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Radio Incites
Old Jerusalem
Strikeby Arabs
JERUSALEM (JTA)— A gen
eral strike in the Old Jerusalem
section of this city virtually par
alyzed all business in that area,
as Arab-owned shops and res
taurants were closed and buses
run by Arabs stayed off live
streets. The strike had been call
ed by a group calling itself the
“Committee for the Defense of
Arab Jerusalem,” and had been
sparked by broadcasts over the
Jordanian radio, beamed from
Amman, e n c ouraging actions
against the unification of the city
by Israel.
The action, as o&lied for by
Radio Amman, wa3 linked to the
fact that Nils-Goran Cussing, the
personal United Nations repres
entative for humanitarian issues
sent by Secretary-General U
Thant, arrived here to begin talks
with the Israeli Foreign Ministry.
He had corr.e her.; from con
versations on the Arab refugee
problem with Jordanian officials.
Israeli authorities were alerted
to the plans for a strike, after
leaflets signed by the committee
were found to have been distri
buted throughout fomiei Old Jer
usalem. The tone of the leaflets
was considered as lacking incite
ment but of a nature summoning
Arabs to civil resistance.
However, the Israeli authorities
took no chances. Police and mil
itary surveillance was increased
Tito Bobs Up With ‘Peace Plan’,
Says Israel Was Aggressor
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Yugo
slavian President Tito ha* ar
rived in Cairo with hi* own
“peace plan” for breaking the
Arab-Iaraeli deadlock, The Wash
ington Post reported. The presi
dent of the Washington Post
Company, Katherine Graham,
cabled a personal interview held
with Tito at Brioni.
According to the Graham inter
view, Tito held that Israeli forces
must withdraw from conquered
territory in ex change for an in
ternational guarantee of borders
as they were before June 5. Is
raelis independence and security
would then be assured by the
UN Security Council or by the
big four powers, Tito said.
He maintained that the new plan
was a compromise because it in
effect amounted to de facto rec
ognition of Israel. The Tito plan
would relieve Arab leaden of the
need to unilaterally recognize Is
rael. Tito feels they could not do
that and survive politically. He
described activities of some cir
cles inside Israel as reminiscent
of Adolf Hitler’s methods, The
Post reported.
The Post said Tito asked how
it was possible that Jews “could
resort to methods freon which
they themselves suffered so
much.” He contended that Israel
has been the aggressor since 1948,
citing Israel occupation of mist
in 1947, the Arab refugee prob
lem, the 1958 war, Israel's 1987
refusal to permit UNEF on tile
Israeli territory, Israel's allnpd
rcent preparations to ins"
Syria, and the June
war,”
Tito said the Arab* would ob
tain better anna and might re
drew grievances by fonoe. »•
held that it was a mistake to as
sume that the Arabs were poor
lighten because they were
by surprise. Israel’s
succeeded only because the Arab*
were caught off guard, said Tfth.
He blamed this particularly on
assurance* by the United States.
and others that Israel would not
attack. Accordingly, he said, the
attack found the best Egyptian
armored division in the interior
and all the plane* on the ground.
Tito stated that if Israel is not
persuaded to surrender the occu
pied territory, it would set a pre
cedent that others would use. He
said the Soviet Union was giving
the Arabs arms in proportion to
what they had before. He claimed
that Israel was armed better than
before because of captured war
booty. He indicated agreement
with Moscow’s pro-Arab polity.
He stressed that be only wants
peace and said he “feels certain
that this is also Nasser’s predom
inant desire.”
sections of the city, while heli
copters flew overhead watching
for possible trouble. No overt ac
tions of any kind occurred. Three
young Arabs were arrested on
charges that they were inciting
shopkeepers to close their busi
nesses.
Egypt Said Violating
Canal Agreement
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Egyp
tian boats carrying armed sol
diers were reported here to be
patrolling the west bank of the
Suez Canal in apparent violation
of an Egyptian-Israel agreement
that neither side is to use the
canal for one month. The agree
ment was negotiated by Lt. Geifc
Odd Bull, the United Nations
supervisor for cease-fire arrange
ments ordered by the Security
Council in the June war.
The U.N. agreement provided
that no shipping would move on
the waterway except traffic of
boats bringing provisions to
ships stranded in the Canal after
the Egyptians sank a number of
vessels at strategic points to
block the waterway. Israeli of
ficials said no naval craft are
moving along the eastern bank
except on Bitter Lake. Israeli
officials were considering a
warning to Egypt, through Gen.
Bull, that if the Egyptians con
tinued patrolling, Israel would
follow suit.
When United Nations observers arrived for impartial attention
to both Sues canal banks, they found aft mtitfhhed faetr brwB boats
on the eastern canal side. Courage Is needed by the soldiers, such as
those above, who row the dinghies; they are under perpetual Egyptian
fire from the west bank—but proud to fly the Israeli flag.
Belgrade Hints Secret Pact
Between Johnson and Kosygin
New Role of ‘Conqueror’
Keeps Top Israelis Busy
LONDON (JTA)—Official cir
cles in Belgrade, capital of Yu
goslavia, believe that the Middle
East crisis has been “effectively
sealed off” ihrough a secret un
derstanding leached by President
Johnson and Soviet Premier Al
eksei N. Kosygin during their re
cent conferences at Glassboro,
N. J., The Sunday Observer here,
as well as newspapers in India,
reported from Belgrade.
