THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Burg to Meet Palestinians After Autonomy Talks (Continued From Page 1) protest against a secret commitment by the Begin government to annex the West Bank and Gaza Strip after the five-year au- tonomy period. "Not true," Burg exclaimed. No such de- cision has been taken, sl- ough it is the govern- ent's attitude that we have an historic right to Eretz Yisrael." He also denied Dayan's charge that the once moderate NRP has become a hard- line extremist party. Burg conceded that in re- cent years, some NRP elements, notably its youth faction, were very close to the Gush Emunim. "But I, person- ally, representing the strongest faction in the party, am middle-of-the- road," he said, "a little to the right of national questions and a little to the left on social issues." He denied Dayan's com- plaint that the Cabinet had ignored his proposal that Is- rael unilaterally dismantle its military government on the West Bank and Gaza Strip and replece it by a civi- lian authority in the event that the autonomy talks failed. According to Burg, Dayan had never made a formal proposal. He men- tioned it once or twice in the Cabinet but he never made concrete proposals and never elaborated on them." Burg said that last week's ruling by the Israeli Sup- reme Court that the Gush Emunim settlement of Elon Moreh must be removed from the seized Arab lands it occupies was not dis- cussed during the autonomy talks in London. He said the high court's decision was a credit to Israel's democratic and judicial system but stressed that it dealt with a specific issue involving a particular acreage and loca- tion "and does not diminish the right of Jews to settle in the whole of Eretz Yisrael." He added, "I don't see in the question of settlement an obstacle to a settlement of the question." He said the whole idea of autonomy for the territories was to assure the peaceful coexistence of Jews and Arabs west of the Jordan River. "So we'll have Arabs living in regions pre- dominantly inhabited by Arabs. The mere fact of this peaceful coexistence will be an important guarantee against the emergence of a Palestinian state," Burg said. Dayan also rejected the Labor Party's territorial compromise approach based on a settlement with Jordan. He quoted former Foreign Minister Abba Eban as saying it was "offering something we don't have to someone who doesn't want it." According to Dayan, "the best solution . . . the only solution . . . (is) living to- gether . ." But he did not explain what this would mean in practical terms. U.S. PLO Policy Outlined WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Carter Administra- tion's position towards the Palestine Liberation Organization is reported to include "contacts" with in- dividuals who have sym- pathy with the PLO. The "Administration's policy" was stated in a letter from President Carter's special Middle East ambas- sador, Robert Strauss, to Rep. Lee Hamiltbn (D-Ind.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs subcommit- tee on Europe and the Mid- dle East. The letter, dated Oct. 26, was made public by Hamilton. "This Administration has to an absolute and con- nt policy of abiding by agreement made with the government of Israel at the time of the Sinai II agreement in September 1975," the Strauss letters said. "That agreement states that the United States will not recognize nor negotiate with the PLO so long as the PLO does not recognize Israel's right to exist and does not accept Se- curity Council Resolutions 242 and 338. That commitment is contained in a memoran- dum of agreement be- tween the governments of Israel and_ the United States at the Geneva peace conference, which was transmitted to the Congress at the time of are W the agreement. "Let there be no misun- derstanding of this basic policy. In the context of the autonomy talks, as agreed at Camp David, we — like the governments of Israel and Egypt — maintain a dialogue with the Palesti- nians in the West Bank and Gaza as appropriate. This may include contacts with individuals who sympathize with the PLO. "The PLO itself is cur- rently proscribed under the military occupation in the West Bank and Gaza so there are no declared PLO members in the area." Strauss promised a "very precise statement" on the U.S. policy when Hamilton pointed out to him one week ago at a subcommittee hear- ing at which Strauss was testifying that top officials of the U.S. government used different words in describ- ing U.S. relations with the PLO. These included "talks" and "contacts." Meanwhile, Donald McHenry, the U.S. ambas- sador to the United Nations, said he has had "contacts" with the PLO itself but he does not "negotiate" with its representatives. State De- partment spokesman Hod- d-ing Carter, when asked about this distinction, re- sponded that the U.S. offi- cials can have "contacts" but "to negotiate" is ' "long affair." Isarel Accepts More Refugees TEL AVIV (JTA) — Is- rael's small population of boat people was doubled last week with the arrival of 197 more refugees approved by the government for settle- ment here. The newcomers landed at Ben-Gurion Airport in a flight from Athens. Most had been confined to refu- gee camps in Singapore and Hong Kong. A number were picked up at sea by the Is- raeli contaionership Zim Sydney. When British troops left Palestine on the eve of Is- rael's independence, they turned over strategic posi- tions and military materiel to the Arabs. 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