Sale of Phantoms by U.S. Seen as Certainty
by Eshkol; USSR Arms Supply Causes Concern
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister ments in the Middle East is the
Levi Eshkol told the cabinet here best guarantee of avoiding wars"
Sunday that while President John- and referred to the large influx
son's directive to Secretary of of Soviet arms into the region
State Dean Rusk to open negotia- which, he said, had upset the bal-
tions with Israel for the sale of ance and created new dangers.
supersonic military aircraft was Institute for Strategic
not binding on the President, he Studies Sees New M.E.
was certain the sale will be con- War Involving Super Powers
summated.
LONDON (JTA)—Another Arab-
Eshkol quoted Paragraph 651 of
the' U.S. foreign aid bill which was
. cited in the President's directive.
He'said it was safe to assume that
Mr. Johnson referred to this sec-
tion in order to stress wide public
support for the sale of the jets to
Israel. Eshkol said that he had the
impression, when he met Mr.
Johnson at the latter's ranch in
Texas last January, that the Presi-
dent's reply to Israel's request
for: Phantom jets would be fa-
vorable.
At the request of Herut Party
leader Menahem Begin, the cabi-
net agreed to discuss "certain
aspects" of Foreign Minister Abba
Eban's recent speech before the
United Nations General Assembly
when Eban returns here at the
end of the month. Begin, who is
minister-without-portfolio in the
coalition government, did not say
what aspects he wanted discussed.
It was assumed that he had reser-
vations about Eban's formulation
of Israel's willingness to discuss
matters of substance with the
Arabs through the UN's special
envoy, Dr. Gunnar V. Jarring.
This has been seen as a softening
of Israel's previous position that
such matters can be taken up only
with Arab representatives directly.
It was noted here that if Begin
objected to any parts of the foreign
minister's speech, he was alone in
the cabinet, which approved the
substance of the Eban speech prior
to its delivery.
Eshkol expressed "deep appre-
ciation" of President Johnson's
"activities in the cause of peace"
in the Middle East and said that
in his conversations with Presi-
dent Johnson, when they met at
the LBJ Ranch in Texas last
January, he had found the Presi-
dent to be "well acquainted with
Israel's security problems and
aware of her needs."
He said that "A balance of arma-
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Mr. Arthur Plotkin, Director
Israel war would "almost inevi-
tably" involve the United States
and the Soviet Union, the Insti-
tute for Strategic Studies warned.
It released a study that found the
danger of miscalculation in the
Middle East to be "considerable,"
and warned that the growing Sov-
iet power in the Mediterranean
will make it increasingly difficult
for the U.S. to consider even a
partial withdrawal.
A major point stressed was that
Soviet influence over Egypt is now
far beyond that of the U.S. in
Israel. The institute attached great
importance to the control by each
major power of its client states.
The report suggested that the
Super Powers "rather than just
containing each other will find
themselves forced together to con-
tain conflicts."
A main point troubling the
institute was whether Moscow
would tolerate "smaller military
operations by her Arab clients
against Israel . . . The danger
that such smaller action could
escalate beyond that which the
Soviet Union may be prepared to
tolerate or can effectively con-
trol is likely to grow."
The institute was founded in 1948
as an international center for re-
search on defense, world security,
and disarmament. It has an inter-
national council drawn from 15
Allied and neutral nations and has
access to official information.
The Soviet naval build-up in
the Mediterranean is continuing,
according to a report in the Lon-
don Daily Telegraph.
A dispatch from Ankara said a
Russian guided missile cruiser
passed through the Bosporus on
Saturday bringing to 54 the num-
ber of Soviet warships in the Medi-
terranean. Two weeks ago the
Russian aircraft carrier Moskva
with a complement of amphibious
marines and a fleet of troop-carry-
ing helicopters entered the Medi-
terranean.
King Hussein of Jordan has writ-
ten to the Sunday Telegraph deny-
ing a report which appeared in
that paper that he intended to turn
Jordan into a "guerrilla state" and
free Arab commandos to operate
against Israel with the full sup-
port of the Jordan Army. He said
that Jordan fully accepted the Se-
curity Council's Nov. 22, 1967,
resolution on the Middle East and
will continue to cooperate with
the UN's Ambassador Gunnar V.
Jarring.
