THE' DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Blasting Israel for Breakdown of Peace Talks Is Unfair: Begin WASHINGTON (JTA) — Menahem Begin, leader of the Likud opposition, said here that President Ford is a "great friend" of Israel, but claimed that to blame Israel for the breakdown of Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger's efforts to achieve a second-stage Sinai agreement was an "abso- lutely unfair judgment" and a "gross injustice." Begin was questioned by a panel of journalists on the NBC- TV "Meet the Press' pro- -gram. the people "who call them- selves Palestinians" are part. He said no injustice would be perpetrated if one percent of the Arab people lived under the sovereignty of the Jewish state. He said Arabs living in Is- raeli territory were entitled to social and cultural auton- omy and the right to opt for Israeli citizenship or retain their previous citizenship. But he stressed his position that the land from the Medi- terranean to the Jordan River belonged by historic right "to all of the Jewish people" and that no other state can be interposed be- tween those boundaries. Begin denounced as "sacrilege" any equation of the Palestine Liberation Organization with the un- derground Irgun that he headed during the era of the British Mandate in Pa- Peace Options Open—Rabin JERUSALEM (JTA) — Premier Yitzhak Rabin said that the offers and options Israel made to Egypt during the recent peace negotia- tions remain opeh. He also expressed confid- erice that Israel would suc- teed in explaining its posi- tion to the U.S. in a manner that would elicit the support of a majority of the Ameri- can public. 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He said he was-not con- cerned by reported neo-iso- lationism in the U.S. and said that whatever the reap- praisal by the Ford Admin- istration of its Mideast pol- icy, he was certain that Israel would continue to re- ceive American support and military supplies while the Soviets arm the Arabs. He warned that a cut-off of • American military supplies to Israel could result in a miscalculation by the Arabs and lead to a new war. In that event, he predicted the Arabs _would suffer a stun- ning defeat. 'Friday, ')%"pril 1 I,.1.975 IS UJA Emergency Mission Slated NEW YORK (JTA) — The United Jewish. Appeal's gen- eral chairman, Frank R. Lautenberg, and its execu- tive vice chairman, Irving Bernstein, left here for an emergency fact-finding mis- sion to Jerusalem to assess with Jewish Agency Execu- tive chairman Pinhas Sapir and other Israeli leaders how the American Jewish community should respond in the coming weeks to hu- man needs in Israel. 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