Arab Tactics Interpreted as War Aims;
Firm Steps Taken to Prevent Obstruction
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JERUSALEM — Gen. Yigal Al-
Ion, Israel's minister of labor, said
Wednesday that guerrilla activities
against Israel were war and "we
shall take the necessary measures
to put an end to it by striking at
the perpetrators themselves and
also, if we have to, at those who
are sending them in." The minis-
ter made this declaration in a
question and answer session at the
convention here of foreign volun-
teers who came to the country to
aid Israel during the recent crisis.
He expressed the hope that
youths would come from overseas
in large numbers to participate in
the establishment of outpost settle-
ments along Israel's borders, a
task he said belonged traditionally
to volunteers.
He said that following the Khar-
toum summit conference, there
was little expectation that the
Arabs would be ready to discuss
peace and Israel had to organize
her defenses in the framework of
the present cease-fire lines. They
had to be set up in such a man-
ner, he said, as to constitute a
force designed to deter the Arabs
from further aggressive plans.
Israeli authorities reported
Wednesday further acts of sabot-
age and violence by Arab terror-
ists. Explosives placed on the
railway line north of Gaza near
the village of Jabaliya caused
damage to an engine pulling a
trainload of war booty collected
in the Sinai desert One of the
train crew was slightly injured.
The village, site of three sabot-
age actions in recent weeks, was
placed under curfew and a house-
to-house scare' began there.
The authorities announced the
arrest of Moussa el Jaoyussi, 45, a
prominent Nablus lawyer who was
believed to be the brains and guid-
ing spirit of the anti:Israeli terror-
ist movement centered in that
West Bank city. In Gaza, a mili-
tary tribunal imposed a sentence
of 20 years imprisonment on a
Gaza youth who had been captured
as he was about to hurl a hand
grenade at an Israeli patrol.
Roads leading from East Jeru-
salem to West Jerusalem were
closed Wednesday and the for-
mer Jordanian sections of the
city were eurfewed to permit a
complete population census. A
census taken a few weeks after
the end of the star was found to
have been incomplete.
The military commander of the
West Bank area issued an order
Wednesday prohibiting establish-
ment of new business enterprises
by non-residents of the area with-
out special permission from his of-
fice. The order was designed to
protect the local Arab businessmen
from competition by Israelis and
to channel business with Israeli
firms through the local Arab mer-
chants and traders.
State Dept. Hits Israel
West Bank Settlement Plans
WASHINGTON (JTA) T h e
United States government regards
Israeli moves to settle Jews on
occupied Arab territory to be "in-
consistent" with Israel's stated
position and in conflict with Ameri-
can policies, State Department
spokesman Robert J. McCloskey
told a news conference. He said
administration was "attempting
through diplomatic channels to
clarify the exact position of the
Israeli government on this ques-
tion." He said that "if accurately
reported, the plans for the estab-
lishment of permanent Israeli
settlements would be inconsistent
with Israel's position regarding oc-
cupied territories, that these should
be matters for negotiation."
TEL AVIV—Egyptian troops on
the west side of the Suez Canal
launched Wednesday two new
shooting attacks against Israeli
positions on the East Bank.
The Israeli army spokesman
said that the Egyptians started
War Vets Rap Freeing
of Nazi Killer on Probatio
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The
Jewish War Veterans condemned
the action of a Stuttgart court in
West Germany which set free on
machinegun fire some 20 miles tar, seven Czech-made mines, Rus- to pay their salaries to former probation a convicted SS officer
south
. of Ismailia, aimed at an Is- sian hand-grenades, other explo- Jordanian civil servants, school found guilty of complicity in the
murder of 4,000 persons during
raeli patrol. A few minutes later, sives and two bazookas of a type teachers and others who had re- the German occupation of Minsk.
Egyptian tanks began shelling Is- used in the Syrian army. Large mained on the West Bank. The
The Stuttgart court free Albert
raeli positions and the Israelis quantities of ammunition for all Jordan government has been in-
fired back to silence the tanks. the weapons were found in the terested in continuing to pay these Widmann, 54, after he was coa-
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victed
in the mass murders and
No casualties were reported.
search of the cave. salaries in order to hold their sentenced to six and a half years
Another gang, members of the loyalty and command their obed- in jaiL The court held that Wid-
United Nations observers hastily
arranged a cease-fire but the Egyp- El Fatah terrorist organization, ience in such incidents as the mann had served 40 months of a
tians renewed shooting just 10 was captured in the hilly regions school boycott.
sentence for experiments on pris-
minutes before the cease-fire was of the West Bank.
The arrested men had posed as oners in the Sachsenhousen con-
to become effective. More artillery
In East Jerusalem, the Israeli porters and freightmen carrying centration camp and should there-
shelling started north of the Great authorities struck at the fountain- agricultural produce to Jordan. fore be released on probation-
Bitter Talke. Israelis again return- head of Arab resistence to Israeli The amount of funds confiscated Commander Samuel Samuels of
ed the fire. The UN observers pro- administration. Early Saturday from them was said to be con- the JWV called the court action a
posed a second cease-fire after the morning, they arrested Sheikh Ab- siderable.
