Israel Tightens Security, Keeps
Check on Agitators, Criminals;
500 Jordanians Returning Daily
Confronted by repeated threats by heads of Arab states that the
war in the Middle East is to be renewed, faced with the problem of
both a threatened guerrilla war and an underground aimed at its
destruction, Israel's cabinet this week nevertheless proceeded with I
plans to welcome back many thousands of Jordanians who had fled
from the West Bank of the Jordan when Hussein's army was de-
feated on June 6, and to extend religious freedom to all sects, in-
cluding the Egyptian Coptic Christians, granting to all free access I
to sites holy to their faiths. At the same time a Jordanian official
warned those who are offered the freedom of return to the Israeli-
held territory that if they refused they would be denied further aid
by the Jordan government. Israel's Foreign Minister Abba Eban has
rejected Yugoslavian President Marshal Tito as a suitable proponent
of peace plans in the Middle East. The UN cease-fire observers'
force at the Suez has meanwhile been increased to 50 under the
direction of Gen. Odd Bull.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel's Cabinet is currently discussing
"the map of the Middle East, according to Israel's ideas, when peace
with the Arabs is achieved," Foreign Minister Abba Eban declared
Monday. But, he added, the government will not make its views on
that subject public at this time, "keeping these views to itself until
the time when direct negotiations with the Arab states begin."
Making the announcement at a press conference. Eban declined
to answer questions as to whether Arab statesmen had already put
out feelers regarding peace talks with Israel. However, he said, the
Arab statesmen are not yet ready to negotiate at this time. Such
tendencies, he declared, will develop in the future because of pres-
sures in an existing situation. "If faced with the alternative of nego-
tiations or the prospect that Israel will not budge from the territories
she now holds." he observed, "they will eventually realize that they
have to negotiate."
Concerning the United States embargo on arms shipments to
Israel, Eban said that "a dialogue with the United States is a neces-
sity and is continuing in order to keep the Israeli army strong."
Eban said that the Aug. 31 deadline for the return of Arab
refugees from Jordan to the Israeli-held west bank of the Jordan
River, "should suffice, even for the stringent processing of the app li-
cations" from the would-be returnees. The first batch of applications
from those refugees are already in Israel's hands, he said, and
processing of the applications has begun.
Jordanian efforts to incite against Israel the West Bank refugees
who wish to return to their homes is "intolerable," an Israeli official
told Nils-Govan Gussing, United Nations Secretary-General U Thant's
special representative for humanitarian affairs, it was learned here
today. qndicated that thousands of the re-
Yosef Tekoah. the assistant di- fugees are now gathered in camps
rector-general of the Israeli For- at or near the East Bank. filing
eign Ministry, raised the issue with their applications for return west-
the UN official. Tekoah said that ward. The Jordanian government
residents planning to return, under has opened 100 registration cen-
an Israel agreement with Jordan ters. 10 of these in refugee camps,
and the International Red Cross, the others in Jordanian towns, to
were being exhorted by Amman help the applicants. The flow of
Radio to become a "nucleus of refugees is expected to begin in
resistance" to Israeli rule. Inform- about 10 days.
ed sources here indicated that, if
(A dispatch from Amman,
such incitement was not halted,
Jordan's capital, reported Mon-
Israel might demand a personal day that King Hussein told Iraqi
written commitment to civil obed- troops in Jordan that the war
ience from each would-be re- with Israel "is not over," and
t urnee.
Israel was reported to have
captured, during the June war,
Arab intelligence reports giving
the names of possible trouble
makers who are counted upon
by Jordan to set up resistance
or possible overt actions by Arab
refugees who would return to
the West Bank of the Jordan
River. Under the new cabinet
decision for continuance of the
policy of readmitting to the west
bank those Arabs who had fled
to the Jordanian east bank, Is-
rael will screen the would-be
returnees to keep out those po-
tential trouble makers.
