CAIRO RAIDS

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32213, 4 February 1970, Page 19

CAIRO RAIDS

Nasser’s View (N.Z.P. A. -Reuter— Copyright) CAIRO. February 3. President Nasser said last night that Egypt faced an unpresidented crisis, but that Israeli air raids on Cairo would only double the determination of Egyptians to win victory. In his first public reference to the recent series of Israeli raids on the outskirts of the Egyptian capital. President Nasser told an audience of international Left-wing parliamentarians: “What they do not know is that they have doubled the determination of the people of Egypt. The United States is responsible for what is happening, for giving the Israelis the tools and weapons for their terror campaign. “The Arab nation is facing a crisis unparallelled in modern history,” President Nasser went on. “It is a crisis of human conscience, the crisis of mankind which has been able to conquer space and to reach the moon but has been unable to bring justice to earth.” The Egyptian leader again declared that what the Israelis had taken by force could only be restored by force. “The Arab nation has no alternative but to fight with its back to the wall and at any cost,” he said. “The Arab nation realises the dangers involved, but it also realises that it has the means to liberate its territories. There is no other path. It is .the Arab nation's path to life, and there is no alternative.”