3 Certainties for Israel's Cabinet

Three cabinet posts appear to be certainties for the oncoming Israel government.
Menahem Begin received the mandate and is expected to be called upon by President
Ephraim Katzir to form the new government as the next prime minister.
The post of minister of defense will go to Ezer Weizmartn, who was the organizer of the
Israeli defense force in the early years of Israel's statehood.
Simha Ehrlich. who was the number two candidate on the Likud ticket in the May 17
election is slated to ,be minister of finance.
The complete cabinet is 'expected to be formed upon completion of negotiations for a
coalition cabinet with the minority parties in the government.
The announcement of the naming'of former Defense Minister Moshe Dayan as foreign
minister has drawn a storm of criticism from within and outside Likud and that appoint-
ment may be withdrawn.

U.S. - Israel
Relations
and the
Confusions
Affecting the
Middle East

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The Distressing
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June 3,1977

Peres Joins Likud in Challenging
U.S.View of UN M.E. Resolutions

Yigal Allon Registers Israel's
Protest on Carter's Statement

JERUSALEM (JTA)—Foreign Minister Yigal Allon summoned U.S. Am-
bassador Samuel Lewis to the Foreign Ministry Tuesday to express Israel's
concern over recent statements by President Car-
ter on the elements of a Middle East peace settle-
ment. Allon reportedly told the envoy that Israel
was disturbed by the injection of new,factors into
a possible peace formula that went beyond Secu-
rity Council Resolutions 242 and 338.
He was apparently alluding to White House state-
ments last week that referred to the General As-
sembly's PaleStine resolutions of 1947 and 1948
which were not and cannot now be a basis for nego-
tiations according to Israeli sources.
Allon reportedly stressed to Lewis that only 242
and 338 can constitute the basis for a settlement, a
position reaffirmed by Allon and Premier Yitzhak
YIGAL ALLON
Rabin at Sunday's Cabinet meeting.
On, the surface at least there appeared to be no
disagreement between Allon and Lewis. The am-
bassador gave assurances that the U.S. adheres to
its traditional position that the two Security Council-
resolutions are the only appropriate framework for
peace negotiations acceptable to Israel and the
U.S.
Israel's relations with Washington were discussed
by Likud's number two man, Simha Ehrlich, at a
press conference in Tel Aviv Tuesday. He said he
was concerned by President Carter's recent state-
ments but hoped that once Carter meets Likud lead-
er Menahem Begin Carter would "change his
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mind."

Humanitarian Conference
Changes Terrorists' Status

JERUSALEM (JTA)—Defense Minister Shimon Peres said TUesday that Israel will not
accept the American interpretation of Security Council resolutions that Israel must
return to its 1967 borders with only minor changes. "We have a serious debate with the
U.S. and there is no reason to cover it, above and beyond party differences," Peres
declared at a meeting of the Labor Party's Ben-Gurion Circle in Tel Aviv.
Although the White House and the State Department insist that U.S. policy in the
Middle East is "unchanged" and that it continues within the framework of UN Security
Council Resolutions 242 and 338, pro-Israeli circles in Washington view with deepening
skepticism and suspicion the Administration's course in pursuit of a settlement in the
region.
They are especially concerned and puzzled by President Carter's press conference
remarks last Thursday following two days of talks with Crown Prince Fand of Saudi
Arabia—the last of the four Arab leaders with whom the President has met in recent
weeks. He noted that all former American Presidents based U.S. policy in the Mideast on
"Security Council resolutions". But those resolutions do not mention a "homeland" or
"compensation" for Arab refugees which Carter saw as part of the negotiating frame-
work. His statements are now widely viewed as having fashioned broad new dimensions
to U.S. policy that are favorable to the Arabs and upsetting .to Israel.
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency asked the chief White House media officials for
clarification of the President's news conference statements. The White House made it
plain that no evidence can be found to support Carter's statement. It issued a "Notice to
the Press" which said that "As a matter of historical record, UN General Assembly
Resolution 181 of November, 1947, provided for the recognition of a Jewish and an Arab
state in Palestine and UN General Assembly Resolution 194 of December, 1948,
endorsed the right of Palestinians to return to their homes or choose compensation for
lost property."
In making that statement available, the White House spokesman volunteered this
section of the statement was "not binding" on U.S. policy. -
The matter became further complicated at the State. Department where spokesman
Hodding Carter declared that the two General Assembly resolutions of almost 30 years
ago have no "new' binding policy "implications" on U.S. policy.
He said that 'while "No changes in our fundamental policy approach to the
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Catholic Bishop Denounces
Panama Anti-Semitic Flyers

GENEVA (JTA)—The diplomatic conference on the reaf-
NEW YORK (JTA)—Panama's Archbishop Marcos G.
firmation and development of international humanitarian McGrath has bitterly denounced anti-Semitic flyers which
law applicable in armed conflicts accepted an article rec- have been widely distributed in recent weeks in Panama
ognizing the status.,of war prisoners who belong to liver- City, according to the Anti-Defamatidn League of Bnai
ation movements as combatants. Israel was the only coun- Brith.
try 'voting against the article which was accepted by 73
Rabbi Morton M. Rosenthal, director of ADL's Latin
votes. There were 21 abstentions.
American affairs department, said the Roman Catholic
According to the article, combatants are obliged to dis- bishop declared in a May Day address that the leaflets con-
-
tinguish themselves from the civilian population while they tained "false accusations which incite manifestations of
- --- are engaged in an attack or in a military operation. But it hate."
One hand-written flyer said, "Out with the Jews! We
recognizes that there are situations in armed conflicts
where, owing to the nature of the hostilities, an armed support General Torrijos in his support for Palestinians.
combatant can not distinguish himself. Nevertheless, he Long live the Palestinian cause." Another denounced the
shall retain his status as a combatant provided he carries alleged domination of the Panamanian economy by Jews,
called for their expulsion and concluded with the phrase:
his arms openly.
The Israeli delegates and others objected on grounds "Panama for the Panamanians."
In his address, Bishop McGrath described the leaflets as
that this interpretation might endanger civilian popu-
,
lations. Israel said it could not comply with the change.
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Goldberg Pushing Passage
of UN Genocide Convention

WASHINGTON (JTA)—Former Supreme Court Justice
Arthur J. Goldberg told the Senate Foreign Relations Corn-
mittee that failure by the Senate to ratify the United Na-
tions Genocide Convention will put the United States in a
"difficult" position when it meets with 34 other signatories
to the Helsinki accord in Belgrade on June 15 to review
the implementation of that accord.

Appearing on behalf of the Ad Hoc Committee on
Human Rights and Gendcide Treaties, which represents 52
national organizations, including all of the major Jewish or-
ganizations in this country, Goldberg told the Senate com-
mittee that President Carter's strong stand on human
rights will be seriously undermined if the Senate fails to
ratify the convention.

Goldberg, who was a former U.S. Ambassador to the
United Nations, said that such a failure would mock U.S.
protests against acts of genocide elsewhere in the world.,

