Tension Mounts on Israel Borders; UN Censure Due?

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Some observers expressed fear
the cancelatons might encourage
more sabotage by the arabs who
might consider the cancelations
proof of the effectiveness of such
guerilla attacks.

raeli army permitted publication
and display of blow-ups of the
aerial photographs.

as given in the report of UN Truce
Jacques Torczyner, president
In an interview with the London
Supervision Chief, Gen. Odd Bull, of the Zionist Organization of Guardian correspondent in Jeru-
was "based on hearsay," and "ex-
America, expressed "shock" at I salem, Eban called Syria the
aggerated and inaccurate" testi-
Israel returned to Jordan one
the "harsh tone employed by the i "chief instigator" of guerrilla at-
of the soldiers taken prisoner mony by Jordanian witnesses. In
United States in censuring Is- tacks on Israel in recent months.
correcting what he called inac-
during the raid. The soldier, a
rael's retaliatory action" of last He said Israeli strategy begins
private in the Arab Legion, was curacies in the repo*, Comay
Sunday. with an effort to make its terri-
stressed
the
following
points:
handed over to United Nations
Another "delicate" border point
In a statement referring to Am - tory as "impenetrable" as possible
1. The number of houses demol-
with Jordan is now fenced in and
authorities at Mandelbaum Gate.
bassador Goldberg's speech in the to incursions while exercising
lighted. It is near Romema, a sec-
ished
was
far
less
than
the
number
restraint, but that, as
A second prisoner, a Jordanian
UN Security Council Nov. 16 con-
tion of New Jerusalem where ex- major, was wounded, removed to an stated in the report.
demning the raid on Jordan, a last and reluctant" resort, Is-
plosives planted last month by in- Israeli hospital and died during an
2. The total civilian casualties Torczyner
would undertake "active de-
filtrators caused considerable dam- life. His body was handed over to were 3 killed and 17 injured with Torczyner claimed that it was the terrence."
"failure"
of
the
United
Nations
age to a number of buildings but operation undertaken to save his 10 of the latter suffering minor in-
"which has forced Israel to defend i
no casualties.
juries.
UN authorities earlier this week.
itself." He added: "If the Soviet THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
3.
Prime Minister Levi Eshkol
The military casualties were Union had not vetoed a mild reso- 12 Friday, November 25, 1966
Reports received here said that
told the Israel cabinet Sunday both Jordan and Lebanon had fur- 15 killed and 37 wounded (29 light- lution" in its series of meetings
that reports of Jordan's casual- ther reenforced their positions on ly) on the Jordan side, and 1 killed "condemning Syria for its repeated
and 10 wounded on the Israel side. aggressions and murderous incur-
ties and damages in the Israeli Israel's borders.
raid had been exaggerated and
4. The number of Israel tanks sions into Israel, this situation
Syria is rushing work on diver- used in the area of the incident was would have been avoided."
expressed the opinion that the
severity of international criti-
sion of the Dufeila, a tributary 10. None of them were Patton Eban Says Guerrilla War
which provides water to irrigate tanks.
cism of the raid was due partly
Against Israel Poses
farm lands of Kibbutz Shamir, I
to such exaggerations.
5. The total number of personnel Unprecedented Problem
Israeli officials said.
involved was under 400, most of
The Premier stressed, in his re-
LONDON (JTA)--Israel is still
port to the Cabinet, that no artil- They added that if the Syrians whom were needed to ensure evac- seeking a way to cope with Arab
lery had been used in the Nov. 13 who have assembled a large num- ; uation of the houses to prevent guerrilla warfare which will end
action and that Israeli planes had bet of workers and considerable casualties. such raids against Israel without
not fired at any ground targets. equipment for the diversian proj-
6. There was no bombardment creating the threat of major war-
His comments were made in con- ect, succeed in shutting off the or strafing from the air. The sole fare, Israel's Foreign Minister,
nection with the introduction of flow, the settlement would have to intervention by Israel aircraft was Abba Eban said in a television in-
, new measures to strengthen Is- get water from other sources and by four planes that intercepted terview from Jerusalem broad-
rael's defenses against Arab in primp it to its fields and groves. ; four Jordanian planes attempting cast here.
filtrators. Two weeks ago, the Jordanian authorities began dis- to attack the Israeli ground force.
He said that the Arab view was
Premier announced an increase in tributing arms in villages near the One of the Jordanian planes was
HANK NEWMAN
border police and field forces for Israeli border, it was reported shot down, and no Israel plane fired that small guerrilla forces could
President
i achieve political results far more
that purpose which led to an ex- here. At the same time, special re- at any ground target.
tension of compulsory military cruitment centers have been open-
7. There was no artillery she ll. effective than confrontations bet-
service for Israelis from 24 to 30 ed throughout Jordan to sign up ing.
ween regular military forces in
months. additional volunteers for the Arab
Ambassador Comay reiterated which Syria or Jordan "would
Prior to the premier's report, Legion.
in the letter that the "sole objec- come off badly." He said this be-
Israeli sources had asserted that
Israeli officials were reported tive of the Israel action was to de- lief was a source of special danger
there were a number of major in- to be disturbed by an appar-
molish a limited number of empty because "the technical answer" to
accuracies in the formal United ent deliberate Soviet leak to
houses after their occupants had i such tactics "has not yet been
Nations Truce Supervision Organi- the Arab press that the Soviet been evacuated. This was done as found."
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nation report on the Israeli raid. Union has rejected a proposal by
a warning against aiding and har-
The report, which was requested Foreign Minister Abba Eban to
boring saboteur and terrorist
by the Security Council, now in visit Moscow for a conference groups that had been carrying out
session on a Jordanian charge of with Soviet leaders. Arab news-
a number of raids into Israel in
aggression against Israel, listed 16 papers reported that the Soviet that sector of the border."
Jordanian soldiers and three civil- government informed Arab am- U.S. State Dept. Studying
ians- killed and 134 persons wound- bassadors in Moscow of the turn-
Plans to Pacify Borders
F un
ed of whom 37 were alleged to be down.
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from Lt. Gen. Odd Bull, chief of ed in the "Palestine Liberation which United Nations forces would
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staff of UNTSO, that 125 houses Organization" than of any anti- patrol a zone on both sides of the
and other structures were destroy- Israel intentions.
frontier to deter infiltrations and
ed in the Samua area action. The
A 21-year-old Arab of Zangariya reprisals.
formal UNTSO report cited a state- j Village in Galilee was arrested
Such a scheme was reported to
ment by a Jordanian colonel in Monday on charges of espionage. envisage a UN patroled-strip-
command of the Hebron area, He is accused of having been em- possibly two to three kilometers
where the Israeli raid took place, ployed by Syrian intelligence.
wide—on both sides of the border.
as telling UN investigators that
Mohammed El Farra , perman- Roving UN patrols, helicopter sur-
Israeli forces included about 80 ent representative of Jordan to th
the veillance, and fixed guard posts
Patton tanks and a number of ar-
Read the following out loud: Jerusalem,
Nations, called on the coun- would seek a coordinate system to
mored personnel carriers, as well cil to include five specific meas- interdict and inhibit crossings in
Galilee, Mt. Zion, Mt. Carmel, Acre, Caesarea,
as 12 Mirage jet fighters.
urns in any resolution it adopts. either direction. The divided city
the Red Sea, the Dead Sea, Beersheba, Tel Aviv,
(At the UN Securtiy Council Dr. The measures were: 1. a condem- of Jerusalem presumably would
Haifa.
J. G. Debeus of the Netherlands nation of the attack of Nov. 13; 2. be exempted.
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