Canal Reopening Deadlocked; Cease Fire Continues
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The
question of reopening the Suez
Canal is deadlocked, but the series
of Egyptian "deadlines" are prob-
ably intended to serve political
purposes and the cease fire will
continue, Foreign Minister Abba
Eban told foreign journalists here
Wednesday morning.
Israel, he said, he has been and
is ready to reach an agreement
without prejudice to the security
of either side. But the United
States apparently believes it is
possible only if Israel is prepared
to make or accept proposals fully
in Egypt's favor. The Egyptians,
Eban said, have found the cease
fire — one year and 10 days old
— to their own benefit too, and
they know that a resumption of
shooting is not in their interest,
either militarily or internationally.
Therefore, Eban concluded,
Egyptian political activity, but
not military activity, should be
expected in the coming weeks,
despite President Anwar Sadat's
threats that there must be war
if Israel has not agreed by
year's end to vacate all the oc-
cupied territories.
Replying to questions, Eban said
there has been continuous contact
with the accredited leaders, who,
not wanting any such contact,
have referred the Israelis to the
Jordanian and other Arab govern-
ments. The foreign minister crit-
icized France by implication, de-
claring that there is no difference
between selling arms to Egypt and
selling them to Libya, and that
if an embargo is imnosed on the
sale of arms to other countries
it should apply to all countries.
France has been selling arms
to Libya, which has agreed to a
federation with Egypt and Syria,
but France has denied Israel 50
Mirage Jets that Jerusalem has
already paid for.
French arms sales to Libya,
Egan charged, encourages Arab
extremism.
Referring to reported Arab
plans to isolate Israel and the
United States in the United Na-
tions General Assembly, Eban
stressed Israel's attempt to es-
tablish her own net w o r k of
diplomatic contacts.
Regarding the invitation by the
Soviet Committee for Peace to six
Israelis to visit the USSR for two
weeks, Eban said it would have
been better if those invited
represented a wider range of
political opinion. He noted that no
representative of the anti-Moscow
Maki Communists was on the guest
list.
The invitation, which is seen
here as a Soviet attempt to sound
out the possibility of a resumption
of Soviet-Israeli relations, was re-
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portedly sparked by the recent visit
to Moscow of Meir Wilner, a
Knesset member representing the
pro-Kremlin Rakach Communists.
In July, the Soviet journalist
Victor Louis, (who is believed to
be a political agent for the Soviet
government, made an unannounced
visit to Israel. Louis, incidentially,
is Jewish.)
Also in July, Chairman Moshe
Sneh of Maki disclosed that Soviet
diplomats had approached two
Maki members to discuss a pos-
sible resumption of relations.
While there is no Rakach member
among the six Israelis invited,
there is no Maki member to bal-
ance out Wilners's earlier visit.
The six invitees are all vocal
opponents of the Meir government.
Eban said he hoped they would
have the intellectual courage to
inform their Russian hosts of the
major political views in Israel,
even if they do not endorse them.
Israel's desire to nullify a
growing Arab-Soviet drive to
isolate Israel and the United
States at the United Nations
General Assembly was reflected
at Sunday's cabinet meeting in
a two-hour discussion of the
relevant items on the assembly's
provisional a g e n d a. The dif-
ficulty of Israel's attempt to
Nock the drive was predicted
by Eban and by Yosef Tekoah,
the ambassador to the UN, who
returned there after two weeks
of consulations here. The as-
sembly opens Sept. 21.
Costa Rican Foreign Minister
Gonzalo Facio said during a visit
to Nazareth that Israel is fully
justified in exercising its basic
right to stand fast on the cease
fire lines in order to ensure self-
defense. He said that, while visit-
ing Sharm El Sheikh, which over-
looks the mouth of the Red Sea,
"I realized how important the site
is for Israel as the gateway to the
Gulf of Eilath."
At a dinner given in his honor
by Israeli Foreign Minister Abba
Eban, Facio said that the Ameri-
can doctrine barring the acquisi-
tion of rights to territory through
conquest does not apply to Israel.