The cabinet decision to continue
the readmission policy, but under
strict screening procedures, was
adopted by the government Sun-
day after a lengthy meeting 'in
which some of the ministers in-
sisted that the readmission policy
be reversed. They based their posi-
tion on the increased and open
calls by Jordan for resistance by
the returnees. The cabinet's new
decision also made it clear that
Aug. 31 would be the deadline for
the return of the refugees.
Israeli authorities have estimat-
ed that about 150,000 refugees
plan to return from the East Bank
to the West Bank. The Jordanians
have claimed that the number Is
250,000. Reports from Arab sources
• THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
According to information receiv-
ed here from American sources,
Marshal Tito has in mind some
scheme of gradual withdrawal of
Israel's military forces frcm oc- I
cupied Egyptian areas, accompani-
ed at each phase by some Egyp-
tion concession. For example, if
Israel withdraws to a point 20
miles from the Suez Canal. Egypt
would reopen the canal to all ship-
ping, including Israel's.
At a later stage, Israel would
withdraw from the Sinai Peninsula
and this would lead to Egyptian
recognition of the State of Israel,
according to information from the
same sources. International guar-
antees are also part of the Tito
scheme. But, Israelis point out,
Egypt has insisted on unconditional
withdrawal of Israel's forces and
that only then would Egypt decide
when and if to talk with Israel.
This position, it was asserted here,
is unacceptable to Israel.
Israel has received no peace pro-
posal from Yugoslavia's President
Tito, and will not be bound by any
agreement that had not been sub-
mitted to Israel, Eban informed the
cabinet. Yugoslavia's position re-
garding Israel at the United Na-
tions and elsewhere, he pointed
out, does not take account of Is-
rael's fundamental rights.
Mr. Eban implied that Mar-
shal Tito, who went first to
Cairo, has proceeded to Damas-
cus and Baghdad, is not accept-
able to Israel as a mediator in
the Middle East crisis. Yugosla-
via broke diplomatic relations
with Israel in June, along with
all the other East European
Communist states except Ro-
mania.
Tito returned to Cairo Tuesday
for another visit.
S.
June War Soldiers
Will Be Decorated
of America, announced following
his return from Israel that the
fund has launched the Jerusalem
Park of Heroes, commemorating
the Israeli soldiers who lost their
lives in the battle for a reunited
Jerusalem. American Jewry, Dr.
Aron said, will be called upon to
TEL AVIV (JTA)—An army offi- bring to fruition both the reclama-
cial said that participants in the tion program and the park.
June war will be given a campaign
ribbon, a red-blue decoration cen-
tered with the white and blue
stripes of the national colors, to
be distributed near the end of
October.
Brig. Shmuel Eyal, head of the
LAWN
SPRINKLERS
army's manpower department,
also reported that hundreds of ci-
tations for bravery during the
June war were now being studied
by a special panel of senior army
officers. Recipients will be dec-
orated in September, he added.
Meanwhile, in New York, Dr.
Milton Aron, executive vice presi-
dent of the Jewish National Fund
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that the June war had been
"only a battle." The monarch
was reported to have visited one
of the encampments still being
retained in Jordan by Iraq's
15,000 troops in that country, in
the company of Iraqi President
Abdel-Rahman Arif, He called
for Arab unity "so as to enter
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The Israel cabinet decided to
approve United Nations Secretary-
General U Thant's appointment of
Ernesto Teiemann. former Swiss
observer at the United Nations, as
the UN's special representative in
Jerusalem.
The government announced that
access to the holy places in Jeru-
salem will be open hereafter to
Christians of any nationality, in-
cluding Egyptians. The announce-
ment was made by the Israel
Ministry of Religious Affairs in a
notice to the Coptic bishop of Jeru-
salem. However, it was not clear
whether the rule admitting Egyp-
tian or other non-Israelis to the
holy places would apply to Mos-
lems as well as to Christians.
The "peace plan" for the Middle
East which President Tito of Yugo-
slavia is now discussing in Cairo
with President Nasser of Egypt
has not much chance of succeed-
ing. diplomatic sources asserted
here.
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