6 Friday, Joe 9, 1918 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS VERTICAL BLINDS SHEER BLINDS WOVEN WOODS CUSTOM DRAPES SAVE UP TO 0 SHADES and BEDSPREADS LAMINATED SHADES AND BLINDS Since 1952 INKIEST SELECTIONS IN OUR SNOISNOCISI OR FREE HOME SERVICE CALL SPITZER'S REMODELING SALE RUMMI GAMES reg. $995 $19.95 ALL MERCHANDISE From 2o0/0 to40% OFF Great Father's Day GIFT SELECTION Israel Won't Bow to Sadat's War Threats - JERUSALEM (JTA) — A senior political source said Wednesday that Israel will not change its positions on a peace settlement in the face of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's declaration that the military struggle would be renewed unless Is- rael responded satisfactor- ily to his peace initiative. The source said that Sadat's remarks were an obstacle to progress in the peace pro- cess. Sadat, addressing troops of the Egyptian Second •Army at Ismailia, said they must be prepared "for the completion of the battle of liberation if there is no al- ternative and if Israel con- tinues not to understand what is behind the peace in- itiative." Israeli sources said Sadat's declaration contradicted the second Sinai interim agreement of August 1975 in which both parties agreed not to resort to force. While the reaction by of- ficial sources was kept in a low key, Shimon Peres, leader of the oppositon Labor Alignment, accused Sadat of aggravating the present delicate situation. He stressed, however, tat the door to negotiations was not closed. Yet former Foreign Minister Yigal Allon said he was disturbed by other recent statements by Sadat in which he men- tioned the war option. I DON'T WANT TO SELL YOU A CAR . . . I WANT TO HELP YOU BUY ONE! WHERE PEOPLE STILL COME FIRST GLASSMAN OLDSMOBILE INC. 28000 TELEGRAPH RD. • SOUTHFIELD • PHONE 354-3300 It seems to me that President Sadat is trying to achieve a settlement on his own terms, not neces- sarily by negotiations but rather by dictating them directly or through the U.S.," Allon said. In Washington, State De- partment spokesman Hod- ding Carter said the U.S. does not believe Sadat "has raised the war option." "We have no reason whatsoever to doubt that he (Sadat) continues to support the effort to reach a com- prehensive peace settle- ment in the Middle East," Carter told reporters. Carter also confirmed that Secretary of State Syrus Vance had recently reassured the Egyptian foreign minister that the U.S. position on Israel exploitation of natural re- sources in the Sinai re- mained "unchanged." Carter said that it was the U.S. position that "the development of the exploitation of new oil in the fields in the occupied territories is unpre- cedented and goes beyond the legal author- ity of a belligerent oc- cupant" under interna- tional law. Mea"hile, Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan said that it was premature for Is- rael to make any concrete statements on the future of the West Bank after the five-year interim of "self rule" proposed in its peace plan. "Much depends on what will happen during the five years, Dayan said. His remarks indicated that he would advocate a non-committal reply by Is- rael to the American ques- tions not under study by the Cabinet with respect to the future of the West Bandk and political self-expression for the Palestinians. he said the West Bank sovereignty issue could be left open for "at least" five years and if it is eventually raised, Israel would assert its claim to the territory. The Cabinet began con- sideration of teh American questions at its session last Sunday. It is expected to formulate a reply when it meets again on Monday. At Sunday's meeting, moder- ate ministers of the Democ- ratic Movement for Change (DMC) were reported to have called for "positive" responses while Herut hard-liners urged a vague formulation. Dayan said he thought it was possible for Jor- dan to accept Israel's "self-rule" offer on the West Bank as the first stage of an eventual set- tlement. He added that it would have been "far fetched" for Israel to have offered more "as a first stage." He was critical of the dis- tinction made by his DMC colleagues and the opposi- tion Labor Alignment over Israel's security considera- tions and the so-called "messianic" claims to the West Bank. He charged that this was "dangerous de- magogy" that weakens Is- rael's arguments against returning to its 1967 bor- ders. Deputy Premier Yigael Yadin, leader of the DMC, said his party was not con- sidering quitting Begin's Likud-led coalition gover- ment because the DMC ministers were "full partners in all matters of foreign affairs and sec- urity." - Yadin and his three fel- low DMC ministers ap- peared at a press conference to defend their party's role in the government against allegations that it had no in-put or influence in the government's decision- making process. Last week, the DMC Council, by a 42-10 vote, approved a statement saying it would consider leaving the coal- tion unless the government adopted more flexible posi- tions in peace talks. A hot political deabte has been raging in Israel for several weeks over the peace initiative and the Begin government's peace proposals. Former Premiers Yitzhak Rabin and Golda Meir criticized the government's policies last week. Mrs. Meir objected to Israel's total withdrawal from Sinai and Begin's West Bank peace plan. She said the only change in Egypt's peace position was Sadat's November trip to Israel. She added that any change in the Egyptian government would necessi- tate Israel retaining por- tions of the Sinai and that the West Bank plan might allow for a Palestinian state. Rabin claimed the pre- sent U.S. proposals, that speak of border adjustments but retain opposition to a Palestinian state, would be a good basis for peace. He said he would recom- mend dividing sovereignty over the West Bank bet- ween Israel and Jordan and then working out a com- promise in the spirit of Sec- urity Council resolution 242. At the other extreme, militants of the Gush Emunim and three MKs who share their ideology held a press conference at which the Gush politi- cal secretary Gershon Shafat demanded that the government rescind its peace plan and launch' major settlement prog- rams in Judaea and Samaria, meaning the west bank. He warned of a "big front" ahead, accused the govern- ment of doing too little in recent months to establish new settlements and urged it to initiate development projects that would attract hundreds of thousands of settlers to the territories. In the United States, the Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith urged the U.S. to review its positions on Mid- dle East issues, recognize that it is Egypt which has interrupted progress to- wards Middle East peace and to take "vigorous steps" to bring Egypt back to the bargaining table with Is- rael. Rabin Denies Policy Rift LONDON (JTA) — Yit- to open borders and normal zhak Rabin has denied that economic, cultural and dip- the Israeli opposition and lomatic relations; • Israel would not with- government are deeply split over foreign policy and fore- draw to the pre-1967 lines cast that, if Egypt re- since that would invite entered peace negotiations, another war; • There should be "no the Begin government would make appropriate Arafat state" in the ter- gestures to show its good- ritories; • No negotiations with will to the Arabs. Rabin's comments fol- the PLO; • Jerusalem must remain lowed sharp public disag- reements here by other Is- united as the capital of Is- raeli politicians. On Sun- rael. Rabin also lambasted the day, Yigal Allon made a blistering attack on the "package" sale of jets to Is- Begin government's peace rael, Egypt and Saudi proposals when he addres- Arabia as a breach of com- sed local Labor Zionist sup- mitments first made to Is- porters. The next day, Ariel rael by President Ford in Sharon, agriculture minis- September 1975. The lin- ter, told a press conference kage was also the first...time at the Israel Embassy that that the United States had Allon's remarks were "the put Israel's security on the same level as the security of height of irresponsibility". Rabin assured 500 work- Egypt and Saudi Arabia, ers of the -Joint Israel Ap- and thus a departure from peal that there was a na- previous U.S. assurances tional consensus on five about America's "special main points: commitment" to Israel, he • • That peace would lead said. 7.1111111177- JEWISH NATIONAL FUND 22100 Greenfield Rd. Oak Park. Mich. 48237.368-0820 Z OE I ICI. HOURS MON !HMIS 'I TO I rn FRI 9 TO • SUN 10,1171 • r z;-:-F 0-1