the
duced war material. Sinai Desert facing Israel.
They said the Boeing, jets of Israel's only Red Sea outlet
is--_-"s El Al Airline landed at port, Elath, is located in the gulf
.:st night at the base near and is the object of the block-
::ax and irtr,;ediately were, ade. "There is no doubt that our
,1 readiness to protect the freedor.:
Into iangc.rs. The
sources said th-a planes were of passage is shared by the
beacved to have been loaded great :r :.itime powers," Eban
said
Johnson's administration was'.
understood to feel that in the
final analysis the Kremlin may
restrain Nasser from forcing a
showdown that could send the
Middle East to war.
But Arab and Israeli armies
remained poised for action on
their frontiers.
And there appeared no con-
crete lessening by the crisis that
in 12 days has tended to over-
shadow even the Vietnam war.
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