Israelis Struggle
For Her Life . .
'When will the
An excerpt from the address
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dent .4vrahain Harman at
Israel Rood dinner in honor
of Leonard N. Simons, Dec. 6
of
tension end?'
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"We shall continue to insist that we have the right to live and to be
ourselves . . . We stay where we are until the Arabs are ready to make
peace with us. We will not go back to the position where Nasser's
planes were only three minutes from Tel Aviv . . . Fatah is a danger that
has forced us into being a military state. But this is not Vietnam. It is not
Algeria. Fatah is a fascist movement that aims to destroy our people and
our state .. . When will it end? We say in Israel that there will be no
end if end means death. We say that life is a constant struggle and goes
on without end ; . . Our resistance is to be a people that lives to defend
itself in order to live, aspiring to higher standards for our children and
grandchildren."
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Rogers' Declaration Shocks
Israel; New Position Seen
as U.S. Concession to USSR
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Israeli officials withheld comment Wednesday
on Secretary of State William P. Rogers' speech in New York Tuesday
night in which he said the U.S. has proposed that Israel withdraw from
Egyptian territory in exchange for a "binding commitment" by Cairo to
establish peace.
(Rogers said the proposal calls for direct negotiations between Israel
and Egypt on specific "safeguards concerning the future of the Gaza Strip
its impact here was such that Premier Golda Meir called an extraordinary
session of the cabinet for this Wednesday evening.
An official communique said the cabinet meeting was called pre-
liminary to Foreign Minister Abba Eban's departure for talks in the United
States and "in view of the latest statement made by the American secretary
of state."
Unofficial reaction here indicated shock and dismay. Some sources
contended that Rogers' statement on America's Middle East policy proved
that the United States continuously yielded to Soviet Russia, which never
(The speech was described by administration officials as the
has yielded on a single point.
most comprehensive statement on the Nixon administration's Middle
They said that step by step, the American policy had moved closer
East policy. The U.S. peace proposal was handed to Soviet Ambassador
to the proposals by Moscow.
Anatole Dobrynin Oct. 28. There
Israeli circles appeared especially
has been no response.
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distressed about Rogers' reference to
(Rogers said the formula was in-
points which, in Israel's view, should
With the Middle East continuing in a state of emergency, as a powder keg
tended to start indirect negotiations
be subjects of direct negotiations with
that is difficult to prevent from .exploding, the Arab-Israel issue has assumed
between Israel and Egypt, which ulti-
the Arabs.
new proportions in the deliberations at the Unied Nations and at U.S.-USSR con-
mately would lead to broader arrange-
They said the U.S. has always
ments bringing in Jordan and Syria.
ferences.
maintained that it has wanted to help
(While the proposals dealt primar-
In an anti-Israel procedural resolution, the UN took a pro-Arab stand by af-
bring the two parties together so that
ily with the Israeli-Egyptian aspect,
firming the ''rights of the people of Palestine," and Israel charged that it sought
they can settle details on borders and
Rogers said Jerusalem should be a
to deny her right to sovereignty.
the occupied areas.
unified city, and there should be roles
Now that America has made pub-
Russia's and the U.S. positions continued in a state of uncertainty, and in
for both Israel and Jordan in the life
lic its plan for Israeli withdrawal, it
some quarters it was believed that the USSR is hesitating to endorse the belliger-
of the city.)
appears to be turning away from its
ent attitude of Egypt.
The Israeli officials said they
previous policy, they said.
Meanwhile, fighting on Israel's borders continues, and there are daily Israeli
and Sharm el Sheikh," guarding the entrance to the Strait of Tiran.
would have to study the full text of
the address before commenting. But
(Continued on Page 12)
reprisals against the terrorists.
Diplomats in Arab Countries Fomenting Anti-Israel Drive
By MILTON FRIEDMAN
(Copyright 1969, JTA, Inc.)
WASHINGTON—A number of U.S. career diplomats
in Arab states are urging American visitors to return
home and oppose the pro-Israel policies of President
Nixon.
