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Israel Beset by New Attacks
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The complaint was contained in
a letter submitted by Ambassa-
dor Michael S. Comay, Israel's
permanent representative, to the
president of the Security Council.
Comay asked that the letter be
circulated among Security Coun-
cil members but did not ask for
a meeting on the complaint. The
letter described the incidents as
"fresh instances of armed raids
into Israel territory for the pur-
pose of laying land mines on road-
ways."
The letter said that, on Dec.
9, two British Mark-2 type mines
were discovered and deactivated
on a track in the Lachish area
which had been planted within
48 hours before their discovery
not far from the Jordan border.
"From leaflets found in the vi-
cinity of each mine in Arabic and
crude Hebrew, it appeared that
the El Fatah organization claimed
to be responsible," the letter
stated. El Fatah is an Arab com-
mando group. The letter said
that the two instances were re-
ported to and investigated by the
Israel-Jordan Mixed Armistice
Commission. -
On Dec. 28 a similar mine was
found and deactivated on a track
parallel to the Syrian border, the
letter reported, adding a com-
plaint was lodged with the Israel-
Syrian Mixed Armistice Commis-
sion. The letter said UN mili-
tary observers found footprints
of one person leading from the
site to the Syrian border. On Dec.
29 another Mark-2 mine was
found on the same track near the
site of the first mine. The letter
stressed that "this type of mili-
tary anti-tank mine is in regular
use by the Syrian armed forces.
The same type of mine was used
in many previous incidents • re-
ported to the Council."
Members of the Council are fa-
miliar with the pattern of ter-
rorists and sabotage raids into
Israel for the last two years and
there can be no doubt about the
danger to peace and security in
the area constituted by this type
of organized guerrilla activity
from neighboring states into Is-
rael territory," Ambassador Co-
may said in his letter. He stress-
ed that the Israeli government
"takes a grave view of the re-
sumption of these raids."
Question, the UN' reported. This
compared to 18 meetings on
Southern Rhodesia, the second
largest consumer of Security Coun-
cil time. The UN defined the
Pal estine Question as "com-
plaints by Syria, Israel and Jor-
dan regarding border incidents."
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TEL AVIV (JTA)—The Israeli
Army spokesman reported Tuesday
a new act of Arab sabotage in
the Upper Galilee near the Leba-
nese border, where a tool shed
was wrecked by an explosion.
Israel warned Lebanon
Wednesday it would be held re-
sponsible for infiltrations into
Israel of Arab saboteurs from
Lebanese territory as Syrians
opened fire Tuesday night on
an Israeli patrol again.
The warning was conveyed to
the Lebanese representative on
the Israeli-Lebanese Mixed Arm-
istice Commission to which Israel
complained. Tracks from the tool-
shed led to the Lebanese village
of Yarin, the DrIAC was told.
The patrol returned the fire in
the Huleh area in an exchange
lasting five minutes. No casual-
ties were reported.
The Palestine Liberation Or-
ganization on Treaties broadcast
from Cairo that a terrorist bat-
talion has been sent into Jordan
to attack the palace of King Hus-
sein and homes of his cabinet.
The aim is to destroy the mon-
archy and open a "liberation war"
against Israel all along her fron-
tiers, the broadcast said.
The new unit was identified as
the "Abdel Kader al Hussein Bri-
gade" named after an Arab fa-
natic who died in the 1947 war
against the Jews. The announce-
ment said the brigade was re-
sponsible for three bombings on
Monday in the Arab sector of Je-
rusalem.
An Israeli soldier was wound-
ed Monday morning when Sy-
rian troops entered Israeli ter-
ritory in the Korazim area near
Almagor north of Lake Tiberias
and opened fire on Israeli posi-
tions.
Troops entered Israeli terri-
tory at about 10 a.m. local time
and began firing on the Israelis
with recoilless guns, wounding
one Israeli soldier. The Israelis
returned the fire and subsequently
"The "Palestine Question"
filed a complaint with the Israel-
was the biggest order of busi-
Syrian Mixed Armistice Commis-
ness in 1966 for the United Na-
sion.
tions Security Council, accord-
Israeli and Syrian positions ex-
ing to the UN statistical round-
changed fire Sunday morning af-
up of activities during the year.
ter the Syrians opened machine-
Twenty-eight of the Security gun and rifle fire on three Is-
Council's 70 meetings in 1966 raeli tractors ploughing land near
were devoted to the Palestine
Haon settlement. The Syrians
continued firing as the Israeli
tractor drivers scurried for shelt-
er in the muddy fields. Israeli
units then opened fire on the Sy-
rian positions to provide cover for
the field workers.
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Sparodic firing lasted during the
early morning hours in the Haon
area Sunday after which the Is-
raelis continued their field work
unhampered. The ploughing is
essential in view of the seasonal
rains which destroy unploughed
fields on the slopes of hills.
to 2
Israel entered the new year with
predictions by qualified sources
that the country was facing an
uneasy year in 1967—a - continua-
tion of a "grey area" of neither
war nor peace but instead guer-
rilla warfare.
