Dulzin Fights to Be Named as Sapir's Successor
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LEON DULZIN
State Department
Topographic
Testimony:
Israel in Vast
Area of Arab
Possessions
Commentary
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VOL. LXVII, No. 24
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Leon Dulzin, acting chairman
of the executives of the World Zionist Organization and the
Jewish Agency, declared Tuesday that anyone seeking to
succeed the late Pinhas Sapir as chairman "will have to
challenge me."
Dulzin said, in an interview with Maariv, that he had
intended to bid for the posts after Louis Pincus, the chair-
man, died more than two years ago. But, he said, when he
learned Sapir intended to run for the posts, he withdrew
because he felt the WZO needed a chairman prepared to
reject the post of Israeli Prime Minister. Dulzin stressed he
considered the situation exceptional, because it involved Sa-
pir, a comment interpreted to mean that this time, Dulzin
did not intend to withdraw his candidacy.
Dulzin also said that, while he would put stress on
his role as acting chairman of the WZO and the Agency
on aliya, that department would be directed by Rabbi
Mordechai Kirshblum of the Mizrachi, the "associated
chairman" of the immigration department, and Uzi Nar-
kis, immigration department director general.
Dulzin, asked how he would cooperate with the govern-
ment as a member of the opposition Likud, said that for
years, he made a clear distinction between his political
views and the activities of the WZO and the Agency.
But he repeated his objection to the proposals for a sec-
ond interim accord between Egypt and Israel.
He disclosed he had been approached by members of
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Rabin - Peres -Allon Stance
Fortifies U.S. Accord Plan
Israel's cabinet unity, firmness by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Foreign
Minister Yigal Allon and Defense Minister Shimon Peres in support of the revised
American proposals for an accord and agreements on new Sinai demarcations
with Egypt, added assurance for a successful renewed visit in the Middle East by
U. S. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger. The anticipated approval by Israel
of the U. S. plan for an accord was not daunted by the mounting protests which
are admittedly limited to the Likud opposition, other minority parties and some
university students.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Yitihak Navon, chairman of the Knesset foreign affairs
and defense committee, disclosed Tuesday that in the new interim agreement Israel
and Egypt will give an undertaking to the United States that both sides will be
"committed to refrain from the use or threat of force and resolve their differences
through negotiations and other peaceful means." This, he told television viewers, will
be included in a statement in the Israel-Egypt pact.
In addition, Navon said the statement would affirm: "It is agreed that the conflict
between Israel and Egypt will not be solved through military force, but by peaceful
means." The clause referring to the UNEF mandate in Sinai would state: "Both sides
agree to request that the mandate will be renewed, through whatever means, for at
least three years. Within the framework of the agreement negotiated through the U.S.
we know that the United Nations force will not be removed without the consent of
both sides."
Navon, whose disclosures were the most specific description yet by an Israel offi-
cial of the proposed agreement, said that the U.S. would provide Israel with sophisti-
cated arms and alternative oil supplies to compensate for the return of the Abu Rodeis
oilfields to Egypt and would include guarantees of U.S. economic aid to Israel of more
than $2 billion.
Another clause, he disclosed, would specify that
the pact was valid until replaced by a new one. This
clause, Navon said, was inserted at Israel's request. In
addition, the agreement would contain an undertaking
by Israel and Egypt that both sides would continue
diplomatic efforts toward a final peace agreement un-
der the auspices of the Geneva peace conference.
Asked about secret Egyptian pledges to Israel
through the U.S. Navon, who was taking part in a televi-
sion program on Kissinger's visit, said he believed these
would include promises to limit the economic boycott and
propaganda warfare against Israel. There was some indi-
cation that Navon, a leading Labor Party official, made
his disclosure to offset opposition to the Cabinets decision
Sunday to approve Israel's position in the negotiating
process and to provide weight for Premier Yitzhak Ra-
bin's stand on the issue.
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YITZHAK NAVON