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Friday, April 19, 1957
III IODTHI1N IS1ABLITB
Pace Thirteen
BEHIND UN SCENES
Arab Propagandist Rebuffed
UNITED NATIONS, (AJP) —
Egyptian newsmen covering the
UN constitute a rather strange
lot. We have already once men
tioned Simon Selim Malley, an
Egyptian Jew writing for A1
Gombouria. There is another, Le
von Keshishian, an Armenian
who was born in Jersualem and
spent most of his life there.
Ever-hustling Keshishian, who
represents A1 Ahram of Cairo
and several other Arab papers in
the Middle East, indulges in Arab
propaganda here at the UN and
on the U. S. scene. Every now
and then one sees and hears him
on TV and radio panels. He does
not always fare so well, however.
For example, this week he par
ticipated on the panel of the For
eign Press Association’s ‘‘Inter
national Interview” over radio
station WNYC. Here was a good
opportunity, the Armenian “Arab”
thought, to present his anti-Israel
case before the American public.
But Keshishian, apparently,
did not know who he was going
to deal with when he came face
to face with the guest of the pro
gram, former U. S. Air Secretary
Thomas K. Finletter.
Queried Keshishian: “N o w
don’t you think that Israel has
been the violator of the UN? She
hasn’t implemented any of the
resolutions. If Israel implemented
these resolutions there wouldn’t
be any belligerency or anything.”
“You asked me my opinion,
and I’ll tell you what it is,” Fin-
letter quickly shot back. "The ba
sic violator of the UN resolutions,
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starting with the resolution of
September 1, 1951, which ordered
Egypt to respect the armistice
and stop blockading the Suez
Canal to Israel ships, in my opin
ion, it is Egypt and the other
Arab countries who have been in
steady default with the UN. It all
comes from this one point. If
you want to have peace in that
area, the Arab countries have got
to give up their determination
to destroy Israel. I think that the
greatest contribution which the
countries of the Near East could
make to world peace would be
to give up this determination to
destroy Israel and to return to
the rule of law."
Keshishian, realizing that his
propaganda attempt was begin
ning to boomerang, retorted sly
ly: “There is no determination to
destroy. Where do you get the
idea? I am surprised to hear this
from so many Americans.”
“Is it official Egyptian policy,”
Finletter asked, “To recognize
that there is no right of belig-
erency now under the armistice
of 1949?
“That is not the point,” the
mumbling Arab correspondent
answered. “The point is that
Egypt has never attacked Israel.”
Fully aware of the record, Fin
letter resumed his challenge: “Is
it or is it not Egyptian policy
to destroy the State of Israel?”
“No! Definitely not! Belliger
ency is something else. Destroy
ing is something else. Egypt is
not fighting Israel,” the bewild
ered Keshishian replied. Having
completely failed in this attempt
to justify Egypt, he turned to an
other issue which again back
fired. “We in the Middle East,”
he said, “honestly feel that if you
don’t understand our problems
properly and you dictate to us
what we should do and what we
should not do, what would you
suggest to bring back the Arab-
American friendship as it was
before 1948. I mean the fact that
Mr. Dulles came and, without con
sulting the country, dictated what
we are going to do. This is the
thing that makes us mad.”
Refuting the idea that the U.S.
has been dictating to the Arabs,
Mr. Finletter, coming right to the
point and giving Keshishian some
thing to brood over, said: “I think
that if we had made a mistake in
the Near East, it has been that
we have intervened too much on
the side of the Arab countries.
I think that we tried to appease
the Arab countries to try to make
friendship at the cost of the things
the Americans of the Jewish faith
are extremely offensive to us. I
think that the best things that
can happen to restore American
friendship with the Arabs would
be for the Arabs to do two things.
First of all to stop that kind of
discrimination against Americans
and, secondly, to give up the idea
of belligerency and to live and
let live and to abandon their ideas
that Israel is to be going into
the sea.”
Seeking a last word, the utter
ly frustrated Keshishian who
seemed to have had enough, in
quired: “In the discrimination of
the Jews, you are thinking of the
Dharan base.” ‘No,” said Finlet
ter. “The Dharan base arrange
ment is something which grew
out of the armistice of 1949. It
crept up gradually and the Dha
ran base arrangements of Ameri
cans of the Jewish faith are ex
actly what I mean when I say
that all this stems from the as
serted right of belligerency. This
is not a religious question. It is
an attack on Israel.”
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