10 Friday, April 27, 1973
Zayyat 'Absolves' U.S. of Blame in Beirut Raid
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source observed privately
that the arms sales to Israel
was legislated by the U. S.
Congress w h i c h represents
the will of the American
people.
Zayyat expressed satisfac-
tion with the United Nations'
scheduled review next month
of over-all Middle East policy.
Egypt had suggested, at last
week's Security Council meet-
ings, that Secretary General
Kurt Waldheim prepare a
report on the over-all Middle
East situation to date which
would serve as a basis for the
review. "We want the Secur-
ity Council to meet to discuss
as profoundly as it can, how
to get us out of this situa-
tion," he said.
Arab Governments Urged:
Strike U.S. Interests in M.E.
LONDON (JTA)—The Cai-
ro newspaper Al Akhbar
urged Arab governments to
start preparing plans to strike
against American interests in
the Middle East. According
to the editor, Moussa Sabri,
such action is inseparable
from a military confrontation
with Israel. "We are still a
long way from having a stu-
died plan (against American
interests) capable of being
implemented," Moussa wrote.
"There must be a detailed
study of a plan to boycott
America," he said.
The Jordanian government
announced it has prepared
legislation to create a tribun-
al to judge persons who sold
land to Israeli individuals or
to the Israeli government on
the West Bank. The announce-
ment did not indicate how a
Jordanian tribunal could ex-
ert authority in the Israel-
held territory. The Israeli
cabinet recently rejected pro-
posals to permit the free pur-
chase of West Bank land by
Israeli individuals or private
firms.
Eban Says Security Council
Vote Setback for Arabs
JERUSALEM (JTA)—For-
eign Minister Abba Eban said
the Security Council vote was
a major setback for the Ar-
abs and should have con-
vinced them "that peace will
not be advanced by interna-
tional polemics but by nego-
tiations between the parties."
He was lavish in his praise of
the United States which he
credited with bringing about
the least one-sided resolution
on the Middle East in the
Security Council's history. -
While the resolution—adopt-
ed by a vote of 11-0 with the
U. S., Soviet Union, China
and Guinea abstaining—con-
demned Israel for its April
10 commando raids on Leban-
on, it also for the first time
condemned Arab acts of ter-
rorism, Eban noted. Other
officials here said they could
not recall such a weak con-
demnation of Israel after a
'military action against one
of its neighbors.
Eban said that during the
week of debate that preceded
the vote, only the U. S.
"showed consistency" in its
principles; that it was due
only to the U. S. that "threats
and warnings against Israel
for daring not to surrender to
the plague of terrorism, were
avoided." The U. S. had in-
formed Israel several days
ago that it would veto any
draft resolution which did not
contain a condemnation of
Arab terroligit
At the Unit ed Nations
Yosef Tekoah, Israel's am-
bassador to the United Na-
tions, said the Security Coun-
cil has demonstrated once
again that it could not "deal
equitably with questions per-
taining to the Middle Eastern
situation."
The Israeli envoy declared
that the Security Council had
failed to recognize both Is-
rael's legitimate right of self-
defense and the murder of in-
nocent civilians by Arab ter-
rorist gangs. He said it was
incumbent on governments
to protect their nationals
against terrorism if the UN
could not do so and promised
that Israel would continue to
protect its people from Arab
murder attacks. T ek o a
warned Lebanon that it must
act to stop savage attacks
against innocent civilians
staged and organized from its
territory.
The American ambassador,
John Stall, said the U. S. ab-
stained because the resolution
still "focuses too much on
the meaningless exercise of
trying to parcel out blame.
It falls short of meeting the
full dimensions of the chal-
lenge." There were indica-
tions in diplomatic circles,
however, that the U. S. was
privately satisfied with the
outcome.
Annexation of Territory
Rejected by Sapir
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Fi-
nance Minister Pinhas Sapir
came out forcefully Monday
against the annexation by Is-
rael of all of the administered
Arab territories.
He said on a radio inter-
view that Israel must make
it clear that its presence in
the territories was only tem-
porary and that while for
security reasons there can
never be a return to the pre-
June 1967 borders, Israel in-
tends to return much of the
administered territories and
their population under the
peace agreement
terms of
with its neighbors.
Sapir, one of the most pow-
erful leaders of the ruling La-
bor Party, insisted that there
can be no return of any terri-
tory before there is a peace
agreement. He said that se-
curity must be the sole cri-
terion determining Israel's fu-
ture borders and denounced
advocates of annexation on
historical, religious or emo-
tional grounds. He said he
objected to "Religion trying
to lay down which territories
we ought to keep."
•
—
The finance minister was
referring to claims by Ortho-
dox and extreme nationalist
factions that Israel must keep
all of the territories that were
Jewish in biblical times. He
said that instead of "mystical
and irrational concepts," Is-
rael's policy on the future of
the territories must be based
on demographic realities.
Noting that the present
Jewish population of Israel is
2,700,000, he said an annual
average immigration rate of
50,000, much higher than the
average during Israel's first
25 years, would increase the
Jewish population to just over
5,000,000 by 1978.