Details of this understanding
have recently been made known
to the Middle East states directly
concerned, as well as to other
powers, such as Britain, India
and Yugoslavia, which have a
special interest in the Middle
East, the reports said. They
quoted Yugoslav officials as stat
ing that President Johnson and
Premier* Kosygin had agreed on
the following points aimed at
prevention of the outbreak of
more warfare in the Middle East:
1. The desirability of direct ne
gotiations between the Arab
states end Israel; 2. Israel’s grad
ual withdrawal of its military
forces to the prewar frontiers,
Between Hammer and Sickle'
Starts This Week on Page 4
Beq Ami is the assumed name of an outstanding authority on
Soviet Russia and its three milhon Jews, writing both as an Israeli
and as a native-born Russ)an Jew. Ben Anil has traveled through
the length and breadth' of the Soviet republic and baa made a’
thorough research of the condition of the Jews. He has interviewed
Jews and non-Jews and has gathered Indisputable facts revealing a
tragedy that is certain to stir world Jewry to action. In the series of
articles, commencing wHh this week’s, The Southern Israelite present*
many of the basic foots 4v*e*ted in Ben Ami’s “Between Hammer and
Sickle.”
except for some minor border ad
justments—the withdrawal to be
matched by Arab recognition of
Israel; 3. Israel to be guaranteed
security and lreedom of naviga
tion through the Suez Canal and
the Strait of Tiran; while Israel,
in turn, is to guarantee the pre
war Arab borders; 4. The Soviet
Union and the United States are
to stop shipping arms to either
tne Arab states or Israel, and
both powers are to underwitte
the peace settlement.
Gen. Dayan Reports
Action on Snipers
JERUSALEM WJTA) — Israel
has announced officially that its
military forces blew up a house
in Nablus, on the West Bank of
the Jordan, lrom which several
shots had been directed at Is
raeli border police and at an Is
raeli jeep.
The announcement stated that
the trajectory of the shot fired
at the jeep had been traced to
the house, and it was found that
all the shots had come from the
same buidlng, fired by a single
person. Last week, Israel blew
up a house in the Gaza Strip
after arms were found concealed
in the dwelling.
General MOshe Dayan, Minister
of Detense, reported these actions
to a meeting of the Cabinet He
also reported about the ippopatiic
firing bv Jordanians on four suc
cessive 'day3,40,-Which Israel res
ponded. Those shootings took
place'in the area of the Damiya
bridge over the Jordan River.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli
officials are struggling with the
novel problems of Jews In the
strange role of conquerors. They
acted to halt tendencies among
a few Arab loaders in occupied
territory to withhold cooperation
with Israeli authority and to pro
vide help to Arab residents of
the occupied areas.
Four Arab notables were ban
ished from Jerusalem cm charges
of “incitement to subversion.'*
They were sent to cities in north
ern Israel under conditions of
minimum punishment. Allowed to
choose whatever accommodations
they wanted, their only restric
tion was a requirement to report
to local police regularly. Allowed
to talk to Jewish newsmen, two
of them professed their willing
ness to cooperate and both said
they simply did not understand
why they had been moved out
of Jerusalem.
Anwar El Khatib, a former dis
trict commissioner of old Jeru
salem, also told newsmen that he
had only objected to activities of
the Israeli Religious Affairs Min
istry “interfering” in the “inter
nal affairs” of the Moslem clergy
in the Old City. The next day
Moslem dignitaries in the Old
City were notified by Israeli of
ficials that Moslem affairs in the
area would thereafter be handled
by the Defense Ministry instead
of the Religious Affairs Ministry
in an apparent effort to stem
Arab unrest.
The mood of “non-cooperation”
by i Arab residents appeared by
then to have faded. Complete'
calm reportedly prevailed in all
Israeli-held; Arab he r ritories.
There "was reason for such Israeli
alertness. Ahmed Shukairy, the
organizer of the Palestine Liber
ation Organisation, who fled from-
Israeli armies in the June war,
turned up in Khartoum, wber
Officials also disclosed a vari
ety of programs to help Arabs
the occupied areas where
hood was adversely
the occupation. Israel Labor *
istry sources reported that about
1,000 Arab workers in the Wert
Bank area had been given relief
work in road-building, nffiuartl 1
tion and irrigation project*. The
Bank of Israel oalled for urgent
measures to reactivate the West
Bank economy. Half of the area’s
financial resources are in Jor
danian banks. The Israel Govern
ment is sponsoring credit ibjt
West Bank merchants. «j V (,
In a related development, an.
Israeli official reported that h*
rael was planning a major change
in agricultural production in the
West Bank, involving cutbacks, iq
some orops and efforts to
West Bank farmers to plant
kind* of crops to meet probV
created by the occupation. At
Amida, the Agriculture
director general, also descrit
a press conference a Vong-r
development program to
settlement of Arab refugee* •» OOt,
cupied areas. The plans provvdq
few more intensive cultivating.;
and irrigation which could make
the Jordan River Valley between
Jericho and Beiaan “a paradise,”
he said. He stressed that such
projects were being planned for.
implementation when and if a
political decision about the fu
ture of the occupied sections
made that program necessary.
He said that , West Bank.crop
changes would include cutbacks
in tomatoes and melons became
normal markets for the food*
have been Cut Off by the Occu
pation. He said West Bank firing
era wnt be encouraged' to plant
vegetables, tobacco and cotton.
Since. West Bank farmers have
no experienece in growing tobar-
_ - ,‘1 «) and cotton, they will get spec-
Arab Foreign Ministers • held a ial help to do so. Israeli Arabs
meeting to plan unified adtion will be tent tfcitlve West Bank
against Israel. SiAikshy sboght bectfhn instructors. Arabic
support for proposals to unleash t larigdage radio broadcasts cnbet-
guerrila warfare in the occupied ter fanning are being batoned
areas. j — ^tyinucdl on Jxiqw : r
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry
VoL XLD ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1987