Israel Will Compromise on Land, but Not on Security, Allon Tells UJA
V-iEW YORK (JTA) — Is-
rael's Deputy Prime Minister
Yigal Alton reaffirmed that
Israel is ready to negotiate
with any Arab government
at any time, anywhere in
the world."
Addressing more than 2,000
American Jewish leaders and
guests at the closing banquet
of the United Jewish Appeal's
national conference which
launched the 1973 campaign,
Alton also declared: "We are
ready to compromise on ter-
ritory, but cannot and will
not compromise on security.
Tere is no problem, includ-
ing the so-called Palestinian
question, which cannot be
solved by negotiations. More-
over, no problem of any kind
can be solved through hostili-
ties, whether waged by ter-'
rorists or regular armies."
Alton, considered by many
as one of Israel's leading
doves, warned, however, that
"new voices of warmonger-
ing" beard recently in Cairo
and Damascus "should now
be taken seriously."
He branded the Arab-in-
spired resolution adopted
Friday by the United Na-
tarns General Assembly as
"inflicting great damage on
the prospect of peace" and
assailed it as creating new
illusions in Arab capitals
that "can only strengthen
Arab leaders in their beliefs
that they can achieve their
aims at the expense of vital
and legitimate Israeli in-
terests."
Alton said that world ten-
sions are relaxing , but
that the lavish Soviet military
equipment being given to
Egypt and Syria "can only
encourage the militaristic at-
titudes of the Arab coun-
tries." If 51/2 years after the
Six-Day War there is still
no peace in the Middle East,
"it is not because of Israeli
policy, but in spite of it,"
Alton charged.
He asserted that Israel has
made great strides in the im-
provement of social stand-
ards, with special attention
to the under-privileged.
After defense, education for
Israeli Jews and Arabs "has
the highest priority in the
governmental budget," he
stated.
Allon stated that Israel is
grateful to the Soviet authori-
ties for granting exit visas to
Jews to leave for Israel, but
underscored that "we must
unite in our efforts and mobi-
lize world public opinion In
order to persuade the Soviet
government to remove all
obstacles for the Jews" and
to abolish the "shameful
practice of ransom."
The Israeli leader declared
that the size of the immigra-
tion will not be limited by
any quota system and that
Israel is meeting the chal-
lenge of integrating all those
who are arriving.
Ile added that in addition
to Israel's concern for Soviet
Jews, the Jewish state "shall
not rest until the last suffer-
ing Jew from Iraq and Syria
will be allowed to leave and
live in freedom."
Separate Peace With Jordan
Possibly 'In Theory': Allon
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
Deputy Premier Yigal Allon
of Israel said here Tuesday
that there was the possibility
of a separate peace between
Israel and Jordan "at least
in theory."
Appearing on the NBC
"Today" show, Allon would
not confirm press reports
that he had secret contacts
last week with emissaries of
King Hussein of Jordan in
London. The reports were de-
nied by Allon's office in
Jerusalem at the time.
At a press conference later
Tuesday, Allon said there
was not likely to be a new
American peace initiative in
the Middle East in the near
future although the U.S.
would continue to offer its
good offices to the parties
to reach an agreem
Allon spoke following a
two-hour luncheon meeting
with Secretary of State Wil-
liam Rogers. He said that
Rogers "accepts, the view
that the situation (in the
Middle East) is so delicate
that no premature steps
should be taken."
Asked by reporters when he
thought the situation would
not be delicate, Alton said
"When bath sides ask the
U.S. to mediate or when the
U.S. invents a new idea." He
cautioned that the U.S. should
consult with both parties be-
fore making any public an-
nouncements.
Alton suggested that nego-
tiations for an interim agree-
ment on the Suez Canal and
an overall peace settlement
could take place simultane-
ously by two separate
"teams."
He added that Israel was
ready to agree to proximity
talks because of the internal
domestic situation in the
Arab countries, but observed
that unless the final talks
were face-to-face, the agree-
ment that emerged would not
be trustworthy.
