Summary
Maki Knesset member in Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace, who read the Communist Party’s motions against Operation Sinai and for complete withdrawal from the occupied territories in November 1956, and whose questions also pressed the government in earlier chapters (Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace, PDF p.264, p.268).
Details
- On 25/3/53 Sneh asked Ben-Gurion in the Knesset about Morgenthau’s reported statement that Israel would mobilize about 200,000 soldiers alongside the USA; Ben-Gurion called the report a journalistic fabrication and said of the British minister White’s similar figure, “I am hearing of this for the first time” (PDF p.144-146).
- Sneh recalled in the Knesset (18/10/55 debate) the memorandum asking the State Department to arm the Arab states and Israel together against the “Communist danger” (PDF p.211-212).
- On 7/11/56 Sneh read Maki’s non-confidence motion against the “war government” — “for the military attack on Egypt; for service to French and British enslaving colonialism; for the setting-back of peace with the Arab peoples… for isolating Israel among the nations of the world; for endangering the security and the future of Israel”; it failed 3 to 88 (PDF p.264-265).
- In the week after the 8 November withdrawal announcement Sneh’s motion argued the attack presented Israel worldwide as an aggressor and to Asia and Africa “as a vanguard of colonialism in the Near and Middle East”, and demanded full evacuation of all occupied territories, Ben-Gurion’s consent to withdrawal having excluded the Gaza Strip; Argov proposed removing it from the agenda and it was removed 76 to 3, Ben-Gurion later dismissing Sneh’s speech as “a repeat with additional nonsense of the letter of… Gospodin Bulganin” (PDF p.268-270).
Related pages
Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace, Maki, Shmuel Mikunis, Operation Sinai