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March 15, 1968 - Image 10

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1968-03-15

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Defend Blasting Policy; Compensation Paid to Arabs

JERUSALEM (JTA)—Israeli of- tillery opened fire on Israeli
ficials said the practice of blowing positions to cover the retreat of
the infiltrators. Israeli return
up houses where Arab sabateurs
fire silenced the Jordanian guns.
lived or illegal weapons were
found was carried out in line with
A military spokesman said an
the duty of an occupying power to Israeli patrol intercepted a hand of
protect the peace of the local marauders on the West Bank of
population as required by the the Jordan, north of the El Man-
Geneva convention.
dassa Bridge in the Beisan Valley.
The Jerusalem municipality and In a brief exchange of fire, one of
the Israel army made prompt pay- the marauders was killed, another
ment of compensation to Arabs was wounded and is believed to
whose homes were damaged when have drowned in the river while
Army sappers blew up Wednesday trying to escape to the East Bank.
night a house belonging to a cap- No Israeli casualties were re-
tured El Fatah leader in East ported.
Jerusalem. Army teams also re-
Three Arab marauders, one of
paired damages suffered by a
them wearing the uniform of an
home for blind girls when a nearby
Iraqi army officer, were killed in
garage owned by the same Fatah
a clash with a three-man Israeli
leader also was blown up.
patrol on the West Bank of the
Jordan River. The clash touched
Municipal officials protested to
the army over the manner in off a two - hour artillery barrage
which the action was carried out from Jordanian positions across
at night. purportedly without ade- the river. One Israeli soldier was
(plate warning the residents of the wounded. Three other Israeli
neighborhood and without prior soldiers were injured in a sep-
consultation with Jerusalem Mayor arate incident when their corn-
Teddy Kollek. mand car struck a mine north of
Women army officers visited Eilat in the Negev. near the
Arab families in the area and dis- Jordanian border. One of them
tributed candy to children as a was flown to a hospital for
emergency surgery.
goodwill gesture. They also visited
the Mary Lovell home for blind
One of the dead Arabs, believed
children. Authorities had been un- to have been the gang leader, was
aware that the home was damaged wearing a uniform with the insig-
until the British Consul General nia of a lieutenant in the Iraqi
here so informed the Foreign Army. Three Russian assult rifles
Ministry.
of the Klatchnikoff type were found
Ninety-seven Arabs were re- at the scene along with a bazooka,
leased from prison Sunday by Is- bazooka shells, demolition charges
raeli authorities in an amnesty on and El Fatah posters.
the occasion of the Moslem secri-
(A Christian Science Monitor cor-
ficial feast of Id Aladha. They had respondent who visited the Jor-
been serving sentences for various danian East Bank area, reported
offenses including security viola- that the civilian population was
tions. But the Arab population in leaving the Jordan Valley and
Jerusalem and the West Bank "farming and other normal activi-
marked the holiday in a subdued ties are giving way to militariza-
mood. There was little mutual tion of the valley." Correspondent
visiting and not all Moslem shops John Cooley said that "the stony
were closed. The Arabs were con- hillsides bristle with camouflaged
cerned not only by the buildings camps and gun positions" and he
blasted in East Jerusalem but by reported finding "guerrila camps
the deportation a day earlier of dispersed throughout the valley."
the former Arab Mayor. Roukhi He said the guerrillas "are in-
El Khatib, who was a popular creasing their control of an en-
figure locally. He was expelled to clave running the entire length of
Jordan for exhorting Arabs not to the Jordan Valley." He added that
cooperate with Israeli authorities, "this valley looks as though it
and for illegal money transfers. were preparing for another war.")
Four Israeli Soldiers Wounded;
Deny Washington Pressure
Two Intruders Die on Weekend
for New Concessions
TEL AVIV (JTA)— Two Israeli
JERUSALEM (JTA)—An Israeli
soldiers were slightly wounded foreign office spokesman categori-
early Saturday morning when Jor- cally denied a report from Cairo
danian units fired mortars and to the New York Times alleging
machine grins to cover the retreat that Secretary of State Dean Rusk
of an El Fatah gang that tried to had sent Foreign Minister Abba S.
invade Kibutz Tirat Zvi in t h e Eban a note pressing him to accept
Beisan Valley on the Sabbath eve. demands by Egypt for indirect
Israeli return fire silenced the negotiations for Middle East settle-
Jordanians behind the Jordan ment. Israel has insisted on face-
River cease-fire demarcation line. to-face talks. The spokesman said
Tirat Zvi, a religious settlement, that there had been no pressure
has been a frequent target of ter- of any kind from the United States
rorist infiltration and Jordanian in regard to the form the nego-
attacks. It was one of the hardest tiations with the Arabs should take.
hit of eight Beisan Valley settle-
The spokesman said a "continu-
ments attacked by Jordanian ar- ous exchange of views" is taking
tillery and mortars on Feb. 15, an place between Washington and
episode that led to a sharp Israeli 'Jerusalem but, he said. it was
retaliation and a pledge by King "unthinkable" that the State De-
Hussein to prevent Arab terror partment would divulge the content
gangs from using Jordan as a base of the messages addressed to the
for their incursions against Israel. foreign minister to another
The terrorists from Jordan tried
country.
twice to enter the Tirat Zvi per-
The spokesman asserted that the
imeter and were twice repulsed by United States had repeatedly
the settlement's watchmen. The
that it favored a solution
intruders were killed by the to the Middle East dispute based
encounters. on an agreement and obtained
Two Israeli soldiers and two through negotiations. The United
girls were injured in another inci- States has also made it clear, he
(lent Thursday night when their added, that it was vital to start
vehicle was ambushed by maraud- the negotiations as soon as pos-
ers from Jordan on a road near
Samakh on the southeast shore of States
Bible. reiterated
He noted that
the United
at every
oppor-
the Sea of Galilee.
tunity American adherence to
An Arab marauder was killed
President Johnson's five-point pro-
and another wounded and pre- .
: gram for settlement of the Arab-
sumed drowned in a clash with
an Israeli patrol Monday night Israeli dispute.
Other sources stressed that both
along the banks of the Jordan
the United States and Britain fa-
River. It was the second such
vored roundtable talks between -
clash since Sunday night. As in
Israel and the Arabs under the
the earlier one, Jordanian ar-
chairmanship of United Nations
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by each side separately with him.
Foreign Minister Eban Tuesday
m
n i a In by
c Fh o on r fei irgmne d -1 iansni s t e e r a r 1 epro k denial
ate spokesman that
United
Israel to relax its insistence on

