Friday, December 6, 1963—THE DETROIT JEWISH NEW S-12
Opposition Party Charges UN Vote
on Refugees Is 'Failure' for Israel
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
JERUSALEM — Opposition
party deputies charged Tuesday,
during parliamentary debate on
the Arab refugee problem, that
developments at the recent
United Nations discussion of the
issue represented a "great fail-
ure" for Israel.
The Knesset concluded debate
of the issue by adopting a reso-
lution which took note of the
statement by Mrs. Meir that Is-
rael would not conduct negoti-
ations on the refugees on the
basis of Paragraph II of the 1948
UN resolution listing the alter-
natives of repatriation or com-
pensation.
The debate began Monday
with a report by Mrs. Golda
Meir, Israel's Foreign Minister,
on the developments two weeks
ago in the special political com-
mittee of the UN General As-
sembly, where a United States-
sponsored resolution was ap-
proved 83 to one, Israel casting
the lone negative vote.
Israel had termed the resolu-
tion "unacceptable" in that it
revived a 1948 resolution call-
ing for repatriation or compen-
sation for the refugees with no
reference to the possibility of
their resettlement in the Arab
host countries. Israel took the
position during the debate of
expressing willingness to nego-
tiate with Arab countries on the
refugee issue separately.
Menachem Beigin, leader of
the Herut Party, accused the
government of violating a
Knesset 1961 resolution which
affirmed that the only solu-
tion of the refugee problem
was resettlement in Arab
countries. He said the "switch"
from a call for direct Israel-
Arab talks on a peace settle-
ment to one for talks on the
refugees separately was a
grave one. He asserted that
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under that proposal, Israel
"obviously" would not go to
the negotiating table with
nothing to offer.
Ishar Harari of the Liberal
Party said that to talk only
about the refugees was "just
what the Arabs want," but Is-
rael's strongest card, he said,
was -- no refugee talks as long
as the Arab states were unpre-
pared to live at peace with Is-
rael. He added that the Israel
government should urge the
United States to put an end to
the United Nations Relief and
Works Agency for the refugees
and that its contributions should
go direct to the host countries,
thus shifting responsibility for
the refugees from the United
Nations to the Arab countries.
David Hacohen of Mapai said
that the Arab states wanted to
destroy Israel by returning the
refugees and that the identifi-
cation of the refugee delegation
at the UN with the Arab states
proved that the refugees did not
deserve to return. He said that
Israel should intensify its infor-
mation activities in the United
States and shift its propaganda
emphasis from the UN to world
capitals.
Moshe Unna of the National
Religious Party welcomed
"under the circumstances" the
change in the pro-Israel reso-
lution draft of general talks
to refugee talks. He charged
the United States with respon-
sibility during the past three
years for prevention of adop-
tion of resolutions for direct
Israel-Arab talks. He said that
American action had strength-
ened Arab intransigance.
Itzhak Barcilay of Mapam
said that Israel-Arab talks on
refugees would "break the ice."
He urged the Israel government
to declare readiness to accept
back a certain number of refu-
gees. Moshe Sneh of the Com-
munist Party said that recogni-
tion of the refugee "right" to
return was the way to win rec-
ognition of Israel by the Arab
states. Menachem Porush of
Agudat Israel argued that it
would be dangerous to permit
the refugees to return except
in the framework of a general
peace settlement.
Mrs. Meir told the Knesset
that although Israel is ready
for direct negotiations with
Arab states now regarding set-
tlement of the Arab refugees,
"no resolution will force Israel
to accept a single refugee."
Since the U.S. resolution tied
the possible solution for the
refugee problem to one clause
of a 1948 Assembly resolution
calling only for "repatriation"
of the refugees or their com-
pensation by Israel, Mrs. Meir
said the 1948 clause was being
Canada Won't
Intervene for
Jews in Russia
OTTAWA, (JTA)—The Can-
adian government is not taking
any "official action" to inter-
vene through diplomatic chan-
nels with the Soviet government
in regard to anti - Jewish dis-
criminations in the USSR for
fear that such action might
"provoke further restrictions
against the Jewish community
of the USSR," Prime Minister
Lester B. Pearson declared in
parliament.
The Prime Minister made that
statement in replying at length
to a question asked by former
Prime Minister John G. Diefen-
baker, leader of the Opposition.
Diefenbaker had asked whether
the government was taking any
action, in response to requests
by Jewish organizations in the
Dominion, "regarding shocking
treatment of 3,000,000 Soviet
Jews who have been subjected
to increasing discrimination and
persecution."
interpreted "out of context and
incorrectly."
She added that the United
States, by its stand, undertook
a great responsibility. The U.S.
stand, she said, "tends to create
among the Arabs the illusion
of the possibility of a mass re-
turn of Arab refugees."
But, Mrs. Meir said, "I am
not of the opinion that there
is room for disappointment
here on American tactics at
the United Nations." This de-
claration echoed a previous
statement by President Zal.-
man Shazar.
Prime Minister Levi Eshkol
also announced earlier at a
press conference in Tel Aviv
that he could see no change in
the United States attitude to-
ward Israel. He said that Israeli-
United States relations were
based on a wide range of mat-
ters, and that an attitude on one
point did not necessarily sym-
bolize any basic change in re-
lations.
Eshkol explained further that
there had been no retreat in
Israel's basic position in regard
to Arab relations when Israel
indicated readiness to negotiate
with the Arabs separately on
the refugee issue. The main
point, he said, was that Israel
wants to sit down at the same
tamle with the Arabs to nego-
tiate and that this readiness
should be recognized by the
Arabs.
(Related Story Page 11)
Hebrew University Arcitaeologists
Find New Dead Sea Scroll in Israel
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—A Dead
Sea scroll containing the 81st to
the 85th Psalms has been found
at the Massada fortress near the
Dead Sea where a team of He-
brew University archaeologists
are currently excavating the
palace of King Herod, it was
announced by Dr. Yigael Yadin,
Israel's former Chief of Staff,
and director of the expedition.
The first Biblical scroll dat-
ing from the period of the Sec-
ond Temple (516 B.C.E. to 70
C.E.), it was found with a sec-
ond non-Biblical scroll, inside
the northwestern wall of the
fortress. Prof. Yadin said that
the script of the scroll is iden-
tical with that of the Dead Sea
lovely onions
reu
scrolls and will therefore be of
great value for their study.
Also found in the fortress
during the latest phase of the
excavation was a hoard of 17
silver shekels from the time of
the first Jewish revolt around
70 C.E. The coins were inscrib-
ed with the words, "Shekel of
Israel" a n d "Jerusalem the
Holy." In other parts of the
fortress were vessels, baskets
and weapons, several scores of
spherical stones used as cata-
pult projectiles and fragments
of shields.
A wise son delights his father,
a foolish son afflicts his mother.
—Proverbs 10.
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