Gromylio's Role ,Exposed by M. S. Arnoni;
Minority of One Article Traces USSR Role

Russia's intransigent pro-Arab role at the United Nations and the
new anti-Israel position taken by Andrei A. Gromyko are analyzed in
one of the most important reviews of the Middle East situation written
by M. S. Arnoni, editor of The Minority of One, in the current issue
of his magazine.
Arnoni (see Sept. 8 Jew ish News Commentary, commending
Arnoni's review of the existing situation) touches, in his long essay,
on every factor in the Middle East situation, and in his references to
the Russian position, he exposes the inconsistencies of Russia's spokes-
men. In the course of his comments on the USSR pro-Arab activities
he writes:
Indirectly, the Soviet Union bears , be objective and also to display that
a heavy share of responsibility for I human compassion and understand-
Israel's Western orientation. No- i ing for the tragedy of the Jews
where is a switch to a balanced which one would expect of a coun-
foreign policy and to support of try that had been overrun by Nazi
national liberation movements hordes.
more easily imaginable than in
Much of what Soviet spokesmen
Israel. To begin with, the Israeli
saying then applies with
Left is a powerful and economi- were
force today, even if, for
cally entrenched force. Together equal
reasons
of their own, today's Rus-
with the moderate Left it consti- sian diplomats
choose to be obliv-
tutes a vast and politically sophis- ious to this. It is particularly rel-
ticated majority. Had the Soviet evant to recall some of the things
Union held out the prospect of bet- which Andrei Gromyko stated on
ter relations between the two coun-
14, 1947, before the UN Gen-
tries and had she attempted to MaY
serve as a bridge to some of the eral Assembly:
The Jewish people suffered ex-
Arab governments, the Israeli Left
would have gotten all it ever need- treme misery and deprivation
during
the war. It can be said
a
significant
change.
effect
ed to
But the Soviet Union has made the without exaggeration that the
sufferings
and miseries of the
Israeli Left sterile, unable to pre-
sent to the nation a practical al- Jewish people are beyond des-
ternative. It is a measure of the cription. It would be difficult to
deep roots of the Israeli Left that express by mere dry figures the
in spite of this it manages to retain losses and sacrifices of the Jew-
ish people at the hands of the
its amazing strength.
It is no accident that Israel has fascist occupiers. In the terri-
for all these years been cold- tories where the Ilitlerites were
shouldered by the Soviets. For Is- in control, the Jews suffered
rael's foreign policy is probably almost complete extinction. The
precisely what the Soviet Union total number of the Jews who
wants it to be. It enables the USSR fell at the hands of the fascist
to put herself in the position of hangmen is something in the
champion of the Arab cause. It neighborhood of 6,000,000 . . .
would not pay for the Soviet Union It may be asked whether the
to trade the enthusiasm of the Arab United Nations, considering the
world for a greater international very serious situation of hun-
balance in small Israel's foreign dreds of thousands of Jews who
policy. That's why the Soviet Un- have survived the war, should
ion has consistently abstained from not show an interest in the situ-
any gesture toward the Israeli Left ation of these people who have
that might have increased its influ- been uprooted from their coun-
ence on the country's external or- tries and from their homes . . .
The fact that not a single West-
ientation . . .
ern European state has been in a
Soviet 'Zionism'
position to guarantee the defense
In 1947. when the issue of Pales- of the elementary rights of the
tine was being debated in the Un- Jewish people or compensate
ited Nations, the Soviet position them for the violence they have
was determined by considerations suffered at the hands of the fasc-
quite different from its present ist hangmen explains the aspira-
ones. Its political end then having tions of the Jews for the creation
been the removal of British colon- of a state of their own. It would
ial dominv tion, the USSR was sup- be unjust not to take this into
porting the Jewish independence account and to deny the right
struggle. It could then afford to of the Jewish people to the reali-

zation of such an aspiration.

And then Mr. Gromyko addressed
himself to the respective historic
rights of Arabs and Jews in Pales-

tine:

described in the General Assem-
bly's general debate over the week-
end by USSR Foreign Minister

warned that Israel would face sanc-
tions if it did not comply with the
United Nations resolutions invali-
dating Israel's occupation of Jeru-
salem, and demanded that Israel
pay for damages inflicted on the
Arab states as a result of the war.
As for sanctions, which he said
should be voted by the Security
Council, Gromyko threatened that
the Soviet Union would "be ready
to participate in the implementa-
tion of that decision."
The rejection of Gromyko's stand
was voiced by a spokesman for the
Israeli delegation, who pointed out
that the Soviet Union's demands

