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The Southern /Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry - Established 1925
Vol. XLIV
Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, July 4, 1969
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UN Condemnation Four-Power Talks Fail;
On Unified Jerusalem Arabs Quicken Terrorism
UNITED NATIONS (JTA) —
A resolution censuring Israel “in
the strongest terms” for its ac
tions to unify old and new Jeru
salem was approved unanim
ously this week by the 15-mem
ber United Nations Security
Council after it was modified in
private negotiations to delete
punitive proposals. Israeli Am
bassador Yosef Tekoah rejected
'the resolution, saying that “po
litical warfare against Jerusa
lem” would be “fruitless.”
The United States abstained
in a preliminary to nothing
vote on a paragraph which “ur
gently calls once more upon
Israel to rescind forthwith all
measures taken by it which may
tend to change the status of the
city of Jerusalem and in the fu
ture to refrain from all actions
French Pledge
To SeekOrlean's
Rumor Group
PARIS (JTA) — The French
Minister of Interior has pledged
that the Government would use
every legal means at its disposal
to find and prosecute the per
sons responsible for an anti-
Semitic whispering campaign in
the provincial city of Orleans
last month. The pledge was made
by Raymond Marcellin to
Pierre Bloch, president of the
League Against Anti-Semitism.
The campaign in Orleans was
aimed at Jewish merchants who
own some of the city’s most
fashionable shops. The rumors
spread by word of mouth alleged
that women entering the shops
were drugged and sold into white
slavery. The allegations had a
serious effect on business in
Jewish-owned shops, which, ac
cording to latest reports, has not
yet fully returned to normal.
Jews and non-Jews alike were
shocked by the campaign which
was reminiscent of the blood
ritual libels against Jews in the
Middle Ages. Many prominent
citizens and professional trade
organizations have demanded
police action. The Minister of
Interior told M. Bloch that the
French Government “will not ac
cept an attempt to break up
French national unity which is
based on the respect for the in
dividual.”
likely to have such an effect.”
Charles Yost, the United States
Ambassador, subsequently voted
for the resolution as a whole.
Full condemnation of Israel
had been demanded initially
during the debate by Algeria
and Nepal. The approved reso
lution was sponsored by Pakis
tan, Nepal, Senegal and Zambia.
Algeria withdrew as a co-spon-
sor because it considered the
modified resolution inadequate.
The resolution said that if Israel
ignored the order to rescind, the
Council would “reconvene with
out delay to consider what fur
ther action should be taken.”
Tekoah said Israel hoped that
Jordan, which brought the issue
before the Council, would realize
that such actions would not
bring a solution. Jordanian Am
bassador Muhammad el-Farra
proposed that the Council pro
ceed with the “further action” in
the resolution, saying that sanc
tions against Israel were “now
the only remaining alternative.”
The original draft resolution
would have called for an arms
embargo and economic sanctions
against Israel.
Expect Golda
On July 27
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Premier
Golda Meir will arrive in the
United States on July 27 for a
week-long visit during which
she will meet with President
Nixon, Secretary of State Wil
liam P. Rogers and other high
ranking American officials, the
JTA learned.
There was no official confirma
tion of the date from the Prime
Minister’s office which plans to
make the announcement simul
taneously with an announcement
in Washington.
JTA learned however that Mrs.
Meir’s program includes a tele
vision appearance, a press con
ference and meetings with
American Jewish leaders.
She will be accompanied by
Yaakov Herzog, director-general
of the Prime Minister’s office,
and her newly appointed political
secretary, Simcha Dinitz. Mr.
Dinitz is presently in Washing
ton where he is terminating his
duties as minister in charge of
information at the Israel Embas
sy.
Intransigent Arab nations this week accelerated harassment
and terrorist activities in order to dispel any possibilities of normalcy
in the Middle East following collapse of the Big Four efforts to
settle the tension between themselves. >
Israel had steadfastly refused to acknowledge any cooperation
with a plan for settling the situation without face to face con
frontation between the Jewish State and the Arab countries in
volved.
Informed sources said that the Arab countries having failed
in freeing their captured territory lost in the Six Day War
through the Big Four conferences now seem determined to engage
in open warfare rather than admit the real issues involved.
Syrian MIGs were shot down over Israel territory and Egyp
tian forces penetrated into the Sinai side of the Suez but were
forced back witli the loss of about fourteen lives.
Meanwhile, the United Nations voted another condemnation
resolution against Israel because of the unification plans for Jer
usalem. It was regarded as significant that the Security Council
did not vote sanctions.