In London Foreign Minister
Abba Eban of Israel said that
Israel's position at present
in the administered Arab
territories is fully legitimate
until there is a peace treaty
signed which would alter the
situation.
Eban, appearing at a
press conference at the con-
clusion of the London meet-
ing of the Socialist Interna-
tional Bureau, made his re-
marks in reference to the
resolution adopted by the
United Nations General As-
sembly last Friday.
He noted that even the
General Assembly, where
the Arab states have "an
automatic majority" was
forced to omit harsh clauses
demanding immediate Israeli
withdrawal from the territor-
ies and implying sanctions
for refusal.
The Socialist International
Bureau decided to reactivate
its study group on Soviet
Jewry to produce an up-to-
date report on recent de-
velopment. The bureau also
decided to establish a special
working committee to study
the question of international
terrorism.
Eban said the study hoped
to discredit the claim by
Arab terrorists that they
acted from lofty motives and
to find means to protect large
groups of trade union mem-
bers endangered by terrorist
acts in post offices and at
airports.
Earlier, Eban met In Costa
Rica with President Jose Fig-
ueres Ferrer who reaffirmed
his support for Israel's Mid-
dle East policy. It was the
first visit of an Israeli foreign
minister to Costa Rica.
Eban spoke on the Mid
East to the 57-member Costa
Rican Parliament, and talked
ministry
with agriculture
leaders about the possibility
of applying Israeli technical
assistance to developing dairy
f a r m i n g in Costa Rica's
southern region.
Figueres, whose National
Liberation Party is a mem-
ber with Israel's Labor Party
in the Socialist International,
replaced a conservative lead-
ership in the 1970 elections in
the overwhelmingly Roman
Catholic country.
Lawmaker Cautions
Against Shift In U.S. Policy
LOS ANGELES (JTA)-
Sen. John V. Tunney (D.
Calif.) said here Sunday that
Israel "is at an international
pinnacle" in its foreign re-
lations because she enjoys
American support and the
options of her principal ad-
versaries "have been pro-
gressively narrowed."
But, he cautioned, "Israel
faces only one significant
danger as we move into a
new year. That is a shift in
American policy."
The California lawmaker,
addressing the Southern Area
Jewish Federation Confer-
ence of Greater Los Angeles
on the subject of "Israel's
Role in the World-1973,"
observed that the danger of
an American shift stemmed
precisely from the outstand-
achieved by
ing success
American support of Israel
and Israel's own policies
which have all but eliminated
the possibility of a military
confrontation as a viable
option for Israel's Arab
neighbors or the Soviet
Union.
Tunney noted that even the
Soviet Union appears "to
have concluded, at least for
now, that the price they had
to pay for their continued
interference in the Middle
East was toe high in terms
of the American reaction It
provoked."
However, Tunney contin-
ued, a feeling among Ameri-
can foreign policy makers
that America must continue
to act as a problem-solver
throughout the world could
lead to trouble in the Middle
East because it "would stimu-
late those in the Arab world
and perhaps elsewhere who
would seek to add tension
and uncertainty to the affairs
of the region."
Yevtushenko Lied; Soviet Bias Is Official,' Emigre Charges
.ttlY JOSEPH POLAKOFF
• JTA Wa•hingtoe nu
Chief
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
Yevgeni Yevtushenko, Soviet
poet-playwright, told "a ter-
rible lie" when he asserted
there is no official anti-Semi-
tism in the Soviet Union, says
Dr. Yuri Glazov, philologist
and Orientologist who recent-
ly emigrated to New York
from Moscow via Rome.
"Yevtushenko knows he is
not speaking the truth," Gia-
nni said in an interview with
the Jewish Telegraphic Agen-
cy in Washington. "Ile con-
tradicts what the himself said
Bahl Yar ten years ago."
Yevtushenko deplored anti-
Semitisrn in a celebrated
poem after visiting the site
of the massacre of Jews and
others outside of Kiev by the
Nazis in World War II.
Recently, however, in a
widely publicized interview in
Playboy magazine, he said
anti-Semitism doesn't official-
ly exist in the Soviet Union.
