Israel's Triumph Impels Egyptian Call for Cease Fire

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observers said there had not
been such an alert since the
1962 Cuban missile crisis.
The act was "precaution-
ary," said Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger.
In view of the great deal
of 'military activity that was
still going on, observation
posts could not be set up until
both Egypt and Israel ac-
cepted and established cease
fire lines.
Shortly before the time of
the cease fire, General Siilas-
vuo and his aides arrived at
Dayan's office in Tel Aviv to
discuss the arrangements for
posting the observers on the
Egyptian front.
It was no easy problem.
Where are the lines? How
could the observers find the
lines? Dayan had a sugges-
tion: Let the observers be
sent along the axis leading
from Cairo to Ismailya and
from Cairo to Suez until they
encounter the advance forces
of the Israeli army. General
Siilasvuo was informed of
these places by the defense
minister for the purpose of
establishing UN observers
posts there.
By noon, seven crews of
observers—two UN officers
and an Egyptian liaison offi-
cer—left Cairo in the direc-
tions agreed.
Israel has appointed Brig.
Gen. Aharon Avnon to be
senior liaison officer with the
UN truce supervision head-
quarters for matters of the
cease fire.
It was pointed out here
that the quick Egyptian con-
sent to the new cease fire
hours suggested by Dayan
reflects the i m port a n t
changes that took place fol-
lowing the additional day of
fighting which was sparked
by the Egyptians.
At about an hour after the
cease fire went into effect,
there was firing in various
sectors but later reports said
the Egyptians in the western
side of the canal were giving
themselves up to the Israelis.
On the Syrian front, there
was no change in the land
forces' position, though prior
to the Syrian announcement
that it accepted the cease-
fire, Israeli naval units and
the air force delivered a ser-
ious blow to the Syrian oil
network. Naval units set fire
to oil tanks at the port of
Banias, south of the harbor of
Latakiya. Tuesday afternoon
Israeli planes attacked a sub-
terranean oil depot near Da-
mascus. Wednesday all was
quiet along the Syrian front
as well.
Israeli paratroopers and
soldiers of the Golani Bri-
gade captured Syrian-held
positions on Mt. Hermon in
bitter fighting that started
Sunday night and continued
Monday.
One of the positions taken
had been held by Syrian
forces since they launched
their - surprise attack on the
Golan Heights Oct. 6.
A military communique
said paratroops were dropped
on Mt. Hermon during the
night and battled entrenched
Syrian forces with artillery
and air force support.
At dawn Monday, Israeli
forces were clearing Syrians
from bunkers and trenches
in close range battles using
hand grenades.

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The communique said the
Syrians had no escape route
and fought bitterly. Accord-
ing to the Israeli report, four
Syrian helicopters with MIG
escorts attempted to drop re-
enforcements at the Syrian
positions.
Twelve of the MIGs and
all but one of the helicopters
were shot down, the Israeli
report said.
(In B eiru t, diplomatic
sources said six senior
Syrian officers, including a
brigadier general, w ere
court-martialed for ordering
a retreat that eased the
progress of an Israeli
counterattack in the Golan
Heights.
(The general, Rashid Hala-
wai, was executed, accord-
ing to one of two sources
who disclosed the court-
martial. The second source
said the general is still alive.
(Halawai commanded the
central sector in the Golan
Heights when Syria made its
10-mile thrust into the Is-
raeli-held Golan Heights in
the early hours of the Middle
East war.)
Meanwhile, terrorists con-
t i n u e d intensive activity
against northern settlements.
There were no Israeli casual-
ties.
Israeli forces reached the
Gulf of Suez, south of the
town of Suez by Wednesday
morning.
The Israeli forces that were
fighting the Egyptian army
in the southern section of the
Suez Canal (on both sides)
reached the point known as
Ras El Addabiyeh, where
there is a small port, and
thus completed the encircling
of the whole Egyptian third
army commanded by Livah
Abdel Munem Wazel.
This Egyptian army, which
has some 200 tanks and some
20,000 men, was completely
cut off from the remaining
Egyptian forces. It had no
way of getting supplies—in-
cluding water — except sea-
wise.
The present Israel position
on the western bank of the
Suez is of utmost strategic
importance. The Israelis con-
trol now an area which has
oil refineries, though unoper-
ating since the war of attri-
tion), railway lines and June.
tions, power stations and
huge army camps, some of
which are those that were
constructed during World
War II. There are also three
airfields in the area.
The capture of Al Addabi-
yeh means the severence of
the last road link to and from
Suez. The two northward and
westward roads were already
under Israeli control • prior
to the original cease fire time
Monday evening. Now the
third road which leads south-
ward also is in Israeli hands.
Deployed on the Sinai bank of
the Gulf of Suez and now also
on the Egyptian side of the
gulf—there will be but a
narrow sea corridor for the
Egyptians to supply their
force still on the eastern
bank of Suez—in the southern
part of it.
As to the northern force—it
has lost its Ismailya-Cairo
axis but can still supply the
forces via Kantara or other
bridges that still exist.
According to reports, the
Egyptian third army already
was short of supplies, espe-
cially water, and the efforts

