6-Friday, January 31, 1969

Nasser Vows Support to Guerrillas

JERUSALEM (JTA) — A hard- I Mid East policy emerged this
week when Parker T. Hart,
line speech by President Gamal
assistant secretary of state for
Abdel Nasser of Egypt in which
Eastern affairs, told Con-
Near
be extolled Arab guerrillas and
gress not, to expect "any drama-
pledged them all-out support was
cited by an Israeli official this tic forward movement" in the
Arab-Israel situation in the near
week as proof—"if further proof
future.
were needed"—of his government's
links with Palestinian terrorist
Hart testified before the Near
groups.
East subcommittee of the House
Gideon Rafael, director-general Foreign Affairs Committee. After
of the Israel Foreign Ministry, the secret session, he said he saw
said on a radio interview that Nas- a need for time in finding a solu-
ser's speech reflected and exposed tion. He stressed that a "time of
the "helplessness" of his domestic danger" existed and said that "we
situation and the "dead end" to- hope that aggravating incidents
ward which Egyptian foreign po- will be kept down." Hart envisaged
licy was leading.
an opportunity for settlement in
President Nasser, addressing the the efforts of Dr. Jarring.
new Egyptian National Assembly.
U.S. officials acknowledged that
claimed, "We are not war-mongers Nasser wrote to President Nixon
—we are working for peace," But last week "hoping for better
the Egyptian leader declared that things." Officially, the State De-
his country will never "sit to , partment said only that a letter
negotiate with an enemy who is from Nasser had been received in-
occupying our territory" and that volving the Middle East situation
it would fight before it agreed to and that there had been no reply
"cede an inch."
as yet.
Although he made no mention of
The letter was believed to have
the United States, his remarks reviewed past Egyptian-U.S. rela-
were believed to constitute Egypt's tions and indicated that Nasser
reaction to the U.S. note to the sought an improvement but did not
Soviet Union which proposed an ask for a resumption of diplomatic
Israeli withdrawal, but not to the relations which Egypt broke after
borders of June 1967, and urged the June 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
Moscow and other capitals "to use the Po't said.
all their influence to stop the grave
The new U.S. permanent repre-
increase of Arab terrorist opera- sentative to the United Nations.
tions" against Israel.
Charles Yost, said he expected the
The text of the note, which had Nixon administration to take into
been made available to Egyptian "full account the interests and ob-
officials, was published in the jectives" of all Mid East countries
semi-official Cairo newspaper Al when formulating its policy for the
Abram and received an angry re- region. The ambassador, meeting
ception. Al Abram is known to re- the press after presenting his cre-
flect Nasser's views.
dentials to Secretary General U
Qualified military observers Thant. offered this view when ask-
said in Jerusalem that reports
ed whether he agreed with the po-
that Egypt has promised to licy of "even-handedness" recom- I
mended by President Nixon's
s up ply Palestinian guerrilla
Middle East fact-finding envoy,
bands with heavy weapons from
its Soviet-made arsenal would, William Scranton.
Yost said the United States will
if true, have no affect on the
balance of military force array- want to keep the pursuit of Mid
ed against Israel. They said such
East peace within the framework
weapons in the hands of the
of the UN Security Council Nov. 22,
commandos would pose a greater
1967 Mid East resolution and the
threat to the host countries than
mission of Dr. Jarring. He said
that views he had expressed on
to Israel.
the
Mid East issue in an article
The London Telegraph reported
in a dispatch from Amman that published in the Atlantic Monthly
magazine
had not changed. He ex-
Nasser has offered the guerrillas
rockets, anti-aircraft guns and pressed hope that the Nixon ad-
other heavy weapons. The paper, ministration would regard the ,
which attributed its information to course of action he proposed in the
a spokesman for El Fatah, the article as a wise one, but he in-'
largest of the commando bands dicated that there was no certainty
based in Jordan, said that Nasser that it would follow his ideas.
During the U.S. Senate Foreign
offered to post army officers at
Relations Committee questioning
guerrilla bases to train the ir-
of Yost, he said the United
regulars in the use of the Soviet
States would not refrain from us-
weapons.
ing its Security Council veto if it
(The Telegraph said that Nas-
ever was confronted with a reso-
ser also told the guerrilla leaders
lution endangering the "national
that he was strengthening Egyp
interest." The veto has never
tian commandos operating in the
been used.
Sinai Peninsula. This was his first
He was asked by the committee's
Egyptian '
official reference to
newest member, Sen. Jacob K.
guerrillas.)
An Israeli Foreign Ministry Javits, New York Republican, why
spokesman confirmed this week the Soviet Union uses its veto on
that Foreign Minister Abba Eban any resolution affecting the Arabs,
met secretly with United Nations but the U.S. does not do the same
special envoy Dr. Gunnar V. Jar- on behalf of Israel.
Yost said, "There is no official
ring in Zurich Jan. 13. He said the
meeting was concerned mainly policy against using the veto." He
said
that it has not been exercised
with agenda and procedural mat-
ters preparatory to the resumption to date because the Council had
of Dr. Jarring's peace-seeking not voted a resolution "we thought
mission in the Middle East next sufficiently dangerous to block."
month.
Lebanon Reported Acting
The spokesman said the meeting Against Guerrilla Bases
was held secretly because Dr. Jar-
LONDON (JTA) — Prime Minis-

