Israel Willing to Negotiate With Jordan on West Bank I

Israel had a "daily dia-
(Continued from Page 1)
But Barley, a former chief logue" with the Palestinians
of staff, said if Israel re- within its borders and in the
turns territory, it must have administered areas — proba-
secure borders. "We are bly more dialogue with them
willing to compromise on the than the PLO had, Rabin
areas, but this does not stressed.
mean we are willing to hand
There were plentiful op-
ourselves and our future portunities for an exchange
security totally over to Arab of views, he said.
good will and international
A political organization
guarantees."
growing up under Israeli rule
Officials here have denied would not be accepted by
a report in Wednesday's the Arabs themselves who
Jerusalem Post claiming that would feel that it was un-
King Hussein is discussing in authentic, the premier ex-
Cairo a new Israeli peace plained to a query on why
proposal recently conveyed political organizations are
to him. The officials said no banned on the West Bank.
proposal was made.
Israel, he said, saw in the
The Post's Arab affairs Geneva conference a frame-
correspondent, Anan Safadi, work foi bilateral negotia-
wrote that the plan was in- tions between Israel and
tended as a more permanent each of the other parties. It
and farther-reaching settle- would not be reasonable to
ment than a mere disengage- expect "any productive and
ment accord. It envisaged positive outcome" from a
the return of a Jordanian plenary session where all
government presence - "to the Arab delegations and the
considerable parts of the Soviets and the media were
West Bank, except for a all assembled together, he
salient stretching east from said.
Jerusalem to the Jordan
The disengagement agree-
River.
"Accordingly, the Jordan- ments, negotiated on the bi-
ians would have access to lateral level, were to be seen
the West Bank's northern as part of the Geneva con-
and southern regions on ference, the direct results of
either side of the Israeli the first plenary session, he
said.
salient," the Post wrote.
Rabin stressed Israel is
(In New York, the maga-
zine Newsweek reported that "ready to negotiate with
PLO leader Yassir Arafat anyone who is ready to
said that he would accept a negotiate with us," but
Palestinian ministate on any added : "We have to find out
land Israel would withdraw which party is ready to talk,
from. "We have now taken and adjust our way of think-
_ ing_ to:the first party which
th e-4esc i sin n
After the war and the dis-
ity on any piece of land from
which the Israelis withdraw, engagements, it had indeed
such as the West Bank and seemed that Egypt was bent
Gaza," the magazine quoted on peace and reconstruction,
Rabin said. But speeches
him as saying.)
Rabin said there was no made in Egypt in recent
possibility of negotiating with weeks "put a question-mark"
the PLO since it "aims at the on this hypothesis, Rabin
destruction of Israel." Nor said, adding he "hoped that
was there any "reason for they still believe in political
Israel to recognize a body means to solve the conflict."
A Washington dispatch in
which I do not believe repre-
sents the Palestinians . . . the Jerusalem Post said that
and carries out activities the U.S. has informed Israel
which Israel will do its very that it has no interest in
best to put an end to," he seeing a separate Palestin-
ian state on the West Bank
said
Once the rule whereby since it would doubtlessly be-
negotiations were to proceed come a Soviet-oriented area
only between states was in a region which the U.S.
broken, there would be "10 wants to remain pro-Western.
Information Minister Yariv
groups" which would seek
had said, in an inter-
representation.
view with the army radio,
that any negotiations on the
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cratic Palestinian republic
would arise from the ruins of
the state of Israel. This plat-
form was reconfirmed by
the Cairo Conference a few
weeks ago.
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nounce the cessation of all
hostile actions against Israel
and indeed terminate them—
then it would be possible to
start negotiating."
Thus, as the more bal-
anced commentators have
pointed out, Yariv's state-
ment was far from revolu-
tionary.
'(In Beirut, the leadership
of the PLO was reported
skeptical over Yariv's state-
ment although there was con-
siderable interest and discus-
sion among the rank-and-file.
Meanwhile Arafat is sched-
uled to lead a PLO delega-
tion to Moscow this week at
the invitation of Soviet Com-
munist Party Secretary
Leonid I. Brezhnev. The
Soviet Union is expected to
recognize the PLO during the
visit as the only legitimate
representative of the Pale-
stinian people.)
While Rabin rejected the
theory that the Palestinian
issue was the key to Mideast
progress — that key, he said,
was in Egypt's hands — the
premier nevertheless recog-
nized that the problem
existed, that the Palestinians
existed, and that they would
have to be taken into account
in any solution.
This itself represented a
notable change of tone in
comparison with former Pre-
mier Golda Meir's uncom-
promisingly negative stand
on this issue.
Rabin is due to lead the
cabinet in a_ •ar-ranginR.:
the Palestinian issue — and
particularly on their possible
representation in the Geneva
conference — in advance of
Foreign Minister Yigal
Allon's visit to Washington
later this month.
Allon will meet with U.S.
Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger July 29, officials
said here. He is expected to
bring to Washington an au-
thoritative new formulation
of Israeli policy on the West
Bank and on the next stage
of the peace conference.
In Washington, high U.S.
State Department sources
disclosed that representa-
tives of the governments of
Egypt, Syria and Jordan
also will meet with Ameri-
can officials in the next six
to eight weeks to discuss
the next phase of a program
toward a Middle East peace
settlement.
The sources said the U.S.
would continue its step-by-
step bilateral contacts, hope-
fully clarifying circum-
stances for the resumption
of the .Geneva talks, possi-
bly some time in September.
An Arab summit session is
scheduled for earlier that
month, the sources noted.
They indicated that a
Jordanian-Israeli "disengage-
ment" possibly will be the
next move and a second pos-

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sibility was between Israel
and Egypt in Sinai. But pro-
gress need not necessary ad-
vance in tandem, the sources
said. They said the U.S.
position would be determined
by the attitudes of the two
sides on each issue.
The sources said each of
six original participants in
the Geneva peace conference
will have the right to veto
the -admission of other parti-
cipants, that the U.S. will
continue to seek to strengthen
its bilateral ties with Israel
and the Arab states and that
the U.S. is advocating re-
straint, "diplomatically and
otherwise" in attempts to
curb terrorist acts in the
Middle East.
The sources adrnftted when
questioned that no high Arab
official has at any time been
heard to say specifically that
Israel will be recognized as
a sovereign Jewish state. But
at the same time, "happily,"
one does not hear with fre-
quency the threat to drive
Israel into . the.. sea,.. the
sources said.
They said Arab recogni-
tion of Israel seemed, how-
ever, to be implicit in the
adherence of certain Arab
states to United Nations reso-
lutions referring to Israel.
The sources said that while
U.S. diplomats have met
with Palestinian representa-
tives on numerous occasions
they have not been high-
level contacts.
Neither Secretary of State
... Henry A. Kissinger, Under-
n o r Assistant secretary
Alfred Atherton has ever
been in contact with Yassir
Arafat, the Palestine Liber-
ation Organization leader,
the sources stressed.
The sources referred to
the departure of Treasury
Secretary William Simon on
a visit to Egypt. Israel, Saudi
Arabia and Kuwait as a
mission to put "meat on the
bones of bilateral coopera-
tion" with those countries
in the economic, scientific
and cultural fields.

The Defense Department
announced that a five-man
U.S. military team is sched-
uled to arrive in Egypt Sun-
day to study the Egyptian
armed forces role in the
Yom Kippur War.

Reports that the team will
survey Egyptian arms needs
have been 'denied by the
Pentagon. But it has ac-
knowledged that Egyptian
officers may use the oppor-
tunity to tell the team what
American weapons they
might want.

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
18 Friday, July 19, 1974

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