Only one voice was raised in the UN Security Council at midnight Monday on behalf of Israel. It
was the voice of Israel's permanent representative to the UN, Ambassador Yosef Tekoah, who had rushed
back Monday from Jerusalem, cutting short a scheduled week long series of routine consultations
with the leaders of government.
Tekoah leveled his harshest retort against the Soviet Union when he took the floor. He defied the
Soviet-led efforts to make Israel pay damages for the plane destruction at the Beirut airport. He told
the council:
"Even here, in the Security Council of the United Nations, a quarter of a century after the
defeat- of Nazi barbarism, are we to hear that the scrap iron of airplanes is worth more than Jewish
blood?" That remark was a reference to the fact that, in the commando attack against Israel's jet
airliner, at the Athens airport, one Israeli had been murdered. "There will no law for all nations,
another for Israel—not even Soviet law," said Tekoah defiantly.
"Who" asked Tekoah, "will compensate Israel for the hundreds of its citizens killed in the course
of the existing cease-fire," who will compensate for the damage of the border villages that are being
shelled incessantly or the Jews lingering since 1967 in Arab concentration camps?"
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Only One Voice
in Israel's
Defense
JEWISH NEWS
Recalling
Historic Gromyko
Speech in Light
of USSR's Unholy
Alliance With
Israel's Enemies
Editorial
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Vol. LIV, No. 16
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Uncivilized
Acts of Terror
Misled
'1 nternationa I ists'
and Their Harm
to Israel
Commentary
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Double Standard, Unilateral Action
Affecting Anti-lsraelism Condemned
Nationally, Locally, in City Councils
condemnations of Israel by Newspapers, Commentators,
Vatican Rouse Widest Resentment in Jewish Communities
Students Hold Protest Bally
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (JTA) — Several hundred students from
Jewish colleges in the New York area staged a demonstration in front
of the United Nations complex Monday night, while the Security Council
was debating the Lebanese and Israeli complaints and counter-com-
plaints arising out of Israel's commando raid at the Beirut civil airport
and the attack against an Israel Airlines El Al passenger jet plane at
the Athens airport, resulting in the death of an Israeli.
Inside the Security Council chamber, word had spread of the
demonstration outside the building, and a brief conversation on the
subject was held between Secretary-General U Thant and Ambassador
N. L. Makonnen of Ethiopia, the December president of the council.
The Danish representative on the council had just been given the
floor by Makonnen, when Abdelkader ben Kaci of Algeria, a member
of the council, intervened with a point of order.
Ben Kaci told the council that "Zionists" were attempting to
Intimidate the council by staging a demonstration in front of the build-
ing. He said the UN buildings "were surrounded by Zionist groups
chanting anti-Arab slogans." Makonnen assured the Algerian that he
was certain "the host country" — meaning the United States — would
contain any demonstration being staged.
In fact, the demonstration outside the building was unusual since,
customarily, demonstrations aimed at the United Nations are forbidden
the sidewalks directly in front of the UN complex and are always
on
routed by New York police to a location on First Avenue, across the
wide avenue from the UN buildings.
United Nations guards carrying night sticks kept the demonstrators
from entering the UN grounds although there did not seem to be any
indication that the pickets intended to invade the UN grounds. New
York City police soon took charge of the demonstrators, dispersing
-them peacefully. One of the demonstrators, Steven Parkas, a sophomore
At Yeshiva University, told reporters he had organized the demonstra-
tion, saying, "We are here to protest the condemnation of Israel by
the Major Powers."
Later during the council session, Makonnen announced he had
received a communication from the United States delegation stating
that "the people who were causing the difficulties" had been removed
/Ind' thit order had been restored.
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National Jewish organizations, local community councils . . . including Detroit's
. . . and a number of city councils strongly condemned the double standard that is
being applied to Israel in the current crisis that resulted from scores of attacks upon
Israeli centers and civilians and the assault last week on an El Al plane in Athens.
Resentment is felt over the protesting word from Pope Paul who had not spoken
on any occasion when Jews were attacked, who was silent when the El Al plane
was fired upon and one of its passengers was killed; who said not a word when bombs
were exploded, taking large tolls of lives inthe Jerusalem market place and the Tel
Aviv bus terminal.
The new situation has brought to the fore every conceivable argument that has
been utilized by anti-Semites, and news commentators are blamed for innocently re-
sorting to tactics that arouse hatred and suspicion, such as: threats that philanthropic
gifts to Israel will be cut off by the United States, that it is the Jewish vote that is
getting sympathy for Israel, that there is a 13-eye-for-one-eye Jewish attitude—a
charge involving the lex falionis that has been a source of hatred instigated against
all Jews.
While the U. S. delegate at the United Nations was condemning Israel, together
with other spokesmen for Western Powers, the feeling of resentment was in-
creased over the failure of any of the statesmen to speak out against the constant
attacks on Israeli civilian centers.
Evidence was piling up that, contrary to the belief that Lebanon alone among all
the Arab nations was refraining from animosity toward Israel, the most recent infiltra-
tions of El Fatah terrorists into Israeli areas were from Lebanon.
In Athens, on Monday, the two Arab terrorists who were arraigned for attacking the
El Al plane told the investigating magistrate, Nikolas Stylianikis, that they had fol-
lowed orders from the Beirut-based El Fatah organization. Mahamoud Mohammed Issa,
25, and Maher Hussein Suleimna, 19, the two marauders, said that the Popular
Front for the Liberation of Palestine ordered them to destroy the new El Al plane.
They claimed they had not been told to kill, but they had murdered Leon Shirdan,
50, an eminent industrialist, and the plane they attacked had 13 women and four chil-
dren among the passengers.
Winston Churchill, grandson of the wartime British prime minister, speaking in
London, Monday, ridiculed criticism of Israel, calling attention to the fact that while
13 planes were demolished, not a single life was sacrificed,
in contrast with the attack by Arab guerrillas on a plane
with children and women.
In his broadcast on Monday, Brig. Gen. S. L. A. Marshall
said over the local TV station that it was shocking to meas-
ure life with steel, that Arabs had killed while Israelis
merely destroyed planes in retaliation.
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Motivations
for Israel's
Beirut Action
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Jewish Community Council Protests Censure
The Detroit Jewish Community Council executive committee, in wires sent to
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:President Johnson and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations James -Wiggins,
Protested against the U.S. vote to censure IsraeL Text of the wire, signed by Council
President Lawrence Gubow, was as follows:
"We oppose UN action by our government toward censure of Israel. The con-
tinning series of terrorist acts against Israel, costly in life and property, and jeopard-
. iring • American lives in Athens, did not arouse. UN or world condemnation. These
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have not been individual acts of irresponsibility, but continue to be boasted as part
of the weapons and threats of governments hostile to Israel and pledged to its destruc-
tion. On the background of bloody and inhuman provocations permitted to occur
without world protest, we believe that censure of Israel represents far less than an
even-handed or balanced approach to the goal of Middle East peace."
The Council urged its member organizations to send similiar message of protest,
to Congressmen, as' well as administration leadership.