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BEHIND UN SCENES
Stronger U. S. Israel Alliance
Seen Good For Both Nations
by David Horowitz i eon Uris Finds No Hippies
Among Israeli YouthToday
UNITED NATIONS (WUP) —
For years this writer has stressed
the importance of the creation of
a strong U. S.-Israel axi3 to the
mutual benefit and security of
both nations. Despite Washing
ton’s continuous reluctance to
enter into a defense pact with Is
rael, it now appears that recent
events are forcing developments
into such a crystallization.
Indeed, the designation of Is
rael’s Chief of Staff, Major-Gen
eral Itzhak Rabin, as Jerusalem’s
new Ambassador to the United
States—to replace Avraham Har
man in January—seems to have
only one significance—the impor
tance that military relations be
tween the two countries will have
above and beyond political and
economic contacts.
There is hardly any other pos-
sble angle that can justify this
appointment. It is Israel’s first
designation o^this kind—the des
ignation of the No. 1 man in the
nation’s mlitary establishment, a
non-career man, to a major di
plomatic post.
In an informal way, so to
speak, the Six-Day War has
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forged a kind of military alli
ance between Israel and the
United States—limited, of course,
to the region of the Middle East.
The war has completely upset
the old balance, bath military
and political. It fa a war that
convinced the most skeptical ana
lysts in the Pentagon and State
Department that Israel is today
the foremost military power in
the region, holding vital strategic
positions along the Jordan and,
even more importantly, along the
Suez Canal and the Red Sea.
True, Israel’s forces along the
Canal may be unequal to the vast
naval concentration put there by
the Soviet Union. However, it is
Israel alone that holds whatever
line is needed in the region and
it is she alone that can block
an initial Soviet attack at least
until the U. S. Fleet can wade
into the picture.
Furthermore, the Middle East
will be bogged down for a long
time in what is currently term
ed the “cease-fire,” a situation
bereft of peace or even a half
peace in the form of a true line.
Foreign Minister Abba Eban
made this crystal clear within
twenty-four hours after Rabin’s
appointment was announced when
he obliquely implied that hope
for Arab acceptance of direct
peace talks has waned and that
Israel was in for a long “cease
fire” period until a settlement
could be attained.
Against this sombre but real
istic background, the designation
to the world’s most important di
plomatic post of Israel’s top mil
itary planner—despite his diplo
matic inexperience or his imper
fect English—meets the compell
ing need of current U. S.-Israeli
relations. It is obviously going
to be primarily one of military
significance.
This does not mean that no
political problems will be attach-
Bourguiba Urges
All Arab Countries
To End Belligerence
UNITED NATIONS (WUP)—A
Reuters dispatch from Tunis re
ported that President Habib
Bourguiba once again has issued
an urgent call on the Arab coun
tries to end their state of bel
ligerency and recognize Israel.
The news was received in UN
circles with great satisfaction es
pecially in light of the further
news from Jerusalem where For
eign Minister Abba Eban had
stated that there is a flickering
of hope of the beginning of a
change in the attitude of* some
Arab leaders.
Addressing the Students Union
in Tunis, Bourguiba had urged
the Arab States to abandon their
“dead-end policy.” In an appar
ent condemnation of the UAR,
the Tunisian President stated:
“Deliberately, and without well
calculating the risks involved,
measures were taken to ban her
(Israel) from the approach to the
Gulf of Aqaba in spite of inter
national agreements and the
existing state of facts.”
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ed to the post. On this score, two
points must be noted. First, that
the U. S. has lost much political
ground to the Soviet Union as the
Arab States broke diplomatic re
lations with Washington, and,
seoond—it was Ambassador Arth
ur Goldberg who had to utilize
an American initiative in order
to hold the United Nations line
on behalf of Israel.
A Sabra, bom in Jerusalem,
who began his military career at
the age of 19 and who is now at
the height of his physical and
intellectual strength and experi
ence, 45-year-old Rabin is Israel’3
“new man,” completely divorced
from the legacy of Europe either
in heritage or as an immigrant.
He is 100 per cent Israeli, thinks
Israeli and feels Israeli, and,
what is more important he is a
son of the region, a product of
the Middle East every bit as
much as any Arab can make a
claim to such geographic roots.
Itzhak Rabin in Washington
appears to be an inspired answer
to the duality of the military-po
litical nature of the problem that
faces both democratic countries
in the world's most strategic
area.
It may be more than a coin
cidence that the letters U.S.A.
form part of JerUSAlem, and that
the six-pointed Star of David is
incorporated into the sovereign
Seal of the United States to be
found on every dollar bill. Look
closely above the Eagle’s head.
Czech Intellectuals
Ask End to Bias
LONDON (JTA) — Czecho
slovakia was reportedly moving
toward an "explosive confronta
tion” between the country’s in
tellectuals and the Czech Com
munist Party, the Daily Tele
graph reported here recently.
The newspaper said that an “as
tonishing outs poken” mani
festo, directed to worfd public
opinion, had been adopted at a
Congress of Czech Writers.
That manifesto, which has now
reached London, after being
smuggled out of Czechoslovakia,
accused the party leaders of
carrying out “a witchhunt of a
pronounced Fascist character,”
employing terror against dissent
ing writers who opposed the
Government’s pro-Arab, anti-
Israel policy. The manifesto
pleaded for abandonment of
“political censorship, anti-Semit
ism and racism” in the country’s
official political policies. The
manifesto had been signed by 69
artists, 183 writers, 21 television
personalities, 56 scientists and
publicists and other intellectuals,
the newsDaper reported.
NEW YORK (WUP)— Young
women in Israel, moat of whom
serve in the Israel army, are total
strangers to anything “beet” or
“hip,” writes the noted author
Leon Uris in an exclusive article
in the September Ladies Home
Journal.
“Few Israeli youngsters drink
or smoke. ‘Pot’ is unheard of.
Juvenile delinquency is a minor
problem,” the article reports.
With few exceptions, young Is
raelis must serve for 20 months
in the army after completion of
high school. Most of them want
to go to college after military
service.
The training of women and
children took on grim importance
in the recent Arab-Israel con
flict when Israeli soldiers dis
covered the bodies of Egyptians
carrying orders to “slaughter
every woman and child.” Women
in Israel are aware of the price
of national survival and their
training is tough, Uris says in
The Journal.
The Women’s Army Corps
trains every young woman to
handle firearms though she is not
called upon to fight in the field.
In the war, Israeli women car
ried on “every conceivable work
to back up the men end allow
them to concentrate on combat”
The women served in commun
ications, transportation, secretar
ial and quartermaster units. Col
onel Stella Levy, the Israeli
Women’s Army Corps Comman
der, says the Corps “Is a con
tinuation of the woman’s duty to
stand beside her man and build
with him.”
The young generation in Israel
comes from all parts of the world.
“They have a variety of shades
to their skin,” but they live and
work together with a common
aim. “If there is a place In the
world that shows bow people of
color live and love and build to
gether in harmony, H fes Israel,”
Uris emphasized.
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