Ben Aharon OKs Corridor Plan to 3rd Army Only if Israeli POWs Traded

NEW YORK (JTA) — and a $5,000,000 goal for the
Yitzhak Ben Aharon, secre- Israel Histadrut Campaign.
tary general of Histadrut,
Ben Aharon, noting the
said here that he did not ob- series of diplomatic breaks
ect to a permanent corridor between African countries
to supply food and water to and Israel, told of the action
the encircled Egyptian 3rd of many graduates of His-
army on the Suez Canal if tadrut's Afro-Asian In4itute
Egypt reciprocated on the
prisoner of war issue, that he
did not believe the Soviet
Union is bent on the destruc-
tion of Israel; and that the
Israeli people have not
turned hawkish as a result
of the latest Middle East war.
Ben Aharon, who heads
Israel's powerful trade union
ganization and is himself
outspoken dove, made his
remarks in an interview with
reporters at the New York
Hilton Hotel.
He is the first leading Is-
raeli figure to comment pub-
licly on the "corridor" plan
which a State Department
spokesman said last week
was "a possible compromise"
to settle outstanding cease-
fire issues.
The Histadrut leader noted
that while the Arabs have
almost a Nazi mentality re-
garding Israel and want a
"final solution." This is not
shared by the Soviet Union,
which, he said, has no desire
to see Israel pushed into the
sea.
Israel, he said, is an im-
portant element in the Soviet
strategy, and if it didn't
exist, the Russians would in-
vent it. He said the USSR
made an "excellent business"
from Israel's existence, con-
sidering the vast sums earned
by the Soviet armaments in-
dustry in supplying the Arab
states with weapons against
Israel.
Ben Aharon said a settle-
ment could be reached if the
U.S. and USSR want to avoid
a new Mideast war. He said
he thought the time was ripe
now for a full inquiry into
the failures that led to Is-
rael being caught by surprise
on Oct. 6.

in Tel Aviv. "These gradu-
ates do not share the views
of their governments vis-a-
vis Israel. We have received
letters of support from many
of them, smuggled out of
their countries to us."
As to the Arabs inside Is-

rael, and those in the Gaza
Strip, the West Bank, and on
the Golan Heights, "there has
not been a single case of
sabotage," he stated.
Israel's labor movement
will not "surrender our so-
cial - ideals" because that

would constitute "surrender
to the Arab countries around
us, it would be the greatest
Arab victory."
In the view of Ben Aharon,
Israel faces a three-fold en-

emy: Soviet imperialism,
Arab oil and "the cowardice
of other countries who fol-
low narrow nationalist in-
terests, 'as in the days of
Munich."

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, November 9, 1973-7

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Ben Ataron called for the
establishment of a "United
States of the Middle East"
in which Israel would play a
"leading moral role" at the
golden jubilee convention of
the National Committee for
Labor Israel.
Dr. Judah J. Shapiro,

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chairman of the Labor Zion-
ist Alliance, was elected
President of the NCLI at the
conclusion of the organiza-
tion's three-day convention.
The convention adopted a
goal of $6,000,000 for the Is-
rael Histadrut Foundation

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1d orphans of Israelis killed
the Yom Kippur War will
be the beneficiaries of Eliza-
beth Taylor's philanthropy
and showmanship. On Satur-
day, she hosted an art auc-
tion here that raised $200,-
000.
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