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Old Views About Big Powers in Middle East
By ELIAHU SALPETER
(Copyright 1968, JTA Inc.)
On Dec. 6, 1967, exactly six
months after the Six-Day War, a
group of well known public figures,
former State Department officials,
Jews, Christians and Moslems,
gathered for a symposium at the
Carnegie Endowment International
Center in New York on the ques-
tion of the Middle East Crisis.
The addresses and the general
discussion that followed are incor-
porated in a volume published by
Fairleigh Dickinson University
Press.
The published texts of the col-
loquium, entitled "The Big Powers
and the Present Crisis in the Mid-
dle East," contain interesting atti-
tudes of a conflicting nature. Spon-
sored by the Institute for Medi-
terranean Affairs and Fairleigh
Dickinson University, it was to be
expected as it turned to be a cor-
dial exchange of views.
A major shortcoming of a vol-
ume published nearly a year
after the discussions had taken
place is that the latest develop-
ments are unrecorded, that the
new Arab attitudes are elim-
inated, that a major factor for
which the pro-Arab spokesman
had expressed a demand at the
colloquium—an expression by Is-
rael outlining its peace objectives
—have since been offered. Abba
Eban's proposals now are a mat-
ter of record, but they could not
play a proper role in the discus-
sions incorporated in the new
book.
This volume nevertheless has
merit in that it provides a record
of the view of prominent personal-
ities. The volume was interestingly
edited by Dr. Samuel Merlin, di-
rector of the Institute for Mediter-
ranean Affairs.
Participants included the former
U.S. ambassador to Egypt, Richard
H. Nolte. His views offered here
aer of special concern. Of interest
also are the views of Gen. E. L. M.
Burns, former chief of staff of the
United Nations Emergency Force.1
Detroiters will recall the views
of Prof. Nasrollah S. Fatemi,
who, in his address at the Midra-
sha last March, even went so far
as to suggest acceptance of a pro-
posal he had made for accept-
ance by Israel of the status quo
ante of 1947, That would have
taken from Israel all of the pres-
ent self-protective areas. It is
hardly a practical proposal, and
his summary, while fair in the
highest degree in his resume of
the addresses in the published
colloquium, is not very helpful in
the present situation. It does not
lead to direct negotiations, or at
least to acceptance of Israel's
existence. It proposes the latter,
but it is evident that Arabs do
not accept it.
Arabs Blame Zionism
for Death of Kennedy
JERUSALEM (ZINS) — A Jew
named Yorkshlon was supposed to
have been, according to "Al An-
war," a Beirut newspaper, the
murderer of Sen. Robert Kennedy.
According to this paper, Yorkshlon
executed his mission as an agent
of international Zionism.
This volume is worth considera-
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rating upon ideas that are now
passe. As part of history, of events
that fade into insignificance in
conditions of rapid movements of
our time, it merely records ideas
that may be admitted by the very
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ministration to find "more hope-
ful avenues" toward a Middle East
peace "than a simplistic and auto-
matic backing of Israel, or nursing
a new naval belligerence of our
own." In the lead editorial of its
Nov. 22 edition, the magazine also
urged the restoration of U.S. diplo-
matic relations with Egypt and a
general strengthening of Ameri-
can-Arab ties.
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East is a region ripe for applica-
tion of "the American talent for
assistance in economic develop-
ment" which "in time could help
heal the Arab weakness and dis-
array which, rather than Russian
trouble-making, is the root cause
of Middle Eastern instability."
Life believes that President Nas-
ser of Egypt "would welcome a
little assistance and cooperation
from the U.S., if only to lessen his
heavy dependence on Russian
aid."
Life criticized the pro-Israel
statements by both Vice President
Hubert H. Humphrey and Richard
M. Nixon during the election cam-
paign because they confirmed
"Arabs in their illusion that Amer-
ican policy in the Middle East is
dictated by Zionist sympathizers."
The Johnson administration's "pol-
icy of restraint, which seems about
to yield to Israel's request for 50
Phantoms, makes Nixon's promise
(to arm Israel) seem all the more
incautious," the editorial said.
"Premier Eshkol of Israel . . .
has had no serious complaint
about Johnson's policy but seems
even more cheerful about what he
hopes Nixon's will be."
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