Another UN Security Council Resolution
Lines Up Antagonists Against Israel
UNITED NATIONS, N Y. (JTA)
clearly
that Israel had had
— "In a sense these resolutions are no hand shown
in
• fire
like certain currencies—the more
Eban
said
"it
is quite beyond
they are printed, the loss valuabl ,
my
understanding why the
they become," said Ambassador
United
Kingdom
should have
Yosef Tekoah 1Iond4y. The Israeli
added its vote to others when the
envoy thus expressed his country . s
resolution was considered unac-
rejection of the Security Council
vote demanding that Israel obey ceptable by the United States, by
Latin
America, by Finland rep-
resolutions enjoining any changes
in the
The
resenting Europe. The great
crime that has been committed
status of Jerusalem.
vote which it called "partisan" and
urged all people of good will to
join in its condemnation. The
British Zionist Federation said it
regretted that Britain saw fit to
vote for a resolution that surren-
dered to extremist pressure from
the Arabs. The British Mizrachi
Federation protested in a telegram
to Prime Minister Harold Wilson.
(Israel's minister of interior,
Moshe Shapiro, said that Britian
should be "ashamed" of lending
its 'hand to a "shameful" resolu-
tion. He insisted that no decision
or resolution of the UN will ever
wrest Jtrusalem from Israeli
hands.)
council adopted a resolution,
is not only the burning of the
presented by Pakistan, by II votes.
Mosque but the.flames of hatred
with four states abstaining. The
and prejudice which govern-
abstainers were the United States. ments have spread across the
Finland, Colombia and Paraguay.
world, and the Security Council
Voting for the resolution were
should not have given any indul-
Albania, Britain, China, France, gence to that. It is very disap-
HungarN Nepal, Pakistan, Sene- pointing to have countries that are
Five new nations are to be
gal, Spain, the Soviet Union and renowned- for their traditional • elected
to two-year terms on the
Zambia. The British vote surprised
liberalism and. tolerance giving
15-member United Nations Se-
the Israelis who had been led to
any such support."
curity Council, beginning next
believe, that Lord Caradon, Lon-
The Board of Deputies of British January. From Israel's point of
don's envoy, would abstain. - I Jews sharply criticized the British
view, the make-up of that body,
Israel's foreign minister, Abba •
which it regards as demonstrably
Eban, echoed by representative
•
•
pro-Arab, will not change.
bodies of British Jewry, deplored
According to informed sources
Britair•s' vote. ( Eban made his re-
Syria, Poland, Burundi, Nicaragua
marks in London before departing
A Review by Boris Smolar
and Sierra Leone are the leading
for-New York where he will head
Jews in the Soviet Union feel candidates to replace Algeria,
the Israeli UN delegation at the themselves inferior because they Paraguay, Hungary, Senegal and
opening of the General Assembly's are a marked people — the word Pakistan, the Washington Post re-
fall session.) "Jew" appears on their -identity. ported. The election of Syria, Po-
The I reamhle to the resolution . documents. However, the, young -land and Nicaragua by, the General
said that the statements heard in people of the Soviet Union would Assembly this fall is regarded as
the coe nell reflected 'universal . seem to be totally devoid of anti- virtually certain because each has
outrage caused by the act of sacri- ; Jewish feeling.
been endorsed by the requisite geo-
lege in I nc of the Venerated shrines I This is the opinion expressed by ' graphical groups. Tanzania and
of mankind." His reference to the' th ex-St
are contesting the election
er Leonid
e ex-Soviet J Jewish writer
Aug. 21 fire at the Al Aksa Mosque
of Burundi and Sierra Leone
of
Vladimirov
—
whose
real
name
is
in Old Jerusalem, an event which
which have been endorsed by the
Leonid Finkelstein — in a book
outraged the Arab Moslem world "The Russians,"
- foreign Ministers of, the Organiza-
just published in
and led to the council session.
tion of African Unity:
-
' this country by Frederick A. Prat-
The departure of Algeria will re-
In presenting Washington's ger, Inc. The author, who also
argument, U. S. Ambassador i worked in Moscow for such news- move from the council its African
Charles W. Yost said that the ' papers as Pravda and Izvestia— member most committed to the
governments believed that the leading newspapers in 'USSR—re- Arab cause. But the substitution
resolution should have been con- fused to return to Russia while of Syria for Pakistan will replace
fined to the question of the fire visiting Russia in 1966. Because of a Moslem state that has been in-
alone. I the inferior feeling of the Russian dined to compromise, albeit pro-
The resolution said that "the. act Jew, he writes, most Jewish writ- Arab, by one of Israel's active
desecration and profanation of ers and journalists in the Soviet Arab enemies. The replacement of
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ets." When U.S. jets bombing the
Viet Cong in Vietnam appeared on
the screen, someone shouted
"Phantoms, Phantoms:' The audi-
ence went wild, ripping clown the
screen, uprooting seats and smash-
ing the glass in the theater lobby,
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The "Phantoms" are the Ameri-
can F-4 supersonic, jet fighter-
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Al Aksa Mosque empha- Union have chosen to work behind Hungary by Poland will leave -- the
sizes the immediate necessity of pseudonyms. He was one of them. anti-Israel East European repre-
atoi
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Iliebhrih
n ag s infotor
Israel desisting from acting in
The author reveals that the gentc rnci
ViOlation of (previous) resolutions emergence and survival of the
the
past
year
and
a
half
waged
an
(on Jerusalem's status) and re- State of Israel halaprovided a spe- official "anti-Zionist" crusade at
scinding forthwith all measures cial degree of nervousness i the
home.
