King Hussein Wants Arab Sabotage Raids
Into Israel Stopped; Hits Palestine Army
WASHINGTON (JTA) — King
Hussein of Jordan, in an exclusive
interview published here Monday
by the U.S. News• and World Re-
port, said that the Arab sabotage
raids into Israel are contrary to
agreements at Arab summit con-
ferences and "almost of a help
to the Israelis in attaining their
objectives by providing them with
a pretext which they can use to
further their own ends."
He said Arah strategy demanded
crossing into Israel be stopped at
this time "because this might give
Israel a pretext to wage a war at
a time when the build-up of de-
fensive capabilities of the border-
ing Arab states have not been com-
pleted."
He made clear that he opposed
the so-called Palestine Liberation
Army. He termed it a subversive
influence, following "an extreme.
left ideology," and armed by the
Communist bloc, mainly China.
been done with the arms to meet The committee called for a
the real threat the Israelis pose." "stronger and more dynamic U.S.
order to reverse the
Earlier, in London experts on policy in
drift towards war and to
Arab affairs said that, despite present
efforts at unity at the Arab achieve direct Arab-Israel negotia-
Defense Council, the three "re- tions for a peace settlement."
volutionary" states, Egypt, Syria The committee's statement
welcomed recent reaffirmation of
and Iraq—have decided to push
U.S. commitments to strengthen
a coordinated campaign against
Israel defenses, to preserve Is-
King Hussein's regime in Jordan.
rael's
sovereignty and to oppose
According to the experts, the
three Arab countries are seeking aggression to the Near East.
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6—Friday, December 23, 1966
Israel is being attacked in Pravda.
The renewed attack comes after
a high ranking Soviet official,
whose name was not disclosed
here had told Israeli diplomats in
New York that he knows that
Israel is not interested in under-
mining the present regime in Syria
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but only in maintaining peace on
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the borders.
The article in the Moscow news-
paper charged Israel with "pro-
vocations" against the Arab states
and declares that these "provoca-
tions" are part of an "imperialist
scheme" to topple the Syrian re-
At the same time, the committee gime which is being supported by
warned against continuing Arab the Soviet Union.
preparations for war against Israel,
—
-
the intensification of guerrilla ter-
rorism and the costly and dan-
gerous escalation of the arms race.
In Paris, Abba Eban, Israel's
foreign minister, said after a 40-
minute meeting with French For-
and
eign Minister Maurice Couve de
Murville, that he had explained,
to use the defense council itself
as an instrument to force King
Hussein to accept units of their
troops. The king has agreed to
accept troops from Saudi Arabia
but attached conditions considered
as practically nullifying the pro-
posal.
The three countries also plan to
continue to send El Fatah guer-
rillas from Syria to Jordan and
then into Israel to keep Jordanian- as he had in the United States,
Israeli border tensions at a peak, that Israel's security situation had
changed in the past year, neces-
the experts asserted.
In Jerusalem Foreign Minister sitating a different Israeli reaction.
At the same time, the king
* *
said that Israel is expansionist- Abba Eban confirmed Monday
minded and he called for re- night in a broadcast interview that Moscow Renews Attack
moval of United Nations forces Israel would not remain passive
from Sinai and Gaza to force if non-Jordanian armed forces were on Israel in Organ Pravda
Israel to divert her military stationed in Jordan. JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli
The issue arose after the Arab i officials were puzzled Monday by
strength from the Jordanian
Defense Council decided at a meet- the appearance in Pravda, offi-
frontier.
ing
in Cairo earlier this month that cial organ of the Communist Party
Commenting on a question in-
volving alleged Israeli expansionist Iraqi and Saudi Arabian troops in the Soviet Union, of a renewed
tendencies, Hussein said: "I be- should be station in Jordan as attack against Israel. This is the
lieve more than ever that. in re- part of a combined Arab deploy- third time within a month that
ment of forces against Israel. Ob-
gard to Western Jordan, it cer-
tainly has got some ambitions— ; servers here tended to dismiss the
if not to take over and control possibility as one likely to remain
territory, at least to get into a a decision on paper because of
bargaining position by hitting us concern by King Hussein that for-
before we are ready to defend our- eign troops might join with Jor-
danian elements opposing him to
selves."
Withdrawal of UNEF, he said, overthrow his government.
Eban's statement agreed to
"would make less serious the
the essence of a speech by Labor
threat of Israeli attack, because
the Israelis would have to divert Minister Yigal Alon last week-
end. Eban said that Israel's posi-
their forces and reckon with the
tion as announced in 1958 re-
Egyptians."
While denouncing the Soviet mained one of opposition to any
change in the status quo in Jor-
Union for plotting to seize power
dan. He noted that Jordan had
in the Arab world, King Hussein
nevertheless maintained that arms undertaken under the Jordanian-
Israeli armistice agreement to
shipments from Russia to some
Arab states were not really up- evacuate Iraqi troops from its
setting the Arab-Israel military territory.
In Boston, U.S. Sen. Edward M.
balance. He said that "nothing has
Kennedy. Massachusetts Democrat.
who visited the Middle East re-
cently. proposed Sunday night that
the U.S. guarantee the territorial
integrity of both Israel and Jordan
as one step toward the reduction
of tensions in the Middle East
region. He said he had found, in
the area. "greater hardening • of
lines and less understanding than
I had anticipated."
He voiced his proposal at a
breakfast of the Combined Jewish
Philanthropies of Greater Boston.
Among the concrete steps he ad-
vocated for pacification of the
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