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Confidence Marks Commencement
of Independent Israel's 28th Year
Senator Challenges
U.S. Mideast Policy
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Sen. Henry M. Jackson
(D-Wash.) severely criticized Secretary of State
Henry A. Kissinger's Middle East diplomacy here
Monday, saying that "negotiated settlements that do
not include movements toward a genuine peace are
certain to fail . . . without starting the process of pol-
itical accommodation, cease-fires and disengage-
ments that alter only the military situation can not
lead to lasting peace." But Sen. Jacob K. Javits, (R-
NY) speaking at the same forum, said Kissing -r's
step-by-step efforts" should be continued because
they are in the best interests of all parties concerned"
and claimed that the differences between Egypt and
Israel have "already been significantly narrowed."
The divergent views on Secretary Kissinger's
methods were expressed by the two senators who
addressed the 16th annual policy conference dinner
meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs
Committee (AIPAC) at the Shoreham Hotel. An-
other speaker was Israel's former Foreign Minis-
ter Abba Eban.
Sen. Jackson, an announced candidate for his
party's 1976 presidential nomination and a long-time
critic of Kissinger's diplomacy in the Middle East and
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Israel's New `Kfir'
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Defense Minister Shimon Peres told Israelis on the eve of Independence Day that
their armed forces were in better shape than ever; disclosed that Israel has offered, through the Interna-
tional Red Cross, a mutual agreement with its Arab neighbors not to strike at civilian centers in the event of
another Mideast war; and declared that Israel must stand firm against pressure from the United States,
without forgetting "that it was America that helped us thus far."
Peres made those points in interviews published Tuesday in Israel's two largest dailies—Yediot Ach-
ront and Maariv—in their Independence Day supplements. He said that the Israeli Army has not only
restored itself since the Yom Kippur War but is very different and much improved over what it had been. He
said that the young men coming into the Army today are "the best the state has ever known. The command
is younger and we have more formations than we ever had." He said the lessons of the Yom Kippur War
have been studied carefully and, he hoped, all the shortcomings have been remedied.
He acknowledged that Israeli cities were within range of the Soviet-made "Scud" missiles in the posses-
sion of Syria and Egypt. But, he said, there is almost no harm that they can inflict on Israel without Israel
being able to retaliate many-fold. He said the Red Cross was aware that Israel is ready to undertake an
agreement, on a mutual basis, to refrain from hitting
civilian centers.
He said with reference to the U.S. that Israel
must continue to promote friendship and explain
its position and not be dragged into fruitless dis-
cussions or pursue personal recriminations. He
NEW YORK (JTA) — Marching under the ban- said Israel must be prepared for increasing tension
ners of organizations, lodges, schools and synagogues, in the region, up to the brink of war which may
an estimated 200,000 Jews and non-Jews streamed occur on all three fronts. He said that after May or
down Fifth Avenue Sunday in a demonstration of so- June, "We may offer the Egyptians one of the two
lidarity with Soviet Jewry. The march, organized by possibilities — either we go back to the Kissinger-
the Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry, style negotiations or go to Geneva where the solu-
culminated at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza across from tion for a final settlement is to be sought."
Peres disclosed in his interviews that about 30
the United Nations, which was soon filled to its 80,000
percent
of the equipment and weaponry used by the
persons capacity, causing spectators and marchers to
Israeli
army
is manufactured locally.
spill into adjacent streets.
Peres
said
Israel was prepared to produce 50 per-
The crowd was the largest ever for a "Solidarity
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Massive U. S. Rallies
Support Soviet Jews
Israeli Jet Displayed
JERUSALEM — Israel unveiled her own super-
sonic jet fighter on the eve of Independence Day, and
it is reputed to be the equal of the French Mirage and
Soviet Mig-21. The Kfir (lion cub) uses a modified Mi-
rage design with the faster General Electric engine
used in the U.S. F-4 Phantom, and was designed and
built in Israel.
Military experts say the Kfir is not quite as fast
or maneuverable as the new Mig-23 which is being
supplied to Egypt, Syria and Iraq, but Defense Minis-
ter Shimon Peres said the plane is among the best in
the world, and at $4 million apiece, among the
cheapest.
An earlier version of the Kfir was used success-
fully by Israel during the Yom Kippur War, and the
new model is expected to lessen Israel's dependence
on the U.S. for military aircraft.