If the West Bank, the Gaza
Strip and the Sinai Peninsula
were incorporated into Israel,
the 480,000 Arabs in Israel
and the 1,200,000 in the ad-
ministered territories would
increase to 4,500,000 within
25 years.
"For every 55, Jews in Is-
rael there would be 45 Arabs.
What sort of Israel would
that be?" he asked. He
warned that 4,000,000 Arabs
within Israel's borders would
be "dynamite which would
blow up the state."
Paris Is Mum on Charge That Jets
Sold to Libya Are Now in Egypt
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Is-
rael is waiting for the French
government to reply formal-
ly to its charges that Mirage
jets that France sold to
Libya are being transferred
to Egypt in direct violation
of the terms of the sale.
Foreign Minister Abba
Eban conveyed the charge
to the French ambassador,
Francis Hure, Sunday along
with what Israel claims is
irrefutable evidence that the
planes are being shifted to
Egypt.
Paris has made no official
response so far. But the
French Foreign Ministry re-
leased a statement Monday
claming that Israel had not
supplied it with document-
ary evidence or other de-
finitive material to back up
its charge. Officials here
have refrained from disput-
ing the Quai D'Orsays state-
ment on grounds that there
was no point in engaging in
polemics with the French.
They said that while
there were no documents to
corroborate t h e Mirage
transfers, there was ample
evidence that the Libyan
planes have been moved to
Egypt and that French per-
sonnel in both those coun-
tries could easily confirm
the Israel data, provided
there was good faith on the
French side. Without good
faith, no amount of evidence
would convince the French,
Israel sources said.
Reliable Israeli sources
said the French had in fact
learned of the transfers
their own sources even be-
fore Israel knew of them.
They likened the situation
to that of August 1970, when
the United States insisted
that it had no evidence to
confirm Israeli charges that
Egypt was moving SAM mis-
siles into the Suez Canal
zone in violation of the cease
fire—only to have to admit
later on that the Israeli in-
formation was correct.
Israeli circles said they did
not expect France to halt the
delivery of Mirages to Libya
because the economic inter-
ests at stake outweighed
other considerations. A
statement issued there Tues-
day said that at his meeting
with the French ambassa-
dor Sunday, Eban "recalled
the solemn obligations pro-
ferred by the French govern-
ment according to which any
transfer would lead to a dis-
continuation of supplies and
spare parts to Libya.
Eban was said to have re-
called former French Prem-
ier Jacques Chaban Delmas'
statement in 1970 that "If it
becomes apparent that the
destination of these planes is
changed — and we would
know about that soon enough
—we shall embargo those
planes still undelivered."
Eban also quoted former
French- Foreign Minister
Maurice Schumann, who told
him when they met in New
York last October that "If
the military link between
Libya and Egypt facilitates
the transfer of arms from
Libya to Egypt, we shall
cease supplying Libya and
prevent even the supply of
spare parts."
Were France to acquiesce
in the transfer, it would be
indirectly violating its own
arms embargo on all belli-
gerents of the 1967 Six-Day
War. While France does not
regard Libya as a belligerent
it does regard Egypt as one.
The Israeli statement said
that Eban "stressed that in
addition to the influence of
these transfers on the bal-
ance of power, the central
issue under discussion was
the binding weight of inter-
national obligations."
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Trade Amendment AIPAC Topic
WASHINGTON—The Jack-
son-Mills-Vanik amendment
to the pending trade bill will
be a major topic of the 14th
annual Policy Conference of
the American Israel Public
Affairs Committee here May
7-8, when AIPAC delegates
will discuss the amendment
with their congressmen.
More than 200 congressmen
have accepted invitations to
meet with delegates at con-
ference functions honoring
Israel's Ambassador Simha
Dinitz and celebrating Is-
r a e l's 25th anniversary.
House Floor Leaders Thomas
P. O'Neill and Gerald R.
Ford will address the May 8
luncheon honoring Ambassa-
dor Dinitz.
The May 7 anniversary
celebration, sponsored joint-
ly by AIPAC and the Jewish
Community Council of Great-
er Washington, will feature
Ambassador Dinitz, Assist-
ant Secretary of State Joseph
J. Sisco, and Walworth Bar-
bour, recently-retired U.S.
Ambassador to Israel.
On May 7, three experts
on the Soviet Union will par-
ticipate in a symposium on
Soviet Jewry and U.S.-Soviet
trade. They include Dr. Wil-
liam Korey, director of Bnai
Brith's United Nations office,
Prof. Marshall I. Goldman,
chairman of the eeconomics
department at Wellesley Col-
lege, and Prof. Joseph S. Ber-
liner of the economics de-
partment at Brandeis Uni-
versary.
A dramatization of Dos-
toyevsky's "Crime and Pun-
ishment" had its premiere,
in Hebrew at the Cameri
Theater in Tel Aviv and at
the Municipal Theater in
Haifa.
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