Eban and Tekoah: Spokesmen for Israel
Israel Foreign Minister Abba Eban was chosen to represent his country
at the indirect peace talks that have been inaugurated at the United
Nations under the sponsorship of Dr. Gunnar Jarring of Sweden.
The deputy spokesman for Israel will be the Israeli ambassador to the
UN, Yosef Tekoah.
Egypt and Jordan have named their ambassadors to the UN as
negotiators with Dr. Jarring, who has begun separate talks with spokesmen
of the nations involved in the Middle East conflict.
Eban
The Jarring
Mission and the
Aim for a
Lasting Peace
Cultural
Road to Amity
Editorials
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Tekoah
Sen. Fulbright's
Approach to
Middle East
Issues and the
Negation of
Impositions
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Spirit of Encouragement Marks
Emerging Hopes for Peace at UN
Failbright's Imposed' Peace Plan
Challenged: Ribicoff and Griffin
Enter Debate Over Proposals
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Senator William J. Fulbright, Arkansas
Democrat, said Monday there would be no "direct threat to the United
States" regardless of who controls Israel. The statement was made during
an hour-long exchange on the floor of the Senate between him and Sen.
Abraham Ribicoff, Democrat of Connecticut, after Sen. Fulbright's speech
to the Senate advocating a United Nations imposed peace in the Middle
East which would require Israel to withdraw to her pre-Six-Day War
borders. The withdrawal he proposed would be followed by a United
States-Israel bilateral treaty which would guarantee Israel's territory and
independence.
In response to Sen. Ribicoff's questioning, Sen. Fulbright said that
once the treaty was signed, American action to protect Israel against
aggression would not be dependent upon UN or Security Council action.
On the other hand, he said, "If Israel without provocation renewed the
war, this would remove our guarantee. It would obtain only if Israel is
the victim of aggression." He agreed that Israel had the right to cross its
neighbors' borders in "hot pursuit" of guerrillas but said, "they would
not be permitted to use hot pursuit to occupy Egypt or Jordan and should
not go beyond what a reasonable man would say was necessary in repelling
an attack. The Israeli government would be entitled in the exercise of hot
pursuit to do everything reasonably calculated to stop those forays into
their country."
Sen. Ribicoff stated that he had never seen any comment in the press
"where Nasser ever said to the people of Israel that Egypt must eventually
live in peace with Israel." He pointed out that it was one thing to have
an interview with CBS or ABC or Educational Television interviewer and
be "expansive and gracious" because one is dealing with an American
audience, but, he added, "Then he kicks up those inflammatory remarks
and keeps the pot boiling in his own country. How different it would be
if a man like Nasser were to tell his own people that the time has come to
live in peace with Israel." Sen. Fulbright then answered, saying, "There
is no formal obligation to Israel. I would not consider, if we had no rela-
tionship of a cultural and sentimental kind with Israel, that the question
of who controls Israel would involve a direct threat to the United States."
Before Fulbright delivered his speech, acting Senate Republican leader,
Robert P. Griffin of Michigan, read a statement to newsmen accusing him of
threatening the success of the peace talks at the UN. Sen. Griffin said
"It seems most inappropriate to call for an imposed settlement before the
parties even have had an opportunity to negotiate.
In his sharply worded 37-page speech Sen. Fulbright attacked Arab
and Israeli "myths" about each other and said he favors United Nations
imposition of a peace settlement "in the absence of a voluntary settlement
by the parties."
"Because the conflict is- a threat to the outside world, it cannot be left
solely to the humors of the belligerents," Fulbright said. "I have never
fully understood why some of our statesmen feel that it would be a heinous
crime for external parties to 'impose' a solution. Under the United Nations
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Senators Favor Cease Fire Inspection
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Two Democratic senators have pro-
posed that a joint Soviet-American inspection force supervise
observance of the Middle East cease fire by Egypt and Israel.
Sens. Harold Hughes of Iowa and Alan Cranston of Calif-
fornia, have written to Secretary of State William P. Rogers ex-
pressing their "deep concern" over reported Egyptian violations
and urging Rogers to "move forcefully now to take what we
believe would be a dramatic and effective means of Maintaining
the cease fire and standstill." The joint Big Two police force,
they said, "would reassure both parties (Egypt and Israel) that
their military positions would not be jeopardized while the (peace)
talks are going on."
Sen. Hughes is a possible 1972 Presidential candidate.
UNITED NATIONS (JTA)—The hectic rounds of Middle East peace talks
began Tuesday morning as Ambassador Gunnar V. Jarring met with the ambassadors
of Israel, Jordan and Egypt—separately and in that order—and met again that after-
noon with Israeli Ambassador Yosef Tekoah. Each of the ambassadors expressed
cautious optimism that the talks would be fruitful and lead to a settlement of the
Mid East conflict.
Tekoah told newsmen that he had presented Israel's principles for a Mid East
peace which stressed that Israeli withdrawal from territories occupied in the 1967
war to secure, recognized and agreed boundaries would
be determined in the peace agreements. He said that
if the Arabs could accept that principle, all the prob-
lems of the past 22 years could be solved.
Abdul Hamid Sharaf, the Jordanian ambassador
to Washington who was filling in for Mohammed H. el
Farra, the UN ambassador who returned to Amman
for consultations with his government, said after his
meeting with Dr. Jarring that the problem of the
•Palestinian refugees must be part of the solution to
the Mid East conflict. He repeated his government's
demands that Israel withdraw from all the occupied
territories.
Mohammed Hassan el Zayyat, the Egyptian
ambassador to the UN, told newsmen on his way into
a conference with Dr. Jarring that he would be avail-
able for talks as long as "Dr. Jarring wants me to."
Asked if he was encouraged by the peace talks, he remarked "Naturally."
The start of the talks was announced Monday afternoon by Dr. Jarring during
an unprecedented meeting with the news media. The Swedish peace envoy, who had
been trying to promote agreement among the three nations for 2 1/2 years, issued a
short statement noting, in part: "The parties will be represented in the initial stage
by their permanent representatives (to the UN). It continues to be my hope that at
a later stage the discussions can be held at the foreign ministers level. I feel sure
that the parties will enter the discussions with the firm intention of finding a solution.
I hope that with good will and understanding they will in time reach agreement on
a just and lasting peace."
Dr. Jarring's announcement came shortly after Ambassador Tekoah tele-
phoned him to notify him officially that Israel had designated him as the alternate
to the peace talks and Foreign Minister Abba Eban as chief negotiator.
A spokesman for the UN said that with the talks finally under way Dr. Jarring
does not intend to make any further statements. He had been asked by newsmen
Monday whether the talks might eventually be held elsewhere in view of the
preference expressed by Israel that they be conducted in Cyprus or Europe. Dr.
Jarring said he expected to limit the talks to "my office upstairs, on tire 38th floor."
That floor, the highest at the UN, is also the headquarters for Secretary General
U Thant. A UN spokesman also said that Thant expressed "cautious optimism"
about the negotiations. Asked if Thant was more optimistic now than at any other
time since 1967, a spokesman reported that the secretary general had replied:
"Definitely."
UN spokesmen said they did not know whether Dr. Jarring would submit any
report dealing with the talks to the Security Council or to the Big Four. Dr. Jarring,
during his press conference, did not exclude the possibility of maintaining contact
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Bomb Threat Clears JTA Offices
NEW YORK (JTA)—Some 150 persons evacuated the building
at 6660 First Ave. where the Jewish Telegraphic Agency's editorial
office is located after police reported that an unidentified male
had called to warn that there was a bomb in the office of CARE,
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After searching the building for almost an hour, police said
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