Israel Objects to Cre ation of Custodian for Arab Property in Israel—Comay
UNITED NATIONS (JTA) —
Israel Monday expressed opposi-
tion to a possible resolution here
that would call for appointment of
a custodian to administer Arab
properties in Israel.
Michael Comay told the UN's
special political committee that
such a resolution would be harm-
ful to Ambassador Gunnar V.
Jarring's Middle East peace mis-
sion and that Israel would oppose
it.
The Israeli diplomat, who was
former UN envoy, spoke in reply
to a representative of Pakistan,
Eskandar Ali, who last Friday told
the committee that a draft resolu-
tion on a custodian was under con-
sideration by several delegations.
Indicating that a call for solution
of the Arab refugee question was
part of the Nov. 22, 1967 Security
Council resolution that authorized
the Jarring mission, Comay said
the custodian proposal was "highly
controversial, provocative and
harmful" and would inject "a fresh
source of friction into a compli-
cated question at a very highly
sensitive stage of negotiations."
The special political commit.
tee continued its debate on the
report of Commissioner-General
Laurence Michelmore of the
United Nations Relief and Works
Agency for Palestine Refugees
(UNRWA). The committee is
considering a United States draft
resolution that would extend the
UNRWA mandate, slated to ex-
00000000000000000000sue.;
Friday that Israel has argued that posal to refrain from doing so. The
the custodian proposal infringed Israeli added that figures on in-
upon its domestic jurisdiction. "If come of Arab properties as given
there is any issue to which the by some delegations were a "fig-
plea of domestic judisdiction is ment of the imagination."
More than 500,000 Jewish refu-
wholly irrelevant, it is the issue of
gees from Arab countries had been
Palestine refugees," he said.
Comay replied Monday that there settled in Israel, and their proper-
were no grounds for questioning ties had been confiscated by the
Israel sovereignty on the question. Arab governments concerned, he
He appealed to committee mem- said, adding that no offer of com-
bers to persuade delegations who pensation for their property had
want to introduce a custodian pro- ever been made.
pire June 30, 1969, for three
years.
Comay told the committee that
the proposal for appointment of
an Arab property administrator
had assumed different guises in
the past but there was still a ques-
tion left unchanged—whether the
UN had the right to intervene in
the affairs of a country in a dis-
pute regarding the settlement of
property rights. The answer, he
said, was no.
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Postal Minister Hit
for Urging Censorship
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JERUSALEM — A remark by
Minister of Posts Israel Yeshaya-
hu interpreted as an attack on
press freedom in Israel was re-
jected by other cabinet ministers
and challenged in Israel newspa-
pers Tuesday. Yeshayahu issued a
statement saying that he had been
"misquoted."
He was reported to have com-
plained at an Israel Labor Party
secretariat meeting Sunday that
privately owned Israeli newspapers
take too many "liberties" in re-
porting, particularly on political
matters, and suggested that all
daily news media be taken over by
a public body. Ten cabinet minis-
ters polled by the daily Haaretz
opposed Yeshayahu's views. Most
Israeli dailies including the Labor
organ Davar, said his idea had
serious implications for democra-
cy. A Labor Party spokesman said
that while every member has a
right to state his views, the party
dissociated itself from the idea of
nationalizing the press. Israel is a
free society in which all sectors
have equal rights, he said.
Yeshayahu said that he did not
propose nationalizing the press but
only suggested that news media
owned by parties and other na-
tional bodies should be strength-
ened to combat what he termed
"sensationalism" and "distorted
reporting" in the private press. At
the Labor Party meeting, Yeshaya-
hu criticized the newspapers Haa-
retz, Maariv and Yediot Ahronot,
all politically independent, private-
ly owned papers, for discussing
who should be Israel's next prime
minister
Yeshayahu referred to Defense
Minister Moshe Dayan, often men-
tioned for that post, and charged
that his support came from "anti-
Labor elements."
Yeshayahu was rebuked by an-
other Laborite who said the differ-
ence between a free press and
press run according to Yeshaya-
hu's views, was the difference be-
tween democracy and Bolshevism.
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