Glazov was interviewed im-
mediately after be had parti-
cipated in a panel discussion
on the "Democratic Move-
ment in the USSR" at George
Washington University before
an audience of about 1,000
meetly academicians In the
Washington a rea.
Two-thirds of the Russian
dissidents are "of Jewish or-
igin," and "Jew hunting" has
increased in the last two
years, Glazov said. "Every-
one with Jewish blood —
half-Jew. quarter-Jew — is
the object of that treatment."
The situation of the Jew "is
now unbearable," Glazov add-
ed. "They are not allowed to
leave or live. Not all Jews are
eager to leave immediately
although they know they will
face that crucial point. I don't
know any Jew who is not
52—Friday, Dec. IS, 1972
tutions for political reasons
and also for his Jewish ori-
gin.
He had signed several pro-
tests including the Appeal of
12 Soviet Intellectuals against
the Suppression of Iluman
Rights in the Soviet Union.
"At the end of everything I
understand that I am a Jew,"
he said. "I was ready for ex-
ile when I got the visa to
Israel."
10 Kiev Jews Write Nixon:
Appealed Twice for Ilelp
but Received No Answer
LONDON (JTA)—Ten Kiev
Jews have written to Presi-
dent Nixon congratulating
him on his re-election but
complained that they never
received replies to their pre-
vious letters appealing for
his help in their efforts to
obtain exit visas.
The text of the letter was
made public by the 10 Jews
who signed it.
The letter noted that some
Jewish families in Kiev re-
cently received visas. "Their
hasty release coincided with
the height of your election
campaign. But we, unfor
tunately, remained among
those who only saw others
leave."
Expressing understanding
of Nixon's "efforts directed
toward the establishment of
business contacts with the
Soviet Union," the writers
observed that this "may be-
come an objective factor in-
fluencing the fates of the
Jews of Russia who are
fighting for their right to
repatriate."
Tekoah Gives Waldheim
Appeal from 230 Soviet Jews
UNITED NATIONS (JTA)
— Israeli Ambassador Yosef
Tekoah Monday gave Secre-
tary General Kurt Waldheim
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS an appeal from 239 Soviet
thinking of leaving. Anti-
Semitic policy is on the state
level, Jews are breaking their
brains on what to do."
Glazov, who is 42 and
speaks English well, left
Moscow with his half-Jewish
wife and their children last
April with visas to go to Is-
rael, he told JTA.
Following their arrival in
Mine, Glazov said, "I thank-
ed the Jewish Agency" and
after three months in Italy
he and his family left for the
United States. The scholar
said he and his family are
"under the care of lue Inter-
national Rescue Committee,"
which is a private organiza-
tion aiding Eastern European
emigrants.
Glazov warned against un-
derestimating the "clever-
ness" of Soviet officialdom
on Jewish emigration. "They
use double bookkeeping," he
said, noting that the Soviet
"makes one step towards the
demand of international pub-
lic opinion" on freedom for
Jews and then imposes educa-
tion taxes "that make it im-
possible for Jews to leave."
"I consider myself to be
Jewish," Glazov said in re-
sponse to a direct question
on his identity, "but my ap-
proach is synthetical" toward
Soviet affairs.
Asked why he did not go
to Israel, he replied that he
does "not exclude the possi-
bility that in several years
I will go to Israel. I am now
deeply interwoven with the
democratic political move-
ment and I want to acquaint
myself with Western culture!'
Glazov described himself
as a "half-assimilated Jew"
who was expelled from the
USSR Academy of Sciences
in 1968 and banned from any
employment in Soviet insti-
Jews that was refused by the
United Nations office in Mos-
cow last Friday. The signers
— from Moscow, Minsk,
Wilna, Kiev, Novosibirsk,
Leningrad, Kishinev, Khar-
kov and Riga — charged the
Soviet government with
"violations" of the General
Assembly's Declaration of
Human Rights, which was
24 years old Sunday.
A copy of the appeal was
sent to Soviet Ambassador
Yakov A. Malik. It asked
Waldheim to establish a
commission to investigate
the Soviet "violations" as
part of the UN's "noble
task."