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and proposals were precisely the
ones that had previously been "em-
phatically rejected" by the emer-
gency special session of the Gen-

eral Assembly and by the Security

Council.
A preview of his position at the
General Assembly was given by
Eban in an address before the
Edward R. Murrow World Affairs
Forum of the Overseas Press Club,
in New York. Eban declared that
"in direct negotiations with Arab
governments, Israel will present
specific and tangible proposals
compatible with the sovereign
rights, mutual interests and na-
tional dignity of all Middle East-
ern states." He said "every Arab
state which negotiates with us will
Grandchildren of Writer Mendele
improve its own prospects of stabil-
ity and economic progress, as well
Sue for Royalties on Sales in Israel
as advancing the welfare of our
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Eban added that "on the other
witz, died in Odessa in 1917. The
TEL AVIV—Four grandchildren four claimants told the district hand, the principles adopted by the
of the late Mendele Mocher Sefo- court here which opened hearings Arab summit conference at Khar-
rim, a pioneer classicist of Yiddish in the case, that they should be toum — 'no recognition, no negotia-
literature, filed claims here Tues- recognized as the famous writer's tion, no peace' — are simply a pre-
day for royalties they say are due sole heirs. Although the USSR scription for immobility. The result
them from the sale of their grand- broke diplomatic relations with Is- of this policy can only be the in-
father's works in Israel. Of the rael after the outbreak of the Six- definite continuation of the cease-
four, three are Russian citizens, Day War last June, the attorney fire situation. Israel is ready for
sons of the writer's daughter, Nade- for the claimants satisfied the this result if it is forced upon her,
zhda. The fourth is the son of court that he was given power of but she has not renounced the bet-
Michael Rabinowitz of Belgium, a attorney by Moscow before the 're- ter hope of a negotiated peace es-
son of Mendele.
lations were severed. The court tablishing the new political, juri-
dical, territorial and security con-
Mendele Mocher Seforim, whose continued the hearings.
ditions on which the Middle East-
THE DETROIT =Magi NEWS ern future must be built."
411--Fridav Contenikar /4. 141/17

Andrei A. Gromyko.
Gromyko spoke Friday and called
for withdrawal of Israel's armed '
forces from the areas it occupied
as a result of the Six-Day War in
June. Ile again demanded that Is-
rael draw back to the Arab-Israel
armistice lines that were in ex-
istence as of June 5, the day the
Israeli-Arab war broke out. He

sions were rising in the Middle
East, the Soviet Union was dis-
playing amazing calm.
Even after the United Arab Re-
public evicted the UN troops and
imposed a blockade on the Gulf
of Aqaba, the Soviet UN delegate,
Dr. Fedorenko, time and again
found it "necessary to stress" that
the Soviet Union "does not see
sufficient grounds for such a hasty
convening of the Security Council
and the artificially dramatic cli-
mate. . . ."
Now, a war later, even the solu-
tions of the Vietnamese and Mid-
dle Eastern crises are presented
by the USSR and France as being
interdependent.
All this suggests that the USSR
may have wished for a Middle
Eastern conflict in order to create
pressure for an American let-up
in Vietnam. The theory might have
been that a Middle Eastern con-
flict, with its inherent threat of
escalating respective big power in-
volvement, would be so unaccept-
able to a Vietnam-preoccupied
United States, as to induce nego-
tiated settlements in both areas.
If this is indeed what has been
on the Soviet (and French) leaders'
minds, then the scheme involves
particularly Machiavellian cyni-
cism that some day might call for
all kinds of unfair sacrifices on
the part of any small country.

We have to bear in mind the
incontestable fact that the pop-
ulation of Palestine consists of
two peoples, Arabs and Jews.
Each of these has its historical
roots in Palestine. That country
has become the native land of
both these peoples, and both of
them occupy an important place
in the country economically and
culturally.
If this sounds to some like "Zion-
ism," they had better be reminded
that the speaker was neither Ben-
Gurion nor Eshkol, but an official
representative of the Soviet Union.
Ironically, Mr. Gromyko's guide-
line for a solution was compatible
with that preached by Zionist; in-
compatible with that preached by
the Arabs. And the same holds true
about that guideline even today:
Neither history nor the condi-
tions which have arisen in Pal-
estine now can justify any uni-
lateral solution of the Palestine
problem either in favor of the
creation of an independent Arab
state, ignoring the lawful rights
of the Jewish people, or in favor
of the creation of an indepen-
dent Jewish state, ignoring the
lawful rights of the Arab popu-
lation. . . . A just settlement
can be found only if account is
HEBREW SELF-TAUGHT
taken in sufficient degree of the
lawful interests of both peoples.
BY AHARON ROSEN
What has changed, since the day
when these "Zionist" arguments of late
plan, program
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less and non-enforceable terms so
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Gromykoss Demands Rejected by Israel

UNITED NATIONS (JTA) —
The Israeli delegation reacted
sharply to the Soviet position re-
garding the Israeli-Arab crisis as

today, it is to curry favor with
the Arab states, such as they are.
And because the objective of So-
viet policy has changed, its au-
thors claim full liberty to re-write
history, distort facts and to serve
expediency by obliviousness to
once-cherished affirmations of life,
construction and coexistence - . .
Soviet and French leaders have
been linking the Middle East and
Vietnam conflicts. The Soviet
Union has encouraged Arab belli-
cosity in many ways. One of them
was to supply sophisticated arms,
precipitating a hazardous and ex-
hausting regional arms race. An-
other involved a strange diplo-
matic incident. Israel's Foreign
Minister Abba Eban related in
the UN General Assembly that
his prime minister was confronted,
on the night of May 28, 1967, by
the Soviet ambassador with the
complaint of heavy troop concen-
trations on Israel's northern fron-
tier. When the ambassador was
offered at that very moment to
visit any part of Israel, he "brus-
quely refused." The implication is
clear that the Soviet Union was not
going to risk a desirable fiction by
exposing it to verification. It
needed this fiction in order, as
President Nasser has admitted on
June 9, 1967, to alarm the Arabs
about an alleged impending Is-
raeli attack against Syria. As ten-

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