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ZOA Senses Drive by Arabists to Get Nixon to Accept Arab Appeasement
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NEW YORK — A "deliber-
ate campaign has been un-
leashed by certain pro-Arab
elements in official circles
here and abroad to move the
Nixon administration as a
whole, and especially Presi-
dent Richard M. Nixon and
Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger, into accepting a
policy of Arab appeasement,"
it was charged by Dr. Joseph
P. Sternstein, president of
the Zionist Organization of
America, in a statement to
ZOA leaders and members.
".What appears to be an
,nestrated attempt to bring
Wout recognition of the Arab
terrorist organizations as a
legitimate and independent
factor in the Middle East con-
flict promoted me to call
upon our regional officers to
undertake a campaign to
counteract this maneuver
threatening to Israel and
Zionism," Dr. Sternstein said.
He asserted that "the
American, world and even
the Israeli press have been
suddenly full of reports about
the importance of the 'right.
ful grievances of the Pales-
tinians' and the need for Is-
rael to come to terms with
them. Israel is urged to
agree to the participation of
an Arafat delegation at the
Geneva Conference. There
are also persistent calls for
the establishment of a 'Pal-
estinian State' on the West
Bank of the Jordan and the
Gaza Strip."
The ZOA president added
that "our apprehensions about
what's going on behind the
stage are fortified by Israeli
press reports. Articles, edi-
torials and even statements
by high officials echo the
calls of foreign advocates for
dealing with the Palestinians
and promote the idea of fur-
ther retreat by Israel and
the formation of a Palestin-
ian state."
He continued: "It became
clear to us that these voices
of despair emanate from a
fear of losing American sup-
port. It is further clear to us
that these apprehensions grow
out of talks Israel had with
American diplomats who ad-
vised Israel that it must com-
promise with the Arabs 'even
if it hurts'."
The ZOA also placed a
half-page ad in the New York
Times declaring that "mur-
derers must not be appeased
— there must be no further
surrender of Jewish patri-
mony."
The ad, an "open letter"
to President Nixon, was
signed by Dr. Sternstein and
Samuel H. Wang, chairman
Israel Sounds Warnings of Syrian War Preparations
JERUSALEM (JTA) — De-
- fense Minister Shimon Peres
told the Knesset Tuesday that
Syria had received almost
as much military hardware
from the Soviets in the ten
months since the Yam Kip-
pur Was as' in the six years
between 1967 and 1973. Dur-
ing those six years the Rus-
sians had sent into Syria $2.5
billion worth of arms and
since Yom Kippur $2 billion
worth.
The arms included the
MIG-21 "Flogger" plane, an
advanced version of the top-
notch Soviet fighter-bomber,
Scud ground-to-ground mis-
siles and large quantities of
heavy artillery, especially
180 milimeter mortars.
The Syrian army had been
engaged in large-scale train-
ing maneuvers while the
bam.ascus politicians were
seeking to woo Jordan into
a revived "Eastern Front"
alliance of aggression against
Israel.
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The. failure to rebuild the
ruined city of Kuneitra re-
flected the aggressive and
militaristic tendencies now
holding sway in Syria, Peres
said.
Syria sought to threaten
Israel and the world that if
the Geneva conference did
not reconvene in the fall,
and did not decide what Syria
wanted it to decide, Syria
would resort to war.
Israel, however, would not
allow itself to be surprised
again, Peres asserted. Zahal
was taking all the requisite
measures. The army — and
especially the regular army
— was on a high level of
preparedness. Weaponry and
vehicles had been restored
to full combat efficiency and
new and varied armaments
had been absorbed into the
army as a result of lessons
learned in October.
lie front line defenses had
. _I and were being streng-
thened and connecting roads
built to facillitate smooth
contact between frontline
units.
Only a strong Israel would
succeed in keeping the peace
option open while at the
same time detering the ene-
my from resorting to force,
or defeating him if he did
so, Peres said.
The minister was replying
to a motion for the agenda
by Likud leader Menahem
Begin who demanded that
the Knesset debate "the poli-
tical and military situation"
before it adjourns for the
summer recess next week.
Begin's motion was struck
off the agenda by 49 coalition
and Rakah and Moked votes
against 35 Likud and the Nat-
ional Religious Party.
The issues of the West
Bank and meetings with Hus-
sein were also raised in two
earlier motions by Likud's
Eitud Olmart and Moked's
Meir Payil, both referring to
the NBC report of a meeting
on May 27 by then Premier
Golda Meir and Defense Min-
ister Moshe Dayan with Hus-
sein.
Replying to these motions,
Premier Yitzhak Rabin said
he would not waste the Knes-
set's time discussin a story
which had been denied (by
Mrs. Meir). The motions
were both struck off the
agenda.
Rabin stressed that his gov-
ernment would miss no
chance of holding open or
secret •meeings with Arab
leaders if the Arabs so de-
sired. The government, he
said, had formulated no plan
yet for a West Bank settle-
ment — but it certainly had
rejected Hussein's proposal
for a Jordan River disen-
gagement ,pullback. "Should
there be other ideas we shall
study them — but we have
heard no others," Rabin said.
If an overall peace agree-
ment could not be reached,
he continued, Israel would
willingly work for partial ar-
rangements, while maintain-
ing the lines on which its
forces were stationed now.
