LBJ Sticks to His 5 Points on M.E.
in Eban Meeting; Insist on Direct
Talks in Accord With Israel Policy
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
WASHINGTON — President
Johnson Tuesday night reiterated
his adherence to his "five points"
of June 19 and otherwise gave
clear expression of friendship to-
ward Israel when he met with Is-
raeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban,
Israeli sources later disclosed.
The discussion was described as
entirely satisfactory from the Is-
raeli point of view by these sources.
The points reasserted included
main objectives of present Israeli
policy, the demand for face-to-face,
direct peace talks, translation of
the cease-fire lines through nego-
tiation and readjustments into per-
manent boundaries, and no return
to the situation that existed prior
to June 5.
According to the Israeli sources,
there was no evidence of deviation
by the President on any of the
five points.
The meeting with the President
lasted over one hour.
Israeli circles insisted that the
sinking of the Elath and subse-
quent events figured only in a
peripheral way in Eban's discus-
sions here — especially in the
talks with State Department of-
ficials.
Participating in the meeting with
Eban and the President were Pre-
sidential Aide Walt W. Rostow,
White House spokesman George
Christian, Assistant Secretary of
State Lucius Battle, Israeli Ambas-
sador Avraham Harman and Eph-
raim Evron, minister of the Israeli
Embassy.
Israeli circles maintained that
earlier talks, including a long
meeting with Secretary of State
Dean Rusk, involved a previously
agreed agenda and only touched
lightly on the Elath affair. They
said the original plan was followed
with Rusk and a general discussion
pursued on Arab-Israel relations.
peace, the United Nations and such
matters as avoiding an arms im-
balance in light of the Soviet re-
supply of the Arabs.
Eban described Israel's general
views on peace settlement and re-
fugees.
Israeli sources said Jerusalem
was not mentioned as an issue.
It was disclosed by these sources,
that Secretary of Defense Robert
McNamara notified Israel about a
week ago that jets and other equip-
ment sought by Israel would be
released from embargo.
The Israeli sources denied that
Rusk urged Eban to influence Is-
rael to show restraint in the wake
of the Elath sinking.
Eban addressed the National
Press Club Tuesday and declar-
ed that the sinking of the Elath
carried Israeli indigation to the
highest pitch since the June war.
He said this incident illustrated
the urgent requirement for en-
tirely new relations, and pledged
that "we shall never, never go
back either to the political and
juridical anarchy or to the stra-
tegic and territorial vulnerabil-
ity from which we have emerg-
ed." He said the war could be
ended only by treaties of peace.
The foreign minister insisted
that "the old Middle Eastern struc-
ture which President Nasser de-
cided to disrupt last May cannot
be restored." He said: "We accept
the statement signed by Israel and
her four neighbors in 1949 that
the armistice lines dictated by ex-
clusively military considerations
are not to be regarded as political
or territorial boundaries. We new
insist on the agreed demarcation
of the political and territorial boun-
daries which we have never known.
Until the new peace map is nego-
tiated, the present cease-fire map
will be fully maintained. The June
4 map, with its explicit conditions
of irridentism, non-recognition and
impermanence is gone forever."
Eban declared that "the Arab
states are asking the world com-
munity to pretend that they have
neither provoked, conducted, nor
lost a war, and that the revolu- meet to unify Arab action against
tionary events of last June can Israel. No date was set. Zayyen
will fly from Cairo to Algiers to
have no consequences."
meet on the new situation with Al-
He said: "We cannot condone the
idea that the Arab states are en- gerian President Boumedienne,
titled to ostracize Israel while mak- who is the chief proponent of a
ing claims against her to request "war of national liberation" against
Israel's consideration while deny- Israel.
ing her existence. That is why di-
rect negotiation is not just a mat-
ter of mere procedural form. It is
a matter of political principle. If
any international agency or friend-
ly government believes that it can
bring the Arab governments and
Israel into direct and unconditional
contact, we shall support its ef-
forts. But no peace has ever been
made between those who refuse to
set eyes on each other. We shall
interpret a refusal to meet us as
a refusal to make peace, and shall
maintain the existing reality until
all Middle Eastern states recognize
the compulsion of a future to be
shared in peace."
President Nasser of Egypt and
President Youssef Zayyen of Syria
conferred in Cairo Tuesday and
later issued a joint announcement
that a conference of "popular
forces of the Arab world" would
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