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'Gross Exaggerations' in Cairo-Kremlin Line Exposed
Eban Charges Arab Aims Seek
Status Quo, Meaning Surrender
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Foreign
Minister Abba Eban said in a na-
tional radio address Sunday night
that a bellicose speech by Egypt's
President Nasser at a luncheon
attended by top Kremlin leaders
in Moscow last Friday gave lie to
the so-called "peace offensive" by
Egypt that had been widely re-
ported by the world press in re-
cent days as a sign of a "thaw" in
the Middle East dispute.
Eban contrasted Nasser's Mos-
cow words with those of Foreign
Minister Ma hmoud Riad, who
said Egypt was prepared to accept
the "reality" of Israel's existence.
(Later, in Cairo, there was an
official denial of Riad's alleged
remark. The journalist who re-
ported the statement backed
down.)
Nasser did not speak of Israel
as a state to whose existence the
Arabs could become reconciled,
but stressed the possibility of re-
newed warfare and the forcible
"liberation" by the Arabs of areas
occupied by Israel since the Six-
Day War, Eban said. "As Nasser
is the person in charge of Egypt's
policy, it must be said regretfully
that there is no substantive change
in Egypt's policy," Eban declared.
According to the official Egyp-
tian version, Nasser said in Mos-
cow that the Arab nations wanted
peace with Israel "but not at any
price" and characterized a peace
based on the status quo as "simply
surrender." He referred to Israeli
"aggression" and "imperialism"
and pledged that the Arabs "would
liquidate the consequences of
Israeli aggression whatever the
cost and sacrifice."
He spoke after a three-hour
conference With Soviet Premier
Alexei N. Kosygin, President
Nikolai V. Podgorny and Com-
munist Party chief Leonid I.
Brezhnev. It vas announced
later that Nasser decided to ex-
tend his stay in Moscow and
postponed for several days his
trip to Yugoslavia for talks with
President Tito. Brezhnev re-
portedly pledged that the USSR
would "always side with the
Arab nations" in the struggle for
the "undelayed withdrawal" of
Israeli troops from all occupied
territories.
Eban said the importance of
Egyptian Foreign Minister Riad's
statements was "grossly exagger-
ated." He also said that there has
been no shift in the attitude of the
Big Powers on Israel's insistence
on negotiations as essential to a
peace settlement.
Eban doubted that the Egyptian
"peace offensive" might lead to
combined East-West pressure on
Israel. No state that has in the
past year advocated the formula
of agreed and secured boundaries
as a basis for peace has changed
its position, he said.
The substance of the new Egyp-
tian "peace offensive" was un-
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veiled over the weekend with an
announcement by Cairo that Egypt
would be willing to accept the re-
turn of a United Nations peace-
keeping force in the Sinai Penin-
sula which it had ousted in May
1967. It got a cold reception in
Israel.
Although there was no immedi-
ate government comment, Israeli
officials made it clear that they
would never again accept the pres-
ence of UN observers in the Sinai
as a substitute for a negotiated
peace treaty with Egypt.
Israel had done just that—under
United States and Soviet pressure
—following the 1956 Suez crisis
and gained neither access to the
Suez Canal for Israeli shipping nor
a lasting peace.
Official sources in Jerusalem
branded Cairo's offer as "insin-
cere." They said its immediate
- aim was to force an Israeli
withdrawal from the territories
occupied in the Six-Day war so
that the Suez Canal could be
reopened but without the right
of passage for Israeli ships.
The Cairo statement was issued
by Hassan el-Zayyat, official
spokesman of the Egyptian gov-
ernment. He told newsmen that
"if implementation of the Secur-
ity Council's November resolu-
tion necessitated the peacekeeping
forces, we should have no objec-
tions."
(Toronto Globe and Mail, com-
menting editorially on a formula
for a peacemaking operation by
Lt. Gen. E. L. M. Burns, stated:
"Even if this becomes the. basis
for a new UNEF, and even if
Israel agrees to patrols on its
side of the border, Canada should
stay out of a new contingent.
There will be plenty of peace-
making jobs for Canada, and being
booted out of the Sinai once is
enough to destroy the respect our
troops could command.")
