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December 03, 1976 - Image 14

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1976-12-03

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' 14 Friday, December 3, 1976

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

PLO's Meetings With Jews Described

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declined to say what
his official position is, but
he said he had interned in
Cleveland and Columbus
hospitals in the '60s. The
State Department advises
he is a member of the
Fatah revolutionary coun-
cil. Sabri Jiryis, a
graduate of Hebrew Uni-
versity and chief of the

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American department o f rael already has 14 to 16
(The State Department
the PLO research office i n atomic bombs. I don't last week ordered Jiryis
Beirut, participated sub - know why they didn't let to leave the country be-
stantially."
Senator
(Abraham)
he gave a false
According to th e Ribicoff (D-Conn.) visit cause
Edelsberg paper, "Bel 1 Dimona. He couldn't tell place of birth in his appli-
cation for a U.S. entry
had told us that the PL 0 the difference between a visa.)
representatives were i n bomb and a coffee pot."
Washington to explor e
Waskow, described as
When Sartawi was in-
the advisability of open - terrupted with the ques- active in left-of-center
ing an office, but Sartawi tion "Are you threatening politics and Jewish affairs,
said vaguely at the end o f another war?" the gave a more hopeful as-
the conversation tha t memorandum continued. sessment of the meeting.
they already had an offic e "Sartawi replied cooly, 'I He said, "If they mean it,
— representative — i n am not threatening any- and if they have the power,
Washington and in othe ✓ , thing. I am analyzing the it was hopeful."
cities, as well as the offic e situation.' "
Israeli Gen. (Ret.)
in New York."
Edelsberg reported he
Sartawai said he and "thought Jiryis nodded in Matityahu Peled, whc
Jiryis "had •come to the agreement" when he, was among four Israeli
United States to seek Edelsberg said, " 'The "doves" who met with
support for the PLOs pre - events in Lebanon con- PLO agents in Paris last
sent peace efforts" the . firmed the general belief month, said in a News-
memorandum continued . that the Arab confronts- week magazine interview
"The PLO, he said, ac - tion states will not go to that the settlements in
cepts the principle of a war for the Palestinians the occupied territories
Jewish state in Palestine and they use the Palestin- were "an ill-advised ad-
alongside a Palestinian ians for their own politi- venture and a sheer
state composed of the cal purposes but they waste, and we should get
West Bank, Gaza, and won't fight for them. So, if rid of them."
some small pieces of land there is another war in
Regarding Jerusalem
now held by Syria and the Middle East, it will
and the Arab claims there
Egypt."
" not be because of the PLO Peled said, "In
When asked why the issue.' Neither of the PLO Jerusalem, the main
PLO doesn't make public representatives disputed
issue is the holy places.
this "official policy" the my statement."
They should be perma-
memorandum said "Sar-
It was pointed out to
nently open to all reli-
tawi replied that the rec- the PLO representatives, gions
and they have a
ognition of Israel was the the memorandum said,
special status.
PLO's trump card, and it that their "general pro-
"The city, as a munici-
would not give it up with- fessions of a desire for
out getting something in pea -ce came at an pal unit, should remain
return. The PLO was pre-. awkward time for the unified . . . But in terms
pared to implement this PLO because the morning of sovereignty, the city
policy at the bargaining newspaper reported the should be divided be-
table. I said recognition of violent anti-Zionist reso- tween West Jerusalem in
Israel was not a trump lutions that came out of Israel and the East
card, it did not even war- the Baghdad conference Jerusalem of the Pales-
rant any Israeli conces- of which the PLO must tinians, who would prob-
ably put up there their
sions," Edelsberg quoted have been the architect.
own capital.
himself in his memoran- Sartawi replied that the
dum.
"It would be something
PLO was not the ar-
new, but we've done new
The real PLO trump chitect of the conference.
things before," he said.
card would be the conduct `but let us be frank,' he
of a future Palestinian en- added. 'When it comes to
tity — would it live in Zionism, we are your
'Speak Southern'
peace or become a re- enemies.' "
Jiryis
took
a
different
vanchist force, first mov-
Now Best Seller
ing against Jordan and line. He said. Baghdad
With a Southerner in
had
not
invited
him
even
then against Israel. Sar-
the White House, the
tawi and Jiryis both made though they know him
South is being
no bones about their pur- and his official position.
popularized
in more than
"If
they
had
invited
me,
pose to take over Jordan,
one
way.
The
language
I
would
not
have
gone,"
Sartawi interrupting to
sends forth many sparks
Edelsberg's memoran-
say "of course, Jordan."
and capturing the imagi-
When the conversation dum quoted him as say-
nation and the realities in
in
g.
centered on the October
a'64-page paperback that
meeting in Paris, the
Sartawi suggested as_ is fast becoming a best
memorandum noted, Sar- the meeting was breaking seller.
tawi said, "The PLO has up that "he had not found
In "How to Speak
no hope that Israeli doves the cooperation he had Southern" (Bantam
can influence their gov- sought in our meeting,"
Books), Steve Mitchell
ernment, the hawks are that "he had had a better imparts the sound and
in full control. His hope is meeting in New York with
the fury of the English
that the American Jewish a Jewish group. He was
spoken in the world of the
community will do it."
sorry if anything he had
President-to-be of the
A suggestion that a said had raised blood United States.
public declaration by the pressures."
Illustrated by award-
PLO would help Israeli
"I looked around the winning cartoonist Sam
doves in their campaign room," the Edelsberg C. Rawls of the Palm
"did not seem to impress memorandum concluded,
Beach (Fla.) Post, the
the Palestinians," "and the only one who book was first published
Edelsberg observed.
seemed to be tense was in October by Palm Beach
"Sartawi made an ex- Sartawi."
Newspapers. Its 2,000-
tended statement about
In an addendum, the
first printing sol( -
the PLO's desire for peace memorandum noted that copy
out in 20 days and gaineG
and the urgent need for Bell repeated sometime
peace, otherwise there after the luncheon that national attention when
NBC-TV personality
will be another war," the he had been told the PLO Gene
reviewed it
memorandum reported. representatives were in- on the Shalit
Show."
It then said Sartawi terested in opening an of- Within "Today
48 hours of the
added, "The next war will fice in Washington and
show, Bantam made an
see the introduction of wanted to explore Jewish agreement with the au-
weapons that neither reactions. It also spoke of thors and put in the
side is prepared for —just a report that Pierre
its next "instant
as in the October war, Is- Mendes-France, who it works
book."
rael was overwhelmed by said arranged the Paris
Following are some
new weapons the Egyp- meeting, was frustrated
from "How to
tians had for which Israel to find that the PLO samples
Speak Southern":
had no defense. Some of doves refused to join in
Shalot:
biggest city
my friends who are Is- any written statement in Nawth The
Calina.
raeli officers have admit- with Israeli doves, even
Flares: The colorful,
ted that to. rile, and the though that had been sweet-smelling
part of a
war after that will proba- agreed to before the plant.
bly- be an atomic war: Is-
Airs: Mistakes.

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