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Israel Refutes French Explanation Point-By-Point

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week which expressed.
"dismay" at France's de-
cision to disregard West
German and Israeli de-
tention for extradition
requests.
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taing said Monday that
"France has no lessons to
receive from anyone" and
charged that the interna-
tional protests were part
"of a world-wide orches-
trated campaign of in-
sults and calumnies
against France."
The president, who used
harsh and strong state-
ments, said "France's
foreign policy is not laid
down in the news rooms of
international news media
but is worked out by the
president, the prime
minister and the govern-
ment."
Giscard d'Estaing kept
the Abu Daoud issue to
the end of his press con-
ference and then devoted
only 15 minutes to it.
He stressed: "France
has been the object of a
worldwide campaign of
insults and vilification
which hit at France's
honor and dignity." He
added, "The amplitude of

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just do not seem to accept
that France has an inde-
pendent policy."
The only explanation
he gave for France's deci-
sion was addressed "to
the families of the 11 Is-
raeli victims of the
Munich massacre." Even
to them, he did not offer
sympathy or even a mes-
sage of condolences but
gave a 10-word legal ex-
planation of why France
had turned down the Is-
raeli extradition request.
The president, who
seemed to hint at a Jewish
campaign against France
in his statement, went on
to remind the Munich vic-
tims' families that "they
should respect French
laws which know no am-
biguities whatever the
reactions they might give
rise to." He underlined
that these families should
rely on French laws espe-
cially as they had known in
"other times and in other
places an unjust, arbitrary
and state imposed jus-
tice."
Giscard
d'Estaing
blamed West Germany
for Daoud's release say-
ing that the chief of the
French Foreign Minis-
try's cabinet asked last
Monday afternoon that
the West German Charge
d'Affaires speed up the
diplomatic request for his
extradition. He said that
when no request was re-
ceived on Tuesday, the
Palestinian was released.
The French president
went on to recall that
Daoud was only charged
with having instigated
the Munich massacre and
noted that the three sur-

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viving Palestinians who
carried out the attack
were freed by West Ger-
many six weeks after the
actual killing. "Where are
they now?" Giscard d'Es-
taing asked.
He tried to impress on
his listeners France's
"even-handed" attitude
by saying that during the
Entebbe affair France re-
fused to accept any dis-
crimination between
French and Israelis
aboard the_plane.
He claimed France had
always adopted a strong-
arm approach to terrorism
and quoted in evidence the
fact that the Croatian ter-
rorists who hijacked a
TWA plane were arrested
and handed over to the
American police.
The French president's
statement took by sur-
prise French officials,
foreign diplomats and Is-
raeli circles. They all
thought Giscard d'Es-
taing would use his press
conference to try and pla-
cate Israeli anger. But,
apparently, smarting
personally from the in-
ternational criticism of
France, he lashed out at
Israel and world opinion.
Israeli Foreign Minister
Yigal AllOn said that rela-
tions between Israel and
France were in a "state of
crisis." But at a meeting
with the families of the 11
Israeli athletes murdered
at the 1972 Munich Olym-
pics — an act for which
Daoud is believed to have
been responsible — Allon
rejected demands that
French Ambassador Jean
Herly be declared per-
sonal non grata and re-
moved from Israel.
Allon is expected to
meet with French For-
eign Minister Louis de
Guiringaud in Brussels
next month when Israel
is scheduled to sign its
agreement with the
European Economic
Community.
However, De Guirin-
guad and two other
French cabinet members
are expected to postpone
their scheduled visits to
Israel next month be-
cause of the crisis ire rela-
tions between the two
countries.
Meanwhile, observers
in Israel said they believe
Israeli Ambassador Mor-
dechai Gazit will return
to Paris next week.
Acting at the request of
Senate Foreign Relations
Committee Chairman
John Sparkman (D-Ala.),
the U.S. Senate agreed
unanimously Tuesday to
delay action on the com-
mittee's resolution critical
of the French.
Sen. Jacob K. Javits
(R-NY), who supported
Sparkman's request for
delay, said "I have little
doubt a resolution will be
passed this week by the
Senate."
Sparkman's request

