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Friday, February 24, 1967
THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
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As We Were Saying
" By ROBERT SEGAL
(A Seven Arts Feature)
Our State Department’s per
plexing and ambivalent attitude
towards Israel has just been il
lustrated anew by Douglas Mae-
Arthur II, Assistant Secretary of
State for Congressional Relations.
Mr. MacArthur, whose State De
partment career covers 31 years,
was interned by the Nazis for
two years after serving the U. S.
diplomatic Corps at Vichy; but
this doesn’t mean he is exactly
sympathetic towards Israel, a
haven for so many others who
were not only interned by the
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Nazis, but tortured by them.
Mr. MacArthur showed one as
pect of State policy on the Israel-
Arab conflict the other day when
he replied to a suggestion by Sen
ator Jacob K. Javits that our gov
ernment urge the United Nations
General Assembly to work hard
er to resolve Israel-Arab differ
ences. We couldn’t do that, Mr.
MacArthur said in effect, because
of “Israel’s failure to implement
the UN resolution for repatriation
and compensation of Arab ref
ugees.”
Here is a classic example of
ripping a ragged section of his
tory out of its documentation and
saying: “See, they’ve been bad
guys—those abrasive Israelis—so
we can’t help them.”
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For what is the UN resolution
to which Assistant State Secre
tary MacArthur refers? What is
that resolution, not in part, but
in its entirety? And which sov
ereign powers have really failed
to implement it-—Israel, or those
Arab nations which, now backed
by Chinese and USSR arsenals
are threatening constantly to do
Israel in?
Douglas McArthur II refers to
Paragraph 11 of the UN Resolu
tion of December 11, 1948. What
Paragraph II says is, of course,
important. But what States-man
MacArthur seems to forget is
what the other paragraphs of the
1948 UN Resolution say; and they
are of equal, if not superior, im
portance. Or can it be that our
State Department has concluded
to forget the demands made upon
the Arab states by the peace
makers of 1948, including Nobel
Prize Winner Ralph Bunche?
When Mr. MacArthur cites Is
rael’s responsibility to repatriate
and compensate Arab refugees, he
is quoting from Paragraph 11 of
the 1948 Resolution: “ . . . ref
ugees wishing to return to their
homes and live in peace with
their neighbors should be per
mitted to do so at the earliest
possible date.”
This is one section of the UN
Resolution. There are at least 13
other sections; and it is in those
sections that the obligations of
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all issues unresolved by that un
happy and fragile truce of 1948
that put Israel’s defense against
the attacking Arab states in the
same category as the Arabs’ out
rageous onslaught.
Why doesn’t the State Depart
ment note the following reveal
ing section of the General Prog
ress Report of the UN Concili
ation Commission for Palestine in
1951:
“The Conciliation Commission,
while fully recognizing the im
portance and extreme emergency
of the refugee question, both from
the humanitarian and political
points of view, did not consider
it possible to separate anv one
problem from the rest of the
peace negotiations or from the
final peace settlement”?
Meeting in Paris with Arab and
Israel delegations in 1951, that
same C o m m i ssion submitted
peace proposals to these rivals.
In doing so, it stated clearly:
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“In drafting these proposals,
the Commission had considered
that any solution of the refugee
question would involve impor
tant commitments by Israel. But
it had also considered that Israel
could not be expected to make
such commitments unless, at the
same time, she received reason
able assurance from her neighbor
as to her national and economic
security.”
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