Incensed by Government Deal With Libya,
'Slent French Jewry Speaks Up a Last nize it.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
28—Friday, January 30, 1970
bryo and Israel will have to recog-
(According to the Figaro inter-
its displeasure clear to Pompidou '
during his visit.
An urgent call has been issued
for the start of a nationwide cam-
paign to collect 100,000 signatures
to a petition protestirig the anti-
Israel policy of the French govern-
ment. Council is acting at this time
so that the petition can be pre-
sented to Pompidou during his
state visit the last week of Febru-
ary.
Jacques Torczyner, president of
the Zionist Organization of Amer-1
ica, lashed out against the State'
Department's appeasement policy
in the Middle East and against
France for supplying Libya with
100 Mirage jet warplanes in his
view, Eban said, "Once the peace-
deter-
is in perpetual danger and the ful borders of Israel are deter-
mined, the destiny of the Arab na-
embargo only hurts it more."
France's Senate Foreign Affairs tion should be determined by the
Committee voted 23-9 Tuesday Arabs, not by Israel.")
night to seek a full Senate debate
We would all rather be in the
on French Middle East policy.
The vote was taken after For- company of somebody we like than
in
the company of the most supe-
eign Minister Maurice Schumann
met with the committee for 3 112 rior being of our acquaintance.
—Frank Swinnerton
hours and was questioned by anti-
Gaullist members. I —
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NEW YORK (JTA) — The ' its impartiality in the Middle East
French Jews are no longer a silent conflict.
The Libyan arms deal and the
people. For the first time they are
openly denouncing the French gov- embargo against Israel were bit-
ernment's pro-Arab policies and terly denounced at a rally of the
actions, according to an analysis French-Israeli Friendship Associ-
by the Paris office of the Amer- ation, headed by the veteran resis-
lance leader, Gen. Pierre Koenig.
ican Jewish Committee.
Nearly 5.000 persons packed the
The report. released Tuesday by
the AJC, notes this development Sports Palace for the rally while
differs from the Jewish common- several thousand more jammed the
ity's position during President de streets outside to listen to the
Gaulle's regime when French speeches over loud speakers.
Reports from London said that
Jews were reluctant to criticize
overtly the general's pro-Arab po- Britain and Libya have opened
talks on defense cooperation in ;
sition.
Now, the report states, the gov- volving a contract to sell Libya
ernment's decision to sell Mirage 188 Chieftain tanks. retarded as
aircraft and tanks to Libya has the world's finest armored weap-
been bitterly assailed by the Co- on. Britain has refused to sell address to the ZOA National Exec-
Israel Foreign Minister Abba
utive Committee meeting Saturday
ordinating Committee of Jewish Chieftains to Israel.
Eban expressed the hope in Paris
Official British circles appeared night.
Organizations of France.
that France would eventually
He called on President Nixon to
This group was organized after embarrassed by Israel Defense
"recover the virtue of impar-
Minister Moshe Dayan's blunt respond promptly and favorably to
tiality" in its dealings with Mid-
the Six-Day War.
The French Coordinating Corn- charge that Britain reneged on a Israel's Prime Minister Golda
dle East countries. In an_inter-
mittee issued a statement protest- deal to sell Israel Chioftain tanks Meir's request for more arms to
view published in Le Monde,
ing the sale of arms to Libya while after negotiations between the two Israel because of the imbalance
Eban said the French embargo
continuing the embargo on arms to countries reached an advanced now created by the French arms. deprived Israel of arms "while
Israel. stage. Gen. Dayan said in Tel Aviv deals. "We are fighting against ap-
among the Arab states there
"How can we, Frenchmen and that Britain was trying to sell the peasement in Vietnam," he said.
exists a sort of 'Common Market'
Jews, when touched in our pride tanks to Libya after going back on "Why should we support appease-
in arms."
ment in the Middle East? "
as citizens by this blow to the a - very firm promise" to Israel.
(Eban's interview with Le Monde
French political figures of all took place before the announce-
image of France, and all the more, British government circles de-
complexions, including Gaullists ment that France will sell 100 mili-
when shocked by the immense po- nied Gen. Dayan's assertion that
Whitehall "thinks it must choose and even sympathizers with the tary aircraft to Libya.)
litical danger weighing on millions
between Israel and the Arabs" Arab cause, continued to denounce
(French political circles are mak-
of beings to whom we are attached
and
has gone over to the Arab the government's arms deal with ing much of a statement attributed
by unalterable bonds of an effec-
Libya.
spiritual, and historical side. They said that both sides
to Eban that "the Palestinian
tive.
Former Foreign Minister Arab nation exists and it matters
nature," not express indignation get equal treatment with respect
to arms supplies and that this
and protest, the SCC statement
Georges Bidault declared that little what the state is called—
had been made clear to Parlia- "from the beginning to the end of Palestine or Jordan." Those re-
read.
ment by Foreign Secretary Mich-
this affair there has been deceit, marks • were contained in an inter-
In another report issued by
ael Stewart and to Israeli author-
double dealing and lies." The view with Eban published in Fi-
the New York AJC, Zachariab
ities
by
Deputy
Foreign
Secre-
Federal Committee, a body pre- garo. If correct, they appear to
Shuster, European director of
tary George Thomson when he
sided over by the pro-Arab, place Eban's position close to that
the AJ Committee, stated it is
visited
Tel
Aviv.