Text of Cease Fire Resolution

UNITED NATIONS (JTA) — The joint United
States-Soviet Union resolution on the Middle East
cease fire adopted by the Security Council stated:
The Security Council
1. Calls upon all parties to the present fighting to
cease all firing and terminate all military activity
immediately, no later than 12 hours after the moment
of the adoption, of this decision in the positions they
now occupy;
2. Calls upon the parties concerned to start im-
mediately after the cease fire the implementation of
Security Council Resolution 242 in all of its parts;
3. Decides that immediately and concurrently with
the cease fire, negotiations start between the parties
concerned under appropriate auspices aimed at estab-
lishing a just and durable peace in the Middle East.

of Monday night and Tuesday
morning to break through the
Israeli lines westward may
have been the result of at-
tempting to gain a supply
axis on the eve of the cease
fire. The attempt failed and
brought about the resumption
of hostilities during which the
Israelis succeeded in improv-
ing greatly their position.
Israelis claim to control an
area of well over 1,300 square
kilometers on the west bank
of the canal and to have
cleared this area of scores of
anti-aircraft, SAM missiles,
artillery batteries and mili-
tary installations, enabling
the Israeli air force freedom
of action especially in provid-
ing ground support.
The Egyptians, though con-
trolling two sections of the
east bank of the canal, paid
for it by losing 240 aircraft
and 1,000 tanks, according to
Israeli sources. Their losses
in men amounts to many
thousands, the sources said.
(Besides the tens of thous-

The Casualties

Pentagon figures re-
leased on Wednesday in-
dicated that the Arabs
suffered 16,000 casualties
— killed and wounded —
while Israel's casualties
numbered 4,500, also in
killed and wounded.
The Arabs lost 1,900
tanks and 450 planes, and
the Israeli losses were
800 tanks and armored
vehicles and 120 planes.

ands of casualties sustained
by the Arab forces, Time
magazine listed Israel's killed
and wounded, as of the end of
last week, at 3,900. A note
appended to the figures stat-
ed: "If the U. S. in a war had
suffered losses proportionate
to Israel's, the American
casualty total w o u Id be
247,000."
(In his comments on the
Middle East situation as seen
in the nation's capital, the
head of the Free Press Wash-
ington bureau, James Mc-
Cartney, stated: "To win at
least some sense of victory,
the Arabs did not have to
beat the Israelis on the bat-
tlefield — they only had to
survive."
JTA learned from a reli-
able source that U. S. Secre-
tary of State Henry Kissin-
ger made no deal with the
Soviets beyond the cease-fire
agreement—and he was able
to persuade Premier Golda
Meir and her ministers on
Monday that this was so.
The source, close to the
government, was not pre-
pared to predict what would
happen in the future or to
rule out the possibility of
such deals in the future.
Kissinger held up to Israel
the cease-fire resolution as
an achievement for U. S. di-
plomacy and a concession by
the Russians and therefore_by
their Arab clients. The third
paragraph, speaking of im-
mediate negotiations between
the parties concerned is a
formulation which Israel has
long wanted to see embodied

Kissinger : U.S. Agrees to International
Observer Force, Minus Secuity Council

WASHINGTON — Secretary
of State Henry Kissinger, in
a press conference Thursday
afternoon, said that if the
Security Council _wishes, the
U.S. is prepared to agree to
an international observer
force, providing it doesn't in-
clude representatives of any
permanent member nations of
the Security Council. Besides
the U.S. and USSR, those
countries are China, Japan,
France and Great Britain.
(The UN was scheduled to
vote Thursday on such an
international force).
The U.S. "will support and
give all assistance and sup-
ply some personnel" to the
UN observer force, which
would report to the Security
Council any violations of the
cease fire, Kissinger said.
All member states of the UN,
other than the Security Coun-
cil members, . would be elig-
ible.
He called it "inconceivable"
that the forces of the great
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS powers should be introduced

into the Middle East, and he
said that the U.S. is prepared,
bilaterally and unilaterally,
to lend its diplomatic weight
to the negotiating process, as
enunciated in p ar a gr aph
three of the cease-fire resolu-
tion.
Kissinger stressed that no
confrontation with the USSR
was warranted and that uni-
lateral action by the Soviet
Union was precluded by co-
operative action.
Insisting on a strict inter-
pretation of the cease-fire
resolution, Kissinger said that
the chances for peace were
"promising." The U.S., in its
efforts, has "maintained the
integrity of its allies and re-
duced the chance of war," he
said.
In response to a reporter's
question, Kissinger said the
U.S. had sent "ameliorating
supplies" of food and medical
needs to Egypt's third army,
stranded when Israeli troops
outflanked them.

