THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, January 5, 1979 5
Israel Softens Tone But Keeps Its Negotiating Stance
4
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Israel has expressed its
readiness to hold further
negotiations with Egypt
and with the United States
on several key issues in the
stalled, nearly-concluded
peace treaty negotiations.
In a Cabinet communique
plainly designed to prompt
Washington into renewed
efforts to resume the talks,
Israel announced Sunday
illingness to negotiate
er on Article IV of the
dra lleace treaty (the "re-
view clause") and also on
the "side letter" setting out
modalities for creation of
the Palestine autonomy.
There was also an expres-
sion of readiness to discuss
with the U.S. the interpre-
tation of the vexed — and
crucially important — Arti-
cle VI (issue of priority) of
the draft treaty.
But in every case, the
Cabinet reiterated Is-
rael's position, originally
enunciated by the
Cabinet on Dec. 15 —
after Secretary of State
Cyrus Vance's unsuc-
cessful shuttle mission to
the area. • Premier
Menahem Begin, reading
out the' decision Sunday,
stressed that the Cabinet
was reiterating the prev-
ious decision (of Dec. 15)
"in all its parts."
That decision listed all of
the Egyptian demands,
which were effectively
endorsed by Vance, and
specifically rejected them.
The Cabinet decision Sun-
day was immediately con-
veyed to Washington and
Israeli officials said they
now expected the U.S. to
step-up its efforts to get the
talks restarted.
Denying an Israeli offi-
cial's statement that peace
talks would be resumed in
Washington before the end
of this month, a U.S. State
Department spokesman
said Wednesday the Israeli
"jumped the gun" with his
announcement).
The decision was sup-
ported by 14 ministers. Is-
rael Radio said that Defense
Minister Ezer Weizman and
Minister-Without-Portfolio
Chaim Landau did not take
part in the vote and Ag-
riculture Minister Ariel
Sharon abstained.
The Cabinet expressed
"ISrael's readiness to con-
tinue negotiations regard-
ing an agreed formulation
of the accompanying letter
. . ." and immediately
added Israel's firm view
that the "side letter" should
contain no "target date" for
the holding of the autonomy
elections, as Egypt (and the
U.S.) are seeking.
Similarly, the Cabinet
decision expressed speci-
fically — and this is new,
not having been men-
tioned in the Dec. 15 deci-
sion readiness to hold
further negotiations on
Article IV and again im-
mediately.set out the Is-
raeli position rejecting
any "definitive, oblig-
atory date framework."
(Egypt is seeking a
specific five-year dead-
line for a mandatory "re-
view" of the security pro-
visions in Sinai.)
On the interpretations to
Article VI, the Cabinet
statement endorsed a letter
from Foreign Minister
Moshe Dayan to Vance
three days earlier in which
Dayan had "totally re-.
jected" the U.S. interpreta-
tion of Article VI, Para-
graph 5. This paragraph is
the "priority,of obligations"
clause.
The U.S. State Depart-
ment legal aide who helped
draw up the treaty, in a
written opinion., effectively
upheld Egypt's view that
the paragraph would not
bar Egypt from aiding a sis-
ter Arab state that was at-
tacked by Israel.
The second paragraph of
Article VI — expressing a
legal severance between the
peace treaty and the Camp
David "framework" agree-
ment on the Palestinian
Artukovic Case Nearing End
WASHINGTON -- In a
nationally-syndicated col-
umn this week, Jack Aner-
son stated that time may be
finally running out on An-
drija Artukovic, who is ac-
cused of entering the U.S.
illegally after World War II
a for being responsible for
t eaths of hundreds of
t_ sands of Yugoslays
while a Nazi official.
Anderson credited recent
legislation introduced by
Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman
(D-N.Y.) with closing a
loophole in the immigration
laws, which prevented ac-
cused Nazis from being de-
ported if they might be per-
secuted for their race, reli-
gion or political beliefs.
Anderson wrote that Ar-
tukovic may have a long ap-
peals process ahead of him,
but the 26-year-old case is
nearing an end.
Anderson also wrote
that the Immigration and
Naturalization Service
(INS) has woefully un-
derstaffed its investiga-
tion of ex-Nazis. Five in-
vestigators are handling
250 active cases and an
alleged 2,000 other cases.
Among the active cases is
the four-yearzbld case
against alleged Romanian
Iron Guard leader Ar-
chbishop Valerian Trifa of
the Romanian Orthodox
Church. Trifa lives in Grass
Lake, Mich., near Jackson.
issue — is also in dispute.
The Cabinet appeared to
indicate that it would be
ready for more talks with
the U.S. on both disputed
paragraphs.
In this connection, too,
though, the Cabinet reit-
erated firmly Israel's
own "unlimited" in-
terpretation of Article VI,
thus setting out in clear
terms, !.'a advance of the
hoped-for further
negotiations, Israel's
strong position on this
key issue of dispute.
In all, Sunday's Cabinet
decision represented some-
thing of a softening, in tone
if-not in content, of the Is-
raeli position relative to the
brusque and angry state-
ment issued following Van-
ce's mission. There is now a
deliberate effort to persuade
both Washington and Cairo
of Israel's view that there is
sufficient subject matter for
further negotiations despite
Jerusalem's refusal to date
to shift from its substantive
rejection of Egypt's de-
mands.
Observers noted that the
Cabinet decision -followed
closely along the lines of
Dayan's recommendations,
made after his meeting in
Brussels with Egyptian
Premier Mustapha- Khalil
and Vance.
Meanwhile, an expres-
sion of concern that the Car-
ter Administration was
exerting pressure on Israel
elicited a response froth the cause of peace. Mann said in
State Department that the his letter that "Israel has
U.S. has "no intention of been wrongly blamed by the
imposing our own sugges- United States for the cur-
tions on either of the par- rent impasse" in peace
ties." That assurance was treaty negotiations with
contained in a letter written Egypt.
by David A. Korn, director
He sent the letter in the
of the Office of Israeli and
aftermath of the Dec. 19
Arab/Israeli Affairs at the
meeting between represen-
State Department, to Rabbi
tatives of the Presidents
Moshe Feinstein, president
of the Union of Orthodox Conference and Secretary of
Rabbis of the United States State Vance, Assistant Sec-
, retary Harold Saunders and
and Canada.
Korn said he was re- Ambassador Alfred Ather-
ton.
sponding at the request
Former Foreign Minister
of the White House to a
telegram Feinstein sent Yi gal Allon told the Confer-
ence of Presidents last week
to President Carter pro-
testing alleged U.S. pres- that the people of Israel
stood "united as never be-
sure on Israel.
fore" in rejecting Carter
Theodore Mann, chair-
man of the Conference of Administration pressure to
Presidents of Major Ameri- accept demands that Egyp-
can Jewish Organizations, tian President Anwar Sadat
has written to President proposes for changes in the
Carter requesting a meet- proposed Egyptian-Israeli
ing with him so that his peace treaty. "I deplore the
organization can express its Administration's actions
concern over recent de- and I know they have
velopments in the Middle
East and offer whatever as-
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Sympathy
sistance it can to further the
strengthened the resolve of
the people of Israel to sign
only a true peace," Allon
said.
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