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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, Aug. 2, 1968
THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
BEHIND UN SCENES
by David Horowitz
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Piracy of the High Skies %
It comes as no surprise that a mass of public opinion is
spontaneously arising in America and elsewhere condemning
without any reservation the act of the hijacking of the Israeli
plane.
'Though many of the passengers have by now been re
leased, the crew, five Israeli citizens and the plane are still
under custody.
Release of the plane, however, cannot end the episode.
The deed is a sheer act of piracy of the high skies—not
on the high seas and where coincidentally in days of yore
Algeria was the fester spot for the Barbary Coast brigands.
Specifically and broadly, it endangers the avenues of com
merce.
No wonder pilots, commercial travel groups and country
after^ country are condemning the hijacking. The affront is
jKjf'simply to tiny Israel. It is an insult to the freedom of
the skies wherever decent countries engage in normal com
merce.
At the base for such deeds lie dangers for international
consequence of a nature we can only shudder to contem
plate.
There was an agreement among people of goodwill and
good purpose to honor the freedom of airports and air travel
as a sacred and inviolable trust which has been one of the
major achievements of our modem age. It produced an inter
change of people and mercantile possibilities which had
breathtaking possibilities—£S long as_there was honor among
the nations engaging in air travel.
Now this covenant has been broken. Who is surprised
that the culprit is an Arab nation?
Liberated Passengers Spin
Own Tales of Skyjacking
TEL AVIV (JTA)—An Israeli
passenger on the hijacked El A1
Boeing on its way to Lydda Air
port, who was among those
flown to Paris from the Algiers
airport because he had kept an
Austrian passport, described
here how he had quietly eaten
piecemeal during the flight to
Algiers a picture of him and
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe
Dayan which he feared would
cause his detention.
Dr. Jacob Low of Zichron
Yaacov had been on his way
home from Tokyo where he had
attended an international con
ference. After the Arab terror
ists took control of the airliner
over Italy, Dr. Low began eat
ing the photograph and managed
to finish the “meal” before the
plane was landed at Algiers air
port.
Because of the Austrian pass
port, Algerian officials consider
ed Dr. Low a foreign national
and released him.
Mr. and Mrs. Leon Peppo, of
Columbia, began their honey
moon here one day late because
they had been passengers on the
El A1 airliner. The Peppos ar
rived at Lydda with four other
passengers from the hijacked
plane—an American girl of 18,
an American-born naturalized
Israeli woman and two Libyan
Jews migrating to Israel. The
two Libyan Jews, Kino and
Asher Rakah, had been living in
Italy since they left their native
country after the June 1967
war. They said that after the
Arabs seized control of the
plane, they secretly destroyed
their Libyan passports and the
Algerians gave only « cursory
inspection to their Italian iden
tity cards.
A 27-year-old Brooklyn, N.Y.,
housewife, Mrs. Rina Uziel, was
to have flown from Rome to
Lydda earlier but could not get
a seat and had to wait a day.
She was born in Israel and holds
Israeli and United States citi
zenships. She ascribed her re
lease to the fact that she spoke
only English, not Hebrew on the
plane.
Gabriel Giaz, of Long Beach,
Cal., told reporters at Lydda
that the conduct of the El A1
crew and hostesses had been
exemplary. Both she and Mrs.
Uziel confirmed the reports that
the plane’s first officer, Mzoz
Porez, had been injured by the
hijackers. Miss Giaz praised the
hostesses for the manner in
which they calmed the passen
gers and administered first aid
to Mr. Porez.
Mrs. Uziel said that two of
the hijackers, armed with re
volvers and hand-grena d e s,
threatened the passengers while
a third entered the pilot’s cabin.
All the passengers, she said,
with the exception of seven
Catholic priests, were ordered
to keep their hands up for two
hours.
Mr. Porez emerged from the
pilot’s cabin, she said, . with
blood streaming down his face
from a head injury. One of the
Arabs, she said, dipped his
finger in the blood, licked it and
remarked, “it tastes good. It’s
Jewish blood!”
In Paris, Father Eugenio d’Al-
lensandro, an Italian priest, said
that the Arab had carried a
bowl out of the pilot’s compart
ment and said, “this is blood."
Then, after dipping his finger
in it and tasting it, said “Israeli
blood taste good!”
Nasser’s Stratagem
UNITED NATIONS (WUP) —
Gamal Abdel Nasser, in his first
speech to his nation since his
six-day visit to the Soviet Union,
told the Arab world last week
not to be provoked premature
ly into another war with Israel
but to have “patience in order
to score victory in. the end.”
This “victory,” he vowed,
would come “even if we have
to sacrifice a martyr for each
inch” of the territory lost last
year and he disclosed that he is
spending $690-million a year on
arms, but the time for revenge,
he made clear, is in the future.
