Israel Transjordan Talking Holy City Terms
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rael's resolution for an agree- put the seal of Arab approval on place within the precincts of the
menu on protection of religious the UN's 1947 partition plan, Holy Places.
Transjordan View Given
sites between the UN and his when he stated that any inter-
In the first official statement
government adequately accom- nationalization plan for Jerusa-
lem "should only be implement- ever made by a Transjordan
plish this purpose.
ed upon the enforcement of the spokesman before the United
Sharett's
Statement
Making his initial appearance territorial clauses" of the par- Nations, Fouzi Pasha el Mulki,
King Abdullah's Minister of De-
at this session of the United tition resolution.
Assembly earl- The draft agreement suggested fense, told the Special Political
General Israel Foreign by Israel includes these provi- Committee that the Arab Legion
ier this week,
LAKE SUCCESS—UN headquarters announced that Nations
Minister
Moshe Sharett told the sions: a detailed listing of Holy would not be withdrawn from
" discussion between Israel and Transjordan, aimed at estab-
as of May 14, 1948; guar- the city and that Transjordan.
lishing a single demarcation line between the two countries 59 delegates of the UN Special Places of
the free exercise of all favors continuance of the pres-
antee
Political
Committee,
discussing
Jerusalem;
have
begun
in
an
Israeli-Transjordan
mixed
prohibition of ent situation whereby it con-
in
the question of Jerusalem, that forms of worship;
armistice commission.
Israel accepted the principle of any act impairing the sacred trols the Old City and some of
In a major rebuttal on the question of Jerusalem's future an international regime in Je- character of the shrines; prohi- the outlying sections of the Jer-
before the special political com-'t>
rusalem to give effect to world bition of any racial or religious usalem area, and Israel holds
mittee, Israel's permanent Unit- Jerusalem falls into anarchy concern in the Holy Places, but discrimination in respect to the Jewish Jerusalem.
' ed Nations delegate, Aubrey S. and chaos." Declaring that legal that this need not . entail the rights of visit and access; free In a private memorandum cir-
Eban Tuesday raised the pos- and moral validity of Israel's
access for all nationalities, sub- culated among several United
siblity of another Jewish under- existing authority in Jerusalem sacrifice of the rights and duties ject only to requirements of na- Nations delegations, the Arch-
Israel's citizens.
ground in Palestine if the world is "the crux of our whole prob- of Declaring
that the time had tonal security, public order and bishop of Canterbury appealed
organization were to remove the lem," Eban described, in stir- come to "remove Jerusalem from health; police protection for the for a return to the idea of estab-
full authority of the Israel gov- ring and eloquent terms, the the arena of international de- religious sites by the Israel Gov- lishing an international enclave
ernment from Jewish Jerusalem. rescue of the besieged and brok- bate by a worthy and lasting ernment; freedom from taxa- in Jerusalem. Under his pro-
settlement," Mr. Sharett intro- tion for the shrines; installa- Posal, the large, Jewish residen-
"A hundred thousand embit- en city in the battles of 1948.
Replying to accusations made duced a resolution under which tion in Jerusalem of UN repre- tial areas to the north and west
tered and disenfranchised peo-
.ple, stripped of their political in committee that this defense the General Assembly would' sentatives for the purpose of im- of the old Walled
City of Jerus-
freedom and their vital defense, comprised "aggression," "con- "authorize the Secretary-Gen- plementing the agreement; ar- alem would be inclUded as part
will be plunged into confusion, quest" and "faits accomplis," eral to sign on behalf of the bitration of any disputes. of the territory of Israel. The
The agreement provides that rest of Jerusalem area would
resentment and fear," he warned Eban said "It is astonishing to
-the delegates. "Their deeply hear branded in such invidious United Nations, an agreement the application of laws and reg-_ be assigned to the proposed inter-,
national enclave and remain
with the state of Israel relating
cherished allegiance will be in- terms a process of valiant
ulations in Israel regarding the
international authority,
.evitably driven underground" - fense which, in the nick of time, to the supervision and protec- entry of aliens shall. not be af- under
with Jews and Arabs dwelling
Jeru-
and "the holy city will become averted for the people of Jerus- tion of the Holy Places in request
fected, that the . laws of Israel together with equal rights.
salem." It would also
•a scene of discontent and dis- alem worse consequences of
shall apply within the Holy
Secretary-General,
to
report
the
_ order to the peril of both its international failure. Sublime to . the next Assembly session on Places and that Israel courts
THE JEWISH N EWS-3
,religious and its secular peace." and illustrious above every deed
shall have jurisdiction over acts
that Israel has accomplished in progress made with respect to done and transactions taking
Friday, December 2, 1949
Assails Critics
the
signature
and
implementa-
Assailing what he termed a its earliest years .is thisthor- tion of this agreement.