Works of Jewish Poet
Republished in USSR
NEW YORK (JTA) — The
first publication in five years
in the Soviet Union of works
by Osip Mandelstam, the late
Jewish poet who was ostra-
cized and exiled during the
Stalin era, is seen by obser-
vers here as further evi-
dence that writers and poets
victimized by Stalin will no
longer be purged from So-
viet periodicals.
In addition, some obser-
vers say, the literary rehabil-
itation of Mandelstam and
the late poet Anna Akhma-
tova makes a return to
Stalinism less likely than
ever.
It was noted that Mandel-
stam's case is one of a dissi-
dent poet, as opposed to a
specifically Jewish one be-
cause while he did not hide
his heritage he expressly re-
jected its traditions and lan-
guages.
His rehabilitation, there-
fore, apparently has no re-
lation to the current Soviet
Jewry situation and the ris-
ing demands for eased emi-
gration.
Born into an assimilated
family, the Leningrad intel-
lectual was arrested in 1934,
charged with satirizing Sta-
lin, and was later rearrested
and exiled.
He died in a labor camp
around 1938 at the age of 47.
Some say he was insane at
the end.
Two of his pieces appear
in the new addition of the
Poetry Annual (PPAA), key-
ed to the 50th anniversary
Dec. 30 of the Union of So-
viet Socialist Republics.
Artist and Writers Spotlight
Plight of Soviet Jews
NEW YORK (JTA) — At
the first of a series of press
conferences at which celebri-
ties will spotlight the plight
of Soviet Jews, a telephone
call was placed to Dr. Leo-
nid Tarassuk of Leningrad,
who was fired as curator of
the Hermitage after applying
for a visa to Israel.
Dr. Tarassuk's expressive
and extensive greetings — "I
thank all Americans. We
know what you are doing for
us. Thank you, thank you" —
moved soprano Beverly Sills
and other activists at the
press conference to tears.
The call was placed by
Clive Barnes, dance and
drama critic of the New York
Times.
The press conference was
sponsored by the National
Conference on Soviet Jewry
and Artists and Writers for
Peace in the Middle East
(AWPME).
Appeals were sent to So-
viet President Nikon V. Pod-
gorny and Culture Minister
Ekaterina Furtseva above
the signatures of the partici-
pants at the press conference
and tenor Richard Tucker.
The United Nations office
in Moscow has refused to ac-
cept a petition from 239 Jews
urging UN Secretary General
Kurt Waldheim to investi-
gate violations of human
rights in the Soviet Union, it
was reported here.
Dr. Nahum Goldman, pres-
ident of the World Jewish
Congress, wrote to several
Western European govern-
ment leaders, to President
Tito of Yugoslavia, Roman-
ian Prime Minister Nicolae
Ceaucescu, and to the gen-
eral secretaries of the French
and Italian Communist part-
ies asking them to intervene
with the Soviet government
for an amnesty for Soviet
Jewish "Prisoners of Con-
science" and for permossion
for them to go to Israel.
The Jewish vigil across the
street from the Soviet Embas-
sy in Washington entered its
third year Sunday.
It was begun Dec. 10, 1970
—Human Rights Day—to pro-
test Soviet treatment of Jews
desiring to emigrate and to
support Soviet Jews' rights
to live as Jews. The demon-
strators meet daily at noon
on the steps of the Philip
Murray Building, gazing si-
lently for 15 minutes at the
Embassy across the street.
Numerous prominent non-
Jews have joined the vigil
occasionally, including the
Rev. John Steinbruck, a Lu-
theran pastor who comes al-
most every day.
The vigil has become a reg-
ular stop for tourist buses.
Hundreds of yeshiva stu-
dents, led by Rabbi Haskell
Lookstein, principal of the
Ramat School, prayed and
sang at the Isaiah Wall
across from the United Na-
tions and lit candles for Jews
denied their right to abserve
their religion in the Soviet
Union,
The rally was sponsored
by the Greater New York
Conference on Soviet Jewry.