Boycott of France Opposed in Knesset
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Prominent
labor party members, citing the
long period of Franco-Israeli ami-
ty, warned in the Knesset Tuesday
that Israelis should not penalize
the French people for the acts of
t h e government of President
Charles de Gaulle. The speakers
referred specifically to a spontan-
eous boycott of French goods and
services that has developed in Is-
rael since de Gaulle announced
his embargo of military equipment
and spare parts.
Shimon Peres, a Labor Party
leader who was deputy defense
3 Jews Sentenced
to Die by Iraqi
Military Court
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He said the espionage charges
against the Jews were obviously
trumped up and that they were
clearly being .made scapegoats for
Iraq's internal troubles. He said
that four of the defendants for
whom the Baghdad prosecutor de-
manded the death sentences had
been under house arrest and kept
Incommunicado since the June 1967
war. "Our great and profound fear
is that the executions might take
place without the world being in-
formed of them," Dr. Prinz said.
Me accused the Iraqi press, radio
and television of spreading incite-
ment against Jews while most
Jews in Iraq have been deprived of
their freedom and civil rights and
have been made victims of cruel
oppression. The newspaper Ha aretz
reported Tuesday that one of the
Jews brought to trial last week
was the son of Iraq's Chief Rabbi
Naim Kadorrie.
The London Times said in an edi-
torial Monday that it was only a
matter of time before the present
Iraqi regime "such as it is," comes
to an end. The paper said its exist-
ence had made it difficult to move
toward an Arab-Israeli settlement
and has strengthened the Arab
hard-liners. "Many Arabs and
many Arab governments would be
glad to end the continuous state of
war, but regimes like those in Iraq
and Syria talk of nothing except
war and are fundamentally un-
stable," the Times commented.
Richard Maass, chairman of the
foreign affairs department of the
American Jewish Committee, said
that five of the Jewish defendants
had been arrested immediately
after the June 1967 Arab-Israel
war. "The whole basis of this show
trial seems absurd when we rea-
lize that Jews who have been in
jail for 18 months are now being
tried for alleged spying activities,"
Maass said. According to the AJ
Committee's information, two of
the Jews were being tried in ab-
sentia. They were identified as
Shaul Sasson, probably the son
of the Grand Rabbi of Iraq, and
Albert Nounou. The others are
Ezra Zilkha, Haskiel Zilkha, Yakob
Namirdi, Eliahu Ilyash and Safa
Hayim. The latest reports of the
trial, which was said to be con-
ducted on camera, followed re-
ports two weeks ago of Iraqi
charges of an alleged Israeli, pro-
American plot against the Iraqi
government, Maass noted.)
minister in the Ben-Gurion gov-
ernment, noted that Israel • and
France had lived through 13 years
of deep-rooted friendship at a time
when Israel had few friends. "We
shall always be grateful to the
French whose aid was at our dis-
posal in two wars," Peres said.
David Hacohen, chairman of the
Knesset foreign affairs and secur-
ity committee, said that de Gaulle's
"hypocrisy" was obvious to all,
including most Frenchmen, and
Israel should not, take revenge on
France.
Ishar Harari, another Labor
member, said de Gaulle's treach-
erous nature was first manifested
when he gave Algeria indepen-
dence, "stabbing in the back a
million Frenchmen whose families
had lived in Algeria for centuries
and who expected de Gaulle to
perpetuate French rule there." He
said there should have been a
warning to Israel of de Gaulle's
nature.
It was learned here Wednesday
that Prime Minister Levi Eshkol
and five of his cabinet ministers
were studying all aspects of the
French embargo to decide whether
to demand a refund for $100,000,000
of Mirage jets and other military
equipment Israel bought and paid
for in France.
Nuclear Bomb Capability Reports
Called 'Speculative and Inexact'
JERUSALEM (JTA)—A Nation-
al Broadcasting Company report
that Israel has developed a nuclear
bomb or would have one very
shortly was not denied categorical-
ly here. Authoritative sources
however termed it "speculative
and inexact." (The Israel Em-
bassy in Washington denied the re-
port.) They said Israel was not a
nuclear state and recalled Israel's
past pledge that it would not be
the first nation to introduce nu-
clear weapons to the Middle East.
The NBC report was televised on
the Huntley-Brinkley Report. NBC's
State Department correspondent,
James Robinson, attributed his
purported information to unidenti-
fied sources who claimed that
American intelligence agents dis-
covered Israeli agents quietly buy-
ing special parts and material that
could be used only to manufacture
nuclear weapons. The NBC report
stated further that Israel had
started a crash program two years
ago to develop nuclear weapons
and was working on a delivery sys-
tem to be ready within three years.
(State Department -officials dis-
counted the report as totally erron-
eous. They told the JTA that the
U.S. was satisfied that Israel
would live up to its pledge not to
be the first to bring nuclear wea-
pons into the Middle East.)
Credence was given to the NBC
report in some quarters abroad by
Israel's refusal to sign the nuclear
non-proliferation draft treaty de-
spite heavy pressure from the U.S.
Informed circles here said Israel
has withheld its signature because
the government was still studying
the economic, political, industrial
and defense implications of the
Friday, January 17, 1969-5
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Vietnam-U.S. Relations Taught Dayan Lesson
Dayan still pursues his liberal
TEL AVIV (ZINS)—Gen. Chaim
Herzog, first military governor of policy in the occupied territories,
a
policy
which is being supported
the West Bank, disclosed here the
by a large segment of the popula-
factors which have influenced tion.
Moshe Dayan's liberal policy in
the free terrorities.
It happened, General Herzog re-
lates, during Moshe Dayan's visit
in Vietnam, where he had ob-
served American attitudes toward
the local population, which caused
resentment toward the American
forces there and evoked friendship
and sympathy for the Viet Cong.
When General Herzog assumed
his post of military governor of
the West Bank, Dayan told him:
"Here we shall do the opposite of
what the Americans are doing in
Vietnam."
draft treaty.
The NBC report drew some
acceptance from the widely ac-
knowledged fact that Israel was
one of the four or five non-nuclear
countries with the technological
capability, if not financial re-
sources, to produce nuclear wea-
pons. NBC cited the latest issue of
"Janes' All The World's Aircraft,"
an authoritative British publica-
tion, as saying that Israel would
have nuclear warheads of its own
design by 1970. Israel has two nu-
clear research establishments, one
at the Weizmann Institute of Sci-
ence in Rehovot and the other at
Dimona in the Negev Desert. They
are believed to be developing nu-
clear reactors for peaceful pur-
poses. Informants here recalled
Prime Minister Levi Eshkol's
statement at a Labor Party meet-
ing last October that Israel has
the know-how to manufacture nu-
clear weapons "but from there to
making them is a long way to go."
It was also noted here that Is-
rael does not have the financial
resources to produce a nuclear
bomb, especially as its treasury is
already strained to secure the con-
ventional weapons it needs for de-
fense. (Defense authorities in Lon-
don said that while Israel had the
know-how to produce nuclear
weapons, in a "comparatively short
time it was unlikely that they have
developed any so far."
(In Cairo, official spokesman Dr.
Mohamed Hassan el Zayat said
the United Arab Republic would
seek nuclear weapons to counter
any atomic threat by Israel. He
also criticized the United States
for supplying Israel with warplanes
capable of delivering atomic
bombs).
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