Washington:
Impasse
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A
welter of conflicting reports
emerged on the status of the bi
lateral United States-Soviet talks
on a Middle East settlement for
mula. Reports of a virtual total
impasse were in conflict with
other indications of more flexi
bility in the Soviet position.
None of the reports came offic
ially from spokesmen for either
Government.
Unidentified Administrat i o n
sources said at weekend that a
deadlock had been reached in the
bilateral talks but that evaluation
was qualified by an additional
estimate that enough progress
had been made to warrant con
tinuation of the talks. The im
passe assessment followed a study
of the Soviet reply to a 13-point
United States proposal submitted
to the Russians in May, which
was delivered to Secretary of
State William Rogers on June 17
by Yuri Tcherniakov, the Soviet
Charge d’Affaires. It was appar
ently put together after Soviet
Foreign Minister Andrei Grom-
ko’s Cairo meeting with Egyp
tian President Nasser.
Informed sources wore cited
as saying the Soviet reply con
tained a detailed blueprint for a
phased * withdrawal of Israeli
forces from all occupied terri
tories, including the Golan
Heights, East Jerusalem, the Jor
dan West Bank and the Sinai
American Jewish Committee Withdraws
From Foundation Over Reparations’ Issue
NEW YORK (JTA) — The
American Jewish Committee_ the
only Jewish member of the In
terreligious Foundation for Com
munity Organization (IFCO), has
quit the foundation over its as
sociation with a Negro militant
group demanding “reparations”
from synagogues and churches.
In its letter of resignation, the
AJCommittee indicated it was
seeking new means to mobilize
Jewish support to meet the needs
of urban and rural poor.
IFCO serves as a clearing
house for contributions from re
ligious (groups to organizations
representing the poor. Its mem
bership includes 11 Protestant
denominations and some Catho
lic representation. Rabbi Marc
H. Tanenbaum, director of in
terreligious affairs of the
AJCommittee, who served as
I president since IFCO was formed
two years ago, and who resigned
recently, said the main reason
for the Jewish group’s with-
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drawal was the “incapacity” of
IFCO to take “a clear-cut po
sition on the revolutionary ideo
logy and racist rhetoric” of the
National Black Economic Devel
opment Corp. headed by James
Forman, which has issued a
“Black Manifesto” demanding
$300,000,000 in “reparations” for
white mistreatment of Negro
Americans. The preamble of
the “manifesto” postulates an
“armed conflict” and “long
years of guerrilla warfare” by
blacks to win their demands.
The IFCO board refused to
take a position on the preamble
and called on member organiza
tions to make contributions to
Mr. Forman’s organization to
carry out programs centered on
control of industries by Negroes.
Rabbi Tanenbaum said that the
board’s silence left the impres
sion of AJCommittee assent to
the ideology of the “manifesto”
and that “we had no alternative
but to withdraw.”
In discussing plans for other
Jewish approaches to aiding the
poor, Rabbi Tanenbaum said that
consultations were taking place
among AJCommittee staff mem
bers involved in race relations
and urban affairs on proposals
to organize a national Jewish
ad hoe group modeled on the
successful experience of the
American Jewish Emergency
Relief Effort to aid starving vic
tims of the Nigeria-Biafra war.
The AJCommittee took the initi
ative in organizing the ad hoc
committee of 23 major Jewish
organizations after Rabbi Tan
enbaum met with relief officials
in Biafra in July, 1968.
He said AJCommittee officials
had been conducting talks with
leaders of major Jewish organi
zations aimed at developing a
simliar ad hoc Jewish coordi
nating group to act for the poor
in recognition of the “urgency
and magnitude” of the urban
Peninsula. This was in conflict
with the United States package
proposal which was deliberately
vague on territorial issues and
called only for “secure and rec
ognized frontiers” which would
not “reflect the weight of con
quest,” and which looked to Is-
raeli-Arab negotiations at some
later stage to work out perman
ent frontiers. The Soviet note,
it was indicated, insisted^that a
formal Arab declaration of non-
belligerence could come only
after a complete Israeli pullback.
The Soviet note also reportedly
called for return of the Sharm el
Sheikh point on the Sinai Pen
insula, which commands the
Tiran Strait, to a United Nations
peace-keeping force without lim
itation on Egyptian sovereignty
over the peninsula, and creation
of demilitarized zones astride Is
rael’s borders which would be
those of the pre-Six-Day period,
implying that some Israeli terri
tory would be demilitarized. Res
toration of the rights of Pales
tinian refugees and a downgrad
ing of the presently-suspended
mission of Dr. Gunnar Jarring,
the UN special envoy to the Mid
dle East, also was in the Soviet
note. It was understood that the
Soviet reply reflected the content
of the communique issued in
Cairo by Gromyko and Nasser on
June 13.
