Cabinet Crisis Reports Called Rumors
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his position in private has led them
to retain their optimism for a
peace settlement. Some sources
say Col. Nassers acceptance of the
U. S. plan was designed and timed
to put all the pressure for imple-
mentation of the plan on Israel.
If Israel rejected the proposal,
Cairo could claim Israel sabotaged
the peace effort.
Jordan Falls Into Line With
Egypt On U. S. Initiative;
Guerrillas Girding For Fight
LONDON (JTA)—Premier Abdel
Monem Rifai of Jordan said his
government has replied to the
American peace initiative for the
Middle East in a manner that was
"positive and in line with the ans-
wer given by the United Arab Re-
public" according to reports from
Amman. Premier Rifai spoke with
newsmen after the fifth cabinet
meeting in three days. The Jordan-
ianacceptance put the shaky truce
between the government and the
Palestinian guerrillas in danger of
collapse.
King Ilussein's latest crisis has
arisen from the threats of El Fatah
and the Popular Front for the Lib-
eration of Palestine, the largest
guerrilla organizations, to subvert
implementation of the U. S. plan.
El Fatah said it would use all
means necessary to "foil the
American conspiracy," and Popu-
lar Front leader Dr. George Ha-
bash declared: "We are deter-
mined to use all our strength and
all our means to frustrate any at-
tempt at a peaceful solution. We
will make this area another Viet-
nam, and no force: Arab or inter-
national can stop it. A political
solution will be achieved only over
the dead bodies of our fighters."
Other terrorist groups have fol-
lowed suit. A spokesman for El
Saiqa, the Syrian organization, said
he opposed the U. S. initiative "to
the end." At least two guerrilla
spokesmen condemned President
Nasser. One, representing the Pop-
ular Democratic Front for the Lib-
eration of Palestine, said the Egyp-
tian leader "is surrendering to im-
petrialist interests and handicap-
ping the development of Arab
revolutionary forces." Another,
who chose not to publicize his or-
ganization's name, asserted: "The
acceptance of the American plan
by Nasser proves he is not fit to be
an Arab leader. If Hussein accepts
it, he will not last."
(In Baghdad, the authoritative
newspaper Al Jumhouriya rejected
the American proposal and the Se-
curity Council resolution on which
it is based. Iraqi president, Maj.
Gen y Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, said
that the Arab's "only course" is
"armed struggle by all means to
liberate usurped Arab territory."
Syria also turned down the U.S.
plan.)
Impending Cabinet Crisis
Not Altogether Proven
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Israel was
said to have edged toward a cabi-
net crisis as the rightist Gahal fac-
tion threatened to quit the three-
year-old coalition if the govern.
ment agreed to accept the U. S.
peace initiative in its present form.
The Gahal adamancy emerged
after a heated five-hour caucus, in
hte Knesset building, of the six
Herut and Liberal ministers who
comprise the Gahal faction in the
24-member cabinet. Herut's Ezer
Weizmann, minister of transport
and communications, a . hardliner
who nevertheless is reportedly mod-
erating his opposition to the U. S.
plan, told newsmen after the caucus
that "we are already 95 per cent
outside." Another minister said
"we may have to resign from the
government. The apparent Herut-
Liberal factionalism within Gahal
contradicted earlier reports that
the six ministers were in substan-
tial agdeement on opposition to the
initiative. Several head-on verbal
clashes were said to have taken
place between Menahem Beigin of
Herut and Aryh L Dultzin of the
Liberals, with Dultzin leaning to-
ward acceptance and Beigin de-
claring: "This is no initiative for
peace, but for Israel's destruction."
The Knesset defeated by a
large majority a motion by the
splinter Free Center Party to
place the U. S. proposals on the
agenda with a view toward re-
jecting them. Mr. Uri 'Avneri,
head of the leftist Haolam Ilazeh
Kozh Hadash, spoke out, on the
other hand, for acceptance. At
the request of Deputy Coalition
Chairman Israel Kargman of the
labor alignment, the motion was
struck off the agenda pending a
governmental decision on the
plan. Gahal holds 26 of the 120
Knesset seats.