An Israeli Christian Arab said
in an interview published in the
London Times that he thought
"The Arab can live at peace with
the Jews if there is full equality."
Ysuf Khamis, a member of the
executive committee of Histadrut,
Israel's labor federation, said he
meant that "The Arab must be
given the same opportunity as the
Jew, and when this is achieved, he
must feel that he can hold a key
position without prejudice."
Khamis is a member of a His-
tadrut delegation currently visit-
ing Britain as guests of the Trade
Union Congress. He said that at
present the Arabs in Israel—and
also Oriental Jews—"do not feel
themselves equal." The reason, he
said, is that they are less edu-
cated than the European Jews.
U.S. Reported Concerned
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address before the United Nations
General Assembly last Tuesday.
The Jewish labor fraternal order
also called on the U.S. to continue
military assistance to Israel and
FOR ALL OCCASIONS
condemned the Soviet rearmament
of the Arab states "at a time when
peace is so essential to the Middle
East."
The labor fraternal order, at its
annual meeting here, condemned
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State Department officials,
pleading a heavy schedule for
Secretary of State Dean Rusk,
said there might be a delay in
starting the negotiations which
President Johnson ordered last
week for the sale of supersonic
jet aircraft to Israel. They said
that Rusk would try to fit Israel
Ambassador Yitzhak Rabin into
his schedule later this week but
that it may be some time next
week before the initial meeting
can be held.
The United States Navy dis-
closed that a new NATO naval
command has been established in
the Mediterranean to strengthen
air surveillance of the growing
Soviet fleet in that region. The
command, to be known as Mari-
time Air Forces, will be activated
Nov. 21 under the command of
Rear Admiral Edward C. Outlaw,
USN. The navy said that Amer-
ican, British and Italian aircraft
will be employed in the surveil-
lance and that the information ob-
tained would be shared by those
nations and would be communi-
cated to Greece and Turkey. Israel
is not included in the intelligence
reports because it is not a NATO
member. Navy sources here indi-
cated that the establishment of the
new command reflected the in-
creasing concern felt in NATO
circles about the Soviet naval
build-up in the Eastern Mediterra-
nean in which high ranking officers
see "a new and dangerous situa-
tion" developing.
In Lisbon, Gen. Lyman Lem-
nitzer, supreme Allied commander
of NATO in Europe, said that if
the Soviet Union continued to in-
crease its naval power in the Medi-
terranean, "We will ask for an
increase of NATO naval forces."
In Lisbon Monday, Gen. Manlio
Brosia, secretary of NATO, warned
that a lack of action by NATO
countries faced with an enlarged
Soviet naval presence in the
Mediterranean would not corn-
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at Reported Soviet-Egyptian
Arms, Diplomatic Agreements
WASHINGTON (JTA) — United
States officials were said to be
increasingly concerned over re-
ports from unidentified pro-Israeli
sources, ' of a major new Soviet
arms agreement with Egypt and
pledges. o£ diplomatic support .to
achieve an eventual Arab victory
over Israel in the form of a polit-
ical solution of the Middle East
conflict.
According to the New York
Times, sources whose previous re-
ports have been described as
"strikingly accurate" said the
arms deal calls among other things
for the delivery to Egypt by mid-
1969 of 100-150 supersonic SU-7
and MIG-21 jet fighters and 500
tanks equally divided between
T-54s and T-55s, the latter with an
infra-red guidance system that
helps direct accurate artillery fire
up to 1,200-yard ranges. the pro-
Israeli sources have stressed that
the Soviet-Egyptian arms deal was
not and never has been contingent
on the American supply of F-4
Phantom jets to Israel; they de-
scribe it as "part of a long range
Soviet penetration of the Arab
world" and claim that it would
have come about whatever the
U.S. did with regard to Israel, the
Times reported.
mand Russia's respect and would
hinder chances of a political set-
tlement between the Arabs and
Israel. Gen. Brosio spoke at the
14th congress of the Atlantic
Treaty Association.
Workmen's Circle Executive
Board Urges U.S. Diplomacy
to Promote Middle East Peace
NEW YORK (JTA) — The na-
tional executive board of Work-
men's Circle urged the United
States to use its "diplomatic weap-
ons" to bring about Arab-Israeli
peace talks under the nine-point
program offered by Israel's For-
eign Minister Abba Eban in his
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