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dated November 4, 1955: Ben Gurion's offer

Mr. David Ben Gurion, Israel's Premier-designate, has offered to meet the Egyptian Prime Minister, Lt. Col. Nasser, and "every other Arab ruler as soon as possible to achieve a mutual settlement without prior conditions." He made the offer of talks in a speech to the Knesset (Parliament) while presenting his new five-party coalition Government. Mr. Ben Gurion's Government, replacing a coalition which resigned in June, chiefly over a dispute over economic development, is pledged to increase the country's military preparedness, but to observe meticulously its present armistice agreements with the Arab States. Reiterating the Israeli Government's views on the supply of Communist arms to Arab nations, Mr. Ben Gurion criticised both Russia and Czechoslovakia on the one hand and Britain and the United States on the other for supplying arms to the Arabs. He went on to accuse the Arabs, particularly Egypt, of aggressive action against Israel, including incursions into Israeli territory, an economic boycott and a blockade. He said that since the beginning of the year, Israel had suffered 153 casualties in Egyptian raids in the Gaza area.

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