Dayan: Canal Reopening Will Be Step Toward Peace

TEL AVIV (JTA) — De-
fense Minister Moshe Dayan
said Tuesday night that he
thought the most opportune
time to pursue a peace set-
tlement with Egypt will come
when the Suez Canal is re-
opened to shipping.
He said the shooting would
end on the Syrian front only
after a disengagement agree-
ment is reached there and
until then Israel must con-
tinue to respond vigorously
to Syrian attacks. He said he
knew of no political pressure
on Israel to limit its re-
sponse.
Dayan made those remarks
at a press conference with
military correspondents here
during which he observed
that both Israel and Syria
have their Yom Kippur arms
losses fully replaced and ex-
pressed the view that Egypt
was complying with the
terms of the Jan. 21 disen-
gagement accord.
Dayan insisted that the
government stands by its de-
rnand that Syria act in com-
pliance with the Geneva Con-
vention on POWs before
Israel will sit down to disen-
gagement talks.
He said the shooting on the
Syrian line was not a "tran-
sient episode" but a deliber-
ate policy of president Hafez
Assad. Israel is dealing with
an extremist nationalist re-
gime intent on proving its
point with deeds. Assad would
have a harder time explain.
ing to his people why he
wasn't shooting than why he
is, Dayan said.
He observed that the Syri-
ans do not consider them-
selves to have been beaten
in the Yom Kippur War. They
entered that war far stronger
than in the 1967 Six-Day War
and despite severe losses-
1,000 tanks, 200 planes, 10
missile batteries and 10,000
casualties—they have since
been fully rearmed by the
Russians and continue to get
volunteers from Iraq, Kuwait,
Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
"They don't feel hopeless.
They don't like the present
lines and the Golan Heights
in Israel's hands, so they
shoot," Dayan said. He said
a firm reply was necessary
"but this alone will not end
the Syrian attacks."
He said he thought Presi-
dent Anwar Sadat of Egypt
was anxious to have Syria
enter into disengagement
negotiations with Israel if
only because he doesn't want
Egypt to be the only Arab
state to have reached such
an accord •
As for future relations with
Egypt, Dayan said he wanted
a certain amount of time to
elapse to see how the disen-
gagement agreement works
out.
If the Egyptians began to
rehabilitate the Canal Zone,
if they demobilize a large
part of their army and em-
bark on a development pro-
gram. "I think it would be a
mistake if we do not try to
continue negotiations in an
attempt to reach final peace
whether in Geneva or else-
where . . . I think the most
opportune moment will come
after shipping operations in
the canal are resumed,"
Dayan said.
The defense minister dis-
closed the extent to which
Israel's armed forces have
been strengthened since the
Yom Kippur War. He said
the air force has had a 5
per cent increase in fighter
planes, 30 per cent more

transports, 3 per cent more
helicopters and 33 per cent
more tank missiles.
On the ground, Israel has
15 per cent more tanks; 85
per cent more armored troop
carriers; 25 per cent more
artillery; and 50 per cent
more ammunition than it had
during the war.
Dayan mentioned the sup-
ply of Soviet Scud missiles
to the Arab states, which he
said increased Israel's de-
pendence on the U.S. for
sophisticated weapons that it
cannot afford to develop at
home.
Diplomatic sources in Cairo
said Egypt and the United
States are expected to re-
sume full diplomatic rela-
tions shortly after the com-
pletion of troop disengage.
ment from the Suez front on
March 5.
The move stems from
Cairo's recognition of the role
Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger played in bringing
about a cease-fire stabiliza-
tion accord following the Oc-
tober Arab-Israeli war and
his engineering of the subse-
quent troop separation agree-
ment, the sources said.
MIA Families Want Halt
to Pullback Until All Missing
Men Are Accounted For
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The
families of soldiers missing
in action demanded Tuesday
that the pullback of Israeli
forces on the Egyptian front
be halted until all missing
soldiers in that sector are
accounted for.
The demand was voiced at
a press conference here by
the parents and relatives of
MIAs, who charged that the
Egyptians were evading the
provisions of the disengage-
ment agreement on the
search for the remains of
missing soldiers.
They claimed that about
370 Israeli soldiers are miss-
ing on the Egyptian front, but
so far only 67 bodies have
been returned by the Egypt-
ians. Once the Israeli with-
drawal from the west bank
of the Suez Canal is com-
pleted and Israeli forces re-
tire to their new lines on the
Gidi and Mitla passes, it will
be impassible to recover the
remaining bodies, the fam-
ilies argued.
They urged the govern-
ment to appoint a special
team of experts to undertake
a thorough search of the area
and to delay the withdrawal
of Israeli forces until the
search is completed.
On Feb. 5. a solemn cere-
mony took place in no-man's
land between the Israeli and
Egyptian forces near Kan-
tara, as 19 coffins containing
remains of Israeli soldiers
were turned over to the army
burial society of the army
chaplaincy, and 27 coffins
containing remains of Egyp-
tian soldiers were given to
the Egyptian authorities.
Previously, the Egyptians
had returned the bodies of
some 30 Israeli soldiers killed
during the battle in the town
of Suez.
Altogether Egypt will re.
turn about 90 bodies of dead
Israeli soldiers in addition to
bodies of six who, the Egyp-
tians claim, were captured
wounded and died in Egyp-
tian hospitals. Israel will re-
turn to the Egyptians 145 of
their soldiers killed in action
in areas under Israeli con-
trol.
Until now only very limited
sections of the area were
opened for such searchers.

