France Redefines Iraq's Role in M. • E.
So Arms Can Be Sold to 'Neutrals'
PARIS (JTA) — Observers here observers believe that they will to handle the request for a refund
registered surprise last weekend have no effect on the government's , according to normal commercial
over Foreign Minister Michel De- anti-Israel policy. Some saw the ! law and usual international prac-
bre's testimony that France does embargo, which Gen. de Gaulle' tice." The Israel government up
not regard Iraq as a "battlefield" termed a "warning shot," as only I to now has made no request for a
nation in the Arab-Israel conflict. the first step in an increasingly refund.
He told the National Assembly's hostile stand toward Israel.
In another development, the
foreign Affairs committee that the
The latest protests came from American Jewish Congress an-
French government would sell more than 20 provincial assem- nounced that it was canceling all
arms to Arab states not directly blies, some in France's largest group trips to France and flights
involved in the Mideast conflict departments (province s). The on Air France, the French na- 1
He drew a distinction between Union of Former Resistance Fight- I tional airline. According to AJCon-
Arabs "on the battlefield"—Egypt, etrs also has issued a statement I gress President Rabbi Arthur :
Syria and Jordan—and others— expressing "shock" over the em- I Lelyveld, the boycott stemmed
Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. bargo decision which, it warned, from an a "avalanche" of letters
Observers here recalled that Iraq "is likely to upset the precarious from members urging the organ-
was a belligerent and participant balance of power in the Middle ization to eliminate France and
in the Six-Day War.
East" and "threatens Israel's very , French services from its tourism
He insisted before the commit- existence."
! programs.
tee that France's military ship-
A group of 200 students, including , Rabbi Lelyveld said the AJCon-
ments to "battlefield" nations had several visiting French collegians. , gress was not a travel agent in I
been minimal, defending France's demonstrated for an hour in front the commercial sense but arrang-
readiness to sell Lebanon such of the French Embassy in protest , ed overseas programs "as exten-
equipment on the grounds that the against de Gaulle. The demonstra- sions of our general programatic
former French dependency has re- – lion was organized by the Inter- interests." He claimed that the
mained neutral.
University Jewish Federation and AJCongress was the biggest fac-
Lebanon has 12 Mirage jet was joined by the Ad Hoc Commit- for in organized Jewish group
fighter-bombers on order, about tee for Peace in the Middle East. travel abroad. He said that last
two-thirds of which have been de-
At the end of the demonstration, year some 8,000 members visited
livered. Fifty Mirage-V jets plus a letter of protest was handed to Europe and Israel under AJCon-
spare parts and other military embassy officials by Allan Baker, graess auspices, more than 1,100
equipment, all ordered and paid federation chairman, who also gave of whom flew at least part of the
for by Israel, have been embargo- the officials a similar message way by Air France.
ed by President Charles de Gaulle. from the Union of German Stu-
In a related action, Rep. John
Debre's said France's policy dents, which was rejected by the M. Murphy, a Democrat whose
on the Middle East has remain- French post office.
constituency lies in Brooklyn
ed steady and has been based
The cable then was rerouted to
and Staten Island, called on the
on three considerations: Main-
U.S. State Department to inter-
London and to the federation.
tenance of security in the Medi-
vene
with the French govern-
Embassy officials said the pro-
terranean area, continuation of
ment to lift the embargo on
test would be given to the French
traditional ties with certain
ambassador who would decide on Israel.
Arab countries and the wish to
whether to transmit it to his gov-
Rep. Murphy said the embargo
see the existence and legitimate
ernment. The placards carried constituted a "a direct breach of
rights of Israel recognized.
by the demonstrating students contract with Israel and can only
(In addition to the Iraqi troops
denounced Gen. de Gaulle but encourage Arab terrorists."
that have been conducting war not France.
National Commander Charles
against Israel from Jordan, where
Two hundred Jewish students and Feuereisen of the Jewish War
it has been admitted there are
members
of
Dutch
Jewish
youth
Veterans
of the U.S. disclosed that
more than 20,000 Iraqi soldiers,
John K. Cooley now reports to the organizations m arched to the a number of men honored for war-
Christian Science Monitor from French consulate in Amsterdam in
Beirut that there is a Kuwaiti a similar protest. A consulate offi-
brigade poised for a battle against cial refused to admit a delegation
Israel in Egypt In his Jan. 23 or accept a letter of protest. The
report from Beirut Cooley stated students affixed their letter to the
that at the opening session of the wall of the consulate building and
United Arab Republic National gave a copy to the press.
In Geneva, the Swiss-Israel Asso-
Assembly in Cairo:
"Mr. Nasser affirmed that 'we ciation adopted a resolution con-
have deployed and are presently demning de Gaulle's embargo as
deploying all our efforts to rein- "a unilateral sanction which cannot
force and increase the strength of achieve its alleged purpose of paci-
the eastern front, including the fication in the Middle East because
forces of Jordan, Syria and Iraq. other powers, including France,
continue to deliver arms to the
" 'We want these forces to co-
Arab states."
operate with the Egyptian armed
In Washington, the French
forces, among which are contin-
gents of Sudan, Algeria and Ku- ambassador to the United States
appealed
to "pro-Israel Jews"
wait.' "
Cooley writes, "This was the Friday not to organize boycotts
against
France
or demonstra-
first public confirmation that ele-
ments of the Kuwaiti brigade sent tions in front of French diploma-
to Egypt in the June 1967 war have tic and consular offices in the
U.S. Ambassador Charles Lucet
remained there. Algerian artillery
said that such activities were
has been in action several times
"inappropriate" and "would in
against Israeli forces on the Suez
no
way settle matters . . . Our
Canal.
Meanwhile, protests are mount- sole desire is a return to peace."
Lucet's appeal was contained in
ing all over France against de
Gaulle's embargo. But qualified a 'letter in reply to the Jewish
Nazi Victims Organization of
America, Inc., which had protest-
ed the de Gaulle embargo. He
said that France sympathized with
the survivors of Nazi persecution,
but he denounced Israel's Dec. 28
reprisal raid on Beirut Airport,
which prompted the embargo, as
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said his government had made it
11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
clear "that when the time comes
—and it has not as yet—we intend
8—Friday, January 31, 1969
time military
military service in France
have mailed Croix de Guerre med-
als, Legion of Honor ribbons, and
other decorations back to the
French government in protest
against the anti-Israel policies of
the de Gaulle government.
The Jewish Community Relations
Council of Minnesota disclosed it
had telegraphed a protest to Lucet
against the emgargo. It said it was
"unbelievable" that France "should
lend herself to being a party toward
helping destroy a little nation which
has come into being only through
blood , sweat and tears, and now,
with the help of France, may be
totally destroped."
A call has been issued to mem-
bers of Bnai Britb in Detroit by
George Tarnoff, president of the
Metropolitan Detroit Bnai Brith
Council, to write to members of
Congress, newspaper editors and
Ambassador Lucet expressing con-
cern over the action of de Gaulle.
Congressmen and Senators were
asked to support a reappraisal of
the present U.S. stand in which the
U.S. shared in the condemnation
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of Israel at the UN Security
Council.
On the question of a boycott,
Tarnoff's message stated:
Bnai Brith is not a boycott or-
ganization, nor a Bnai Brith pro-
moting a boycott. However, we
understand and sympathize with
the widespread resentment among
Jews and their friends in a rejec-
tion of French goods and services."
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