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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, July 31, 1970
KOLLEK:
Soviets Not In Mideast
Just To Protect Egypt
NEW YORK (JTA) — Mayor
Teddy Kollek of Jerusidem said
in a television interview sched
uled for broadcast Tuesday
night that the “tremendous”
Soviet presence in the Middle
East “outweighs anything that
would be necessary in order to
protect the Egyptians against
our possible attack.” On the
contrary, he said, “It certainly
is directed toward strengthening
Russia in the sweet waters and
in the warm waters of the Med
iterranean, to give them a
chance, maybe, to control the oil
flow to Europe and to Japan.
AH these efforts wouldn’t be
made just to defeat little Israel.”
Mayor Kollek was interviewed
on “The David Frost Show.”
The Mideast crisis is thus more
“an American show, maybe a
major show, than ours,” the Is
raeli mayor said, adding: “But
the United States is so concern
ed and so much involved in Viet
nam that maybe they don’t see
what’s happening in the Middle
East.” A few moments later, ask
ed whether an Aiperican Jew is
an American first or a Jew first,
he drew laughter and applause
by saying: “It depends about
which country has more to
worry, and thats doubtful at
the moment.”
Asked to compare Egyptian
President Gamal Abdel Nasser
with Hitler, Mayor Kollek re
plied: “I think Hitler was a
madman with a mad idea, to
liquidate the Jews, while Nas
ser has been a very aggressive
enemy, and while we are the
only country whiph is in danger
of being eliminated should the
Arab succeed—after all, nobody
has gassed Jews in Egypt or
killed them with cyanide or
something of the kind.” And des
pite the Mideast hostilities, he
said, Israelis “certainly enjoy
themselves.” He recalled the re
cent 22nd Independence Day
celebration: “A hundred thous
and people were in the streets
and dancing and singing until
four o’clock in the morning or
five o’clock in the morning, and
to hell with Nasser, to hell with
Brezhnev — they won’t tell us
when we should be jolly.” But
there are “personal” aspects to
the war that are not as joyous,
he observed, noting that of his
son's graduating class at high
school, “four are gone so far
and two have lost a limb or
are invalids.” He continued:
“You know what’s happening,
you know the people. The same
as I know the streets of Jer
usalem, I know the community
and the country, and so does
everybody else, and if some
thing happens, you knoW who is
involved. And that makes it very
personal.”
Mayor Kollek said, however,
that he has no fear—“not at all”
—of walking through tjie streets -
of Jerusalem unprotected. He
said a delegation of American
mayors was “astonished at the
fact that I walk around the city
without escort, that there is no
policeman outside my house.”
He explained that in Jerusalem
‘“there jias been no clash in
over three years” between Arabs
and Jews—“not in streets and
not in places of amusement, and
not in shops, and not in working
places i where they .work to
gether.” Violence, he said, “is
not the atmosphere of the city”;
rather, “Arabs come to my
house, I go to .Arab houses
We meet, we disagree, we have
different opinions. They can tell
them openly.” Mayor Kollek
conceded that “The Arabs re
gard us as an occupying
force . . . They would like to
see it (the city) run as a con
dominium. Or they would even
better like us to disappear, by
the force of Allah, or by pes
tilence, or whatever it might
be.” But meanwhile, he said, the
Jews of Jerusalem “have taken
a very simple formula,” name
ly, “We have told them, ‘Look,
we’re running the city now. We
don’t mind you coming in every
day and starting every iheeting
by saying that you are against
us as an occupying force. But
once you have made that
speech, come, let’s discuss side
walks and sewage, and educa
tion, and garbage collection, and
everything else.’ And that ha?
worked.” Mayor Kollek observed
that the Arabs of Jerusalem are
“a very decent lot-very, very
good people.” He noted that
“We have taken over five hun
dred Arab city officials — they
oertainly aren’t inferior to the
Jewish city officials; they are
first-class people.”
