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The three Israeli dead were
George Lazar, whose family had
come here from Hungary during
the exodus of many Hungarians
following the 1956 revolt in that
country; Yehuda Porat, .whose
origin was Persia; and Major
Louis Bronstein, whose mother and
sister still live in England. Lazar
was the fourth member of his
family killed; three children of the
Lazar family had been murdered
by the Nazis during World War II.
Lazar was laid to rest Sunday
in the military section of the Haifa
cemetery, while Porat's remains
were interred at Petach Tikvah.
Funeral services for Bronstein
took place Tuesday, after the ar-
rival of his relatives from England.
Delegations of settlers from Dan
and Shear Yashuv, the kibbutzim
hardest hit in Fridays attack, met
with Deputy Minister of Defense
Shimon Peres, who promised that
the government would aid them
toward "total rehabilitation" of the
settlements.
Israel's embassy officials in
Washington were in constant touch
with the State Department over .
the situation. Ambassador Avra-
ham Harman, in a lengthy talk ,
with Harlan Cleveland, Assistant
Secretary of State for International
Organization Affairs, emphasized
that Israel's action was purely de-
fensive.
There was a possibility also that
the Israeli Embassy has been in
touch here with the ambassadors
of most of the ten other members
of the Security Council, besides
the U.S.A. ( From Israel it was re-
ported that Mrs. Golda Meir, Is-
rael's foreign minister, conferred
with some of the envoys from
countries now represented on the
Security Council.) In addition to
the permanent members of the
Security Council — the United
States. Britain. France, the Soviet
Union and Nationalist China —
the current Council has represen-
tation also from Bolivia. Brazil,
Ivory Coast, Czechoslovakia, Nor-
way and Morocco.
UN Security Council
Hears Israel's Complaint
UNITED NATIONS. N.Y. (JTA)
—Israel sharply accused Syria at
a meeting of the Security Council
here of deliberately planning an
"act of provocation" by attacking
three Israeli villages on the north-
ern frontier last Friday and al-
lege& that Friday's "sinister" at-
tacks **suggest that there were
forces in Syria bent on stirring
up trouble in the broad context
of Arab affairs."
It requested that the Council in-
sist that Syria refrain "from all
further attacks upon or interfer-
ence with Israel activities in the
border zone, and in particular, all
firing across the border" as well as
"from all further threats against
the political independence and ter-
ritorial integrity of Israel.
The charges against Syria and
the request for stern action
against repetition of attacks like
those that occurred last Friday
and "hundreds" of others were
voiced by Israel Ambassador Mi-
chael Comay before a crowded
emergency session of the Council
this afternoon when the II-mem-
ber body met to consider charges
and counter-charges of aggres-
sion by Cyria and Israel.
Immediately after Adlai E. Ste-
venson, chairman of the U.S. dele-
gation, as chairman of this month's
Council, convened the meeting,
Secretary General U Thant made
the statement that he had "asked
the Chief of Staff of the United
Nations Truce Supervision Organ-
ization, Lt. General Odd Bull, to
submit to me a full factual re-
port on this recent and unfor-
tunate outbreak of fighting be-
tween Israel and Syria, which will
be as thorough and accurate as
General Bull and his observers
can make it on the basis of the
investigation they are conducting.
"I have received some informa
tion already but it is prelimin-
ary and fragmentary, and I feel
that it should not be submitted
until the investigation is con-
cluded and the full report has
been received."
Rafik Asha, Syria's permanent
representative here, was the first
of the disputants on the speakers '
list, accusing Israel in a lengthy,
emotion-packed speech of hav-
ing initiated the last weekend's
hostilities "by wanton aggression
against my country:" He charged
that Israel's use of air power,
which Israel insists was purely
a defensive measure, had con-
stituted a "carefully planned and
premeditated, treacherous and
savage aerial bombardment."
Contrary to Israel's assertion
that Israel's air strike did not ,
take place until Syria had refused
to accept a cease fire arrangement .
made by UNTSC, Asha claimed
that Israeli planes had attacked
not gun emplacements but "three
peaceful villages in addition to
our defensive positions." As a
result, he said, the Syrian losses,
were seven dead and 26 injured.
In his calm presentation of
the facts to the Security Coun-
cil, Comay told the body that
Syria has been violating the
United Nation's Charter and
the 1949 Syrian-Israeli armistice
agreement consistently and re-
peatedly for the last 15 years.
He told the Council that only
ten days prior to last Friday's
fighting a party of Israeli work-
men repairing the road on the
Syrian border where Friday's
attack had occurred "were fired
at from the Syrian side and
were rescued only after a
sharp exchange of fire in which
two Syrian tanks joined."
Comay said that as a result of
that attack Israel had complained
to the Mixed Armistice Commis-
sion "and the investigation showed
that the Syrian charge of en-
croachment across the border was
unsubstantiated. - Asserting that
the roadway where an Israeli
patrol was attacked by Syria last
Friday "is wholly on the Israel
side of the border," Comay de-
clared "the Syrian story that the
Israel patrol launched a suicidal
attack against their position is too
absurd for serious attention."
