Cairo, Jerusalem in Contact, Unofficially
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Joseph Luns, the Netherlands for-
eign minister who has sent Eban
a full report of his conversations
with the Egyptian leader. But
knowledge of any direct high-level
contact betwen Israelis and Arabs
has been denied here. Eban told
the Knesset that none of these
contacts showed any signs of the
slightest softening of the Arab
attitude.
Sources here said Monday that
no government anywhere in the
world in contact with Israeli of-
ficials, has raised the matter of
Dr. Nahum Goldmann's aborted
plan to go to Cairo. Dr. Gold-
mann, president of the World Jew-
ish Congress, said he had received
suggestions from emissaries of
President Nasser that he go to
Cairo for meetings with top Egyp-
tian officials, including, presum-
ably, President Nasser. The plan.
was rejected when it was brought
before the cabinet by Premier
Meir.
The cabinet was briefed Sun-
day on the talks held by top
government officials with U.S.
Assistant Secretary of State Sis-
co here last week. Reports were
made by Mrs. Meir, Eban, Dep-
uty Premier Yigal Allon and
Defense Minister Moshe Dayan.
It was reliably reported that
Sisco urged Israeli leaders to be
more "flexible" in their diplo-
macy and image-building efforts.
Eban said in a television and ra-
dio appearance over the weekend
that the talks with the U.S. diplo-
mats had improved the possibili-
ties of cooperation between Israel
and Washington, although points
of difference between them re-
main.
Eban said that Secretary of
State William P. Rogers had ap-
parently come around to the
Israeli view with regard to Soviet
intentions in the Mid East. He
noted that Rogers remarked re-
cently that the Russians do not
seek peace in the area hilt a "con-
trolled tension," an expression
that Eban himself has used in the
past.
The foreign minister said Sisco
brought "nothing new" with him
from Washington or from Cairo
where he stopped for four days
before coming to Israel. Accord-
ing to Eban, Egypt remains in-
transigent and there is little hope
that Cairo will agree to re-establish
the cease fire which it renounced
a year ago. Nor will Egypt con-
sider the possibility of talks unless
Israel first withdraws from all.
occupied Arab territories, Eban
said. He stated that the latter con-
dition was unacceptable to both
Israel and the U.S., and does
not conform to the United Nations
resolution governing the interna-
tional legal situation in the area.
Meanwhile, Dr. S. Levenberg,
chairman of the Eretz Israel
Committee, told the Board of
Deputies of British Jews Sunday
that "The views on the solution
of the Israel-Arab problem pub-
licly expressed by Dr. Nahumn
Goldmann are contrary to the es-
tablished policy" of the board.
"It is the declared policy of the
board," he told the final session
of the current three-year board,
"That a durable peace could only
be secured on the basis of direct
talks, and that Israel could not
be expected to withdraw her forces
from any of the cease-fire lines
before an agreed settlement." He
said Israel would "greatly weaken
her negotiating position" by ac-
cepting the proposals of Dr. Gold-
mann for a neutralized Israel and
government-sanctioned talks be-
tween him and Nasser. Premier
Golda Meir has rejected both
proposals.
(Alderman Michael M. Fidler ,
outgoing board president, asserted
that "our task must be, and con-
tinue to be, the sustaining of the
state of Israel." Sir Samuel Fish-
er, naming May 2 as a day of
devotion to interracial brother-
hood, said British Jews "cannot
stand aside" while Jews elsewhere
endure "agonies." He called on
British schools to "devote time
and attention to educating their
pupils towards human equality
and good racial relations."
(Fidler congratulated Sir Barnell
Janner, a member of parliament,
on his election as chairman of the
British section of the Interparlia-
mentary Union.)
Dr. Goldmann received a
vote of confidence from stu-
dents at Tel Aviv University
after speaking there April 15. The
vote was 113-97 in favor of Dr.