in an official document
agreed upon by the Arabs.
Of course, paragraph two,
speaking of immediate im-
plementation of 242, was
phrased and inserted by the
Soviets, but in this, too, Kis-
singer was able to argue to
Mrs. Meir that there was an
Ameri c a n achievement:
there was no mention of re-
storing the rights of Pales-
tinians. (242 speaks only of a
just settlement of the refugee
problem — which Israel al-
ways interprets as social and
economic rehabilitation with-
out political overtones.)
The U. S.-Soviet decision
to propose a cease fire rather
than a total standstill as in
1970 is also seen on the whole
as favorable to Israel. A
standstill would have made
it difficult for. Israel to rein-
force and refurbish its forces
on the canal's west bank.
Meanwhile, swift congres-
sional approval of President
Nixon's request for
$2,000,000,000 to pay for the
cost of resupply of weaponry
to Israel was indicated.
The President's message
asked for the supplemental
appropriation to be provided
under the Defense Procure-
ment Act in which, under
terms of the current law
spearheaded by Sen. Henry
M. Jackson (D., Wash.), he
has unlimited authority to
provide assistance to Israel.
The President's message
called for the appropriation
to include grants and loans to
Israel but there was no
breakdown of the amounts
for them, the White House
said.
JTA learned that the
House Rules Committee has
not yet acted on the Mills-
Vanik measure although it
tentatively had been set to
have come for a vote in the
House last week. Delay, it
was said, had been asked by
the Nixon administration in
view of the effects of the
Middle East hostilities on
Soviet-American detente.
U. S. officials said the
United States plans to pro-
vide Israel with military
weapons until the Israeli
government is satisfied it is
adequately armed for its own
defense.
One official noted that the
Israelis, not U. S. officials,
would determine what con-
stituted being "adequately
armed."
Administration sources said
they saw no contradiction
between continued U. S. sup-
plies of equipment to Israel
and American diplomatic ef-
forts on a cease fire.
Israel said earlier that
So v i e t weapons reaching
Egypt and Syria were so
new they have not been sup-
plied to Moscow's Warsaw
Pact allies and exceed in
quality and quantity those
sent to North Vietnam and
India.
The military command said
Israeli forces on both fronts
destroyed $2,500,000,000 in
Soviet-built war machinery.
Resolution Culminates
Hectic Activities at UN
UNITED NATIONS (JTA)
—The Security Council, meet-
ing in emergency session
Sunday night, unanimously
adopted a three-point resolu-
tion sponsored jointly by the
United States and the Soviet
Union.
The resolution was passed

14-0 with China not partici-
pating.
The council's resolution
culminated a weekend of
s w i f t, dramatic develop-
ments in which U. S. Secre-
tary of State Henry A. Kis-
singer flew to Moscow on
Friday at the invitation of
the Kremlin to discuss means
to bring about peace in the
Middle East and flew to
Israel Sunday night, appar-
ently to explain the U. S.-
Soviet agreement to Israeli
leaders.
U. S. Ambassador John
Scali said in the course of
his statement to the Security
Council Sunday night, "IT"
believe that from the tra L
events of the past 17 days
there must be a new resolve,
a new attempt to remove the
fundamental causes that have
brought war to the Middle
East so frequently and so
tragically. Another respite
between two wars is not good
enough. And for our part
both the United States and
the Soviet Union are ready
to make our joint good of-
fices available to the parties
as a means to facilitate the
negotiating process."
Scali also said that the
U. S. and USSR "believe that
there should be an immediate
exchange of prisoners of
war."
Israeli Ambassador Yosef
Tekoah said:, "To the Arab
governments the Egyptian-
Syrian aggression of Oct. 6
has brought failure and dis-
grace.

"To Israel it has confirmed
the correctness of its views
and the reality of its appre-
hensions. It is clear now that,
after having launched war
25 years ago against Israel's
existence, Arab leadership
still aims at Israel's elimina-
tion as a sovereign member
of the family of nations. The
nature, the timing, the ex-
tent of the Yom Kippur ag-
gression leave little room for
doubt."
Tekoah added that the new
war brought nothing but dis-
grace and dishonor "for
those leaders of Egypt and
Syria and their supporters
who have led their states
into more devastation and
sorrow."
A violently anti - Jewish
speech delivered at the meet-
ing of the UN Security Coun-
cil meeting by the Saudi
Arabian delegate, Jamil Ba-
roody, drew a strong protest
from the Anti-Defamation
League of Bnai Brith.
In behalf of ADL, Seymour
Graubard, the national chair-
man, write to UN Council
President Laurence McIntyre
demanding that such pander-
ing "to fear and hate"
declared "out of order" ir„
international assembly.
Elmer L. Winter, president
of the American Jewish Com-
mittee, said that of almost
equal significance with the
cease fire "is the link in the
agreement that ties the cease
fire with movement toward
direct negotiations." He also
noted that "We are mindful
that the most generous U. S.
support of Israel, to counter
unbridled Soviet shipment of
arms and equipment to the
Arab aggressors, was re-
sponsible for getting this
cease fire initiative going.
We are deeply grateful to
the U. S. government for this,
and know that such support
of Israel will be made avail-
able whenever necessary."