The opposition of the nationalis-
tic Gahal ministers ceMers on its
requirement that Israel withdraw
from Arab territories acquired
during the Six-Day War, in ac-
cordance with United Nations Se-
curity Council Resolution 242. Ga-
hal's campaign slogan last year
was "Indivisibility of the Home-
land." It is true- that Gahal has
remained in the coalition despite
Premier Golda Meir's declaration
in the Knesset that Israel accepted
the resolution. But, a Gahal spokes-
man explained, "The Security
Council resolution speaks of with-
drawal to secure and recognized
borders. In our view such borders
are identical with the present
cease-fire lines. We can live with
that resolution as long as our in-
terpretation is not challenged."
That challenge, it would seem, has
now arrived. Overall, however, the
Labor Party is most intent on
maintaining the unity of the na-
tional government. To that end,
labor is prepared to offer Gahal
the opportunity of abstaining from
the vote on the U. S. plan, the
newspaper Yediot Aharonot report-
ed. It is doubtful that Gahal, or at
least Herut, would accept that of-
fer, as the withdrawal issue is such
a cardinal point in the party's pro-
gram.
Defense Minister Dayan's re-
mark Tuesday night in Tel Aviv
that: "We are not strong enough
to permit ourselves to give up
even one friendship," was seen
as evidence he favors acceptance
of the U. S. plan. "i.
friendship requires compro-
mises," he told a student group,
"we have to do it.' Dayan scotch.
ed repirts that he was thinking
if resigning if the government ac-
cepted the U. S. initiative, which
does not specifically guarantee
Israeli retention of the Golan
Heights and other areas deemed
essential by him for national
security. Despite his apparent ac-
ceptance, however reluctantly, of
the initiative as a major means
of assuring continuation of Amer-
ican support for Israel, Dayan
said that Israel is sufficiently
strong not to have to accept pro-
posals "enforced on us" by
either allies or enemies. "We
are strong enough to back our
position," he said. "We are not
doomed to be broken. We have
equipment, manpower and tech-
nology."
In a re , ated development Moshe
Sneh, head of MAKI, the anti-Mos-
cow Israel Communist Party, as-
serted that Egypt's acceptance of
the U. S. plan had come about
from Soviet pressure inspired by
anti-war Kremlinites. That faction,
he contended, had prevailed over
the hardliners who minimized the
danger of a Soviet-American con-
frontation in the Middle East and
favored aiding Egypt "all the
way."
(In Damascus. Minister of the
Interior Muhammad Tawil said
the Syrian position on the U. S.
plan would not adversely affect
her relations with Egypt, which
has accepted it.)
The foreign ministry declined to
deny a report by the El Fatah
newspaper in Amman, Jordan, that
draft agreements on the ending of
the Middle East hostilities have
been initialed by Israel, Egypt and
Jordan. "We cannot comment on
everything the Fatah says," the
ministry spokesman remarked. Is-
raeli sources here informed the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency that
Israel will not agree to any cease-
fire that does not apply to terror-
ist groups.
The sources noted that the Am-
man government, in accepting the
U. S. plan, said it "cannot be re-
sponsible for the actions of the
Palestinian organizations.'
Pompidou Reported Concerned
With Israel's Future In Light
of Soviet Intervention
PARIS (JTA)—President Georges
Pompidou, who has angered Israel
by embargoing her 50 paid-for
Mirage jets, has voiced "serious
concern for Israel's future se-
curity" at all of his recent meet-
ing with various personalities, the
weekly "Nouvel Observateur" said.
President Pompidou also believes,
the publication said, that the only
way to safeguard Israel's security
is by a preliminary joint agree-
ment among the Big Four powers.
A Big Two agreement, he feels,
would protect the interests of the
United States and the Soviet Union
but not those of Israel. The publi-
cation said M. Pompidou has ex-
pressed concern over the imme-
diate future of Israel in light of
Soviet intervention in Egypt.
Friday, July 31, 1970-15
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