Israel's UN Diplomacy in Midstream Stage
By SAUL CARSON
Correspondent at the
United Nations)
(Copyright 1968, JTA Inc.)
(JTA
diatribe. So, to say that the Middle
East situation "was not debated at
this session" is true only in a strict-
ly technical sense.
How did Israel stand? Regard-
ing the most vital issues — with-
drawal of its troops from the oc-
cupied Arab areas and insistence
on direct peace negotiations with
the Arabs—Israel remained firm.
But that isn't all. Israel also indi-
cated flexibility. It never shut the
doors so that they could not be
opened, ever. Israel simply insisted
that the UN Charter be observed—
by all members. Non-recognition
of a member state, refusal to ne-
gotiate in good faith — those are
basic requirements for all members
who have sworn fealty to the
Charter.
Actually, Israel's diplomacy at
the United Nations at this time is
in a new stage, sort of a "mid-
stream" position.
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.—A not
so funny thing happened in the
World Forum. It was at the closing
of the 22nd regular session of the
General Assembly. winding up its
work shortly after midnight, ex-
actly three months after it had
opened. Cornelius Manescu, For-
eign Minister of Romania and pres-
ident of the Assembly, made a
statement. Here is how his remarks
were noted officially in the sum-
mary of the session issued by the
United Nations:
"The President of the Assem-
bly stated that the agenda item
on the situation in the Middle
East was not debated at this ses-
sion and therefore the General
Assembly had not disposed of
the item, which was still on the
agenda."
One who recalls that the situa-!
There was a honeymoon per-
tion in the Middle East had been
iod , lasting from the pre-state-
hood situation that culminated
formally inscribed as an issue of
utmost importance and highest pri-
in the adoption of Palestine Par-
tition in 1947, to the establish.
ority might ask how it happened
that. in three months of discussions
ment of the State in 1948, to Is-
in the plenary sessions of the As-
rael's admission to UN member-
ship in 1948, and down to a very
sembly itself as well as in its seven
standing committees. no disposition
important date, Sept. 1, 1951. It
was on that date that the Secur-
had been made of the Middle East
issue. Its a good question — and
ity Council adopted a resolution
therirThre answers. But it is any-
forbidding a ban on Israeli ship-
hin2 b u t funny.
ping thenugh the Suez Canal. It
In the first place. it is not en-
was important that the USSR had
toted in the Council in favor of
tirely true that the issue. as stated
by Nianescu had not been d•hated.
that resolution.
It was not under the specific item
The second period set in immed-
earmarked "situation in the Mid- iately after that 1951 resolution for
dle East." But it came up in every which the Soviet Union voted. Rus-
debate on every subject conceiv- sia had decided it was time to ren-
able. in and out of the plenary.
ovate the old, Czarist-R ussi a n
Not only did the Israel-Arab con- "drang noch osten," the push to-
flict figure in such obvious con- ward the east, affecting in this case
teyts as the debate on the Arab the Middle East. From that date to
reit?oes or the budget for the UN this--not a single pro-Israeli or
"peace keeping" forces acting as anti-Arab resolution could sur-
observers of the cease-fire lines mount Russia's veto hurdle in the
bet‘J••• 1 sra•l and Egypt. Jordan Security Council. The honeymoon
and Syria.
had become a cold Russian war
TL' Arabs. always supported by P'Yairist Israel.
the S-yi-t bloc, often encouraged
That cold war did not end after
by Arrival, : ho profess their the second period. But its victories
friendship "to both sides" on the against Egypt, and against much
Arab Israel front, even some of o" the world's diplomatic force at
Israel' , non Arab Asian friends— the United Nations, gave Israel the
an had their say on Israel. on the opportunity of exercising a third
Arabs. on the Arab refugees, re- policy. For a number of years-
gardless of formal protocol or ob- ' through most of the years between
servant-e of agenda procedure. It March 1957, and June 1967 —
Was ory.n season. Israel was most Israel simply employed only defen-
frequently the butt of abuse and sive tactics at the UN. It brought
fewer and fewer complaints against
Five Nazis Go on Trial for the Murder of 70 Persons
BONN (JTA) — A trial of five
the Arabs b e f or e the Security
Council, although the justifications former members of the Hitler SS
were numerous, often odious. Is- who served in Italy opened Mon-
rael's policy was simply one of act-
day before a jury court in Osna-
ing as a full-fledged member of the
United Nations, on all issues—ig- brueck. The defendants are charged
noring the barbs continually fired with murdering some 70 Jewish
against her by the Arabs and the men, women and children, aged 11
Russians and others. The honey- to 75, at Lake Magiore, Italy, and
moon had become a cold war, then
it had been metamorphosed by Is- tossing their bodies into the water.
rael's behavior here into a stale-
A former SS general who was
mate, into a live-and-let-live atti- charged with war crimes two years
tude.
ago but released without trial, has
The Six-Day War changed all been admitted to practice law in
that. Live-and-let-live, said Israel the Westerland Court in Schles-
in effect, works in more ways than burgh by the ministry of Justice
one; it is a throughfare with many of Schleswig-Holstein.
lanes, in all directions.
n program allowing residents of cause of "excessive demands" by
old Jertisalam and of the occupied the Jordanian Central Bank.
West Bank to make two-week I Nearly all West Bank Arab em-
visits to Jordan has been sus- ployes of the Jordanian Govern-
ment turned up for work Monday
pended.
or-
ders to suppress the Warsaw up-
chief, Heinz Reinerfarth, gave
rising of 1944 when Russian armies
were pursuing the Germans over
the Polish frontier. The uprising
was not connected with the War-
saw ghetto revolt two years earlier.
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been an unexpectedly large num- announcement by the Jordanian
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level.
Meanwhile, it was reported a
second group of West Bank Arab Dutch Christians Hold
Bankers will make a visit to Jordan Drive to Build Synagogue
soon to renew talks for reopening
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Jordanian banks in the occupied
to The Jewish News)
sections. The closing of the banks
AMSTERDAM — A house-to-
at the outbreak of the war last house collection of funds for a new
June froze all deposits.
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The West Bank bankers said congregation of Breda was under
the freezing was one of the main way Tuesday, conducted by Roman
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