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Eban Presents Program for Amity in Middle East
Israel Pleads for Peace;
Arab Obstacles Increasing
Israel's call for United Nations action to make possible immediate
negotiations between the Jewish state and Jordan, at UN headquarters
in New York, on all matters in dispute between the two countries, this
week assumed major significance as a pressing item that must be attended
to in the best interests of peace.
The request in behalf of Israel was made by Abba Eban in what is
considered the most important declaration on the present situation. The
chief Israel delegate to the United Nations, who also is the Israeli Am-
bassador to the United States, in a two-and-a-half hour speech on Nov.
12, called upon the UN Security Council to press for a peace settlement in
Palestine. He proposed an immediate meeting of Israeli and Jordan
political and military authorities at the UN as means of ironing out arm-
istice problems and of preventing border incidents.
Two days after the UN Security Council heard this historic speech
which was interrupted by Lebanon's delegate Charles Malik in an effort
to reduce Mr. Eban's time of speaking, the Arab League made known
in Washington the text of an address on Nov. 3 by Abdel Khalik Has-
souna of Egypt, secretary-general of the eight-nation Arab League,
offering the United States the choice either of greater friendship with
the Arab world or loss by the U. S. of strategic bases and economic
interests in the Middle East. He charged the U. S. with bowing before
strong supporters of Israel and Zion, made charges of "Zionist aggression"
and "expansionist Zionism" and demanded that no U. S. resources be used
"to finance aggressive adventures against the peace-loving Arab nations."
In the meantime, also, Jordan announced in Amman its refusal to
-consider the Jordan Valley Authority plan advanced by Eric Johnston in
behalf of President Eisenhower, rejecting any collaboration with Israel.
The contentions are that this plan would be two-thirds to the benefit of
the Arab states, with Israel on the short end of gains.
In his address before the UN, Mr. Eban charged Great Britain with
being allied to Jordan's military activities, in the present emergency.
Last Friday, as a result of reports of British influence on the U. S.
'delegation to the UN, Louis Lipsky, chairman of the American Zionist
Council, sent the following telegram to Secretary of State Dulles:
"We are gravely concerned over published reports that our UN dele-
gation will co-sponsor a resolution in the Security Council omitting any
recommendation for direct Arab-Israel peace talks. We hope that these
reports are inaccurate. We believe that failure to summon the parties to
immediate peace negotiations would be a retreat from our past position
and a grave disservice to peace. We sincerely trust that our country
will use its great moral influence and prestige to hasten a firm and last-
ing settlement."
In the major statement of policy, Mr. Eban warned that "if this
Council wants security, it must enunciate the need for peace."
He announced that lie had been empowered by the Israel govern-
ment "with the assistance of senior political and military advisors," to
represent Israel in direct talks with Jordan representatives at the UN.
Referring to the Kibya incident, Mr. Eban said that "the mood and
the background" of the Kibya incident can only be understood in the
light of the atmosphere in which Israel's "hard struggle for security
and peace" is conducted. The Israel government, he said, "regards the
loss of innocent life at Kibya with profound and unreserved regret."
This, he said, "was a most unfortunate explosion of pent up feeling
and tragic breakdown of restraint after the provocation of brutal attacks
such as the cold-blooded murder of a mother and her children m their
sleep." He declared the circumstances of the incident were precisely as
outlined in Premier David Ben-Gurion's statement of October 19. He
pledged "the cooperation of my government . . for any purposeful at-
tempt to eliminate the conditions in which bloodshed can occur and to
put the whole sorry sequence of violence behind us."
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Mr. Eban recounted that between May, 1950 and August 1953, 421
Israelis had been killed and wounded on the Jordan frontier, that there
were 128 cases of sabotage or mining, 866 clashes with armed marauders
in Israel territory, 122 armed robberies and 3,263 thefts and burglaries.
He pointedly noted that Britain, which is bound by a military alliance
with Jordan, could have bee,n "a very active factor in preventing the
original invasion of Israel in 1948."
Mr. Eban presented a six-point program for dealing with the com-
plaint now before the Council:
1. The tension should be diagnosed as a threat to security arising from
the absence of peaceful relations between Israel and the Arab States.
2. Attention should be drawn to the fact that the main objective of the
armistice agreements, the transition to permanent peace, has not been com-
plied with and that the fulfillment of this armistice provision has a clear prior-
ity and urgency over all subsidiary provisions.
3. Attention should be drawn to the fact that the Security Council's own
past resolutions on peace and security, especially its resolution against block-
ade and belligerency adopted Sept. L. 1951, have not been implemented.
