Bourguiba Sees Long Delays in Solving
M.E. Issues; LBJ Reaffirms 5-Point Plan

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Presi-
dent Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia
told the National Press Club that
Israel represents a "classical prob-
lem of de-colonization." He said
the solution should be reached be-
tween the Palestinian Arabs and
the Jews of Israel rather than in-
volve the Arab states who, he said,
had rendered the problem more
difficult. Bourguiba said he wel-
comed indications that the Pales-
tinian Arabs were themselves tak-
ing action. He visualized a long
period required to work out a
Palestinian solution similar to
those of Tunisia, Algeria and
Morocco.

The Tunisian leader urged that
the peoples directly involved de-
termine their own fate without the
involvement of outsiders. He char-
acterized the Arabs as frustrated
and humiliated by the three Israeli
victories. In this context, he said,
he welcomed indications that the
Arabs directly concerned were now
taking steps for "de-colonization."
He emphasized that a solution
must recognize the rights of all
concerned.
Commenting on the difficulties
experienced by the Arabs in pre-
senting their case in the United
States, President Bourguiba said
"tremendous opposition" was gen-
erated by what was interpreted
here as an attempt by Arabs to
exterminate the Jews. He said this
conclusion resulted from "bad
Arab propaganda." The Arabs
never used gas chambers and had
been persecuted with the Jews in
the Middle Ages, he said. The Arab
case should involve the rights of
both Jews and Arabs, he declared.
President Johnson reiterated his
five•point policy for Arab-Israel

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peace in greeting President Bour-
guiba. The President, at a brief
ceremony of welcome, referred to
the Middle East situation and re-
called the five points of United
States policy he proclaimed last
June. "I restate these principles
today . . . our commitments to
those principles has not changed.
It will not change," he declared.
President Bourguiba, in reply,
referred to the Arab war against
Israel. He stated that he had "re-
fused to lead our people (the Tu-
nisians) into adventures proposed
by demagoguery" — an obvious
reference to Egyptian President
Nasser's demand for an Arab war
of extermination against Israel last
year.
Appearing Sunday on the NBC-
TV Meet the Press program, Bour-
guiba said an acceptable compro-
mise for the Middle East deadlock
could be found in a joint Arab-
Jewish state or in two separate
states as envisioned in the 1947
UN partition plan. He urged im-
plementation of UN decisions on
the Middle East and evacuation of
Israeli troops from occupied ter-
ritories as necessary steps in
achieving peace. Bourguiba said
the issue of Israel was one of "col_
onization of Palestine" by out-
siders. He equated Zionist settle-
ment with French colonialism in
Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco.
Bourguiba said that UN and big
powers could oversee the sequence
of events that could determine the
timing of Israel's evacuation and
Arab recognition of Israel leading
to peace. He stressed that the big
issue was not as he saw it, one
of Arab states' direct negotiations
with Israel, but the achievement
of a "just compromise" between
the Palestinian Arabs and the Jews.
The issue he depicted was one
of "two communities and two na-
tionalisms within the same terri-
tory." Bourguiba said a solution
could only come through "a com-
promise suitable to both sides."
Asked to comment on the Soviet
Union's naval build-up in the Medi-
terranean, he replied that NATO
did not seem greatly concerned
and asked, "Why should I be more
concerned than NATO?"
Tunisian Leader Offers
Negative Note at UN
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. —
Addressing a plenary session of
the General Assembly, Bourguiba
called upon Israel to withdraw its
armed forces from all territories
that it occupied as a result of the
Six-Day War "without any excep-
tion." Along with Israel's troop
withdrawals, he said, "United Na-
tions in these zones. Bourguiba,
who in the past had called outright
for Arab-Israeli negotiations, took
a stand squarely with the Arabs.
Noting that neither the armistice
agreement of 1948 nor the results
of the Egypt-Israeli war of 1956
had brought about peace in the
Middle East, Bourguiba endorsed
what he called the Palestinians'
"resistance" to Israel.
Bourguiba wondered whether the
"Middle East crisis is today enter-
ing the stage of a long struggle
which . . . has shown the leaders
in Tel Aviv that in launching a
victorious Six-Day War they have
perhaps begun a war lasting 10
years or even longer, the outcome
of which is far more uncertain."
He said "there is no doubt that,
so long as Israel refuses to accept
unequivocally the Security Coun-
cil's resolution of Nov. 22, 1967,

the Arab peoples have no choice
but to 'think in terms of fighting.
For their part, the Arab govern-
ments have, on the whole, accepted
this resolution and are prepared
to accent the consequences and the
responsibility of a solution."
"A plan could be worked out,"
he said, "which would have as a
first phase the withdrawal by Israel
of its grmed forces from all the
territories during the conflict it
set off on June 5, 1967 without ex-

ception. Simultaneously and still
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in the first phase UN forces would
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take up positions in these zones.
During the second phase Ambas-
sador Jarring would open appro-
priate negotiations with the parties
concerned to guarantee the im-
plications and the terms of all
CALL
the other provisions of the resolu-
tion. The third phase would con-
sist of a Sercurity Council de-
cision based on a report by the
Secretary-General U Thant and his
special representatives declaring
that the resolution had received
sufficient application and ordering
the withdrawal of UN troops so
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