Israel Wants Direct Peace Talks
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belligerent status the Arabs
have assumed against Israel
since 1949.
officials pointed out that as a
recognized state. Israel would have
normal transit rights in the Suez
Canal and the Gulf of Aqaba. Wash-
ington also envisaged the removal
of the problem of the Palestinian
Arab refugees, a source of con-
tinuous friction.
The question of boundaries was
not defined, although officials cit-
ed President Johnson's May 23
statement on the territorial integ-
rity of the states of the Near East.
(WS
The Isreati Government an-
nounced that the war had cost
Israel 679 dead and more than
2.500 wounded., 2SS of them seri-
oust.. Those killed in action in-
cluded 21.0 in the Sinai Teminsula
campaign, 11111 in the (.27.2 Strip
battle. 170 in the fight for the
old Cit. of Jerusalem and SO in
the final two days of battle
against S.ria. The Air Force
lost 20 pilots.
UNITED NATIONS
c.ndernn-
The Soviet
fcy its un-
ing Israel and
conditional removal of i•.,z troops •
to the 1949 armistice line was de-,
'eared by the Security Council.
Tuesday.
W AS111NGTON — The Defense
1-1 :par: :nen t said Wednesday it
would make public a comprehen-
sive report on the investigation of
the accidental Israeli attack on
the 1 . S.S. Liberty.
A U.S. Navy Court of Inquiry
convened at Valetta, Malta, Wed-
nesday. The Liberty is now docked
there for repairs.
12—Friday, June 16, 1967
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NEW YORK (JTA)—The Con-
ference of Presidents of Major
American Jewish Organizations
NEW YORK — The American
protested Soviet "invective and in-
Jewish Congress voiced strong sup-
citement against Israel' at the
. for Israel's retention of oc-
United Nations and called on the port
copied territories pending the nego-
USSR to support not one side or
the other but the overriding cause tiation of a permanent peace agree-
ment with the Arab states.
of international peace." Dr. Joa-
chim Prinz, chairman of the Presi- "Until this final peace settle-
dent's Conference voiced "shock ment has been achieved, Israel
and concern" at the Soviet rupture cannot he expected to return the
of diplomatic relations with Israel territories occupied during the
and the USSR's "disturbing role" course of a war it did not want
at the UN. and which it sought strenuously
"Instead of seeking to reduce to avoid," the Congress declared
tensions so that the new facts of in a resolution by its national ex-
the Middle East may he dealt with The resolution asked the earliest
realistically and rationally by the ' ecutive committee.
family of nations, the Soviet Am- possible lifting by the U.S. of its
hassador to the UN has elected to ban on travel to Israel.
out-harangue the Arab representa-
tives in his words of invective and
incitement against Israel," Rabbi
Prinz stated. "Indeed, he descend-
ed to new depths of calumny when
he compared Israel, the remnant
"If the life of Herod were fiction,
of }laterite persecution and mur-
something dreamed up by a novel-
der, to the Nazi demon."
The activities of the United Na- ist, we should be inclined to won-
tions in the Middle East were der about some excesses. We would
discussed Monday by Moshe Sas- Probably say that the novel was
son, head of the Israel foreign filled with too much violence, too
ministry's Arab affairs depart- , much passion, too much despair,
ment. and Lt. Gen. Odd Bull, head too much crulty, too much plot .
of the former UN Truce Supervi- But it is fact, not fiction, which
sion Organization. Israel no long- , makes Herod a fascinating man to
er recognizes Gen. Bull as head study," writes Samuel Sandmel in
of that organization but as the - "Ilerod: Profile of a Tyrant."
To readers of the New Testa-
personal representative of UN
Secretary General U Thant,
ment, Herod is known as the king
Gen. Bull, it was reported, de- who ordered the slaughter of the
mantled the return of his former innocents of Bethlehem. To the
headquarters which had been Romans, he was a reliable "client
seized by the Jordanians in the king," and to his family, he was
first day of fighting and later was both a devoted father and a mur-
recaptured from the Jordanians by derer.
the Israelis. Sasson reportedly in-
Dr. Sandmel has re-created the
formed Gen. Bull that this was a wild and dangerous court of Herod,
matter for the military authorities renegade king of the Jews. in this
to decide.
biography of a man and his time.
About 70 UN observers are now Ile describes the palace of an
deployed around the clock on the oriental despot occupied by llerod's
cease-fire line between Israelis many wives, children, and in-
and Syrians. numerable relatives. Herod looked
Premier Levi Eshkol told to his family for solace, only to
would
Parliament that Israel
de
b by plots
surrounded
n
never return to the conditions
de eventua
ve nt ta l-
nt s e r if p os, and
d ch o.u m
which existed before the third , fi
which
lv murdered three of his children
Arab-Israel war erupted on June and one of his wives in order to
5. The Prime Minister called on save his throne.
the defeated Arabs to make
Herod restored the great empire
kyandatel Relates
Story of 'Herod'
peace. lie said a new situation of David and Solomon by catering
had been created by Israel's vie- to Roman power and created the
tories which could lead to direct society into which Jesus of Naza-
negotiations between Israel and reth was born.
the Arab states.
Before the Premier spoke, it was
indicated that Israel would not
consider any withdrawals from oc-
cupied territory on the Sinai Pen-
insula, the Gaza Strip, Jordan and
Syria except through direct bila-
teral talks with each individual
MONTREAL (JTA)—Jacob M.
Arab country in connection with
Lowy. president of the Allied
efforts for final peace settlements.
Jewish Community Services of
On this basis, informed sources
Montreal, told the AJCS. 50th an-
said, Israel was ready to discuss
niversary banquet that the pro-
all territorial issues, with the ex- .
vencial
government should accept
ceptions of Old Jerusalem and the
Sharm-El-Sheikh positions at the responsibility for financial aid to
Jewish
day schools. Lowy noted
lower end of the Sinai Peninsula '
which dominate the Strait of Tiran. that the Canadian Jewish Congress
It was generally believed here had formally proposed that such
that the first Arab ruler likely to assistance be given to the schools,
start such bilateral talks would be which are atteded by more than
Jordan's King Hussein who, after 5,000 Jewish children.
i
Referring to the Middle . East
the fierce battle waged by Jor-
dan's Arab Legion, could not by crisis, Lowy warned that "in-
justice
breeds injustice, lawless-
any flight of Arab imagination be
accused by other Arabs of lacking ness breeds lawlessness and the
in inter-Arab solidarity. The point appetite of dictators can never be
was made that Israel was in no gatisfied." He expressed the hope
great hurry about the start of such that the Canadian Government
bilateral talks. It was suggested would not make the mistake of the
that if the Arab rulers should fail Chamberlain Government in ap-
to open negotiations, Israel could peasing Hitler "and will not at-
and would continue the status quo tempt to buy peace" in the Middle
East "at the cost of justice."
indefinitely if necessary,
Montreal Leader
Wants Govt. Aid
for Jewish Schools
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