But two other reports appear
ed to conflict with the reported
impasse. Washington Post-^writer
A. D. Horne reported that some
American officials believed that
the Soviet reply went beyond
any previous Soviet note on some
points and that it was being
studied for signs of “bargaining
room” it was hoped that Grom
yko had won from Nasser. Still
another conflicting report emerg
ed from the UN where it was re
ported that the United States and
the Soviet Union were near
agreement on formulas for vol
untary UN peace-keeping activ
ities which could find their most
immediate application to the
Mideast. The talks were report
ed to be virtually complete on
observer missions such as the
90-man UN truce supervision or
ganization in the Middle East. Of
ficially the talks have been
handled by a working group of
eight nations but the key talks
since last fall have been those
between U. S. Ambassador Max
well Finger and Soviet envoy
Lev Mandelovich. The return of
peace-keeping forces to the Mid
east was' known to have been
proposed in the ourrent Big Four
talks at, the UN and in the United
States-Soviet bilateral talks. A
western source reportedly said at
the UN that the Soviets think a
new UN peace-keeping force in
the Mideast would be helpful.
Copyright, 1969, JTA
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Israeli Air
Force jets shot down four Egyp
tian ,MIG 21 interceptors in a
fierce dogfight over the Gulf of
Suez last week, the third aerial
battle over the Gulf in less than
a month. A military spokesman
said the fight developed when the
Egyptian planes intruded into
Israeli air space. The Israeli jets
pursued them and four MIGs
were seen crashing on Egyptian
territory. The spokesman said
the Israeli pilots used both guns
and missiles and that the pilots
reported seeing two of the Egyp
tian pilots bailing out. All Israeli
aircraft returned safely to their
bases, the spokesman said.
Israeli helicopter commandos
raided three Egyptian outposts
on the shores of the Gulf of Suez
about 100 miles south of the Suez
Canal. They killed 13 Egyptian
soldiers in the action and took
one prisoner. According to an Is
raeli spokesman, all of the
raiders returned safely to their
bases. Israeli and Egyptian artil
lery and mortars exchanged fire
across the Suez Canal in the 10th
successive day of fighting along
the 100-mile waterway. The
shooting was concentrated near
Kantara in the canal’s northern
sector and near Port Suez in the
south. Huge fires were seen in
Port Suez indicating direct hits
by Israeli gunners. Two Israeli
soldiers were reported injured.
The commando raids were ap
parently intended to demonstrate
Egypt’s vulnerability to the Egyp
tians. The targets were near oil
fields on the western shores of
the the Gulf of Suez. A prisoner
was taken to refute possible
Egyptian denials that any raid
had taken place. Egypt officially
denied an Israeli raid on electric
power lines near Sougah village
on the Nile Sunday. Israeli photo
reconnaissance planes flew over
the target area and brought
home pictures of the damaged
electric pylons and Egyptian
workers repairing the damage.
A military spokesman said the
Egyptian Government was des
perately trying to conceal the ex
tent of Israeli penetration of
Egyptian . territory, especially
from its own people. An Israeli
Army spokesman con firmed
American press reports that Is
raeli jets had flown over Cairo
in mid-June without encounter
ing opposition. Col. Rafael Ephrat
said he did not know whether
the Israeli pilots had actually
buzzed the home of Egyptian
President Nasser in a fashionable
Cairo suburb as reported, but he
said, they did get a good look
at the Egyptian capital. The Is
raeli overflight with no Egyptian
interference infuriated Nasser
and caused him to change air
force commanders for the fourth
time since the June, 1967 war.
In another action, Israeli jets
struck four guerrilla bases in
Jordan in a pre-dawn bombing
and strafing attack. A military
spokesman said the targets were
near the villages of A Salt and El
Nimrin. He said all aircraft re
turned safely to their bases. The
attack, the second by Israeli jets
in two days, followed Premier
Golda Meir’s warning that at
tacks against Israeli border set
tlements would bring “sevenfold”
retaliation. A significant drop in
the number of guerrilla forays
since Israeli jets went into action
against their bases was noted by
Israeli officials. And for the first
time there was no Israeli inter
ference with Jordanian workers
repairing the East Ghor irrigation
canal damaged by Israeli com
mandos recntly. Mrs. Meir said
that Israel would allow the re
pairs on the assumption that the
Jordanian Government would
restrain its Army and guerrilas
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