Israel Pledges That It Will Not Open New Debate
on M.E. Issues in United Nations General Assembly

12—Friday, April 26, 1968

Israel Expropriates
Areas
in E. Jerusalem
next week after a further round of both parties, to authorize the
of
talks
in
Arab
capitals.
for
Slum
Clearance
UNITED NATIONS—Israel as-
sale of F-4 Phantom supersonic

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

sured the president of the United
Nations General Assembly Wednes-
day that it would not initiate any
rebate on Middle East issues in
the assembly session that resumed
Wednesday afternoon out of its
belief in the need for all to co-
operate with Ambassador Gunnar
V. Jarring, UN special representa-
tive for the Middle East.
Ambassador Yosef Tekoah, head
of the Israeli delegation, told Ro-
manian Foreign Minister Comeliu
Manescu, president of the Gen-
eral Assembly, that Israel believed
public debate on the Middle East
at this time would be harmful to
Dr. Jarring's peace-seeking mis-
sion. The question of the Middle
East is one of three items on the
agenda of the new session.
Tekoah told Manescu, however,
that if a full-scale debate should
be opened in the General Assembly
on Middle East issues, Israel will
take the opportunity to inform the
United Nations and world public
opinion of the grave responsibility
that rests on the Arab states for
having maintained a state of war
against Israel for 20 years and for
having blocked all efforts to estab-
lish a just and lasting peace.
On Tuesday, Israel charged that
the Arab states are conducting
"active warfare" against the Jew-
ish state and have chosen warfare
by terror and sabotage as their
primary military tactic to be em-
ployed at this stage. The accusa-
tions were formulated in a letter
from Ambassador Tekoah to Ya-
kov Malik. of the USSR, president
of the Security Council.
The letter declared that the Arab
states had admitted their "politi-
cal and military operations against
Israel and had committed them-
selves to the support. encourage-
ment and continuation of these
operations in violation of interna-
tional law and the United Nations
Charter.
Diplomatic sources noted Tues-
day that the exchange of corres-
pondence between Secretary-Gen-
eral U Thant and Israel and the
Arab states, cited in his report
Monday on plans to send a new
mission to the Middle East to
study treatment of civilians and
prioners of war, revealed an in-
tensive effort by Israel to ensure
United Nations examination of the
treatment of the Jewin minori-
ties in the Arab countries.
In a letter to the secretary-
general reaffirming Israel's wil-
linaness to cooperate with a new
UN representative to study the
situation of the civilian popu-
lation in the areas accupied by
Israel in the June war, Ambas-
sador Yosef Tekoah pointed out
that "the government of Israel
hac tat:en note of the secretary-
general's assurance that his rep-
resentative will, inter alia, look
into and report to the secretary-
general on the situation of the
Jewish communities in the Arab
covntries situated in the area of
conflict, who were affected in
the wake of the June 1967 hos-
tilities."
In his reply to this letter, Thant
did not confirm this understanding
in so many words but reiterated
the original terms of reference of
the new mission which made no
reference to the Jewish minori-
ties in the Arab lands and cited
"the scrupulous respect of the hu-
manitarian principles governing
. . . the protection of civilian per-
sons in time of war" as specified
in the Geneva conventions.
Egyptian intransigence and ada-
mant refusal to meet with Israel,
even under the auspices of the
United Nations' special envoy, Dr.
Jarring, is proving to be the great-
est single obstacle in the way to
Middle East settlement, diploma-
tic quarters stated in Jerusalem
Tuesday night.
The appraisal was given follow-
ing a 90-minute meeting between
Ambassador Jarring and Foreign
Minister Abba Eban. Dr. Jarring
returned to his Cyprus headquar-
ters but is expected there again

