1111111111111111111N Editorials from the New York Times Summarize Injustice of the UN PLO The following editorials ap- estinian leader Yassir Arafat ese spokesman declared that , peared in the New York Times on Nov. 23 and Nov. 25. CAUSE QF TERROR Conning a majority of the United Nations into a grant of national respectability was relatively easy—and rela- tively meaningless. 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The latest hijacking of a British airliner by three dis- sident Palestinian gunmen, the cold-blooded murder of a West German banker whose only crime was to have been on tht plane, these are acts of insane cruelty which further degrade the whole Palestinian movement. Condemnation of this deed by the Palestine Liberation Organization and the appar- ent reluctance of Arab gov- ernments to give succor to the airborne gangsters was the least that could have been expected from civilized men; if only they had so -re- acted long ago. The PLO and Arab leaders cannot shed all their respon- sibility for a long series of terroristic outrages by belat- ed expressions of dismay. It was Mr. Arafat himself who stood before the United Na- tions General Assembly less than two weeks ago to give justification to warped minds intent upon criminal. designs. "Whoever stands by a just cause . . . cannot possibly be called terrorist," he said. Now he and the Arab re- gimes that cheer for him have seen how this inhuman doctrine can be used against their own political interests. * * * PLO vs. UNESCO In the name of "culture," the Arab bloc and its obe- dient Communist and African allies have succeeded in pol- iticizing the heretofore non- political United Nations Edu- cational, Scientific and Cul- tural Organization by ban- ning Israel participation and cutting off the modest aid received for its museums, li- braries and restorations — a sum, incidentally, that amounts to about one-eighth of Israel's own contribution to UNESCO. This shameful act, con- demned by the United States, Canada and most of the Western Kuropean and La- tin-American nations, in ef- fect-makes the Palestine Lib- eration Organization the cen- sor of UNESCO's activities. Archeologists from`- Israel and other countries have been uncovering the debris of the centuries that has ac- cumulated around the south- western edge of Jerusalem's Western . Wall to reveal the history and artifacts of the ancient city of Herod, with- out however touching - any of the buildings or monuments belonging to any religious group. Despite the recognized in- ternational nature of Israel's and UNESCO's activities, the PLO forced the general con- ference in Paris to withhold aid because the "historical features" of Jerusalem have supposedly been altered. The politicized bloc went beyond this—revealing that its aim was not preservation at all— by excluding Israel from the European or any other of the regional groups. Its Leban- Israel is "a state that be- longs nowhere." When UNESCO took the initiative of organizing inter- national action to safeguard ancient- Egyptian monuments in Nubia at the request of the United Arab Republic and the Republic of Sudan, the nations, of the world helped preserve these ar- cheological treasures. Millions of dollars were contributed by Western coun- tries, without considering these monuments part of any political bloc or geographical region. UNESCO, like other spe- cialized UN agencies, has up to now been above the bat- tles in the General Assem- bly. The PLO would tear it all down and, with it, the work of educators and scien- tists who have cooperated across the curtains of the world. Not one historical ex- cavation but UNESCO itself will collapse in ruins if the PLO dominates the past— and the U.N.'s future. . * * INVITATION TO DISASTER. Twenty-seven years ago this month, after exhaustive- ly examining all possible remedies for resolving an in- creasingly bloody conflict be- tween Arabs and Jews in Palestine, a special commit- tee of the United Nations recommended that the dis- puted territory be partitioned into separate independent Arab and Jewish states as the only practical solution. The General Assembly adopted that recommenda- tion by a vote of 33 to 13, with 'both the United States and the Soviet Union voting in the affirmative. The foun- ders of Israel promptly ac- cepted this pragmatic com- promise. The Arabs did not. Although both sides have been guilty of grave provo- cations, the Arabs' refusal to accept the United Nations peace plan, to recognize the right of Israel to coexist in peace as a sovereign state beside her Arab neighbors, has remained at the root of a generation of bloodshed and war in the Middle East. , The first real hope for peace in the area emerged only after last fall's trauma- tic fourth Arab-Israeli con- flict, when some Arab states, notably Egypt, indicated they were , prepared to negotiate a settlement which would recognize the reality and the rights of Israel. This monumental break-I through has now been disas- trously undermined by the irresponsible action of the General Assembly in adopt- ing an •Arab-sponsored reso- lution on Palestine that would, in effect, turn the clock back to 1947. The problem does not lie in the resolution's reaffirma- tion of the Palestinian right to independence and sover- eignty nor in its recognition of the right of the Palestinian peoPle to be represented at peace talks. These rights have always existed, al- though they have often been neglected by other parties to the digpute, including the Arab states. The tragic difficulty lies in the Assembly majority's fail- ure to insist on the concur- rent rights of the state of Israel, and in the Assembly's blind acceptance of a defi- nition of Palestinian rights laid down by a self-anointed leadership—the Palestine Lib- aration Organization—which continues to reject the UN's own partition principle, i.e., Israel's right to exist. This incredible surrender to a group which has stooped —and continues to stoop— to unspeakable acts of ter- rorism to advance its ex- treme demands is an invita- tion to more bloodshed, an- other Middle East war and potential disaster for man- kind. Fortunately for mankind, but not for the United Na- tions, General Assembly res- olutions carry little weight in the real world any more. The kind of mindless bloc- voting that gave the Arabs their "triumphs" this week at Turtle Bay and in parallel anti-Israeli actions at a UNESCO conference in• Paris has all but eliminated the world organization as a seri- ous force for good. or evil. The more significant de- velopment here this week was the unanimity with which the United States, the nations of the European Common Market, and to a lesser ex- tent even the hypocritical members of the Soviet bloc spoke, up in debate for the right of Israel to live in peace and security behind recog- nized borders. . That is the real message that the heady representa- tives of the Palestinians should carry with them back to the Middle East. If they 16—Friday, Nov. 29, 1974 would heed it, there might yet be some hope for a set- tlement that would offer jus- tice to all parties, including the Palestinian people. THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS • Rich &Rare moments with CANAD IAN R&R Imported from Canada's Oldest Distiller $5 3 1 the Filth All men were TA created ts 42 *guides. come to g olt°1\T' s 41 Sol, short men's sizes 485 S.Adams•Adams Square•Birmingham 642-3‘76 open 1G to 9 Monday thru Saturday