THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
12—Friday, December 20, 1968

British Palestine Appeal
Raises $3 Million at Fete;
Eban Confers With Wilson

LONDON, (JTA) — British
Jewry was urged to rally behind
Israel during the corning year to
keep that nation's vital humanitar-
ian and social programs from col-
lapsing under the burden of un-
precedented security needs.
Michael M. Sacher, newly elected
chairman of the Joint Palestine
Appeal, stressed the urgency of
maintaining Israel's social services,
medical aid, education and welfare
while the country spent 20 per cent
of its gross national product on
defense.
That compares to only 10 per
cent spent by the United States
and much less by Britain, he said.
Sacher presided at the JPA's dinner
opening the 1969 c a m p a i g
Pledges totaling $3,300,000 were
made at the dinner which was ad-
dressed by Israel's foreign mini-
ster, Abba S. Eban.
Before speaking, Eban noted
the Middle East cease-fire agree-
ments were not on the brink of
collapse nor was the Middle East
on the verge of .a new explosion.
He spoke to newsmen following an
hour-long meeting with Foreign
Secretary Michael Stewart and a
half-hour courtesy call paid to
Prime Minister Harold Wilson at
the latter's residence.
Wilson and Stewart were re-
ported to have urged both Israel
and the Arabs to issue "clear
declarations" accepting the UN
Security Council's Nov. 22, 1967
resolution "in the clear knowl-
edge" that it implied Israel
withdrawal and Arab approval
of a lasting and secure peace.
Eban told newsmen that while
his government was amenable to
phased peace negotiations, it re-
jected any phased troop with-
drawal to parallel stage-by-stage
negotiations.
He also reiterated Israel's in-
sistence that any peace arrange-
ment in the Middle East must be
agreed to by all parties and cannot
be "grafted" by the Big Powers.
The Middle East is not a colonial
protectorate but an area inhabited
by sovereign states and a peace
settlement can come about only by
negotiation and agreement between
these states," Eban said.
He expressed satisfaction with
his meeting last week with William
W. Scranton, President-elect Nix-
on's fact-finding envoy to the Mid-
dle East. He said he found that
Scranton had an open mind on the
Middle East and had come to listen,
not to present any ideas. He said
that on the basis of his talks with
the envoy, he was certain there
would be no changes in the Amer-
ican policy on the Middle East en-
unciated by President Johnson in
his five-point program of June
1967 and reinforced by statements
by .Nixon during the election cam-
paign.

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Soviet Has 2nd_ Thoughts
on Sending-Jetflo Egypt:
Israel Might Capture It

LONDON (JTA)—The Daily Tele-
graph said that Russia is not pre-
pared to supply Egypt with its
advanced, 1,800 mile-per-hour all-
weather MIG-23 jet fighters which
might give the Egyptian Air Force
superiority over the American F-4
Phantom jets to be sold to Israel.
Western military analysts say
the MIG-23 is too secret a weapon
to risk the loss of one to Israel
and that Egyptian pilots have yet
to master the slower, less sophisti-
cated MIG types already supplied
to Egypt, the Telegraph reported.
According to the newspaper, So-
viet equipment supplied to Egypt
since the June 1967 war includes
the bulk of Egypt's subsonic MIG-
15s and MIG-17s. But Egypt also
has some 40 supersonic SU-7s
whch can be used for ground at-
tack as well as 80 MIG-19 all-
weather fighters and 110 MIG-21
interceptors, the Telegraph re-
pOrtod.

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