He explained that the doctrine ap-
plies only to aggressors, whereas
in 1967, Israel had been attacked.
and was fighting for its life in its
own land. He added that in the
future, the doctrine will be ap-
plicable to Israel after she has ac-
quired through direct negotiations
with its Arab neighbors the secure
peace borders to which she is en-
titled.
Costa Rica, the strongest sup-
porter among Latin American
nations for Israel's views on
means for a lasting peace, will
work actively against any Arab-
sponsored resolution, Facio told
newsmen.
He spoke at the close of a week-
long visit to Israel which took him
from Sharm El Sheikh to the
Golan Heights.
He also said that Jerusalem
must remain united under Jewish
rule, contending that internation-
alization was not a solution and
that a new division of Jerusalem
was "an absurdity." He said
Sharm El Sheikh, which controls
the Tiran Strait and has access for
Israel to the Red Sea, must re-
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trol.
Facia added it "cannot be per-
mitted" that the Tiran Strait
could again be suddenly closed to
Israeli shipping by anyone, "as
happened in the past."
Facio added that "Israel will
probably exist forever and it must
be given the full protection it
needs." He remarked that the
President of Costa Rica had ap-
peared at Israel Bond sales func-
tions in the United States to show
his favorable feeling toward Is-
rael. He said another reason for
Costa Rica's strongly pro-Israel
stand was the "large and respect-
ed", Costa Rican Jewish commu-
nity which, he said, he had been
able to present Israel's case well.
Farmers in Judea and Samaria,
in the occupied West Bank, were
notified Aug. 10 by Jordanian
authorities that Jordan was sus-
pending import of their farm
produce, except for melons and
onions.
The Jordanian officials re-
portedly said they had ordered the
ban because Jordan alone cannot
absorb West Bank farm output
and the produce can no longer
be sent on to other Arab countries,
as in the past, because Syria and
Iraq have clamped restrictions on
movements across their borders
with Jordan.
* * *
Statement Denied, that Rabin
Reported Sisco Proposes
Israel Withdraw, UAR Advance
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The
Israeli embassy has denied a
published statement attributed to
Israeli Ambassador Itzhak Rabin
regarding a suggestion by Assist-
ant Secretary of State Joseph J.
Sisco for a plan leading to the
reopening of the Suez Canal. The
Washington Post said that, accord-
ing to Rabin, Sisco "suggested to
Israel a deep withdrawal from the
Suez Canal and an Egyptian ad-
vance across the waterway to
within 15 miles of the Israeli posi-
tion." Staff writer Stephen Klaid-
man added: "These suggestions,
made in Jerusalem earlier this
month, are reliably understood to
be unacceptable to Israel." Klaid-
man did not say when or where
or to whom Rabin disclosed Sisco's
reputed suggestion.
The State Department ridiculed
a Middle East press report that
65 American-built F-104 fighter
bombers arrived in Jordan during
the past two weeks from Turkey,
but did not deny a statement in
the same report that American
equipment was being used in the
construction of a radar network
in the northeast corner of Jordan
abutting Syria and Iraq, both
openly hostile to King Hussein's
regime.
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Rebuffed Youth Delegates
8—Friday, August 20, 1971
Walk Out of Conclave
SAO PAOLO, Brazil •(JTA) —
Youth delegates walked out of a
Latin American Jewish meeting
here Sunday when they were re-
buffed in their attempt to have
workshop recommendations on aid-
ing Soviet Jewry, aiding Jews in
Arab lands and improving Jewish
education and Jewish-Christian re-
lations made binding on all mem-
ber units of the World Jewish
Congress. But the session was not
disrupted by the walk out.
The two-day consideration of
"The Jewish People in Times of
Transformation," held during the
first convention of the Latin Amer-
ican Jewish Communities' Southern
Region, attracted 120 delegates
from seven countries—Argentina,
Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay,
Peru and Uruguay. The guest of
honor was Israeli Ambassador
Itzhak Harkavi.
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