"travesty."
shooting had subsided.
dul Hamid Es-Sayeh, a member of
Israeli officials reported the the Jerusalem Moslem religious
arrest of a commander of the court who recently proclaimed
hh.iself president of the court and
Boris Smolar's
underground Palestine Libera-
tion Organization as new acts of chairman of the Moslem High
Council,
and
deported
him
to
Jor-
Arab sabotage cost the life of a
3-year-old child in a Jewish dan under the emergency rgeula-
collective near Hadera and blast- tions.
Es-Sayeh was a signatory to a
ed a factory in another collec-
recent pamphlet urging Arabs on
tive in the same area.
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The PLO commander was iden- the West Bank not to recognize
tified as Moustaffa Dmayess Israeli authority. He was also ac-
SOVIET ANNIVERSARY: With Moscow now preparing to celebrate
Hamyess of a well-known family cused of being head of the "Na-
of Hebron in the occupied west tional Guidance Committee" set the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution, it is only natural to
bank sector. He is one of more up recently to encourage and lead take a look as to what these 50 years have brought to Soviet Jewry
than 100 Arab extremists and opposition to Israeli rule. It was . . . The Russian Revolution started very 'hopefully for the 3,000,000
underground members arrested this committee which called for a Jews in Russia ... They were freed from centuries of Czarist oppres-
by Israeli security services in general strike in East Jerusalem sion and from constant fear of pogroms ... The Kerensky Government,
and the West Bank earlier this which came after the fall of the Czarist regime, gave Jews equal rights
recent raids carried out in an
and officially condemned anti-Semitism . . Later, Lenin proclaimed
effort to check the increasing month.
Israel has rejected proposals anti-Semitism a punishable crime . . . Hundreds of Jewish schools
number of acts of anti-Israel agi-
by the United Nations cease-fire were maintained by the local municipalities all over the USSR while
tation and demonstrations in oc-
observers stationed in the Suez the central government supported 10 Yiddish national state theaters
cupied areas.
. . . The state also supported Yiddish publishing houses and other
The three-year-old son of Ansz- Canal area that patrol boats Jewish' cultural institutions ... The Habima — the celebrated Hebrew
lem Salomon was critically injured manned by United Nations per- theater which is now a state institution in Israel — originated in
by falling debris when an explo- sonnel be permitted to ply the
Moscow in the early years of the Soviet regime under the patronage
sion wrecked the Salomon dwelling waterway. At present, under an of Anatoly Lunacharsky, Commissar for Education ... It put on per-
Israeli-Egyptian agreement, nei-
at midnight Sunday night in the
formances in Hebrew under the very shadow of the Kremlin until
Moshav Cmetz. The child died en- ther side is permitted to use the
1924 . . . Later, when Hebrew was practically banned in the Soviet
canal except for E gyptian
route to a hospital. Salomon, his
Union as a language, the Habima players were permitted to leave
launches
carrying
supplies
to
for-
wife and two other children es-
Russia
... In the universities, the doors were wide open to Jews .
eign freighters stranded in the
caped serious injury. A short time
This was also the case in government offices. The government also
canal since the June war.
later, the glue department of the
assigned land for the settlement of Jews who lost their means of
Four Israeli soldiers were killed livelihood as former small tradesmen . . . The Kremlin went even as
food factory in Kibutz Maanit,
north of Hadera, was wrecked in and six wounded Sept 21 when far as proclaiming, in 1934, the region of Biro-Bidjan — on the Soviet-
another explosion. Security opera- Egyptian forces on the West . Bank Chinese border in Siberia — as a Jewish Autonomous Region, with
tives and police dogs were rushed of the Suez Canal opened fire on Yiddish as the official language ... In the army, Jews could be found
to the scenes of the blasts and Israeli forces in the Kantara area. in the highest positions, with Jan Gamarnik, the brother-in-law of the
United Nations observers pro- national Jewish poet, Chaim Nachman Bialik, being classified as one
found footprints. Israeli officials
imposed a curfew on nearby vil- posed a cease-fire to take effect of the leading generals in the country . . . Jewish religion was com-
lages to aid the search for the at 8:45 a.m., to which the Israelis batted, but no more than all other religions in the country; I could
agreed. The Egyptians disregarded still eat in a cooperative Kosher restaurant in Moscow even as late as
terrorists.
Leaflets signed by El Fatah, the the arrangement and continued 1930. . . In cities like Kiev, Odessa and others with a substantiia/
Arab terrorist group, and Aasifa, shelling until just after 9 a.m., Jewish population, there were courts conducted in Yiddish by Jewish
a crack unit of the El Fatah, were with the Israelis replying.
judges for the benefits of Jews who could not testify clearly in Rus-
Israeli sources asserted that the sian . . . In 1931, there were 67 courts of law in the USSR where the
found near the damaged kibbutz
factory. The leaflets carried warn- Egyptian attack had been planned hearings and the records were in Yiddish.
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ings that "the future will be still well in advance, citing the fact
that since Sept. 20, the Egyptians
more serious."