The sources said Israel's task
would be to keep such warfare
from escalating into large-scale
conflicts by making it clear to
Syria and to Egypt that continu-
ing sabotage might touch off the
full-scale war which Egypt, ac-
cording to its declared policy,
does not want now. This was un-
derstood to mean that Israel must
find means of bringing Egypt to
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restrain Syrian support of infil-
trator raids into Israel.
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The same sources also indi-
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cated they believed that King
Hussein's regime in Jordan had a
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of his many troubles, including Sy-
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rian hostility. the El Fatah, and
Shukairy's Palestine Liberation
Army. They said that Israel's
raid on Nov. 13 on Jordan had
forced Shukairy to act prema-
turely against the king and gave
King Hussein a chance to hit him
severely. Arab Legion troops in
Jordan reportedly have fought
Shukairy commandoes and have
clashed with Syrian infiltrators
sent into Jordan on sabotage mis-
sions.
The sources repeated Israel's
stand that any change in the
status quo in Jordan would be
dangerous to Israel and that this
was the reason for Israeli con-
cern and close attention to de-
velopments in Jordan.
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Friday, January 6, 1967 15
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troops in Jordan near the Israel
frontier. The contents of this
new note were not known, but it
is known that the King of Jordan
is not anxious to have foreign
Arab troops in his coutnry. The
king had made it a condition that
Egypt must order the United Na-
tions Emergency Force — which
stands in Egypt at the border with
Israel—out of Egyptian territory
before Jordan will admit foreign
Arab troops into its territory.
This, it is assumed here, Egypt
will hardly do.
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AHMED SHUKAIRY
Meanwhile, General Yitzhak
whom
live in the capital city of
Rabin, starting his fourth year
Syrian border is now heavily Lima.
as Israel's chief of staff, said
here that Israel's military guarded by Jordanian border po-
strength had been increased lice because of the open incite-
IF YOU TURN THE
"enormously" during the three ment by the leftist Syrian govern-
ment
against
the
Jordanian
ruler,
years of his service. He indi-
accusing him of preventing Arabs
cated that he had considerable
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from fighting Israel.
doubts about the utility of
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The reorganized Jordanian gov-
fences and electronic devices to
ernment
sent
a
new
note
to
the
protect Israel's borders from
Arab League in Cairo on the de-
Arab saboteurs.
cision
taken at the Arab Defense
"We did not come to Israel to
meeting earlier this
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live behind barbed wire," he said Council
in an interview with Yediot month to station Iraqi and Saudi
Ahronot, an evening newspaper,
"The adoption by Israel of such
a ghetto policy would just en-
courage the Arab saboteurs," he
declared. The strength of such
fences, he stated, "depends on
how strongly they are guarded."
His views were echoed by in-
formed sources here who said that
Israel was planning to erect
barbed wire fences but only in
places where they would buttress
other means of defense.
Gen. Rabin reiterated that Sy-
ria and Egypt held the key to fu-
ture activities of the El Fatah
commando raiders and of mem-
bers of Shukairy's Palestine Lib-
eration Army. He said Israel
must make it clear that such in-
cursions should not occur unless
Syria and Egypt sought a military
confrontation.
The General described Israel's
Nov. 13 raid on Jordan as a dem-
onstration that Israel would not
tolerate acts of Arab sabotage.
If more such acts occur, he added,
Israel would decide on appropriate
measures regardless of "outer
pressures."
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Chairman of U.S. Senate
Armed Services Committee
Seeks Israel Views
JERUSALEM (JTA) — United
States Senator Stuart Symington
of Missouri, chairman of the Sen-
ate 'Armed Services Committee,
left here Monday morning after
an 18-hour visit during which he
met with Prime Minister Levi
Eshkol, Foreign Minister Abba
Eban and former Chief of Staff
Moshe Dayan, now a member of
Ben-Gurion's Israel Workers fac-
tion in the Knesset.
Sen. Symington arrived here
Sunday from Jordan as part of a
tour of the Middle East after a
visit to Vietnam. His talks with
Eshkol and Eban dealt with the
situation in the Middle East and
Israel's views on American pro-
posals to use electronic devices
for sealing the border with Jor-
dan.
Ahmed Sukairy's Palestine
Arabs to Direct Commando
Operations in Israel
LONDON (JTA)—The Palestine
Liberation Organization—which is
bent on overthrowing King Hus-
sein of Jordan and on "march-
ing" on Israel—is preparing to go
underground in Jordan both for
the purpose of bringing about the
downfall of Hussein and direct-
ing commando operations in Is-
rael, it was reported from Beirut.
The PLO members are all Arab
refugees.
At the same time it was re-
ported from Amman, capital of
Jordan, that three Syrian soldiers
crossed the border into Jordan
and shot a Jordanian security
guard to death. The Jordanian-
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