"torrent of criticism" of Israel's oughly legitimate, patriotic,
No Need for Sacrifice
and deeply reverent
present position in relation to democratic
process
which
has
raised
the
Circulated
with the resolution
the UN partition plan of • 1947,
City from dust and ashes was an Israel draft text for such
.which called • for full inter- Holy
once again established its an agreement which listed the
nationalization of Jerusalem, and
Eban declared, "Israel and the life upon secure foundations." various guarantees on the part
Jews of Jerusalem were the sole Eban said that implications that of the Israel Government in re-
supporters of the November this Herculean effort constituted spect to the Holy Places. In
"inappropriate activities or ag- support of his resolution, the Is-
statute against the powerful on- gression
evokes nothing but pain rael Foreign Minister declared
slaught of the Arab states,
against the skepticism of the and indignation in our hearts." that "there is no need for sacri-
Must Implement Resolution
fice on either side—the Jews of
at DROME
Trusteeship Council, against the
Declaring
that "It is not adop- Jerusalem and the world com-
resolute inertia of the Security
Council and against the apathy tion of resolutions, but their im- munity—when mutual harmony
WALL - TO - WALL
of the General Assembly itself plementation which preserves can be obtained."
He said an agreement solemn-
OR ROOM SIZE
which, on May 14, 1948 emphati- their real validity," Eban blunt-
cally rejected every one of suc- ly warned delegations that in the ly concluded between the UN
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- HAND TAILORED
ce.ssive resolutions put before it subcommittee which will draft and the Government of Israel
a
single
resolution
from
six
pro-
TO
FIT
YOUR FLOORS
would
be
the
best
way
to
en-
for assuming United Nations
posals now before the Ad Hoc sure effective supervision of the
WIDE VARIETY
responsibility.
"The people of Jerusalem have Committee "We shall unceasing- Holy Places in the area eon-
OF PATTERNS
thus become convinced," he con7 ly confront 'the authors of all trolled by Israel, would repre-
AND WEAVES
tin.ued, "that separation from proposals with overriding issues sent no derogation from the au-
Israel is tantamount to their en- of implementation." He then re- thority of the General Assembly,
circlement and eventual destruc- peated his criticism of several - and would place the greatest re-
resolutions on internationaliza sponsibility on the shoulders of
Tone on tones, Floral Axminsters,
tion.
tion that had been made in the Israel Government. It would
Carved Wiltons — anything you
Israel's
Open
Policy
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Israel's opening address to the allow, he added, for a "function-
wish. Famous names such as
Referring to another line of committee by Foreign Minister
Alexander Smith, Mohawk, Firth,
al" international regime rather
attack on Israel in debate—that Moshe Sharett.
etc.
than one of "territorial charac-
a
United
Nations
in-becoming
Asserting that "The ,solution
member it concealed its • opposi- clearly lies along a line of de- ter."
Israel's Guarantee
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tion to political internationaliza - marcation dividing the realm of
BEN LUTZ • GEORGE SIMONS
Speaking on behalf of Great
tion—Eban said, "As soon as secular government from the
this became the clear conviction domain of religious interests," Britain, Sir Alexander Cadogan
of the government of Israel and he said his government is con- told the committee that his
the Jews of Jerusalem, it was vinced that "if the United Na- country gave wholehearted sup-
conveyed to the United Nations tions, at this session, can take port to the Commission's plan,
and its organs." He added, "In adequate and agreed measures although saying that it would
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no circumstances would we pur- for protection of holy places, it welcome any changes that
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conciliation.
expense of our people. If, last j ectives of international inter- spirit
Ahmad Shukairy, of Syria,
May, the choice had been be- ests," and he asserted that Is-
tween acquiescence and with-
drawal of Israel authorities from
Jerusalem or the renunciation
of the prospect of membership
in the United Nations, we should
unhesitatingly, though with pro-
found regret, have taken the
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latter course.
"There is no slight moral in-
consistency," he insisted, "be-
tween our solitary effort at one
time to secure faithfUl imple-
mentation of the partition reso-
STARTING AS LOW AS
lution and our firm conviction
today that the General Assembly
must take into account not
merely the facts created by
adoption of that resolution but
the consequences arising from
its non-implementation."
He pointed out further that
"The General Assembly itself
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"Neither," he added, "has the
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Eban declared that "Never in
history has an international
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