THE JEWISH PICTURE: How does the Jewish picture look in the
had moved numbers of civilians Soviet Union now, fifty years after the Revolution? . . . Whatever
Gen. Itahak Rabin, Israel chief
out of the Suez Canal area.
achievements the Soviet regime can boast of on its 50th anniversary,
of staff, said that until an endur-
Egyptian attempts to transport it certainly has little to boast about concerning its treatment of Soviet
ing peace was achieved with the
troops on the Suez Canal in viola- Jewry during the second half of the fifty years of its existence . . .
Arab states, it would be inadvis-
tion of an agreement under which I remember asking Stalin in 1931, as correspondent of the Jewish Tele-
able for Israel to retreat from
both Israel and Egypt were to re- graphic Agency, as to what he thought of anti-Semitism . . , His reply
its "present frontiers" in Jordan,
frain from use of the waterway, was that "anti-Semitism is cannibalism" . . . His statement was not
Syria, and the Sinai Peninsula.
resulted in two incidents and the
He spoke at a special memorial damaging of three EgTptian vessels published in the Soviet press, but it was quoted about six years later
meeting for Gen. Lzhak Sadeh, by Israeli guns. Two' of the craft by Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov at a public gathering
in Moscow ... Since then, it was no longer mentioned publicly in the
first commander of the Palmach, were reported sunk.
Soviet Union . . . Somewhere along the line, Stalin began to indicate
the elite underground force under
inclination to anti-Semitism, and this was taken as a sign that the road
First
Sabotage
Act
the British mandate, on the 16th
to action against Jews in the USSR was open . . . Soon Jews were
anniversary of his death. Gen. Ra- in Reunified Jerusalem
eliminated from the diplomatic service and other sensitive posts; anti-
Arouses
Indignation
bin, who was a Palmah command-
JERUSALEM (JTA) — There Semitic remarks could be made without any fear, even in street-cars;
er, said that taking "all difficul-
ties into account, it is still less was widespread indignation Jewish Schools were liquidated; the Jewish state theaters closed; and
difficult to defend Israel now" than throughout this city Sept. 20 fol- Jewish youths began to face difficulties in seeking to enter univer-
before the occupation of the Arab lowing the bombing the previous sities . . . The anti-Jewish atmosphere reached a high point with the
areas. He cited among the diffi- night of the old Fast Hotel, now "Doctors' Plot," when most prominent Jewish doctors were arrested
culties, the killing of four Israeli a condemned tenement house vir- on the charge of "plotting" to poison the highest leaders of the Com-
munist Party — a charge which was acknowledged later as a fabrica-
soldiers near Suez last week and tually abutting on the wall of the
Old City. The building housed a tion to whip up anti-Jewish sentiments in the country . . It reached
sabotage activities in Israel.
Israel's security forces moved printing shop and about 50 Jew- the highest point when all prominent Jewish writers were arrested
into high gear in a campaign to ish families who were evacuated. and executed, and when Shlomo Michaols, the most prominent Jewish
suppress the Arab terrorist and Three men and a woman were actor — who was bestowed earlier with high Soviet decorations — was
sabotage activities which have been injured in the explosion, which brutally assassinated by Soviet Secret Service agents . . . At that
assuming growing proportions in was the first act of sabotage since time, there were even talks in Moscow of Stalin's intention to round
up all Jews in the Soviet Union and deport them to remote parts of
the last few days. The drive was the reunification of-the city.
Nine Arabs were arrested Sept. Siberia — talks which came to an end after Stalin's death ... However,
aimed at capturing or immobilizing
even after the death of Stalin, not much had changed for the Jews in
20.
They
included
two
Arabs
who
the bands of heavily-armed sabo-
teurs slipping into the West Bank worked in the printing plant and the Soviet Union . . . Nlltita Khrushchev, Stalin's successor, made little
two others who had been employed effort to conceal his notorious personal anti-Semitism . . . And the
area from Jordan territory.
Army units used helicopters to on some repair work to the build- present rulers in the Kremlin have similarly shown little inclination
flush out and intercept a gang of ing. Israeli authorities expressed to restore full citizenship rights to the Jews in the Soviet Union .. .
13 saboteurs sheltering in a cave the belief that the action was poli- Jews are still being barred from diplomatic and sensitive positions,
about nine and a half miles south- tically motivated, since the plant they still face difficulties in entering universities, and their cultural
east of Nablus. They exchanged was printing new textbooks for the life, as Jews, is still suppressed ... Not to speak of the Jewish religion
fire with the terrorists and cap- .Arab schools as well as handbills which is treated worse than any other religion in the Soviet Union ..
in Arabic proclaiming various gov- The 50th anniversary of the Soviet Revolution finds the Jews in the
tured all 13 after wounding II.
USSR in a quite different situation than that which they enjoyed
The marauders had a powerful ernmental regulations.
Israel security forces have ap- immediately after the fall of the Czarist regime under the Kerensky
arsenal, consisting of five sub-
machineguns of Russian. make, six prehended a number of West Bank Government and, later, during, the early _years Af ,thq Sov,iet segirqe.
rifles, a Russian assault gun, a inhabitants who had crossed to
Friday, September 29, 1967-37
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