apparently was based on
his desire to have the
committee examine
materials on the case re-
ceived from the American
Embassy in Paris. Franc-II
Ambassador Kosciusko-
Morizet was reported to
have asked the Senate
leaders not to adopt the
resolution, or to soften it.
The envoy's action raised
eyebrows at the Capitol
since the French gov-
ernment had complained
that the U.S. was inter-
vening in French internal
affairs by expressing
dismay at the release of
Daoud.
The French Embassy
said the ambassador met
Tuesday with nine House
members and had written
Sparkman and other
Senators protesting Con-
gressional action against
France.
The French spokesman
noted that in the worst
times of Franco-American
relations the French as-
sembly had never con-
demned or intervened in
the process of U.S. ac-
tivities, including those in
VietnaTn. The envoy also
was reported by the
spokesman as having said
that Israel had no right to
gain extradition of the ter-
rorist and Germany had
deprived itself of the right
by its delay in requesting
it.
The French spokesman
said that the Con-
gressmen with whom the
ambassador met included
Reps. Roby Moffett (D-
Conn.); Theodore Weiss
(D-NY); Millicent Fen-
wick (R-NJ), and John
Buchanan (R-Ala.).
The Senate Foreign Re-
lations Committee last
Thursday adopted a
sense of the Senate resol-
ution sponsored by Sens.
Clifford Case (R-NJ) and
Hubert H. Humphrey
(D-Minn.). It said that the
release of Abu Daoud is
"harmful to the efforts of
the community of nations
to stamp out interna-
tional terrorism and
urged the U.S. govern-
ment to introduce and
support a resolution in
the UN General Assem-
bly to that effect.
U.S. Senator Robert
Griffin (R-Mich.) deli-
vered a speech in the
Senate on Friday deplor-
ing Daoud's release. He
mentioned France's de-
pendence on Arab oil and
the sale of 200 Mirage jets
to Egypt.
"I know not the extent
to which economic and
political considerations
may have entered into
the French decision,"
Griffin said. "But one
thing is clear: the battle
against terrorism around
the world has been dealt a
staggering blow."
Griffin was one of 29
senators who signed a let-
ter of protest that was sent
to the French ambassador.

Sen. Charles Percy (R-I11.)
sent his own letter to the
ambassador.
In Washington, Rabbi
Alexander M. Schindler,
chairman of the Confer-
ence of Presidents of
Major American Jewish
Organizations, told the
French Ambassador to
the United States that
"thousands of members"
of the Conference's 32
constituent organiza-
tions were urging a ban
on travel to France and a
boycott of French prod-
ucts in the U.S. to pro-
test France's release
Palestinian terrorist
Daoud.
Schindler headed a
Presidents Conference
delegation which met
with Ambassador Jac-
ques Kosciusko-Morizet
for 90 minutes at the
French Embassy Friday
to express the "shock and
outrage of the American
Jewish community" over
the freeing of Daoud.
He said he informed the
ambassador that each of
the Conference's con-
stituent organizations is
autonomous and inde-
pendent and will respond
to demands for action
against France "in its
own fashion."
Schindler added, "What-
ever the response, there
can be no doubt of the re-
vulsion that American
Jews — and men and
women of good will of
every race, religion and
ethnic origin — feel at the
ignoble act that France
has committed in defiance
of its own treaty obliga-
tions, in disregard of its
professed adherence to
the international cam-
paign against terrorism
and in contempt for life
and for law that hasebeen
the hallmark of French
civilization."
Schindler said the Con-
ference of Presidents re-
jected the "legalisms"
advanced by French au-
thorities to explain the
release of Daoud. He said
their action was a
"breach of the extradi-
tion treaty with Israel
and of its commitment to
act with vigor against the
terrorist movement."
Major American
Jewish organizations re-
sponded angrily to the
French court's decision to
release Daoud.
A statement released
by Hadassah said: "Ter-
rorism and blackmail has
once more triumphed
over the rule of law with
the release . . . While na-
tions of differing political
ideologies are collaborat-_\
ing at this very time
pass a United Natio_
convention denouncing
terrorism, a major power
of the free world has un-
dermined morality by
succumbing to blackmail
. . . The political subver-
sion of justice by France
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