The anti-Israel agitation of some of the U.S. diplomats
In such posts as Beirut and Cairo has been disclosed by
returning journalists and other influential travelers. A
senior American diplomat in Cairo was quoted by a recent
visitor depicting the delivery of Phantom jet, fighter-
bombers to Israel as a disaster for U.S. interests in the
Middle East. This is but one instance. A steady stream
of journalists are coming back from Beirut with reports
of similar criticism of American policy.
One or more diplomats have apparently alleged that
Jews and Israel, in some sinister, diabolical manner. may
actually be facilitating the worldwide spread of com-
munism. This concoction has American Jews among lead-
ing advocates of the Communist cause if Vietnam while
Israeli policies are allegedly undermining the U.S. position
in the Middle East and facilitating Communist penetra-
tion. Such a line is peddled despite the intense anti-
Jewish and anti-Israel stand of the Communist bloc. The
diplomats brush aside the hundreds of Israelis slain by -
Russian weapons supplied to the Arabs.
Favorite targets of the opinionated diplomats are
apparently visitors who are neither Jewish nor partial to
Israel. They are told that President Nixon has succumbed
to Jewish pressures that are destroying what remains of
American influence in Lebanon, Jordan and elsewhere.
Israel is blamed for the leftist coup in Libya and the
subsequent ouster of the United States from the Whcelus
Air Base.
There are bitter allegations from supposedly non-
partial to Israel in its conflict with the Arab states. The
political civil servants, governed by the Hatch Act, that
the Republicans and Nixon are courting Israeli Premier highly articulate, wealthy and generous American Jewish
GoIda Meir, to win the votes of Jews. The impression community has, unofficially, but nonetheless conspicu-
conveyed is that the Nixon administration has cynically ously, sent hundreds of millions of dollars to Israel
permitted a further polarization of Arab attitudes in the and, as a result, the United States has been charged with
direction of Moscow. American support - of Israel is favoritism and bias throughout the Arab world. American
interests have suffered in this situation: oil flow has
equated with betrayal of the Arabs.
been halted, other trade interrupted, air communications
State Department officials and foreign service
trainees recently received an interesting new brochure endangered, and the safety of Americans living and work-
from the Middle East Institute. A foreword commending ing in the Middle East in harmony with the local popula-
the publication, "American Interests in the Middle East." tions jeopardized."
The massive flow of Soviet arms and invective is
is signed by the institute's president, Raymond A. Hare,
a retired diplomat who served as assistant secretary of ignored. So are the aggressive policies of Egypt's Nasser
problem is
state for Near Eastern affairs. The brochure was written and the Arab terrorist movements. The
apparently within the United States. According to the
because "This institute receives frequent requests for a
succinct and factual statement of the reasons why the learning institute, "The U.S. seems able to do little to
American people should concern themselves with the improve its relations with the Arab states or even to
Middle East." In its introductory remarks, the publica- offset the alienation which unofficial favoritism toward
tion tells of "growing concern" over the "direction" of Israel has produced."
It seems that "The Arab claim to Palestine is
American policy toward the Middle East. American inter-
founded on uninterrupted occupation for 13 centuries and
ests in Arabian oil are stressed,
on the right of self determination. It is. moreover, con-
"All Western civilization owes a cultural. intellectual
and spiritual debt to the Middle East"—but it is the sonant with the general postwar philosophy of granting
Arabs who are singled out as contributors, not the Jews. independence to virtually every territorially identifiable
"During the European medieval era, it was primarily ethnic group previous governed by colonial powers. In
Muslim scholars in intellectual centers from Baghdad to the Arab view, the establishment of the state of Israel
Cordova who preserved and extended the philosophical by an immigrant minority ran counter to the general
legacy of Greece," the scholarly work discloses. Today, trend of relinquishing Western dominance over most of
the great institutions of higher learning singled out sortie- Afro-Asia . . . According to many observers," said the
how omit Hebrew University and the Weizmann Insti- brochure, "the depth of Arab resentment and frustration
tute of Science. Among the outstanding examples of may be attributed to the fact that Palestine was the only
cultural achievement listed are the American University major exception to the movement of liberation and anti-
in Beirut and the American University in Cairo. colonialism encouraged in the United Nations over the
The brochure informs us that "public statements by world and practiced by the major Western powers them-
prominent Americans, on many occasions, have been
selves."