4. The Security Council should take note of the only conclusion agreed
to by Israel and by the Arab authorities and indicated by Gen. Bennike's report,
namely that the most specific source of current tension is infiltration or ma-
rauding into Israel territory especially from Jordan.
5. The Chief of Staff and the chairman of the Mixed Armistice Commis-
sion should be asked to pursue their high objectives for international peace in
assisting the operation of the armistice agreements, but the Council should also
request the UN representatives in the area to devote their special attention to
those provisions of the armistice agreement and Council resolutions which have
not yet been implemented, especially those provisions for a transition to per-
manent peace.
6. Signatories of each armistice agreement should be called upon to enter
into direct negotiations with a view to replacement of the armistice agreements
by final peace settlements.
Mr. Eban told the Council that "while it would be wrong to promise
that a call for peace by the Security Council would immediately improve
the situation, the absence of such a call would assuredly have the gravest
repercussions." This, he said, would indicate that the Council no longer
wished to see the main purposes of the armistice agreements, "namely,
an urgent transition to permanent peace settlements," fulfilled. "There
are but two alternatives," the Israeli representative said, "the present
siege and tension or a negotiated peace settlement. Can the Security Coun-
cil be neutral or impartial between these two concepts?"
Mr. Eban charged that the tensions on Israel's frontier were due to
"an unexampled policy of political, economic and military siege," con-
ducted by the Arab, states. "The attacks on Israel's life, property and
communications under cover of armistice agreements are purposeful and
deliberate," he said. 'They lead inevitably to counteractions, some of
which, such as the Kibya incident, cause a loss of innocent life which Israel
deeply regrets and unreservedly deplores."
Mr. Eban charged that the armistice agreements "have existed too
long and have lost their effectiveness." He said that these agreements had
been "inoperative for four years in two further vital respects"—access to
Mt. Scopus and continual blockade practices at the Suez Canal.
Dr. Charles Malik, of Lebanon, who insisted on being heard im-
mediately after Mr. Eban,-accused him of attempting "to drown the recent
aggression by Israel at Kibya in a generalized debate on all sorts of aspects
of the Palestine question."
Dr. Malik indicated that the Arabs would request the Security Coun-
cil to "pronounce a condemnation" of Israel and to ask Israel to take all
necessary measures "to bring to justice the perpetrators" of the Kibya
raid; to insure compensation for loss of life and damage and to make a
general request that no military or economic assistance be given Israel with-
out proper guarantees that Israel will refrain from such acts as the raid.
Blumberg, Goldman and Lurie
Retain Allied Drive Leadership
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Irving W. Blumberg- , Harvey H. Gold man and John E. Lurie, chairmen and pre-
campaign chairman, respectively, of the 1953 Allied Jewish Campaign. again accepted
these posts in the 1954 drive, Samuel H. Rubiner, president of the Jewish Welfare Fed-
eration, announced this week.
The 1954 drive will mark the 29th consecutive Allied Jewish Campaign. Sponsored
by the Jewish Welfare Federation, the drive had its origin in 1926 when some 3,000
contributors joined forces in an over-all effort for domestic health, welfare and educa-
tional service as well as for overseas relief and rehabilitation. In 1953 over 28,000
persons pledged to the campaign.
Blumberg and Goldman, associate chairmen of the - 1952 campaign, are former
presidents of the Detroit Service Group.
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Goldman, president of the Jewish Community Center, is chairman of the board of
the Service Group and a member of the executive committee of Federation.
Lurie was the 1951-53 vice-chairman of the Food Service Council. He is a member
of the board of Federation.
The Allied Jewish Campaign supports the United Jewish Appeal and 56 other
;dal, national and overseas causes.
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EDITORIAL
Annual Jewish Book Fair
This week-end will be observed in our community as
Jewish Book Fair.
Under auspices of the Jewish Community Center, in
cooperation with hundreds of local organizations, special
programs will be conducted at the Davison Jewish Center,
with Maurice Samuel, noted author and lecturer, and other
writers on the program.
Conducted here as part of the National Jewish Book
Month, this celebration serves to encourage the reading
and the buying of Jewish books, the giving of encourage-
ment to our writers and publishing houses.
The programs this week-end, for which large audi-;
ences are anticipated, should stimulate greater interest in
Jewish books. It is sincerely to be hoped that the results
of srtdi observances will be to lead our communities in the
paths of greater devotion to educational efforts and to the
raising of our cultural standards.