The Israel ambassador told the
Council that he has learned that
three Israeli villages and not
two had been attacked by the
Syrians. In addition to bombard-
ing Kibbutz Dan and Shear
Yashuv the Syrians had also at-
tacked the Kibbutz of Dafna. "Here
too," he said, "extensive damage
was inflicted to the buildings.
orchards and crops."
He expressed an assumption that
fuller particulars about the Syrian
bombardment will be contained in
the forthcoming United Nations
investigation report. He circu-
lated to the members of the
Council a map showing the rela-
tive positions of the Syrian gun
emplacements on the heights over-
looking the border and the Israeli
villages below those hills.
"What I wish to stress," Comay
said, is that these villages con-
tain peaceful civilian communi-
ties, not involved in the initial
attack or the response to it. The
heavy and accurate shell fire
poured onto the villages had no
milatary reason. This action
ranks among the most brutal and
large-scale onslaughts on the
population which even this un-
happy border has seen. If the
inhabitants had not immediately
taken shelter, and if the Syrian
guns had not been silenced, the
casualties and destruction would
have been far greater than they
actually were."
"Israel planes went into action
as a last resort, after the shelling
of the villages had continued for
45 minutes, and after an appeal
by the United Nations representa-
tives for a cease-fire had been
accepted on the Israel side but
ignored by the Syrians. No other
effective means was available in
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Friday, November 20, 1964-41
"1. Repeated acts of aggression sent its planes into the air against
the area by which the shelling
could have been halted. The sole committed by Syrian armed forces the Syrian posts. (A report from
purpose of this air strike was to against citizens and territory of Syria claimed that seven Syrians
suppress gun positions which were Israel in violation of the General were killed and 36 wounded by
operating at the time against our Armistice Agreement, culminating Israel's counter-attack.)
Comay made it clear that "the
population and territory. That in the . Syrian attack on November
employment of Israel's planes was
purpose was achieved, and the 13, 1964.
cease-fire was accepted and came
"2. Threats by official spokes- a last resort, as an emergency
into operation immediately after- men of the Syrian Government defense measure" and "must be
wards. My government accepts full against the territorial integrity understood in relation to the
responsibility for this defensive and political independence of nature of the terrain." He pointed
measure. It was left with no Israel. in violation of the United out that the terrain is such that
there is no other way for Israel
alternative course of action, in Nations Charter."
to defend itself under the circum-
discharge of its obligation to
According to Comay, the
stances existent on Friday.
defend the state against attack."
Syrians opened fire suddenly, in
Comay also noted that Maj. Gen.
After some further but brief • broad daylight, along an Israeli
Odd Bull, chief of staff of UNTSO,
attacks against Israel by Asha and border track northeast of Kib-
has of late taken up with Syrian
butz Dan. Two tanks joined the
by Dey Ould Sidi Baba, of
authorities the issue of their shoot-
Morocco, a member of the Council, Syrian attack and, in order to
ing at Israelis, and had obtained
Stevenson recessed the meeting . extricate the Israeli patrol, Is-
from them promises that such
pending the receipt of a full rael returned the fire. Then,
attacks would cease.
report on the Syrian Israeli situ- according to Comay, "fortified
ation from General Bull. Stevenson Syrian army positions on the
High Intermarriage Rate
said he would consult the other hilltops of Tel el-Hamra opened
members of the Council about the artillery and heavy mortar
Reported in W. Ausrlia
bombardment of the Israeli vil-
date and time for the next ses-
ELBOURE,
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sion after Thant infornis him of lage of Shear Yashuv and Kib-
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of intermarriage in West Australia
butz Dan, which are respectively
the receipt of the Bull report.
is the highest of any state in the
Comay had asked Mr. Asha 1.700 and 500 meters on the
commonwealth, the executive
pointedly a series of questions Israeli side of the border. Other
Council of the Australian Jewiih
about Syria's intentions regarding Syrian fortified gun emplace-
Conference was told.
its desires for war or peace. He ments on the high -ground
The report. prepared by the
challenged the Syrian to tell the further back from these hilltops
Fire
the
bombardment.
West Australian Jev, ish Board of
Council "right here and now" joined in
Deputies. predicted that disappear-
whether Syria intends to honor its was returned in an effort to
ance of the Jewish community
1949 armistice agreement or "at silence the Syrian guns."
It was only after Israel coin- could result from the current rate
pared to renounce the use of plained to military observers rep- of inter'marriage combined with
force as a means of resolving. resenting the United Nations Truce the present - negligible - rate of
conflict." Although Asha took the Supervision Organization, and the immigration. Similar fears were
floor again after Mr. Comay had UN military observers had twice expressed at the recent annual
spoken, he failed to answer these requested Syria to cease fire — meeting of the Queensland Jewish
pointed questions." which Syria ignored — that Israel Board of Deputies.
least that his government is pre -
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