Israel Denies Warning to Jordan
as Terrorists Return to Old Bases
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Gov-
ernment leaders vehemently
denied a report by the Israel
Radio's diplomatic corres-
pondent Arieh Meched, that
Israel intended to "warn"
Jordan not to disrupt normal
relations along the border or
to draw too close to extrem-
ist Arab regimes.
Meched, who is considered
a reliable newsman, repeated
the story on five consecutive
newscasts despite denials
from the prime minister's of-
fice, from the defense and
foreign ministries and from
circles close to Minister-
Without-Portfolio Israel Ga-
lili, one of Premier Meir's
closest confidants.
Mrs. Meir termed the story
"amazing" at Sunday's cabi-
net meeting and said the
foreign ministry was right in
denying it categorically. But
even as the denials were is-
sued, Israeli sources reported
that Palestinian terrorists
who were ousted from Jordan
by King Hussein in Septem-
ber 1970 have returned and
were reoccuping their old
bases at Jarash and Ajlotm.
The sources said further
that the summer visitors
from across the border may
have bees one of the main
reasons for the recent in-
crease in terrorist activity
In the Samaria district.
They said students among
the visitors taught terrorists
in the region how to manu-
facture explosives from
chemicals obtainable on the
open market. Such home-
made explosives were discov-
ered recently in two arms
caches near Jenin and Nab-
lus.
According to Meched, the
government decided to warn
Jordan after an incident in
which a terrorist infiltrator
from Jordan was killed by
an Army patrol near the
border north of Eilat.
It was the first such inci-
dent along the Jordan border
in some time. It was also
noted that Jordan has re-
cently imposed a 15 per cent
duty on all imports from the
West Bank, a setback for Is-
rael's "open bridges" policy.
Senior sources said that
those developments were not
grounds for a warning to
Amman. But the Jordanian
government ignored the de-
nials and issued a firm re-
jection of Israeli "threats_"
Jordan radio said in an offi-
cial statement that "No
warning will prevent us from
taking actions which the na-
tional interest demands."
With Mrs. Heir, Moshe
Dayan, Abba Eban and Ga-
lili disclaiming knowledge
of any intended warning,
some sources pointed to Dep-
uty Premier Yigal Allon as
the party who may have been
responsible. Allen, who re-
turned from a visit to the
United States, is regarded as
one of Israel's leading doves.
He is said to be in "trou-
ble" here over his sugges-
tion made in the U.S. that
negotiations between Israel
and Egypt for an interim
Suez settlement and an over-
all settlement be conducted
simultaneously by two dif-
?crent teams. That is not ap-
Jrove.1 government
Nevertheless. Allon reiter-
ated the proposal when he
landed at Lod Airport.
Defense Minister Moshe
Dayan told army civilian em-
ployes in Haifa that "Israel
must not leave anything to
chance in any peace arrange-
ments with the Arab states,"
and that Israel would have
to get rid of the United Na-
tions observers.
He stated that Israel must
not agree again to demili-
tarized zones or accept "pi-
ous guarantees from other
nations" because experience
has shown that these only
established a wedge between
Israel and the Arabs.
"Our peace objective must
be to live together peacefully
as we are doing now with
the Arabs of the areas."
Replying to questions, he
said he did not expect the
United States or any other
arms supplier to interpret
the latest General Assembly
resolution on the Middle East
as a call for an arms em-
bargo against Israel.
He said he didn't think the
new 15 per cent tariff levied
by Jordan on imports from
the West Bank would do any
serious damage to the West
Bank's economy.
But he warned that if Jor-
dan imposed serious travel
restrictions on West Bank
residents, a new situation
would be 'melted. "It is
strange that residents of Nab-
his can travel freely to Tel
Aviv but not to the capital
of the country of which they
were citizens," Dayan said.
Dayan acknowledged that
preliminary plans had been
made by the defense min-
istry for a new immigrant
town in the southern Gaza
Strip to be called Yamit. It
would be a port city and
would serve as a buffer be-
tween the populated areas of
the Strip and the Sinai Pen-
insula.
Earlier, Dayan called for
a full-dress debate in the
Knesset on policy in the ter-
ritories and their future.
Speaking in the Knesset. he
said the government had no
objection to such a debate.
