SA4 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- THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS tion as a work that reviews events. It solves nothing other than elabo- 18—Friday, November 29, 1968 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 Holiday Gifts for the Home men who expressed them as now Free Gift Wrapping possessing no value. The import- ance of tthe participants is of REENFIELD AT 101/2 MILE greater interest than the views that are published. Colony ACCENTS [ THE STROLLERS .. Rage of New York and the Catskills, first time in De- troit personally and enter- tain for your Cocktail and dinner hour. 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