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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, Jan. 1968
BEHIND U N SCEHES By David Horowitz
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Arab-Soviet Maneuvers
UNITED NATIONS (WUP) —
The daily UN Journal of Tues
day, Dec. 19—the closing date of
the 22nd session of the General
Assembly— listed nineteen con
cluding items for General As
sembly adjudication, six for the
morning session, 'five for the aft
ernoon and eight, for the night
greeting.
Interestingly, the very first and
last items dealt with tifc Israel-
Arab conflict. No. 1 had to do
with the Arab refugees
(UNRWA), and No. 19—the 8th
item of the night session—con
cerned “the situation in the Mid
dle East’’ as a consequence of
the Six-Day Wax.
On the question of the Arab
refugees, the Special Political
Committee had previously adopt
ed three resolutions, one submits
ed by the United States, the sec
ond by nineteen delegations —
bath dealing with the general ex
tension of aid to the refugees—
and the third, by five pro-Arab
sponsors (Afghanistan, Indonesia,
Malaysia, Pakistan and Somalia)
who called for the appointment
of a UN Custodian over Arab
properties in Israel.
This resolution, to the glee of
the Arabs, mustered 42 votes—
just enough to win Committee
approval. 34 voted against it and
24 abstained. No one, however,
believed that it would win the
Despite Protest
Passion Play
Still Unchanged
OBERAMMERGAU (JTA) —
The Passion Play, which is
staged in this Bavarian town
every 10 years, will be per
formed 91 times in 1970, using
intact the’ anti-Semitic text of
1850, despite world-wide pro
tests, it was learned here this
week.
The protests in 1966 and early
1967 reached such a pitch that
Dr. Alfons Goppel, Minister
President of Bavaria, promised
to seek to induce the Oberam-
mergau sponsors to use a dif
ferent text. His efforts failed.
Hans Schwaigerhof, who was to
have directed the 1970 perform
ances, resigned in protest against
the anti-Semitic text. The text
portrays the Jews as a fiendish,
bloodthirsty people.
Ten leading American intel
lectuals joined in November,
1966, in a call fpr a world-wide
boycott of the Passion Play.
However, the village is busy
now««prucing up its 50,000 guest
rooms for tourists. Casting is
scheduled to begin soon.
Sapir Praises Dutch
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — The
people of Holland, who raised
over 16 million guilders ($4.2
million) for Israel’s needs after
the Six-Day War, were lauded
by Israel’s Finance Minister,
Pinhas Sapir, who stopped here
briefly on his way home from
London. The contributions to
Israel came from many non-
Jews as well as. from Holland’s
small Jewish community.
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two-thirds neoesaary for adoption
in tiie Plenary session of the As
sembly. -
Realizing that this anti-Israel
resolution — which Ambassador
Michael Comay had bitterly at
tacked as a “mischievous’’ man
euver that could only complicate
and sabotage Gunnar Jarring’s
current peace mission — would
face certain defeat in the Assem
bly, the anti-Israeli elements
here decided not to press it to a
vote. For this purpose they en
listed Chief Aflebo of Nigeria as
their spokesman. “From consul
tations which have ensued since
the adoption iby the Committee
of the draft resolution,” he told
the Assembly, “I have gained the
impression that the sponsors
would be prepared to consider
favorably an appeal that they
should not press for this draft
resolution to be voted upon. Ac
cordingly, I move that no vote
be taken by the Assembly ...”
This oame as a cunning move
on the part of Israel’s enemies,
since the Arabs and their friends
can now boast of the fact that
an important UN Committee had
“approved" the “Custodian” res
olution—a sort of half-victory.
For never before in previous ses
sions had this their demand for
a “Custodian” been approved in.
the Special Political Committee
as it was this year.
Had the Arabs been insistent
on a vote in the Assembly, they
would have sustained another
humiliating defeat. As it now
stands, the issue is pending and
they plan to exploit the Commit
tee “victory” to the limit. __
During the debate on this issue
—during which several members
of the so-called “Palestine Arab
Delegation” were given the floor
to vent their hatred in the known
vituperative language so familiar
to UN ears—Ambassador Comay
told the UN that the five-power
proposal had no legal basis in
law or in fact. He further in
formed the Committee that the
General Assembly had no author
ity to take the action proposed.
No State in the world, he said,
would agre^ to have “a supra
national authority imposed on it
against its will."
Would the Arab States like to
have a custodian over the con
fiscated Jewish property in their
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states?, he asked. Some half mil
lion Jews from the Arab countries
had been resettled in Israel, he
told the delegates. They had to
leave behind homes, property,
bank (accounts and the Arabs had
not offered any compensation to
them. Israel, on the other hand,
he stated, had given eleven mil
lion dollars in foreign currency
to the Arab refugees through the
release of blocked bank accounts,
but the Arab States had not. re
leased the bank accounts of the
Jews who had lived there.
Thus Camay set the record
straight for the UN to take note.
As the tired and overworked
delegates were anxious to adjourn
the session, the last item oh the
Middle East was also deferred to
the Spring of 1966 when Presi
dent Corneliu Manescu of Ru
mania plans to reconvene the
Assembly. '
This does not mean that the
Middle East will “sleep” until
. the Spring. U Thant’s Special
Representative Jarring must soon
report back here to the Security
Council on his talks with the
Arab and Israeli, leaders and one
can be certain that the crisis will
remain very much in the news.
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