`Palestine Equity' Opposed by Jordan, Israel
BY ELIAHU SALPETER
(Copyright 1970, JTA, Inc.)
There is one area in which there
seems to be an identity of views
between Israel and Jordan: both
are opposed to the idea of a
"Palestinian entity" that could be
the nucleus or the basis of a Pales:
tinian Arab State. For King Husse-
in this would mean the detachment
of the West Bank from his king-
dom by the Arabs themselves
rather than by the present and
contested Israel occupation. Israel
dislikes the idea for short-term
and long-range reasons: an em-
erging and recognized Palestine en-
tity could identify itself and even
support the Fatah; such a Pales-
tinian State would be less willing,
in any negotiations, to concede
territories; the new State could
well add yet another hostile voice
at any international forum. "There
are enough Arab countries against
Israel as it is," Golda Meir re-
marked some time ago.
Yet, in Israel there are people
—not necessarily leftists or de-
featists—who believe that ulti-
mately peace will come from an
agreement between the people of
Israel and the Arabs of Palestine
and not from negotiations between
Israel and the existing Arab States.
They urge the government, mostly
in newspaper articles, to take a
less rigid attitude on this issue.
They include former Minister of
Police Eliahu Sasson, the top Arab
expert on the pre-independence
Jewish Agency and himself at
home in the budding Arab nation-
alist movement in , the early twen-
ties.
Ironically, it may well develop
that it was the Jordanian govern-
ment that set the Palestinian entity
into motion. The event that may go
down as the turning point is the
meeting in the second half of
March of the "Public Affairs Com-
mittee" convened by the Mayor
of Hebron, Sheikh Jabbari, and
already spoken of by Arabs in the
West Bank as "The Hebron Par-
liament"
Sheikh Jabbari is the uncontest-
ed leader of Hebron and practically
the entire southern half of the
West Bank. He was a minister in
several Jordinian cabinets before
the 1967 war, head of one of the
Italians Offer Plan
for Limiting M.E. Arms
ROME (JTA) — Details were
made public here of a so-called
"Italian plan" for a Mid East
settlement that would start the
ball rolling toward peace by set-
ting up an international commis-
sion to limit and control the inflow
of heavy arms to the area.
The proposed commission would
be made up of the delegates of the
four Big Powers — United States,
Soviet Russia, Britain and France
—and a further six members,
three from the West and three
from the Eastern bloc.
It would keep an eye on the
1929 pogroin that destroyed Heb-
ron's ancient Jewish community
and neighborhood, most Hebron
Arabs expected the Israeli occu-
pation forces to exact the "blood
debt" of 40 years with a vegence
and wanted to flee before the ad-
vancing troops. However, Jabbari
argued that the Israelis were not
like that, and that whatever hard=
ships they might impose would be
better than life in refugee camps
in Jordan. The correct and coop-
erative attitude of the Israel troops
surprised even Jabbari himself,
and Hebron has ever since been
the most tranquil of the occupied
fluence among the population was
reinforced considerably in June
1967 when his counsel proved to
be very smart. Remembering the
most respected and important
families in the area—and an old
fox in politics. His position and in-
Hasidic Jews Trained
for Auxiliary Police
Work in Brooklyn
NEW YORK (JTA) — Fifteen
Orthodox Jewish men, including
several Hassidic Jews, are mem-
bers of a group of residents of the
Boro Park section of Brooklyn
completing 10 weeks of training
as auxiliary police.
The 15 Jews were recruited by
the Boro Park Coordinating Coun-
cil, a group created in June 1969,
by a number of "concerned citi-
zens" of the section seeking to
maintain the Jewish identity of
Boro Park, which has about 100,000
Jews, as well as to prevent street
crimes, mainly burglaries and
muggings. The coordinating coun-
cil is headed by Rabbi Chaim
Auerbach, a yeshiva teacher. The
council organized a first auxiliary
patrol, comprised of 30 Orthodox
Jews, which began patrol activi-
ties last Oct. 8.
He also reported that the coor-
dinating council had insisted that
a number of Puerto Ricans and
Blacks serving on the auxiliary po-
lice of the precinct before the 30
Orthodox Jews were trained for
such service should be integrated
with the Jewish auxiliary police.
He said this had been put into ef-
feet. He reported also that the
precinct station was now pro-
viding the auxiliary police with
auxiliary police in their use, in-
creasing the effectiveness of their
patrols. He said there was clear
evidence that the patrols were
effective. Areas patrolled by the
auxiliary teams on Wednesday
nights are almost totally free of
disturbances and incidents. Resi-
dents of the patrolled areas seek
to schedule after-dark travel for
Wednesday nights. The presence
of the auxiliary police, as with
regular police, is in itself a deter-
rent to crime, said the rabbi.
Friday, April 10, 1970--7
women's division of the Israel
Miss Israel a GI
Army and received a special cita-
towns—despite repeated efforts by
TEL
AVIV
(ZINS)
—
Michal
tion and the rank of captain from
El Fatah to stir trouble by throw-
ing hand grenades at Jews making Straus, reigning beauty queen of the chief of staff, Haim Bar-Lev.
Israel,
earned
top
honors
in
the
The colorful ceremony was attend-
the pilgrimage to the Tomb of the
officer training course for the ed by all prior "Miss Israels."
Patriarchs in Hebron.
Jabbari professes full loyalty
"to my King Hussein" but main-
tains that it is up to the Arab gov-
ernments and not to the population
of the occupied areas to make war
or peace with Israel, and is very
sharply critical of the "venial
ministers and counselors surround.
ing .His Majesty." He convened the
Hebron meeting when the Jo,•dan
government decided it would not
accept Palestinians wishing to visit
Jordan on the identity cards and
travel documents issued by the
local (Arab) municipalities on the
West Bank but would insist on
passports issued by the Jordan i
authorities. This created consider--;
able restraints on the traffic across
the river and was presumably
aimed at demonstrating that resi-
dents of the West Bank are still
Jordinian subects.
But Jabbari turned around the
argument: they being loyal sub-
ects of Hussein, what right does
the Amman Government have to
prevent them from entering Jor-
dan? And he warned at the con-
ference: "If the Amman author-
ities do not change their attitude,
we might have to change ours. The
king must decide whether he wants
us as his citizens or not." And the
implication was clear: under our
own terms and not those of the
Amman government. The hundred
or so notables at the conference
applauded unhesitatingly.
Next, the conference approved
Jabbari's ruling that families of
El Fatah terrorists arrested by
Israeli police for the murder of
several villagers whom they !
charged with "cooperation with
the enemy" must pay blood money
to the families of the victims.
Again everybody applauded heart-
ily. There is no question who is
the boss there.
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arms balance, both quantitative
and qualitative and would try to
diminish tensions by getting both
sides to adhere to the June 1967
cease-fire agreements. The plans
call for a pledge, apparently
from Israel, not to unilaterally
alter the juridical status of the
occupied territories or their in-
habitants.
The plan has already been
given wide publicity in Egypt by
the semi-official Cairo daily, AI
Ahram. Foreign ministry officials
who released it here said it should
not be called an "Italian plan - but
rather an "Italian suggestion."
Proponents of the plan say that
after these first steps are accom-
plished, it would be easier to im-
plement the United Nations Secu-
rity Council's Nov. 22, 1967 Mid
East resolution.
They say they have been encour-
aged by the fact that the plan has
not been rejected by either side
and there are requests for "more
detailed plans" from some inter-
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weren't identified.
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