Israel Opposes Arms Aid to Jordan • 9
Eban Sees Only Sympathy as U.S. Aid
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Foreign
Minister Abba S. Eban of Israel
indicated in a television interview
carried by the American Broad-
casting Corporation network that
Israel was opposed to the Amer-
ican supply of arms to Jordan and
some other Arab countries.
Authoritative Washington sources
confirmed this weekend that the
Administration was studying the
question of selling arms to Israel
in view of the massive Soviet ship-
ments to some of the Arab states,
but stressed that main American
concern was not about Israel but
for the "pro-Western" states —
Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco
and Tunisia. The State Depart-
ment, it was reported, has recom-
mended that the United States
send new arms to these nations to
balance the flow of Soviet arms to
Egypt, Iraq and Syria.
Eban, in response to a question,
noted that despite American in-
tentions, Jordan had used Amer-
ican arms to kill Israelis in the
recent war. He said that Israel had
"pointed out that arms have often
been given to Arab states for one
reason and used for another." He
recalled that: "it was said that
giving arms to Jordan would cer-
tainly not be directed against Is-
rael because Jordan, at that time,
had a moderate aspect. The fact
is," he pointed out, "that arms
given to Jordan, despite the will
and intention of the donors, were
directed against Israel and our
people were killed in their dozens
and wounded in their hundreds by
Jordanian tanks. I think this has
to be borne in mind."
The Israeli Foreign Minister
was asked about reports of some
disillusionment in Israel over the
degree of American support dur-
ing the period of intense crislit
last May He said that when
Israel tried to find out Just what
support It could count on in a
confrontation, "I found it neces.
sary to tell my colleagues that
I thought Israel would get a lot
of sympathy, a lot of support by
world opinion and by friendly
governments, but that we would
be wrong to expect any physical
support. I don't say that we
wanted it," he added, "but I
bad to say that I didn't think
we would get it and, therefore,
our fate and our future and our
survival were in our own hands."
Subsequently, Eban said, Israel
had found a "very constructive at-
titude" on the part of President
Johnson. He pointed out that "the
chief element in President John-
son's position is that the United
States does not think that with-
drawal without an accompanying
settlement is advisable." He termed
this "a very important principle
and it is the basis of unity between
our policy and American policy."
In a wide-ranging interview,
Eban said the issue of relations
with Jordan was open to negotia-
tion and if they wanted in addi-
tion to peace to have a more in-
timate union in economic and other
fields, this could be considered.
He said Israel had to be con-
cerned about a new eruption of
hostilities "because the Egyptian
Government has made statements
and carried out actions which in-
dicate a lack of firmness in sup-
port of the cease-fire." He said
it was "up to Egypt" whether
there would be peace along the
Suez Canal or not. He denied that,
Israeli use of the canal was "pro-
vocative," asserting that "what is
provocative is the Egyptian as-
sumption that Israel has lesser
rights in the canal than any other
state." He said there was agree-
ment under the cease-fire that
either side uses the canal or
neither uses it.
On special issues, Eban said
bluntly that any Israeli Govern-
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Arab Refugees
C. C. Aronsfeld of Harrow, writ-
ing in the Paris Herald Tribune,
July 19, stated:
"When the Jews were turned
into refugees, there was no Jew-
ish government anywhere that
could have relieved their dis-
tress. No kindred government
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welfare or, even less, determined
to restore them. Jews were
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ment that surrendered the Old
City of Jerusalem would not de-
serve to survive politically. To
a question about Defense Minister
Moshe Dayan's reported view that
the Gaza Strip should belong to
Israel, Mr. Eban said "the Gov-
ernment of Israel has not yet
reached a determination about
what suggestions it will make and
what demands it will put forward
in a peace negotiation."
He expressed doubt that there
could be a successful integration
of the Arab refugees "in conditions
of war or belligerency." If peace
came, he said, the governments
would have a common interest in
transforming refugees into con-
structive citizens. "There should
not be any refugees in the Middle
East," he commented. "There
should only be citizens of sovereign
states." He said he thought it
would be difficult to achieve a
coherent refugee settlement policy
until the final frontiers are agreed
and as long as a state of belli-
gerency prevailed.
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