Robert Buron, said in a publish- of Aryeh Eliav, who has described
becoming increasingly clear that
United States anger appeared to
ed statement that French poli- himself as a "super dove."
deGaulle's policies are being fol-
(Eliav is under fire in Jerusalem
lowed by the Pompidou regime stem mainly from the fact that cies "can have serious conse-
for stating, in an interview pub-
more consistently and more in- Washington was not consulted in quences for world peace."
lished
in Time magazine that a
advance by the French govern-
tensely than before.
The right-wing leader, Tixier
He stated that Fiance's Middle ment. However, the State Depart- Vignancourt, called France's Mid "Palestinian state" exists in em-
ment admitted that the United East policy "ridiculous" and Jean
East policy was dictated by "eco- States
was notified in advance of Lachnuet, the re-elected president
nomic considerations in North
Defense
Ministter Michel Debre's of the French Centrist faction cri-
Africa" keeping open the supply of
oil from Algeria and Libya," and announcement on the expanded ticized it in ever harsher terms. A
arms
plan.
Earlier, the United Gaullist deputy. Jacques Mercier,
in order "to fill a vacuum created
by animosities between the other States had to pry an admission said in a speech that "the French
Western powers and the Arab from France on the original 50- government's decision to sell Mir-
Mirage agreement.
age planes to Libya and the man-
world."
Rep. Bertram Podell, New York ner in which it was reached may
The French Coordinating Com-
mittee report noted that military Democrat, asked Congressional have serious consequences for
sales make up 20 per cent of leaders not to honor French Presi- French public opinion."
dent Georges Pompidou by inviting
Government circles have adopted
French exports.
France came under quick and him, as expected, to address a spe- the attitude that verbal assaults
severe criticism for its announced vial joint session of Congress on cannot force a change in policy.
plans to sell 30 more Mirage jet his visit to Washington in Febru- But the weekly Nouvelle Obser-
fighters and 20 training planes to ary. Rep. Podell said he would boy- vateur warned that if Americans
Libya in addition to the 50 Mirage colt such a session. He said he and were unkind to President Georges
warplanes previously scheduled other Congressmen just returned Pompidou on his forthcoming visit
from Paris had been "distressed by to the United States, French na-
for delivery to Libya.
Secretary of State William P. the unfriendly" treatment accord- tional feelings would be hurt and
Rogers summoned French envoy ed them by the French govern- would be transformed into anti-
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Charles Lucet to the State Depart- ment.
' Semitism.
P
Podell
said their general impres-
ment for a sharp warning that the
The paper said it would be ad-
arms transaction "could disturb the sion was that French policy in the visable if "people of good will ad-
arms balance in the Middle East." Middle East is becoming more and vised both Israel and the Amer-
Diplomats at the United States more pro-Arab. Roman C. Pucin- ican Jews to behave well." It
said they saw no evidence to jus- ski of Illinois, and Henry S. Reuss added, however, that "no matter
tify French expressions of optim- of Wisconsin were the other two what one's position is on the Pales-
ism for peace prospects in the Mid congressinen.
! tine affair, this latest maneuver
Rep. William C. Cramer of Flor- (the Libyan arms deal) makes one
East. The French tried to ease the
reaction to the announcement of ida said he would ask President sick."
A French-Jewish periodical pro-
the Libyan agreement with the Nixon to seek a reversal of the
claim that the Four Power talks on "dangerous new French policy of posed that the traditional prayer
a Mid East settlement would be pouring arms into leftist Arab for the Republic, recited in syna-
successful by the time the bulk of states" during the Pompidou visit. gogues on the Sabbath and the
the French planes were delivered He said France had become a High Holidays, be altered to re-
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to Libya. , "merchant of death" and asked
The transaction was widely that the Nixon administration re-
spond with more Phantom jets to
viewed as a clumsy device to cir-
cumvent France's Mid East arms Israel.
embargo. Many experts express-
The American Jewish Con-
ed the view that the French
gress called the transaction a
warplanes would end up in
"shabby pursuit of influence and
Egyptian and possibly Syrian oil rights among the shiekhdoms
armories, asserting that Libya's ; and dictatorships of the Arab
tiny air force had neither the 1 world" and predicted that Porn-
technical capacity nor the pilots I pidou could expect "to see and
hear at - first hand" such criti-
to operate the sophisticated Mir-
cisms of French policy on his
ages.
In Israel, officials called the ap- visit.
The New York Times denounced
plication of the embargo by France
one-sided and stressed that Libya the arms deal as a "sell-out" and
said it "sweeps away any lingering
had no need for such air power.
The Paris newspaper Le Monde pretense that France seeks to main-
said it was "odious" the way the lain some kind of balance and to
government sought to make people promote peace in the Middle
believe that the arms sale to East." The Times editorial asked
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flect Jewish chagrin over the
French government's anti-Israel
stand. But Chief Rabbi Jacob Kap-
lan said he could not agree to any
changes although he sympathized
with the sentiments that prompted
the suggestion.
According to an editorial in La
Tribune 'Juive, the text of the
prayer should read, "May France
enjoy lasting peace and resume her
glorious position among the na-
tions" instead of "maintain her
glorious position."
The editorial also suggested that
French politicians hostile to Is-
rael should not be invited to at-
tend patriotic and memorial serv-
ices in the Great Synagogue for the
victims of the Auschwitz death
camp. It said, "None of us should
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