THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, December 6, 1968 - 21 Israeli Ban on Bridge Vehicle Traffic Leads to W. Bank Embargo as Protest (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) JERUSALEM — West Bank mer- chants appear to have instituted an embargo on shipments to and from Jordan in an effort to force Israeli authorities to lift their ban on vehicular traffic over the Allenby and Damiya bridges, the main cross points. The restriction, which took ef- fect Tuesday, requires t r u c k s transporting goods between the West Bank and Jordan to unload their cargoes, which are inspected and carried across the bridges by porters for reloading on the oppo- site bank. No trucks crossed from the Israeli side Wednesday. Private cars are banned, and passengers must cross the bridges on foot and find transportation on the other side. Several visitors re- turning from Jordan Wednesday had to walk half a mile after cross- ing the Allenby Bridge before find- ing taxis to take them home. The new restrictions which halt- ed Tuesday the previously heavy traffic in goods and agricultural produce between the West Bank and Jordan were taken as a secu- ity measure. Israeli authorities be- lieve that the explosives used to blast the Mahaneh Yehudah Market in Jerusalem Nov. 22 were smug- gled from Jordan concealed in a truck. The cabinet Monday put a brake on a plan for economic integration of the West Bank with Israel. Its decision to vest final approval of new enterprises in the occupied territory with a special ministerial committee was at least a partial victory for Minister Without Portfolio Pin- has Sapir over Defense Minister Moshe Dayan and Finance Min- ister and Minister of Commerce Zeev Sharef. Sapir, the former finance min- ister and now secetary-general of the Israel Labor Party, wants to keep the occupied territories segre- gated from Israel. Gen. Dayan and Sharef favor economic integration. The cabinet decision Monday re- versed a Nov. 29 cabinet committee decision that gave Sharef sole power to approve West Bank enter- prises aided by government funds. The effect of the decision will be to slow down economic integration. Each proposal will have to be brought before the full ministerial committee. The unit will have to approve the enterprise and the amount of aid it is to be granted. Sapir had objected earlier to two proposals to establish factories on the West Bank that would serve as subcon- tractors for Israeli and other firms. Sharef, who received a carte blanche only last Friday,- had al- ready urged world Jewry to assist in establishing plants and factories in the occupied territories. The cabinet's consensus decision was announced by Prime Minister Levi Eshkol. Participants in Mon- day's session were Menahem Beigin, Mordecai Bentov, Gen. Dayan, Moshe Kol, Zalman Aranne, Joseph Saphir and Pinhas Sapir. Dayan, Beigin and Joseph Saphir are classed as "hawks" while Kol, Aranne, Bentov and Pinhas Sapir are considered "doves." Eshkol is said to lean to the "hawks" but tends to mediate between the two camps rather than take sides. In a television interview Sun- day night, Gen. Dayan said the crux of the ongoing debate was what "practical measures" could be taken on the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip in the interim period pending a peace settle- ment. He explained that his plan for economic integration was not intended to turn West Bank Arabs into Israeli citizens nor did it involve annexation of the territory. He said, however, that the pres- ent situation of no-peace, no-war would not change within the year and Israel must begin planning for a third year of occupation. He said that if a situation arises that forces Israel to choose be- tween holding its present lines and a new war, the government would have to examine the situation care- fully. Its decision would depend on what new lines were proposed and against whom a new war might have to be fought. For the present, he said he be- lieved the whole government agreed that Israel must not with- draw from the cease-fire lines without a guaranteed peace. Eygptian Armed Forces Are in Better Shape Than Before June 1967, Newsman Writes intended to relieve regulars government on the other," Cooley wrote. from irksome rearguard duties. BOSTON—"In quality of equip- Students are also complaining merit, training and morale, the about the compulsory military Lead tb• way with Egyptian armed forces are better training instituted in October, he reported. than they were before their crush- "But this is not the main point ing defeat in Israel's June 1967 INSURANCE CAR lightning attack, Christian Science of civilian military friction," Coo- Monitor correspondent John K. ley wrote. "This lies rather in the Our service is the best — Cooley reported in a dispatch from often conflicting demands of ac- our rates are low . . . why tivist civilian intellectuals for more Cairo Tuesday. not comparet militancy and national mobiliza- According to Cooley, "The main tion against Israel on the one hand, key to President Nasser's future while urging a complete withdraw- LI 3-7025 427-5700 course in United Arab Republic al of the military from civilian domestic problems and in the con- frontation with the Israeli foes lies in Egypt's armed forces." Cooley reported that through So- • • • viet replacements, Egypt's tank force has reached about 700, com- A quick glance shows the need for a DISCOUNT pared to more than 900 before the June 1967 war, and its combat air- TIRE DISTRIBUTOR on North craft are estimated at 400 includ- ing MIG-21 and Sukhoi-7 jets, as Woodward — That's why I or- opposed to about 450 before the war. 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