ring did not want to have to report
on it to the other parties concern-
ed. It was understood that he had
a similar meeting in Switzerland
with the Egyptian foreign minis-
ter, Mahmoud Riad.
He said that Dr. Jarring has
been using the temporary resump-
tion of his regular post as Swe-
den's ambassador to Moscow as a
cover for continuing his peace-

seeking mission without attracting
attention.
Eban said on a television inter-
view that Nasser's speech pledging

all-out support to terrorists would
be taken up with Dr. Jarring, when
the latter resumes his mission in
the Middle East.

Meanwhile, the first Indication
of the Nixon administration's

ter Rashid Karami of Lebanon has
apparently resolved the crisis
within his newly formed govern-
ment and will follow a policy of
closer alignment with the Arab
states while at the same time
avoiding anew confrontation with
Israel, according to reports from
Beirut.
The reports said that Lebanon
will not allow Palestinian guer-
rillas to operate against Israel
from Lebanese soil and will try,
unobtrusively to keep them out of
Lebanon altogether.
The newspaper of Syria's ruling
Baath - Socialist Party accused
Lebanon of using troops to prevent
Palestinian guerrillas from cross-
ing its southern frontier to attack
IsraeL

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Study Group to Israel a First for the JNF

According to the paper, Al Baath,
Lebanon sealed the border with
Israel and rounded up a com-
mando unit when it returned from
a mission in Upper Galilee.
A spokesman for El Fatah, larg-
est of the Palestinian guerrilla
groups, said in Amman that Bei-
rut authorities, had asked them
not to use Lebanon as a base for

NEW YORK (JTA) — Dr. Mil-
ton Aron, the executive vice presi-
dent of the Jewish National Fund of
America, announced that the land
reclamation agency would send its
first study mission to Israel.
It will be composed of JNF lead-

He reported to them that the
JNF national assembly held in
New York last October stimulated
renewed American Jewish support
for the agency's land development

and afforestation projects.
Dr. Aron said be was planning
ers from all parts of the United to visit JNF regions throughout the
U.S.
to deliver personally reports
States.
of new developments in Israel.

activities, it was reported here.

Karami declared in an inter-
view published by the news-
paper Le Monde in Paris that
Lebanon would accept all
French military aid, including
troops and advisers on its terri-
tory.

The French government offered
such aid to Lebanon following ex-
pression of fears by Lebanese I
leaders that Israel might attack I
that country from which intermit-
tent shelling has been aimed at
Israeli settlements near the border.
Israel has formally denied such
intentions.

Dr. Aron just returned from
Israel where he.inspected reclama-
tion projects recently begun in out-
lying areas. One of them, he said,
was a major development pro-
gram for the entire region from
Dan at the northeastern tip of
Israel to the eastern shores of the
Sea of Galilee.
During his stay in Israel, Dr.
Aron conferred with represen-
tatives of the Jewish Agency
and consulted with top officials
of the Keren Kayemeth (JNF)
in Jerusalem.

Premier Karami also said that
consultations between France and
Lebanon on such aid had already
started. He said also that Lebanon
was in such a difficult situation
"facing an implacable enemy" that
it was "prepared to accept French
military aid under all its forms."

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Tasks:

To avow full solidarity with the State of Israel on its 21 birthday.
❑ To deepen Jewish Notional Fund sentiment among the masses of the Jewish people
on the 50th and Golden Jubilee Anniversary of the founding of the Detroit Council.
❑ To focus attention on more thar. 50 years of Jewish Notional Fund activities in Detroit
in building the land of Israel and strengthening its security with special emphasis on the
new challenges facing the JNF since the Six Day War.
❑ To meet the desperate needs of the beleaguered young state, it has become imperative
to reclaim more land for outposts in the most vulernoble areas, in other words, to help
establish settlements all along the border.
❑ To mobilize the broadest possible support for the JNF through the widest possible use
of all JNF's traditional collection methods.
❑ To help in the development of a unified Jerusalem by accepting the Government's
request to plant the Jerusalem Park of the Heroes overlooking the Temple Mount, which
will be a memorial to the fallen heroes in the Six Day War.
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of the
Jewish People—the Golden Book. A new
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history has been opened in honor of the Reunification of Jerusalem.
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and Michigan Jewish homes.
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strength and lifeblood of the land. Trees conserve the soil. Trees beautify the land. Trees
reclaim the wasteland. Trees provide employment and absorb thousands of the state's
temporarily unemployed. And trees strengthen our ties with Israel.

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supports the whole Israel economy — it grows Israel's food — on it stand Israel's religious,
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