Referring to the possible re-
opening of the Suez Canal, Eban
said Israel would be happy to see
the canal functioning again for
the ships of all nations, including
Israel's, .but such an event could
in no way be linked to an Israeli
withdrawal from the canal's east
bank.
Government officials said here
Tuesday that Israel had received
no proposals for reopening the
Suez- Canal contingent upon the
withdrawal of Israeli troops from
its east bank, either from Dr.
Gunnar Jarring, the United Na-
tions peace envoy, or from any
other sources.
. The officials were commenting
on a dispatch from Cairo in the
New York Times Tuesday which
said that Egypt was prepared to
reopen the canal and permit Is-
rael cargoes to pass through the
waterway if Israeli troops pulled
back "a few dozen kilometers"
from, the canal's east bank. The
Times' correspondent, Eric Pace,
attributed the report to "diplomatic
sources" in Egypt. The Times
also quoted an "Israeli official"
as saying that Israel's withdrawal
from the canal bank could be
brought about only as part of a
peace treaty with Egypt.
(Pace wrote that, according to
his informants, the Egyptian offer
was "an aspect of the revived
Egyptian policy concerning possi-
ble elements of a settlement in
the Middle East" which was
worked out in the last several
weeks and communicated privately
to Dr. Jarring, to Israel and sev-
eral other nations.)
(The London Telegraph reported
from Cairo Tuesday that the Suez
Canal could be reopened in four
months despite heavy damage to
its navigational installations. The
Telegraph believe dthat President
Nasser's current talks in Moscow
could result in a new Egyptian
initiative on the canal problem.
The paper also referred to uncon-
firmed reports that a large Soviet
dredger has entered the Mediter-
ranan and is headed for Port Said,
the Mediterranean entrance to the
canal.)
In Moscow Brezhnev linked
Israeli "aggression" in the
Middle East with American ag-
gression" in Vietnam and West
German "revanchism" and told
graduates of the Soviet military
academies that "all this demands
that we retain vigilance and
raise in every way the combat
readiness of our troops." He
urged "peaceful settlement of
r i p e international problems"
such as the Arab-Israeli dis-
pute.
In Rome, Italy's new premier,
Senator Giovanni Leone, outlining
his program in a speech to the
Italian Parliament, said Italy
would continue to support the
United Nations Nov. 22, 1967 reso-
lution on the Middle East. Premier
Leone declared the Arab countries
and Israel had a duty to achieve
peace. He said this would be pos-
sible when Egypt curtailed its
"extermination" propaganda and
when Israel faced with "realism
and justice" the problem of her
relations with the Arab govern-
ments. He added that the Middle
East problem was of concern to
Italy because of the tension it
created in the Mediterranean
area.
Eban said that it is obvious that
Egypt does not, at the present
time, want to bring its 20-year-
old dispute with Israel to an end.
Israel, he said, will make these
points clear before international
bodies and in world capitals.
Israel will also reiterate its readi-
ness to meet with Egyptian rep-
resentatives in order to try to
change their negative policies, the
foreign- minister said.
Eban reported further that
Israel continues its willingness to
cooperate with the United Nations
peace envoy, Ambassador Gun-
nar V. Jarring, in his efforts to
bring permanent peace to the
Middle East.
(The Paris daily, L'Aurore,
earlier said Nasser instructed For-
eign Minister Riad to influence
public opinion against Israel in
Norway, Sweden, Denmark and
I Finland so that he might have
Scandinavian support when the
Palestine problem is raised again
at the UN. The paper did not
think he would achieve his aim
because the democratic countries
of Scandinavia "have more sym-
pathy for the state of Israel than
for the Arab countries where dic-
tatorship is almost universal.")
I (In Helsinki, a high-ranking of-
fical of the political department
of the Finnish Foreign Ministry
took sharp issue with a reported
remark by Riad that "the north-
ern countries are not satisfied
with Israel's stand." He said that
if Riad had meant to include Fin-
land in that statement, he is
wrong. The Finnish government,
he stressed, remains neutral in
the Middle East dispute and has
not expressed dissatisfaction with
the stand of Israel.
Foreign Ministry sources in
Finland were quoted as saying
that no official criticism whatever
of Israel's position had been ex-
pressed in talks with Riad.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
20—Friday, July 12, 1968
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