Community Mourns
Rabbi Jacob Segal
Commentary, Page 2
Obituary, Page 14
S. A. Barram's
Expose of
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Jew Invents Auto
But None in Industry
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Editorials
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September 19, 1975
U.S., Israel Negotiating Accords
For Updated Military Assistance
NEW YORK (JTA) — Israeli Defense Minister Shimon Peres said Tuesday
that the only movement in the Mideast for the next six months will be the imple-
mentation of the new interim accord between Israel and Egypt and indicated
that no negotiations with Syria are in the offing.
Addressing a New York press conference, Peres said that Israel will not ask
Washington "for anything that has nuclear potential and capability." He also
reiterated that Israel does not have the atomic bomb and that Israel "will not be
the first to introduce nuclear weapons in the Mideast."
Peres met with Secretary of State Kissinger and Secretary of Defense
James Schlesinger in Washington Wednesday and Thursday to discuss Israeli
military needs. After the high level consultations, detailed negotiations will take
place between American and Israeli military officials.
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In Washington, Kissinger affirmed that the U.S. had agreed only to discuss
the supply of long range "Pershing" missiles and F-16 fighters with Israeli offi-
cials but had made no commitment to provide Israel with those advanced weap-
ons. Kissinger indicated however that the Israelis may not have signed their
interim agreement with Egypt in Sinai if they had not, at least, had the prospect
of obtaining "Pershings" and the F-16 fighter plane not expected to be produced
until 1980.
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Should the U.S. provide Israel with the "Pershing" missile, one of the main-
stays of NATO forces for 10 years, it would be the first time America has sup-
plied Israel with a long-range weapon capable of hitting most major Arab cities.
The 460-mile range "Pershing" would be an expensive way to deliver an ordinary
500-pound bomb, according to experts, if it is not equipped with a nuclear war-
head. Wednesday Peres offered the U.S. a non-nuclear warhead pledge in order
to obtain the missiles.
Kissinger said that the U.S. "will seriously encourage a negotiation between
Syria and Israel" because "there can be no stagnation, for the area remains tense
and volatile."
In Jerusalem, Foreign Minister Yigal Allon
told the Knesset Tuesday that the Cabinet "has not
decided to hold interim talks with Syria and has
not authorized anyone to promise that such talks
will be held, just as it has not decided not to hold
such talks". Allon replied to a Likud motion on the
subject of possible future talks with Syria. Likud
had demanded a special Knesset session to con-
sider this subject.
Syrian negotiations were supposedly included
among the secret accords signed by Israel and the
U.S. Kissinger criticized press leaks during the
past week which disclosed some of those subjects,
including that the U.S. had agreed in writing that
it would not recognize or deal with the Palestine
Liberation Organization unless Israel approved.
Some observers
the 16-point U.S. Is-
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TEL AVIV (JTA) — A special border police unit has been dispatched to the
Abu Rodeis oilfields in southwestern Sinai to prevent any interference with the
orderly transfer of the equipment and installations to Egypt.
Premier Yitzhak Rabin said over the weekend that he does not wish a repeti-
tion of Kuneitra, the Golan Heights town evacuated by Israel last year. Although
initially denied by Israel, it was learned that destruction of property occurred in
Kuneitra without the authorization or knowledge of Israeli authorities.
The dispatch of the special unit with strict instructions followed top
level consultations in Jerusalem on means to avoid a repetition of instances
in which unauthorized parties destroyed property that should have been
transferred to Syria under the terms of the 1974 Israeli-Syrian disengage-
ment agreement on the Golan Heights.
The oilfields are expected to be the first area evacuated by Israel under
terms of the interim accord with Egypt signed last month.