BUCHAREST, Romania — If the United Arab Republic boycott
Romania is walking a tightrope in office threatened economic sanc-
the Middle East—what with main- tions if Romanian dealings with
taining an embassy in Israel at Israel increased.
the same time she moves within
The dealings did increase —
the Soviet orbit—it has not shown
to the tune of a 50 per cent
in her booming trade with all
rise in trade to more than
states in the Middle East.
$32,000,000 in 1969—but Cairo
According to an Associated
closed her eyes. Recently re-
Press correspondent here, Roma-
ports AP, "a high-powered Ro-
nia has held firm in her desire to
manian mission visited Egypt to
remain neutral, and it's apparently
pave the way for a new trade
working. Economic and cultural
protocol and their talks were
relations with the Arab countries
described as 'friendly.'"
continue, even with Sudan and
Trying to keep normal ties with
Syria, two countries which broke
ties with Bucharest when the lat- all countries, Communist or other-
ter refused to sever relations with wise, Romania has come out
against Arab terrorism but also
Israel after the Six-Day War.
Last summer, when Bucharest condemned Israeli air raids which
may
have hit civilian targets.
and Jerusalem agreed to raise
Bucharest's four flights per week
their missions to embassy level,
Palestine Intellectuals See Israel
Replaced by Multi-Racial State
NEW YORK (JTA)—"Would the
U.S. have gone to the peace table
after Pearl Harbor? Well, we've
had the same traumatic shock."
That remark was made last week
by Taher Kanaan, a United Na-
tions staff economist in Beirut, one
of six eminent Palestinian intellec-
tuals interviewed by the senior
editor of Newsweek magazine, Ar-
- nand de Borchgrave and corres-
pondent Milan J. Kubic in the Leb-
anese capital.
The colloquy is published in the
April 27 edition of Newsweek, fol-
lowing a similar group interview
with six leading Israeli liberal in-
tellectuals published a week earli-
erer.
The Israelis were "bluntly criti-
•
cal of their government's 'inflexi-
bility,' " Newsweek reported.
However, the Palestinians dis-
played somewhat less 'give' and an
even greater sense of frustration"
in discussing ways to end the Mid-
dle East conflict.
The Palestinians interviewed in-
cluded Mohammed Rashid, chief
of foreign relations for El Fatah;
Ibrahim Ibrahim, a professor of
political philosophy; Burthan Da-
jani, a writer on economic devel-
opment; Dr. Henry Cattan, a law-
yer and former UN negotiator;
and Usama Khaldi, a professor of
biochemistry.
All of them passionately sup-
ported the idea of replacing Is-
rael, which they called a Zionist
"settlers' state," with a multi-
racial Palestinian state inhabited
by Jews, Moslems and Christians
on a basis of equality.
They said they were prepared to
give "reassurances" to the Jews
of Israel but insisted that the first
peace overtures must come from
Israel.
They warned that the present
struggle could last for another 20
years, blamed the U.S. for sup-
porting Israel and claimed that
the U.S. could pressure Israel into
admitting two million Arabs and
reconstituting itself into a Middle
Eastern rather than an "outsider"
nation.
Rashid, presumably speaking for
El Fatah, said, "We've taken up
arms. Until we did that we were
ignored. Now the world is sitting
up and paying attention."
He claimed that the Palestinians
were not offering the Jews a
"blood bath" but "concrete propo-
sals for a new -state that would
bring lasting peace to the Middle
East."
Prof. Ibrahim spoke of a "new
policy adopted by the Palestinian
movement, namely that we are
now willing to live in peace and
harmony with all the Jews in the
land of Palestine." Kannan .said,
"The initiative, in short term, lies
in Israeli hands."
Dr. Cattan said, "The sovereign-
ty of Palestine does not belong to
the Arab states and therefore can-
not be bargained away under cover
of the UN resolution."
Friday, May 1, 1970-7
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Romania Manages to Keep Course
of Neutrality in the Middle East
Book 'Theology of Protest' Emphasizes the Need
for Sense of Humor in Facing Current Issues
A theology of freedom is outlined There is a lesson for all elements
in an interesting volume that deals in our society in the comment by
with
the protest and that probes Father Haring: "Protest and con-
to Israel are heavily protected
following a diplomatic warning into the Christian attitudes and frontation so often, degenerate
current
conditions involving the into violence today because of the
that any terrorist incident involv-
lack of a sense of humor - . ."
ing an Israel-bound flight from revolutionary trends.
Bucharest would severely strain
Christian commitment to the
relations with Arab nations. Tour-
IP TOO TURN ma
non-violent revolutionary forms
ists, businessmen and Jewish
are reviewed in "A Theology of
emigrants have booked flights solid
Protest" by Father Bernard Har-
for up to one month in advance.
argot DOWN TOO WON'T
ing, published by Farrar, Straus
IWO A MIR WUIt THAN
In turn, some 4,000 Israelis visited
and Giroux.
Romania last year.
The striving for maturity is dis-
A senior foreign ministry source
told AP that Romania favors all cussed and the author places em-
steps designed to reduce tension in phasis on the need for a sense of
Mika Wineries. Detroit, Mich.
the Middle East, including an humor in facing issues.
arms embargo. He said the arms
flow to the Mid East was respon-
sible for heating up the crisis,
along with activities of Arab guer-
rilla groups.
Meanwhile, "Arab students ride
Israeli-made buses in this Com-
He'll show you how
munist capital. Egyptian and
Israeli diplomats hobnob at gov-
ernment parties, and Bucharest's
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Arab visitor."
He insisted that if Israel had
pulled back from the occupied
Arab territories immediately after
the June, 1967 war, "it would not
have been in return for nothing."
Prof. Kahldi said, "The Israe-
lis must begin thinking about
how they can fit into the Middle
East and dismantle Fortress Is-
rael. They are wedded to a col-
onial concept, thinking of Arabs
as inferior. The only thing they
understand is force. We Pales-
tinians are hardly backward. We
have 60,000 university gradu-
ates."
The interviewees rejected the
idea of a Palestinian state on the
West Bank because "a puppet
state coexisting with a racist state
. . (is) unacceptable."
All of the Palestinians conceded
that even if the Israelis agreed to
a multi-national Palestine it would
take a long, drawn out process to
achieve it.
Dr. Cattan said, "After two dec-
ades of warfare reasonable men
can sit down and work out some
form of government that would
ensure full rights for all con-
cerned." Prof. Ibrahim said, "If
they can take in 2,000,000 Jews,
why not 2,000,000 Palestinians?"
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