Israel Diplomacy WJC Report Says Argentina Backs
Enters New Phase Rapprochement between Jew, Arab
• By VICTOR M. BIENSTOCK
NEW YORK—"The tension be- Argentina, agents of the Arab
(Copyright toss, ;PTA Inc.)
tween the Jewish and Arab com-
UNITED NATIONS — Israel munities of Argentina last sum-
diplomacy has moved into a new mer during and immediately after
phase since the Arab-Israeli war the Arab-Israel war has now sub-
last June. It is now concentrating sided and there are many indica-
on the major objective of a defini- tions of rapprochement between
tive peace and agreed boundaries the two communities."
according to Israeli diplomats.
This report was given to World
They said that while the main -Jewish Congress officers by Dr.
thrust of the effort to establish Isaac Goldenberg, president of the
Middle East peace had been shifted Dolegacion de Asociaciones Israeli-
from the United Nations arena to t-49 Argentinas (DATA), central
the Middle East itself, the main -epresentative political body of
task of the Israeli mission here Nrgentine Jewry, one of the more
would be not so much to defend than 60 affiliates of the World
Israel against diplomatic attacks .lowish Congress.
and to represent it in public de-
Dr. Goldenberg, who was passing
bate, as in the previous phases, through New York on his way back
but to help create the conditions to Buenos Aires from Europe and
under which a peace settlement Israel, said: "In their efforts to
with the Arab states could be incite hostility against the Jews of
attained.
Israeli spokesmen expressed El Fatah Leader Gets
guarded optimism over the pros-
pects for the efforts being made ;0 Years' Imorisnnment;
by Gunnar V. Jarring, special Te•rorist Ring Smashed"
United Nations representative in TEL AVIV (JTA) — A military
the Middle East, to create those tribunal in Nablus imposed 30
conditions under which a peace years' imprisonment Sunday on
settlement could be reached. They the leader of an El Fatah gang
predicted, however, that progress which was captured in caves in
would be slow and painstaking. the Nablus area. Eleven members
Israel, since the June war, has were given terms of from five to
15 years.
crystallized its position and is
The group, which infiltrated
determined that its objective
into the West Bank from Syria via
must be a peace agreement. Am-
bassador Joseph Tekoah, who Jordan, had orders to carry out
many attacks but was able only to
has just taken over the leader-
in shooting
ship of the Israeli delegation last engage Israeli forces
a
week, is firm in his expression affrays before the members were
of I s r a e l's determination to captured.
An Israeli soldier was slightly
settle for no less than a peace injured when his patrol intercept-
agreement with definitely de-
limited frontiers. Israel, he says, ed an El Fatah intruder group
near Eilat. One of the intruders
is determined, having tried was killed in
i an exchange of fire.
cease-fires, truces and armis•
tices, to settle for nothing less Two companions escaped across
the Jordanian border.
than a peace agreement.
Earlier in the evening, Israeli
The Israeli envoy indicates his naval vessels observed two Jor-
belief that there had been no danian speedboats seeking to ap-
change in basic Soviet policy in proach the Eilat port from Aqaba.
the Middle East. The Russians, the nearby Jordanian port on the
he believes, do not want a con- Gulf of Aqaba. The Israeli sailors
frontation with the West in the fired a number of machinegun
Mideast but there is no reason to bursts in the direction of the speed-
believe that they want a resolution boats, which turned back.
Israeli security forces smash-
of the Arab-Israeli dispute.
ed a new Arab underground ter
Ambassador Tekoah warned
a series
r
however, that the continued re- rorist organization in
armament of the Arab states by of lightning raids on the night
the Soviet Union poses the threat of Jan. 24-25 that netted '71
members and a large cache . of
that the Arabs, in the belief that
arms and ammunition, a mill-
they have a power superiority,
tary spokesman announced.
might resume hostilities.
The new group, organized into
Tekoah expressed doubt in a re- cells, called itself "el commune
cent interview that the Arab-Israel el Arab." The raids and arrests
issue would come up soon either followed tip-offs from Arabs pre-
in the General Assembly or the viously arrested and interrogated
Security Council. pointing out that by security police. Among the arms
submachine guns.
were
the Arabs had nothing to gain seized
from further public dispute. He rifles and mortar shells.
Six persons were slightly injured
expressed .the view that public de-
bate here could have a harmful last week when Jordanion forces
shelled Kibutz Gesher near the
effect on the Jarring mission.
A major effort of his mission, confluence of the Yarmuk and
Ambassador Tekoah said, would Jordan rivers. Jordanians fired six
convince members of the mortar shells into Kibutz Ahdot
be to
UN and the general public that Jaacov in the Beisan Valley later
half-measures would no longer but no casualties were reported. a
military spokesman said, and darn-
suffice and that nothing short of
a peace agreement could resolve age was slight. Three of the shells
the situation in the Middle East. struck between the communal din-
ing hall and the children's quarter.
His .mission, too, he said, would
An Israel patrol intercepted an
have to make the other nations '
understand the basic correctness armed band of Arab terrorists
of the Israeli insistence on peace. near Ashdot Yaacov Monday night
but then had to fight off a Jor-
Asked to comment on the corn- danian attack launched presumably
position of the Security Council to- to cover the terrorists' retreat, a
day in the light of the fact that military spokesman reported. A
Israel does not have diplomatic rifle, a mine and mortar shells
relations with five of its 15 mem- were found in the battle area.
Israelis and Jordanians exchang-
hers and that one of its members
- Algeria — fought Israel in the ed fire across the Jordan River
June war, refused to accept the Tuesday afternoon in the vicinity
cease-fire and reportedly has of Urn Churtch, a military spokes-
troops serving with the Egyptians man announced. He said the fire
in the Suez Canal zone, the envoy was opened by the Jordanians and
remarked that the Council was not returned by Israeli units. No
a court of justice, had never been casualties were reported.
Defense Minister Dayan reported
considered one and operated under
evident restrictions and limita - to the Knesset Jan. 24 that,21 Is-
raeli soldiers had been killed and
tions, including the Soviet veto.
76 wounded since the end of the
Six-Day War last June. Gen. Dayan
said that in the same period, 45
saboteurs and infiltrators had
been killed and 35 wounded. He
said that 1,250 saboteurs were
captured or arrested and nine of
them have been released from
prison so far.
Friday, February 2, 1968-11
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League have enlisted the sympathy
and support of anti-Semitic groups
of the extreme right and also of
the Communist Party of Argentina,
which remains strongly Stalinist.
However, the overwhelming major-
ity of the Arab community of Ar-
gentina has proved unresponsive to
this incitement. In their collabora- •
tion with Communist circles, Arab
League agents stress anti-Zionism
rather than anti - Semitism, but
these tactics have availed them
nothing.
"Both at private as well as
public meetings of Jews and
Arab s," said Dr. Goldenberg,
"there has been acknowledgement
of a common interest in aiding the
achievement of a just and durable
peace in the Middle East. We are
confident that important elements
in the f. rgentine government view
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