actions taken 'by it designed
and
Kremlin. It is not possible, he ex-
to 'alter the status of Jerusalem." plains, for the Communist ideal to
The council said that "any' act condone an official anti-Semitic
Secretary General U Thant
said he sees no basis for direct
of des ction or profanation of policy, but it is not possible either Arab-Israel talks at this time.
the holy places, religious buildings for the Kremlin to permit any He said that he favored them in
and sites in Jerusalem or any en- strong in-group feelings that are principle but that psychological,
political factors,
Courage rent of, or connivance at, contrary to the official line of the emotional and did
not make such
among others,
any suet' act may seriously en- Communist Party. "With perhaps negotiations
feasible
at this time.
danger international peace and se- 3,000,000 Jews in Russia, there is
talks should
indicated
direct
He
CUrity." always the possibility that the suc-
when the time was ripe.
be
held
The council reaffirmed, "the cess of Israel, if not its_very exist-
established principle that acquisi- ence, will act like sunlight on a In a press conference on the eve
tion- of territory by military con- plant that has long been in the of the opening of the 24th General
quest is inadmissible." shadows," he asserts. Assembly, Thant again endorsed
the mission of his special Mid East
The resolution was a compro-
The author claims that there is representative, Dr. Gunnar V. Jar-
Irnise between the desires of eon- a superficial resemblance between rin'as an instrument for achiev-
servativ Moslem nations to focus the position of the Jews in the So-I g,
Jarring
on the religious issues and the viet Union and that of the Negro in New York.
.
military Arabs who wanted to ex- in the United States. With regard
The secretary general cited the
ploit th fire for political purposes. to the employment of Jews in fac-
A young Australian has confessed tories or offices, Mr. Vladimirov 1949 Rhodes negotiations that led
states that this depends on where' to an armistice ending the 1948
to setting the mosque fire.
the plants or offices happen to be I war as a possible precedent for
Tekoah charged that the So-
situated. It is relatively easy for a prom6ting Arab-Israel • talks. He
viet Union had ruled out its fit-
Jew to find work in Georgia and I recalled that UN mediator Dr.
ness to serve as a Mid East peace-
not especially difficult in Byelo- I Ralph Bunche arranged indirect
maker by its incitement of the
between the contending
russia, he reports, but it is usual discussions
a
Arabs. Ile was replying to
At that time direct talks
a considerate problem for him
statement by Council President ly
to do so in the Ukraine where were held and agreement reached
Jacob Malik of the Soviet Union,
"at last,': he said, when there was
who had taken the floor as the ■ strong anti-Jewish prejudice pre- " a basis for them.
Soviet representative, that the 1 wails.
On the question of the suspended
resolution should have been I The author heard rumors that Big Four Mid East talks, Thant said
tougher in stipulating Israeli the Central Committee of the Corn- that -"if there is a basis for rd"
"political and moral responsi- munist Party had decided quietly
to put an end to whatever bad feel- sumption, I believe the talks wilt
bility" for the fire.
resumed immediately."
Malik had said that Russia "will ings there may be between van-
• • •
m.aintenance
of
the
ous
nationalities—and in particu-
not accept
end
anti-Semitism.
For
this
to
Rotten
Trial
Set Oct. 6
situation
in
the
Middle
lar
present j
all Soviet JERUSALEM (JTA) — Michael
East." Tekoah replied that the purpose, it was be said,
provided
with
Denis'
William
Rohen,
the 28-year-
COm in ion of "name-calling, fact citizens were to
twisting! and sanctimonious pro- new identity documents that would old Australian sheep-shearer, will
testations about Soviet love for re- contain no.reference- to nationality. go on trial in Jerusalem District
ligion confirm that the Soviet He is not certain about the source Court Oct. 6 on charges of setting
these rumors, but he -empha- the fire last month which serious-
Union has not mended its ways." of sizes
that in Russia there is usual- ly damaged a wing of El Aksa
Tekoah branded the resolution as
and un- ly some trace of fact behind most Mosque in the Old City of Jeru-
a repetition of "inequitable that
of political gossip. When he traveled salem.
realistic views." Ho noted
Rohen, who has confessed•to set-
(in 1966) he carried for the
the 11 nations voting for the reso- abroad
first time a passport issued by the ting the blaze, • is charged with
lution, nine have no diplothatie Soviet
authorities.
that
did
not
men.
arson
and desecration of a holy
with Israel. He said that •
Council's deliberations had ; tion his Jewish nationality.
place.
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the holy
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delivered if' Israel last week.
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Friday; September 19, 1969-13
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