face-to-face talks with the Arabs
as the only means of achieving
peace in the Middle East. Eban,
replying to a parliamentary ques-
tion in the Knesset, said the report
of such pressure, which appeared
in the New York Times of March
6, was incorrect. "There have been
no suggestions by Secretary of
State Dean Rusk as to what form
negotiations between Israel and
Egypt should take," Eban said.
W. Germans Deny Knowledge
of El Fatah Training Activities
BONN (JTA)—Official West Ger-
man sources indicated they knew
nothing about reported secret mili-
tary training of El Fatah Arab
errorists in West Germany. They
pointed out that possession of arms
in West Germany is banned with-
out special permission.
Israel Military Officers Expected
to Be Cautious on Dynamiting

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

BOSTON—Although the Israeli
Cabinet has given "tacit backing"
to Defense Minister Dayan's policy
of dynamiting houses of Arab ter-
rorists in Jerusalem and the occu-
pied territories, "nevertheless it is
assumed military authorities will
in the future be even more discrim-
inating when ordering the destruc-
tion of dwellings," the Christian
Science Monitor reported Wednes-
day from Jerusalem.
The oaner said public opinion
in Israel was "not uncritical" of
the military authorities. "Some
would prefer." it reported, " to see
that decisions on measures involv-
ing destruction of houses not be
taken administratively by army offi-
cers, but rather after a judicial
process had ensued, even if only
a summary court martial."

10—Friday, March 15, 1968

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Greek Ambassador to U.S. Rejects
Anti-Jewish Remarks of Diplomat

WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Greece's mine the authenticity of what he
ambassador to the United Stat es called a "derogatory reference to
repudiated an alleged attack by a an individual's Jewish faith."
Ambassador Palamas told the
Greek diplomat in the U.S. on film
AJC: "regardless of the outcome
producer Jules Dassin as the "Jew of the investigation, I wish to state
husband" of actress Melina Mer- that Greece has always been free
of any Jewish prejudice and is
couri.
in this
In a statement to the American proud of its long history
respect. Any suggestion to the
Jewish Congress, which sharply
contrary is unfounded and does
protested the attack, Ambassador
not accurately and fairly represent
Christian Palamas said he had
the views of the Government, its
ordered an investigation to deter-
officials or the Greek people."
The AJC acted following press
reports that George J. Gavas, until
Romanian Chief Rabbi
recently the Greek Consul-General
Voices Praise to Premier in New York, had said in a mem-
BUCHAREST (JTA)—Chief Rab- orandum to the Greek Embassy in
bi Moses Rosen told Prime Minister Washington that "the American
Nicolae Ceausescu here that he, Communist party started financing
as an Orthodox rabbi, had no prob- the actress Meline Mercouri, her
lems in cooperating with the so- Jew husband Jules Oassin and
ciety of Romania "whose concept
Gavas has left the consulate in
of human life and human happiness
is deeply ethical and in accord New York and is returning to
with our own teachings." The Greece, the AJC was told by the
chief rabbi shared an audience with Greek Embassy.
the prime minister with the Patri-
arch of Romania and the bishops
of the Orthodox, Catholic, Protest-
ant and Evangelical churches of
Romania. The prime minister told
the religious leaders that his
government valued their "attach-
ment to the cause of peace and
But don't blame the family.
friendship between peoples."

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Rabbi Rosen, who spoke for the
Federation of Jewish Communities
of which he is president, told the
prime minister that in the past
"regimes stemming from so-called
religious groups, had brought pro-
groms and the burning of syna-
gogues." He also told the Romanian
Communist
leader that "your pol-
Red MP's Assailant
icy in support of the sovereignty
Gets 18 Months in Jail
and independence of all peoples,
TEL AVIV (JTA) — A former
and small, which advocates
concentration camp inmate who the solution of all problems by
stabbed Communist Knesset-mem- negotiation, has won world ac-
ber Meir Wilner in a Tel Aviv claim."
street last October was sentenced
Monday to 18 months' imprison-
ment. The three-judge panel of the
Tel Aviv District Court which
heard the c a s e, reduced the
charges against Avraham Ben-
Moshe from attempted murder to
attempt to cause grave bodily
harm.
Ben-Moshe assaulted Wilner out-
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years in Russia after his release
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