Peres has revealed that
Israeli fighter planes were
sent to intercept Soviet heli-
copters he said sought dur-
ing July to photograph Is-
icaeli navy units. Peres also
said that Egypt and Syria
had violated the disengage-
ment agreements but that
the agreements• were holding
generally. He made the state-
ments Friday in a report to
the Cabinet which were dis-
closed in a communique after
the Cabinet meeting. Cabinet
reports on security matters
are strictly classified.
According to the communi-
que, Peres said the "Ko-
may" helicopters were based
on the Soviet carrier "Len-
ingrad" and had been as-
signed to minesweeping op-
erations in clearing the Suez
Canal for reopening. Peres
said that after the Israeli
planes arrived on the scene
off southwest Sinai, the heli-
copters immediately flew
away. The defense 'minister
said the incidents took place
opposite Ras Misalla in the
Jabal Strait near the south-
ernmost tip of the Sinai
triangle. He said "Israeli air
force planes were sent up to
meet the helicopters, which
withdrew southward," Israel
has submitted a complaint to
the United Nations.
Peres said. Egyptian, units,
some mobile and some in-
fantry, had penetrated the
UN buffer zone in Sinai and
that Egypt was reinstalling
ground-to-air missile bases
in the limited forces zones
at the Suez Canal, but he
said the missiles had not
been armed. He said three of
the missiles were in the Port
Foad area and another near
Kuneitra.
War Games in Desert
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The
Israel Defense Force has
been conducting war games
in the Judean Desert. Echoes
of the "battle" could be
heard in Jerusalem. Defense
Minister Shimon Peres and
Gen. Mordehai •Gur, chief of
staff, Monday watched part
of the exercise which includ-
ed a combined infantry and
armor attack with air force
support.
Defense Minister Peres
complained to the United Na-
tions Observer Force that
Soviet helicopters are violat-
ing Israeli air space - in the
Gulf of Suez region. Accord-
ing to Peres, the helicopters,
based on the Soviet aircraft
"Leningrad," had several
times crossed the cease-fire
line into Israeli airspace.
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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
JNF to Aid Moshay
With Export Crops
"Mr. President," the ad
went on to say, "the remain-
ing 20 per cent of 'Palestine',
the territory lying between
the Mediterranean and the
Jordan River, is all that re-
mains of the ancient Jewish
patrimony. It legitimately
belongs to the people of Is-
rael, in its entirety."
"In October of 1973, Mr.
President," the ad stated,
"you came to the aid of Is-
rael when it was treacher-
ously attacked by Egypt and
Syria. You took this step with
the overwhelming approval
of Congress and the Ameri-
can people. Nevertheless, in
your own words, you 'over-
ruled a lot of people within
the administration' when you
took decisive action.
"Mr. President, we hope
and pray that you will again
act decisively — to overrule
those who urge Israel to ap-
pease murderers irrevocably
committed to her ultimate
destruction — to overrule
those who urge Israel to sur-
render still further parts of
the Jewish patrimony."
JERUSALEM — The Nahal
outpost of Massu'a, in the
lower Jordan Valley recently
became a civilian moshay.
Six hundred dunams (150
acres) for planting out-of-
season vegetables for export
and fruit orchards are being
prepared by the Jewish Na-
tional Fund in addition to 250
dunams of land reclaimed for
housing units.
Canals are being construct-
ed by the JNF east of the
main road leading to Bet
She'an, in order to protect
the settlements fields from
flash floods which occur dur-
ing the winter months and
carry the precious topsoil
away.
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PLO Will Open Moscow Office
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The
Palestine Liberation Organi-
zation (PLO) will open an
office in Moscow, according
to a communique issued in
the Soviet capital at the end
of five days of talks held
there between PLO chief
Yassir Arafat and Soviet of-
ficials.
The communique also re-
portedly called for the PLO
to be represented at the Ge-
neva Mideast peace talks on
the same basis as other par-
ticipants. The communique,
issued today, in effect rec-
ognizes the PLO as the sole
representative of the Pales-
tinians.
Despite this announcement
there was some speculation
here that the USSR's support
of the PLO was more per-
functory than all-embracing
in view of the fact that Ara-
fat was not received either by
the high Communist Party
officials or by Foreign Min-
ister Andrei Gromyko.
According to the Beirut
of ZOA's national public af-
fairs committee.
The ZOA ad called on the
President to "overrule those
who urge Israel to appease
murderers irrevocably com-
mitted to her ultimate des-
truction and to overrule those
who urge Israel to surrender
still further parts of the Jew-
ish patrimony."
States the ad: "The claim
of the Jewish people to the
Holy Land has been univer-
sally recognized throughout
the centuries. The legitimate
Jewish right to Palestine was
internationally sanctioned by
the League of Nations in 1922.
It was again confirmed by
convention between the U.S.
and Great Britain in 1924."
The ZOA ad asserted: "the
Palestinians have a state of
their own in Jordan. The
Palestinian state of Jordan
embraces some 80 per cent
of all the land that was ori-
ginally part of Palestine. The
Arabs of `Palestine' are not
a homeless nation."
based PLO-controlled news
agency, WAFA, the PLO
delegation h a d received
pledges of new Soviet mili-
tary aid. Official reports
from Moscow, however, did
not confirm the WAFA re-
port which noted that Mos-
cow had agreed to supply the
PLO with "defensive wea-
pons," including ground-to-
air missile and anti-armor
weapons.
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