Now it is hoped, the Egyp-
tians will allow searchers
deeper inside their lines.
A report from Cairo said
that two Egyptian Jews,
Moshe Aharon Yona and
Menahem Avraham Mori,
two gabayim of Chief Rabbi
Aharon Chadid of Alexandria,
were invited by the Egyptian
authorities to say a prayer—
El Moleh Rahamim—as the
bodies of three Israeli sol-
diers were prepared for trans-
fer to the Israeli authorities.
The two Egyptian Jews were
given great honor — it was
said.
Funeral services were held
at the military cemetery for
Lt. Col. Shmuel Hetz, a Phan-
tom jet pilot shot down over
the Suez Canal July 18, 1970,
whose r e m ai n s were re-
covered by Israeli army
chaplains only a few days
ago at a deserted site near
Ismailia.
Col. Hetz was a victim of
the war of attrition waged by
Egypt until the cease-fire
agreement of August 1970.
His navigator, Menahem
Eini, bailed out of the plane
safely but was taken prisoner
and remained in Egyptian
captivity until the POW ex-
change that followed the
Yom Kippur War.
Eban: USSR Will Seek
to Convince Syria to
Produce POW List
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The
cabinet heard Monday from
Foreign Minister Abba Eban
that the U.S. State Depart-
ment had informed Israel the
Soviet Union would exercise
its influence upon Syria to
persuade it to produce the
POW list and allow Red
Cross visits to the Israeli
prisoners.
In a rare move which
raised eyebrows among ob-
servers here, the cabinet
published this information in
its official communique.
Cabinet Secretary Michael
Arnon said that the ministers
had not discussed any sub-
stantive disengagement ideas
—because the time was not
yet ripe to do so since Syria
had still not complied with
Israel's preconditions.
Arnon referred back to last
week's official statement
denying that any erosion or
softening had taken place in
Israel's position of demand-
ing POW lists and visits be-
fore disengagement talks.
Solutions which seem to
offer some hope of success
center on the idea of a very
small time lag between the
visits of the Red Cross and
the beginning of disengage-
ment talks:-
A few hours or a day at the
most have been suggested as
a suitable time lag to satisfy
Syria's demand that the
POW question be seen as
part of disengagement talks.
Syria has so far not respond-

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ed positively to this idea—
but U.S. Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger is reported-
ly still hopeful.
The Belgian government
has come out in support of
the cause of the Israeli pris-
oners of war in Syria and
indicates it will press the
Syrian government for their
release.
In a letter addressed to the
Coordinating Committee of
Belgian Jewish Organizations
(CCBJO), Foreign Minister
Renaet von Elslande said
that the Belgian government
"shares their anxiety and
will do its utmost to bring
about a change in the atti-
tude of the Syrian govern.
ment."
The Socialist Party has
also assured the committee
of its "total support" in the
POW isue in a letter from
its national president, Jos
van Eynde.
At the same time, the sen-
ate of Bar Ilan University ac-
cused the International Red
Cross of being "an accessory
to the Syrian government" in
its mistreatment of Israeli
prisoners of war in violation
of international law.
The accusation was con-
tained in a strongly worded
cable sent to the president of
the IRC in Geneva with a
copy to United Nations Sec-
retary General Kurt Wald-
heim.
The cable, signed by Bar
Ilan's rector, Prof. M. Z.
Kaddar i, declared: "The
Syrian . authorities _.are in
clear and flagrant violation
of the specific terms of the
Geneva Convention, yet for
months the International Red
Cross did not unequivocally
condemn this behavior.
"When your organization

finally did speak out, it spoke
half-heartedly in m u f fled
tones, condemning the Syrian
outrages against Israeli
POWS equally with Israel's
refusal to permit the return
of Syrian civilians to the war
zone, ignoring violations of
international law."
An advertisement in Mon-
day's edition of the New
York Times, placed by the
Anti-Defamation League of
Bnai Brith, called on the
public to help get the list of
names of 144 Israelis cap-

tured by Syria. A total of
102 are believed alive.
They asked that pressure
be applied by writing the
following:
Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger, Department of
State, 2201 C St., Washington,
D.C. 20520; Ambassador Hais-
san Kelani, Syrian Delega-
tion to the United Nations,
964 Third Ave., New York,
N.Y. 10022; Secretary-Gen-
eral Kurt Waldheim, United
Nations, New York, N.Y.
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