•f k Historic Ruling Against 'Linkage': How Ralph Bunche at Rhodes Enforced Separate Egypt-Israel Agreement By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ - (Copyright 1978, JTA, Inc.) "Linkage," emerging as a new obstacle to peace, has been bandied around without recourse to precedent. This becomes apparent in a re- capitulation of events that recall the first of the Israel-Arab negotiations for what was then to result in an armistice, on the Island of Rhodes, on Feb. 24, 1949. The agreement was signed on that day, and it was only between Egypt and Israel. That's the background which serves as a basis for Israel's approaches to the tasks for peace that were formulated at Camp David in mid-September of 1978. Camp David was linked with Rhodes. The "linkage" appears to be negating both. 's is a time to replace on the record the position that was taken on the subject by the 1949 spokesman for the United Na- tons, the late Dr. Ralph Bunche. He was firm and immovable on the subject of a separate armistice agreement between Egypt and Israel, and an attempt to introduce linkage at the Rhodes sessions in 1949 met with adamant rejection from Dr. Bunche. There has been an erroneous belief that. agree- ments with all of the Arab nations were negotiated at the Rhodes conference. The most authoritative per- son to review what had occurred in 1949 disputes it with facts. Walter Eytan, who headed the Israel dele- gation to the Rhodes armistice conference, makes DR. BUNCHE this clear with the following explanation of what had actually occurred: "All the essentials of the agreement with Jordan CTransjordan' - as it then was) were negotiated directly with King Abdullah in his winter palace at Shuneh, and Rhodes saw only its final drafting and signatures. The agreements with Lebanon and Syria had nothing to do with Rhodes at all. The first was negotiated and signed at Rosh Hanikra on the Israel-Lebanese border; the second under a tent near Mahanaim, in Israel. "So 'Rhodes' does not necessarily mean a place, but a system — whose model was set by the armistice agreement between Israel and Egypt." The Rhodes negotiations were held under the supervision of the United (Continued on Page 6) HE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review of Jewish Events VOL. LXXIV, No. 12 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 - Nov. 24, 1978 Israel OKs U.S. Proposal, ejects West Bank Link JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israeli government is ready to sign a peace treaty according to the version brought by Israel's negotiating team at the Washington talks, the Cabinet decided Tuesday at the end of a five-hour meeting. The meaning of the resolution was that the government accepted the American draft to the peace treaty, but rejected the latest sugges- tions made by Egypt regarding the linkage between the Israel-Egyptian agreement and the future of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The Cabinet stated that the new Egyptian proposals exceeded the Camp David agreements, and therefore Israel, did not accept them. The resolution added that Once the agreement with Egypt was signed and ratified, Israel would be ready to open negotiations on autonomy in the territories, along the guidelines of the Camp David agreements. The resolution was approved by 15 ministers with two voting against it — Zevulun Hammer and Haim Landau. Israel is asking the U.S. for $3.3 billion to cover her costs in withdrawing from Sinai and deploying defenses in the Negev. Finance Minister Simha Ehrlich said a third of the sum was asked as a loan for 20 years at low interest, and the rest as a grant. Israel's financial requests were the subject of public criticism two weeks ago, when Premier Menahem Begin said Israel would ask that the entire economic aid package in connection with the withdrawal from Sinai be in the form of a loan. - - The army will soon begin removing some equipment and installations from Sinai in preparation for the first phase of its withdrawal following the signing of a peace treaty. According to military sources, the withdrawal will be carried out in a way that will ensure Israel's defensive strength and minimize delays. The sources indicated that the army will retain its present strength in Sinai after it withdraws to the interim line between El Arish on the Mediterranean and Ras Mouhammed on the Red Sea. The new line will be held by mobile forces backed up by the two Sinai A quarter century of service is airfields and advance warning systems. But once the recorded in a special Sinai Hospital army withdraws completely from Sinai, the Negev will supplement appearing between become its main training area, the sources said. Pages 26 and 39 in this issue. The military zone will extend from Beersheba south- wards. But sections of the western Negev now used by • A report on the annual meeting the army — near Nitzana, Revivim and Kerem Ab- 1978 Annual Report of Sinai Hospital In the photograph at left, the United Nations' Paul Mohn, left, Israel's Walter Eytan and Moshe Dayan are shown preparing to leave for the Rhodes conference. AL right, Israeli negotiators Major Harkabi, Major Simon, Col. Yigael Yadin and Lt. Col. Yitzhak Rabin are shown at Rhodes. of Sinai Hospital appears on Page 6. (Continued on Page 12) $5,666,000 in 1979 Advance Gifts Plus $3,003,000 UJA Is Honored uJA-nintxnn rvilmn rraurt for Project Renewal Begin Allied Campaign Increased contributions to the regular Allied Jewish Cam- result overwhelmingly outdistanced all previous Campaign paign funds and sizable added gifts for Project Renewal set a new years, establishing a new precedent of nearly $9,000,000 being pace in fund-raising when the 1979 drive opened formally Tues- given in a single evening. day evening at the traditional pre-Campaign meeting held at the Noteworthy in the impressive response to action was the home of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel M. Honigman. eight percent increase in giving towards the regular Allied The 90 men at the meeting announced gifts of $5,666,000 and Jewish Campaign fund: The gifts of $5,666,000 were in ex- added to that sum pledges of $3,003,000 towards the newly cess of the $5,217,000 given by the same contributors last formed Project Renewal as separate pledges for the coming five year. years. Handleman, in his opening speech, emphasized the social as- This response represented a positive approval of the new de- pects of Project'Renewal and urge,d wholehearted giving towards mands for aid to 300,000 Israeli Sephardim who must be provided a $6,000,000 quota for the extra funds sought here for a five-year with housing and supplementary health and educational needs. period of action in Israel for the many underprivileged. This 4 ,,, sw ':rMroject Reneral was outlined appeal was the chief objective in the 4v ,a- .,'.• mpL..e gathering by the national address of National Chairman campaign chairman, former De- Field. It was emphasized by Selig- 3 h troiter Irwin Field, chairman of man and by David Mondry who as- United Jewish Appeal. sisted in calling for pledges. The gathering of initial con- In his address, former Detroiter tributors to the Allied Jewish Field said The ramifications of Campaign, has become a tradition this meeting go far beyond the city at the home of Daniel Honigman, of Detroit. For many years this who welcomed the campaigners in meeting has been the bellweather behalf of himself and Mrs. Honig- for the country. It has set the pace man, with a cheerful note of confi j for the rest of the U.S." t cence that another great Campaign Field added that an Israel on the was being launched by Greater De- verge of peace has tremendous troit Jewry. Shown at Monday's Allied Jewish Campaign commitments. With so much of Is- The 1979 Campaign chairmen, meeting are, from left, 1979 AJC-IEF Chairman rael's budget devoted to defense, he David Handleman and Irving David Handleman, United Jewish Appeal Chair- said, the Campaign and Project Re- Seligman, presided over the pro- man Irwin Field, 1979 AJC-IEF Chairman Irving newal contributions are of tremen- ceedings and led in announcing Seligman and former AJC-IEF Chairman and host dous importance to the social wel- pledges for the coming year. The Daniel Honigman. fare of the Israeli people. N The Israeli stamp above cites the 30 years of Israel's statehood and the 40th anniversary of the United Jewish Apeal, which will be marked at the annual UJA conference in December.