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Tekoah Answers PLO at UN Debate
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flika, the foreign minister of the Jewish people and pro .-
Tekoah continued, "It is Algeria, "to dramatize the fessed respect for their faith.
therefore false to allege that appearance of Arafat and pre-
Since its inception, he said
the Palestinian people have vent Israel from presenting the Palestinian revolution
been depdived of a state of its cause."
was not motivated by racial
its own, or that it has been
Following the speech by or religious factors. But, he
uprooted from its national Arafat, who spoke for over an claimed, "There is within the
homeland. Most Palistinians hour, the General Assembly Zionist entity a built-in racism
continue to live in Palestine. adjourned until 3:30 p.m.
against Oriental Jews."
Most Palestinians continue to
The result, observers noted,
He said the small number
\live in a Palestinian state. was that Arafat's address re-
The vast majority of Pales- ceived virtually exclusive at- of Palestinian Arabs who
tinian Arabs are citizens of tention by the news media were not uprooted in • 1948
were at present regugees
that Palestinian .state."
Wednesday.
their own land. He claimed
The envoy said that if some
Arafat, who entered the that Israeli law treated them
problems of the national General Assembly wearing a as second class citizens and
identity of the Palestinians blue and white Arab head- subjected them to all forms -
required solutions, they could dress, received tremendous of racial discrimination after
be dealt with in the context ovations before and after he the confiscation of their land
of negotiations between Israel spoke and was interrupted and property.
and "the Palestinian state of frequently by applause during
"The record of Israeli
Jordan."
his address.
rulers is replete with acts of
Tegoah charged that the
He was escorted to and terror perpetrated on those
initiators of the Palestinian from the podium by the UN of our people who remained
dabate were not interested in Chief of Protocol Sinan Korle, under occupation in Sinai and
the realization of the rights of Turkey, an honor normally the Golan Heights," he'said.
of the Palestinians "but with reserved for visiting heads of
He scorned charges of ter-
the annulment of the rights state or government.
rorism against the PLO.
of the Jewish People."
broadly, the PLO "Those who call us terrorists
Quoting various spokesmen a Grinning
n d El Fatah chieftain wish to prevent world public
and statements by the PLO, Clasped his hands over his opinion from discovering the
Tekoah said that the ultimate head to acknowledge the truth about us and from see-
objective of the PLO was the cheers as he mounted the ing the justice of our faces,"
he said._
destruction of Israel and its rostrum. -
replacement by an Arab
He appealed to the world
Arafat's speech, delivered organization "to enable our
state.
Referring to Yassir Arafat, in -Arabic, was uncompromis- people to establish national,
the envoy said "Arafat, ing, unconciliatory and with- independent sovereignty over
today, prefers t h e Nazi out any indication of modera- their own land." He added,
method. The Nazi killed mil- tion in the PLO's aims. Ara- "I have come bearing an
lions of Jews in death camps fat spelled out that his organi- olive branch and a freedom
. . . Arafat kills Jewish chil- zation seeks what he repeat- fighter's gun. Do not let the
dren and seeks to strangle the edly described as a democra- olive branch fall from my
Jewish state under the slogan tic, secular Palestine state to hand."
American officials respond-.
of. creating a _democratic replace the state of Israel.
He said he was seeking UN "ed with "no comment" when
Palestine."
Tekoah also said that the and world support for that asked their reaction to Ara-
choice before the General aim. He repeatedly stressed fat's speech. It was learned
Assembly is between "under- -the "legitimacy" of the PLO however that members of the
standing and continued. con- as the representative and U.S. delegation• had reserva-
spokesman of the Palestinian tions about the extravagant
flict in the Middle East."
"The question is," he said, _people. He portrayed the showmanship that surrounded
"should there be peace be- PLO as a revolutionary or- the PLO leaders appearance
tween Israel and its eastern- ganization and spoke of its here.
neighbor or should an attempt members as "martyrs." He
U.S. Ambassador John Scali
be made to establish 'a-PLO said 30•,000 of them had given -did not attend a reception for
base to the east of Israel their lives to the cause of re- Arafat at the Egyptian mis-
from whith the terorist cam-- storing their homeland and sion Wednesday.
paign against the Jewish observed that this was the.
A prayer assembly • of at
state's existence :could be equivalent of 6,000,000 least 100 rabbis was held op-
Americans.
-
pursued?"
posite the United Nations
Arafat was bitter in his de- Wedneiday, as General As-
Tekoah s'aid• that the mur
ders of ISraeli athletes in nudation of Israel and Zion- sembly debate- on the Pales-
Munich and children in-- _ism. He branded -Israel • a tine question got under way.
Ma'alot have no plaee in in- racist and exclusivist state The rabbis called on the UN
ternational diplomatic efforts. but denied animosity toward "not to- foment war and pro-
He warn that the reso-
lution that wo.ild - respond to
the PLO demands would 'en-
courage the extremists -in the
Arab ._w_o r 1 d who reject a
peaceful settlement with Is-
rael and call for continued
war against it."
--- concluded his address
Fie
with a ,statement that Israel
is ready to take the road of
peace but he warned that if
the Arabs "espouse continued
hostility and aggression, the
Arab state will find Israel
equally ready."
Israel- boycotted the open-
ing of the debate in the Gen-
eral Assembly. A spokesman
for the Israeli -delegation ex-
pressed outrage over the post-
ponement of Arafat's speech
from 10:30 a.m. to noon Wed-
nesday.
He said the 90-minute delay
was a deliberate attempt by
the 'president of the General
Assembly, Abdelaziz Boute-
vide rostrum to murderers
but to establish peace and
encourage those who seek to
establish a just society."
Rabbi Sol Roth said the
rabbis h a d gathered "in
solemn prayer to protest the
UN_ invitation to Yassir Ara-
fat, the cold-blooded leader of
assassins and terrorists. of
the PLO." Arafat arrived at
Kennedy Airport and went tb
the UN headquarters by heli-
copter.
Bnai Brith scheduled rallies
Wednesday and Thursday at
the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in
mid-Manhattan where mem-
bers of the PLO delegation
are being housed - under maxi-
mum security restrictions.
The hotel is a virtual fort-
ress. An estimated 1,000
police deployed from various
precincts in the city, plain-
clothesmen, FBI agents, spe-
cial security forces and police
sharpshooters are stationed in
and around the hotel.
Meanwhile, Russell Kelner;
who described - himself as-
chief of operations of the
Jewish. Defense League, was
being held under $100,000 bail
after his arrest Tuesday by
FBI ' agents after he an-
nounced at a press confer-
ence that "we plan to assassi-
nate" Arafat. -_
A hearing has been set for
WM on Nov. 22 on a charge
of violating a Federal law
that any person transmitting
in interstate commerce a
threat to injure anyone is sub-
ject to five years' impreson-
ment and a $1,000 fine.
The FBI filed an affidavit
that Kelner had first made
his threat to assassinate the
PLO head in an interview on
station WPIX "in interstate
commerce" Monday night.
In a related development,
Channel 13, a public service
television station, said it had
hired security officers for
both its studio and its offices
after telephone threats
prompted by plans to televise
live Arafat's assembly
speech.
A station spokesman said
that, in addition to telephoned
threats, the station was boni-
barded with protests from
members of Jewish organiza-
tions. He said many threat-
ened to withdraw financial
support from the station if it
did not cancel plans to tele-
vise the speech.
The station said it would
present Arafat's speech in a
"balanced context" and that
it planned to cover live the
reply to Arafat by Tekoah.
The station also scheduled an
interview, in advance of Ara-
fat's speech, with Abba Eben,
Israel's f or m e r foreign
minister.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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