Principal Figures in Middle East !Drama
Moshe Dayan
GoIda Meir
Yigal Alon
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King Hussein
Gamal Nasser
The fate of the American peace plan for the Middle East rests with the Arab and Israeli leaders. Readi-
ness to discuss peace may lead to an end to the current Arab-Israel war.
Nixon's
Firmness in
Pursuing
Middle East
Peace Plans
Editorial
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Smolar's
Column
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VOL. LVI I, No. 20
THE JEWISH NEWS
Lsrael's
Escalating
Peace Aims,
Security
Dangers
Review of Jewish Neivs
Michigan Weekly
Commentary
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Israel Decision on U.S. Plan
Awaits Unanimity in Cabinet
Jews Threatened by Czech
t:ommunists: 9 Leningrad
Families Ask Israel Visas
LONDON (JTA)—Last week's Prague radio and press
attacks on Czech Communists of Jewish descent indicate the
possibility of a "show trial" still exists. In a broadcast over
Prague Radio. Commentator Pavel Lorene accused former
Czech Deputy Foreign Minister Arthur London of having
"packed' the diplomatic service with Jewish communists like
Prof. Eduard Boldstuecker, Eugene Lobel, Paval Kavan and
others.
NEW YORK (JTA)—Congressman Richard L. Ottinger of
New York, Democratic candidate for U. S. Senate in the Novem-
ber elections, made public two new petitions to the United
Nations which had been smuggled out of the Soviet Union by
nine Leningrad Jews seeking to emigrate to Israel with their
families. At a joint news conference with Richard Maas, acting
chairman of the American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry,
Ottinger said the petitions had been intended for, but had never
reached the UN Commission on Human Rights.
Three of the nine Jews who signed the petitions, David
Chernoglaz, Vladimir Mogilever and Lasalls Kaminsky, were
arrested in Leningrad last month in connection with an alleged
hijacking attempt. They were among the nine Leningrad Jews
who signed an appeal to the UN Human Rights Commission
Feb. 1.
Ottinger charged their arrests were reprisals for their
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(Special to The Jewish News ... Summary of JTA and Other Cabled Reports)
Seeking unanimity in the cabinet in support of the U. S. peace plan for the Middle East,
Prime Minister Golda Meir and the vast majority in the government on Wednesday postponed
final action until the six Gahal members of the coalition government consent to the acceptance
of the American idea for an end to the Israel-Arab war. Rumors of an Israel cabinet crisis are
being minimized.
Three of the Gahal members of the coalition government had indicated willingness to go
along with the majority opinion and the report that Defense Minister Itiloshe Dayan had
threatened to resign if the American proposal were adopted was exposed as a rumor. Dayan
stated that Israel's position was not that secure and the number of friends not that large
that Israel could gamble against conceding to the proposals of the Nixon administration.
Max M. Fisher, Detroit and national Jewish leader, one of President Nixon's closest
advisers, expressed confidence Wednesday, in a statement to The Jewish News, that the
American position of friendship for Israel will not change and that the Nixon administration
will adhere to established policies, which have been emphasized by the President and his
closest advisers, in a spirit of absolute protection for Israel. "I am certain Israel's position
will be helped by what is proposed and that the President and his associates will make re-
tention of Israel's friendship and security a matter of priority for the present administra-
tion," Fisher said.
Deputy Prime Minister Yigal Alon was the first cabinet minister to endorse the Ameri-
can plan and to agree to the resumption of the mission of Dr. Gunnar Jarring. Addressing
an assembly of high school student newspaper editors, Tuesday, he stated his endorsement
of the American plan.
Messages from President Nixon to Premier Meir are believed to have contained assur-
ances that the Israel position will be protected under the new proposals which already have
the endorsement of Egypt and Jordan. Syr:., and Iran, as expected, oppose any peace move
and seek Israel's total obliteration. The terrorist guerrillas threaten a battle to the finish and
King Hussein's position is especially insecure. Nasser's role is endangered by his order to
shut down two guerrilla radio stations which have attacked his acceptance of the American
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Farcical Trial in Athens: Blackmailing
Experts Urge Support for Israel,
Gains, Hijackers Sentenced and Released
Limiting Soviet Influence in III.E.
LONDON (JTA)—The two Jordanian terrorists accused of the murder of a two-
year-old Greek boy in last November's grenade attack on El Al's Athens office were
convicted Saturday in that city.
Elias Der-Garbedian, 24, was sentenced to 18 years and four months in prison
and Mansour Iilourad Zugsghe, 21, was sentenced to 11 years and three months.
The convictions and penalties are moot, however, because under last Wednes-
day's agreement between the Greek government and six Arab hijackers of a Greek
airliner, the two prisoners and five others convicted earlier are to be freed and turned
over to the International Red Cross by Aug. 29.
Greek government sources rebuffed, over the weekend, Israeli Foreign Minister
Abba Eban's plea that the Papadapoulos regime renounce the agreement as having
been made under duress.
Der-Garbedian admitted throwing the grenade that killed the boy and injured
14 other persons, but testified that he had been assured the grenade would do nothing
more than make a loud noise.
The defendants are members of the small Popular Struggle Front, which said
in Cairo that it would continue to attack Israelis in Western countries.
Al;ou Hakam, a Front official, said "It is the right of the Palestinian revolution,
even its duty, to aim blows at international Zionism wherever it is."
The National Liberal Party Council here condemned Egyptian President Gamal
Abdel Nasser's praise for the hijackers, calling it "an encouragement to piracy.'
Yielding to blackmail in the release of the hijackers and the murderer caused
Katina Nastos, 31-year-old mother of the two-year-boy who was killed in the attack on
the El Al plane, to say, in Athens, Saturday night, about the trial:. "That's the biggest
theater I ever saw in my life." At the Athens Airport, Christos Nastos, father of the
murdered child, shouted: "My son's murderers must not go free."
WASHINGTON (JTA)—A Middle East expert told the House of Representatives
foreign affairs committee Tuesday that the United States interest in the Middle East
is to limit the Soviet influence, and unmitigated support of Israel is the only way
to achieve this.
Marver H. Bernstein, Dean of the Woodrow Wilson Graduate School of Princeton
University, in testimony before the Middle East subcommittee of the House foreign
affairs committee, said:
"Settlement of the refugee issue or establishment of the sovereignty of the
Palestinian Arabs will not resolve the crisis over Soviet control of the Eastern Medi-
terranean and the Middle East generally. Therefore the United States interest Iles in
maintaining a balance of power that maintains Israel's strength vis-a-vis its neighbors."
Bernstein said that the Soviet strategy is no longer to continue hostilities to
assure the Arab need for their help, but warned that if they do continue "the next
stop is probably (Soviet) participation in full scale combat."
Alvin J. Cottrell, a staff member of the Center for Strategic and International
Studies at Georgetown University, agreed with Bernstein that "the problem is no
longer a local or regional conflict."
"There may be stability imposed over the area," Cottrell said. "The question
is who will impose the stability."
Bernstein gave a nine point program for peace: A United States policy of un-
equivocal strength; military and economic assistance to Israel; convincing the Western
nations to stop supplying the Arabs with arms; deploying additional Polaris units to
the Sixth Fleet; no troop reductions in Europe as long as there are Soviet troops in
Egypt; reaffirming the United States intent to maintain the balance of power; warning
the Soviets that their presence at the canal is unacceptable; insistance that a firm,
secure peace is the only answer; and support of Israel once peace is made.