Dr. Jarring met with Secretary-
General U Thant in Teheran Mon-
day. However, his talks with Eban
Tuesday contained no reference
to the new Middle East emissary
whom the secretary-general will
appoint to investigate the condition
of Jews in Arab countries and
Arab civilians in Israel-occupied
territories, it was learned here.
Press reports that Dr. Jarring
would draw up the new emissary's
terms of reference were believed
here to have been based on a mis-
understanding.
Dr. Jarring apparently had noth-
ing new to convey from Cairo in
Tuesday's meeting with Eban. But
Egypt's intransigent policy is re-
flected in President Nasser's re-
cent speeches, which if anything,
sound a harder line than before.
Egypt will not accept Dr. Jar-
ring's proposals for bringing
both sides together according
to the terms of the Security
Council's Nov. 22, 1967, resolu-
tion. Cairo's contention that
Israel will not implement the
resolution is seen here as "falsi-
fication" and "a smokescreen"'
to put the blame on Israel should
the Jarring mission end in
failure. Israel has accepted Dr.
Jarring's proposal for meetings
under his auspices.
Eban said in the foreword to a
new book on Israel published in
New York Tuesday that "the task
is to construct a new system of
relations in the Middle East,
marked by peace instead of
hatred; cooperation instead of
boycott; free commerce of goods
and ideas instead of blockade and
ostracism." He added that "our
vision is of a Middle Eastern com-
munity of states, respectful of in-
dividual sovereignty while striving
for a growing pattern of regional
integration."
Bill Introduced to Authorize
Sale of Phantom Planes to Israel
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — Rep.
Bertram L. Podell, New York
York Democrat, introduced a bill
Tuesday supported by 24 co-spcinsors

jet fighter-bombers to Israel. The
Congressman said he realized that
the President already had the
authority to sell the planes but
stressed that the intention of the
new legislation was to indicate to
the White House the desire in Con-
gress for action.
Rep., Podell said the balance of
power was affected by Soviet sup-
ply of jets to the Arabs, French
sale of aircraft to Iraq and Ameri-
can provision of fighters to Jordan.
He said the sale of the Phantoms
to Israel was essential to deter
further Arab aggression.

* * *

Britain Pledges Support of UN
Mid-East Presence

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
United Nations)

LONDON — Minister of State
Lord Chalfont said in the House of
Lords Wednesday that the govern-
ment would support any proposal
to station United Nations observ-
ers along the Israel-Jordan de-
marcation line if it were practical.
"But in the absence of an agree-
ment on both sides it would be
impractical, and that agreement
has not been reached," he added.
Lord Chalfont spoke in response
to a suggestion from Laborite Lord
Rowley that UN observers be sta-
tioned between Israel and Jordan
in view of their success in main-
taining quiet along the Israel-
Egyptian and Israel-Syrian cease-
fire lines. Lord Rowley also in-
quired after the progress made to
date by Ambassador Gunnar Jar-
ring in his peace-seeking mission
on behalf of the United Nations.
Lord Chalfont said, in reply, that
Secretary-General Thant reported
on the Jarring mission to the Se-
curity Council on March 29. "It
is not for me to go any further
than the secretary-general has
done in commenting on Jarring's
progress," he said.

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JERUSALEM ( J T A ) — The
Israel government has expropriated
16 acres of land in the Jewish
quarter of East Jerusalem for a
slum clearance project and also
took over a large parcel of land in
a former Jewish suburb which was
occupied by the Jordanians in 1948.
The expropriation orders were
published in the official gazette.
The property in East Jerusalem
includes buildings erected since
1948 which house 600 Arabs. The
building stand on the site of scores
of synagogues, yeshivas and other
schools which the Jordanians tore
down. , The Arabs who are to be
dispossessed, will receive compen-
sation when they are requested to
move.
They will be permitted to go
to court to contest the sums of-
fered them.
Officials explained that the
expropriation was necessary in
order to replan the entire quar-
ter, which degenerated into a
slum during the past 20 years.
Much of the land involved be-
longs to Jewish institutions. None
of it, however, is Moslem reli-
gious property or belongs to
foreign institutions, officials said.
The second expropriation order
covers land in Kfar Ivri (Neve
Yaacov) which was officially in-
corporated into the Jerusalem mu-
nucipality last year. Jews evacu-
ated the suburb when Jerusalem
was under seige in 1948 and it was
subsequently occupied by Jordan.
Most of the land now being taken
over by the state was occupied by
an. Arab Legion military camp.
Some of it belongs to Jews and less
than 10 per cent belonged to Arabs,
according to the officials.

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Fulbright Denies
Goldmann Sought
Pressure on Israel

GENEVA (JTA) — Sen. J. W.
Fulbright, chairman of the Senate ,
Foreign Relations Committee, de-
nied in a letter to Dr. Nahum
Goldmann that the president of the
World Zionist Organization had
ever asked him to put pressure
on the I s r a el government to
change its policy.
In the letter, which Dr. Gold-
mann made public here, Sen. Ful-
bright said that "if any of the
reports from Cleveland suggest
that you made such a request, they
are clearly in error."
The senator expressed regrets
that he had made reference to a
private conversation in his Cleve-
land talk, noting that "it was shn-
ply an inadvertent slip by me to
make reference to our visit, - whie
was private, and in no way
you ask me to bring pressure
any government."

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