Observers saw Dayan's
move as an effort to gather
support outside his own party
for his views, since in the
ongoing Labor Party debate
his hawkish stand seems to
be in the minority.
Dayan stressed repeatedly
that the governor of the Bank
of Israel, Moshe Sanbar, be-
lieved that administering the
territories was not a burden
on Israel's economy .
Earlier in the same Knes-
set session, Dayan revealed
that Israel gained IL 87,500,-
000 (521.875,000) income
from oil production in the
Sinai in 1971 compared to IL
70,000,000 ($17,500,000), the
year before and IL 40.000,-
000 ($10,000,000) in 1968.
Premier Golda Meir told a
meeting of the local Labor
Party branch that Israel
must be prepared to give up
the populated parts of the ad-
ministered territories in re-
turn for a peace settlement
and in order to ensure the
Jewish character of the state.
She said she strongly op-
posed the prospect of adding
some 900,000 Arabs from the
West Bank and Gaza Strip
to Israel's permanent popu-
lation. "I do not want us to
reach a situation in which we
are forever counting our-
selves to make sure that the
large majority of the state is
still Jewish," Mrs. Meir said.
However, she stated, in any
peace agreement areas of the
West Bank essential to Is-
rael's security must remain
in Israel's hands and there
was "no law on earth" that
could cut off the Golan
Heights from Israel. The
United Nations can decide
what it likes, but Israel will
see to its own security, the
premier declared.
Referring to the recent UN
votes, Mrs. Meir said that
what troubled Israel most
was the trend among friendly
nations to abstain on anti-
Israel votes rather than op-
pose them. On religious prob-
lems, she remarked "In the
old days in Eastern Europe,
rabbis had hearts as big as
their brains and mamserim
(illegitimates) were unheard
of."
Mrs. Meir said she sup-
ported Israeli investments to
encourage industries in the
occupied territories that
would employ local people
but was opposed to Israelis
themselves opening plants in
the territories. She also said
she would prefer to see most
of the inhabitants of the ter-
ritories employed locally.
The Labor Alignment de-
cided Sunday to establish a
special committee to study
various proposals for the so-
lution of the Palestine refu-
gee problem suggested at a
recent debate on the subject
in the alignment's political
committee.
The proposals dealt mainly
with the West Bank refugees,
not those in the Gaza Strip.
Survivors Thank Polish Gentile
for Saving Jews in Holocaust
LOS ANGELES—A humble
Polish fanner took his first
plane trip recently — the gift
of a group of Holocaust sur-
vivors who sought to honor
him for his bravery - three
decades ago.
Kazimierz Korkuc, a Cath-
olic from Eyshishkes, Po-
land, was hosted in Los An-
geles by a number of Jews
whom he had saved from
the Nazis.
Korkuc, then 35, was re-
turning from Mass one fall
morning in 1941 when he saw
the Nazi soldiers rounding
up Jews outside the town
synagogue. Approaching the
the house of Miriam Kabacz-
nik and her family, he saw
them trying to hide valu-
ables in the garden. The
Kabaczniks, who owned a
tannery, were well known to
Korkuc, who did business
with them. He offered to
hide them on his farm.
In the years that followed,
Korkuc sheltered 98 Jews.
Some were turned in by in-
formers as they moved from
one hiding place to another.
But, to his knowledge, 18
survived the war.
One of the survivors was
Miriam Kabacznik, then 22,
now Mrs. Miriam Shulman.
She was one of the group
who brought Korkuc to the
United States.
The Gestapo caught Kor-
kuc on the suspicion of har-
boring Jews. They smashed
in his face, knocking out six
teeth, gashing his lip in a
scar that still shows. They
cracked his ribs. But he
never gave away his secret.
After two weeks in a hos-
pital. Korkuc learned that he
would be taken the next day
for a new interrogation. He
jumped from the window and
made his way into White
Russia. At night, he returned
to the village where the
Gestapo sought him—to take
food to the Jews.
Mrs. Shulman said that in
desperation they were con-
sidering suicide, but Korkuc
told them, "With the help
of God, I will see that you
survive." He told the Jews
that the Russians were com-
ing and that the Germans
were losing the war."
With food he smuggled to
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, Dac. 22, 1972-15
them at night, the Kabacz-
niks and two other Jewish
families survived. Those who
weren't killed by partisans
made their way to other
lands, including Israel, Bra-
zil and the United States.
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