The day following his speech,
which was also bitterly anti-
U.S., a dispatch from Cairo re
ported that Nasser had told King
Hussein that the Egyptian arm
ed forces will not be completely
rebuilt and ready to do battle
with Israel before 1970. The
dispatch was based on informa
tion received “from well-inform
ed Arab sources.”
Now Nasser may be telling
the truth or possibly a half-
truth about the potency of his
armed forces. But, as this writer
sees the situation—and as has
been stressed in this column on
several recent occasions — the
Egyptian 20th-century Pharaoh,
a descendant of a people re
nowned for their witchcraft, is
putting on a cunning show in
an attempt to hoodwink and dis
arm those whom he considers his
enemies, namely, the West find
Israel. His Machiavellian strata
gem is to outwit and deceive
them into the belief that he and
his Arab partners are too weak
at present to embark on a new
venture against the Jewish State
when in reality he has it within
his dark satanic heart to launch
a surprise attack in the manner
of Israel’s June 5, 1967 maneu
ver which stunnecl "the~world.
This is exactly what the sly
Egyptian meant when he said:
"... We will not be provoked.
It is we who will make the de
cision” about renewing hostil
ities. In other words, “we will
not wait for Israel to start; we
ourselves will launch the blitz.’
But the general intent of his
speech was to befool the world
into thinking that the UAR is
“unready” for any war and that
Cairo would prefer a “political
settlement” to the Middle East
crisis under the mediation of
U Thant’s envoy Gunnar Jar
ring.”
In the same seemingly self
contradictory speech Nasser
quite bluntly stated that under
no circumstances would Egypt
negotiate directly or sign a peace
treaty with Israel . . .
While some Western diplomats
may be taken in by Nasser’s
trickery and also allow them
selves to be hoodwinked into be-
lieveing that he seeks a political
settlement of the crisis, some of
the Israeli leaders, fortunately,
who know only too well the psy
chology of the Arab mind, are
not so naive.
Gen. Moshe Dayan, among
them, made some interesting
comments on Nasser’s speech
worthy of mention. He said that
the speech made it crystal clear
that even if the Israelis gave up
all the territory occupied in the
Six-Day War, the Egyptians
would still not recognize or ac
cept Israel’s borders. The noted
General warned that the con
flict with the Arab world has
entered another critical stage.
The New York Times, which
on more than one occasion has
failed to understand the Israeli
position as presented in the UN,
took a more realistic view fol
lowing Nasser’s “belligerent
speech” which, it declared edi
torially, “undermines the faint
hopes that were generated by
the more conciliatory statements
voiced during the recent Egyp
tian peace offensive.” The Times,
apparently, had taken the UAR
“peace offensive” seriously and
voiced optimism when the news
came out of London relative to
Cairo’s willingness to accept a
UN peace force once again. Not
so this correspondent who
sounded a warning in a recent
column against Egyptian treach
ery.
Now, however, the Times has
at last come to its senses. “The
Egyptian President’s address,”
said the Times, “and Algeria’s
intolerable action, can only
strengthen the position of hard-
Tourist Director’s
Mother Dies in Israel
Mrs. Estelle Rozenzweig, 67,
mother of Moshe Shosani, S. E.
Tourist Director for Israel in At
lanta, died in Israel July 22.
A native of Poland, Mrs. Roz
enzweig had moved to Israel in
the nineteen thirties.
Mr. Shoshani flew to Israel
for the July 24 funeral. He is
expected back in his office on
Monday.
Mrs. Rozenzweig is also sur
vived by a daughter Mrs. Han
nah Krispin and four grandchil
dren.
Jewish Calendar
•TISHA B’AV
August 4, Sunday
•ROSH HASHANA
Sept. 23-24,
Mon. - Tues.
•YOM KIPP UR
Oct. 2 Wednesday
•SUKKOT
Oct. 7-8,
Mon. - Tues.
•HASHANA RABBA
Oct. 13, Sunday
♦SHEMINI ATZERET
Oct, 14, .Monday „ ..
•SIMIIAT TORAH
Oct. 15, Tuesday
‘HOLIDAY BEGINS
SUNDOWN PREVIOUS DAY
liners in Israel who have argued
all along that the Arabs will
never conclude an honorable
peace and that therefore Israel
must hold on to the conquered
territories.”
Indeed, thus the case stands!
Israel, which has no alternative
but to be on the alert at all
times, “must hold on to the con
quered territories” — which, in
reality, constitute parts of the
historic Eretz Yisrael—until the
enemies sue for peace—on Jer
usalem’s terms.
Nasser may have his strata
gem but it cannot equal the stra
tagem behind the Force in Is
rael’s behalf that maneuvered
the Six Days.
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