Goldmann's views on Middle East
peace. Dr. Goldmann reiterated
his opinion that Israel foreign
policy was not sufficiently flexible
and not realistic. He advised the
government to drop its insistance
on direct negotiations with the
Arabs and to become more active
in the pursuit of peace. Dr. Gold-
mann told the students, "The
thought of another war robs me of
sleep because the Russians would
not allow another Arab defeat."
Many thoughtful Israelis are
deeply concerned over what they
consider their government's in-
flexibility on the issue of peace
with the Arabs. They are con-
Seder Arranged on High Seas
vinced that the key to genuine
peace is Israel's reconciliation
with the Palestinians but fear
that such a likelihood grows
ever more remote as the govern-
ment pursues a policy of "creep-
ing annexation" in the occupied
territories, Newsweek magazine
reported.
Newsweek set up a colloquy in
Jerusalem with "six of Israel's
most eminent liberal intellectuals
to discuss ways in which a mean-
ingful Arab-Israeli dialogue might
be opened." They proposed mone-
tary compensation to Palestinian
refugees in the occupied territories
and formal assurances by the Is-
rael government that it does not
intend to annex the territories.
They criticized Premier G old a
Meir's broad coalition government,
which one said represented "the
lowest common denominator of a
large number of parties."
The six Israelis interviewed by
Newsweek senior editor Arnaud
de Berchgrave and correspondent
Michael Elkins were Prof: Don
Patinkin, professor of economics
at Hebrew University; M e r o n
Benvenisti, a specialist in Arab
affairs on the Jerusalem City
Council; Shimon Shamir, head of
the Mid East history department
at Tel Aviv University; Yoram
Ben-Porath, an author and expert
on Arab problems; Prof. Michael
Bruno, chairman of the economics
faculty at Hebrew University, and
Amos Tversky, professor of psy-
chology at Hebrew University.
Benvenisti said annexation would
leave Israel with only two options:
"Either we will remain a Jewish
state and be undemocratic, or
remain a democratic state but not
Jewish. If we want to preserve
our Jewish character with what
will then become an almost half-
Arab population, we will have to
deprive the Arabs of their legiti-
mate share of political and govern-
ment management." Prof. Bruno
said, "We seem to be sliding into
de facto annexation. Creeping an-
nexation if you will. The majority
of our 1 population is against an-
nexation but °resent day-to-day
policies are likely to lead us into
it." Prof. Shamir said, that "Un-
less some sort of settlement is
reached with the Palestinians,
whatever can be accomplished
with Egypt and Jordon would not
last."
YORK, England (JTA) — The
UN Association, holding its annual
meeting here, adopted a resolu-
tion Monday calling on all parties
in the Middle East conflict to ob_
serve the UN cease fire and ask-
ing Secretary General U Thant to
the 1999 Rhodes negotiations.
initiate peace talks on the lines of
Elected to the executive board of
the association were Frank Hooley,
an Arab sympathizer, and Lady
Gaitskill. Eric Price Homes was
chosen chairman.
6—Friday, April 24, 1970
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Stevenson, Senatorial Candidate,
Questions Nixon's M. E. Arms Policy
MT. CARROLL, Ill. (JTA)
Adlai E. Stevenson III, Democratic
senatorial candidate, said he was
not satisfied with the reply he re-
ceived from the U.S. State Depart-
ment to a recent query he made
concerning the Nixon administra-
tions' intentions on arms supplies
to the Middle East.
Stevenson, who is Illinois state
treasurer, said the administration
has made it amply clear why it re-
fused to comply with Israel's re-
quest for additional aircraft, but
"what is it doing with respect to
the Arab states? Will it cancel the
contract it renegotiated with Libya
in 1969 for the supply of additional
F-5 fighters?"
Stevenson made public a letter
he received from the State Depart-
ment March 31 in reply to his
query. The writer, David D. New-
som, said there had been "no dis-
cussions with the new Libyan gov-
ernment about the sales of addi-
tional aircraft beyond the ten
delivered in 1968 and the eight con-
tracted for in 1969." He said "the
situation has changed since the
original contract was signed" and
"the question of the delivery of
planes under contract is, therefore,
under review."
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