Israel Will Resist Pressures to Bend on Secure Borders, Golda Says
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
14—Friday, Nov. 16, 1973
have been held but were post-
poned because of the war.
He said another reason for
the government to resign was
the talk about a peace con-
ference with the Arabs.
"Munich was also called a
peace conference. If some-
body wants to give our peo-
ple a political LSD, he should
remember the awakening
might be very bitter."
He said the real issue of
the inquiry into the Yom;
Kippur War was not wheth-
er not Israel should have
launched a preventive strike
but "why between Rosh
Hashana and Yom Kippur
you did not mobilize the re-
serve force and did not
bring nearer to the front the
tools of war?" Begin re-
peated that question three
times. He accused Mrs. Meir
of withholding information
about enemy troop concen-
trations from the cabinet and
the Knesset Foreign Affairs
and Security Committee.
Mrs. Meir said Tuesday
night she authorized mobili-
zation of the reservists less
than 10 minutes after the
matter was brought to her.
This statement caused an
uproar from opposition seats.
Shmuel Tamir of the Free
Center called cynically:: "Is
that an answer? You mean
they disobeyed your orders?
(by mobilizing late).
Begin added: "You author-
ized mobilization on Yom Kip-
pur at 4 o'clock in the morn-
ing. A tragic delay — you
know that. Where were the
reservists before that?"
The general argument be-
tween coalition and opposi-
tion seats continued, until Fi-
nance Minister Pinhas S'apir
yelled "shut up" and "sit
quietly" toward Tamir, with
Mrs. Meir exchanging "shut
ups" with Uri Avneri (Haoa-
lam Hazeh).
After the house returned
to quiet, Mrs. Meir rejected
Gahal's opposition to the six-
point cease-fire agreement.
She said one of Israel's main
considerations in signing the
agreement was the quick re-
turn of Israeli POWs. We
will not deliver one gram of
food to the town of Suez and
the 3rd Army, unless we
receive our prisoners," she
said.
Another consideiation was
the American stand. "There
may be brave people who say
the Russians did not threat-
en us but the U.S. did. There
is only one thing that pre-
vented the Russians from to be headed by the presi- I It was thought that a body
coming here — and that's I dent of the Supreme Court, of five personalities should
what the American President Dr. Shimon Agranat.
I (Continued on Page 15)
did."
However, Mrs. Meir said
she also "did not like" Kis-
singer's statement in Peking
about guarantees to Israel.
"We shall have to clear the
matter up, she said.
Labor Party circles are dis-
cussing the form of investiga-
tion into the war and what
preceded it. The prevailing
feeling is that it is not the
government that should con-
duct the investigation but
rather an independent body
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By GIL SEDAN, JTA
Jerusalem Correspondent
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Pre-
mier Golda Meir served no-
tice on the world this week
that Israel will never return
to its old boundaries. "We
learned many things from the
Yom Kippur War, but one
thing we did not learn was
that we had to return to the
June 4, 1967, lines which in-
vite our neighbors to ag-
gression," she declared in a
political statement opening a
special session of the Knes-
set.
"Mistaken is he who thinks
postwar Israel will be weak-
ened and frightened," Mrs.
Meir said. "Postwar Israel
will be just as peace-seeking
as yesterday and ready for
the battle to defend her
rights and destiny even more
than yesterday."
Her vigorous defense of
Israel's position on the cru-
cial: issue of secure boun-
daries was made only hours
after U.S. Secretary of State
Henry A. Kissinger indicated
in Peking that Israel would
have to make substantial
withdrawals and said the
U.S. was considering a mu-
tual security treaty with
Israel as one of the possible
way of guaranteeing its bor-
ders once a formal Middle
East peace settlement is
achieved.
Kissinger made his re
marks in an interview in the
Chinese capital taped for
television broadcast by the
three major American net-
works.
Although Premier Meir
and other Israeli leaders
have stated repeatedly in the
past that there can be no
withdrawal to the pre-Six
Day War boundaries, Mrs.
Meir's uncompromising re-
iteration of that position
Wednesday was seen to be
directed
against possible
U.S. and other pressure on
Israel for serious conces-
sions, but her vehement
stand did not prevent Likud
opposition leader Menahem
Begin from making his bit-
terest attack on the premier
to date during the debate
that followed Mrs. Meir's
statement.
Demanding the immediate
resignation of Mrs. Meir and
her government, Begin ac-
cused the government of
allowing other parties "to
make decisions for us." He
quoted Kissinger's Peking
remarks about treaty guar-
antees as proof that with-
drawal by Israel would en-
danger the national security.
Mrs. Meir promised that
the government would con-
duct a vigorous inquiry into
the Yom Kippur War. "The
people can be assured that
any mistakes by whoever
and whatever rank he holds
will be examined without
partiality," she said.
Begin, the first speaker to
follow Mrs. Meir, waved a
finger toward the cabinet
table and declared "Mrs.
Prime Minister, tomorrow
you shall go to the president
and - will submit to him your
resignation. This is your duty
to this people." Begin claim-
ed that Mrs. Meir's govern-
ment does not have the au-
thority to sign agreements
that will determine Israel's
future because its terms of
office and mandate ended
Oct. 30 when the national
elections were supposed to
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