Jerusalem has always been an
essentially Jewish city, her Vi
enna-born, 59-year-old mayor
observed. “Nobody else made it
their capital,” he said, “not the
Babylonians, and not the Assyr
ians, and not the Turks, and not
the British. And the Arabs,
when they had it, or half of it,
they didn’t make their capital
there, but Hussein could have
been King of Jerusalem—quite
a nice title. He preferred to be
King of Amman, which was a
Berber village." Thus, he said,
“We say we are the only ones
who have a deep relationship
with the city, a deeper one than
the others.” But, he added, “I
think everybody is united in
the fact that they like Jerusa
lem. There is a particular at
tachment of patriotism about it."
Asked about the chance for
peace in the Mideast, Mr. Kollek
replied: ‘Well, I’m getting my
salary as the mayor of Jerusa
lem, not as the Foreign Minister
of the' State of Israel. But cer
tainly in Jerusalem you would
say that it proves that people
can live together.”
WHAT'S
COOKING
By RUTH SIRKIS
A Heavenly Cheese
. Omelet
Quick recipes shouldn’t taste
or look like you have prepared
them in a hurry. The time and
effort you spent are your own
little secrets. But once the dish
reaches the table it has to look
Iik£ a fancy one. ,
The recipe here proves 'that
this theory is true. It is a recipe
for a cheese omelet which you
can proudly service at a small
luncheon. It has a gourmet touch
to it—and yet it is quick, easy,
and fun to prepare.
For 2 persons:
Four eggs
One-half (sp. cream of tartar
One-half tsp. salt
Two tbls. butter or
margarine
One-half cup grated cheese
Four tbls. sour cream
One tbls. chopped chives
PLEASE READ THE
whole recipe
BEFORE STARTING!
1. Separte the eggs. Whip the
egg white with half a tsp. cream
of tartar. The egg whites should
be stiff but not dry.
2. In a separate bowl whip the
egg yolks together with two tbls.
cold water and half tsp. salt.
Whip till the yolks become very
pale and look light.
3. Quickly heat an oven-proof
skillet on top of the stove, and
melt the butter. Tilt the skillet
so that the sides are also
greased.
4. Fold very gently the egg
yolk into the egg whites. The
whole mixture will have a pale
yellow color. Pour it gently into
the skillet. Fry for three min
utes or until the bottom gets
just a little brown.
5. Put the skillet under a
broiler and broil for about five
minutes. The omelet should puff
and get a golden color at the
top. Remove from broiler.
6. Rim a knife along the edges
to loosen the omelet. Make a cut
in the mdidle of the omelet,
Make a cut in the middle of the
omelet, which will help you to
fold it. Sprinkle the grated
cheese along the cut. Fold over.
Garnish with sour cream and
chives. Serve immediately.
Copyright 1970, JTA
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Continued from page 1
ply Egypt with offensive and
defensive weapons. He condemn
ed U. S. military aid to Israel,
and lauded the Egyptian Armed
Forces for having “astonished
our friends as well as our ene
mies.” Egypt, he said, is “now
fighting a battle of special im
portance against Israeli air su
periority, made possible through
the help of the United States.
The enemy wanted to have our
skies open before his Air Force.
The enemy is launching daily
raids along the canal—between
20 and 150 raids every day, on
certain days dropping about
1,000 tons of bombs or what is
worth one million pounds’ ster
ling ($2.4 million). Their em
phasis has been on the air de
fense forces and their objective
was to prevent them from play
ing their role. But they could
not, and have recently admitted
that the number of air defense
batteries along the canal is in
creasing and not the opposite.”
Nasser added that “The Phan
toms began falling on our land,
and their pilots began falling
into our hands.”
Nasser said that Foreign Min
ister Mahmoud Riad told the
U. S. representative in Cairo,
Donald C. Bergus, that all the
points made by the U. S. pro
posal were incorporated in the
Security Council’s Nov. 22, 1967
resolution. But Nasser said, Mr.
Riad “also told him that we ap
prove of the American propos
als.” Nasser, in this speech dis
closed that Riad’s statement to
Bergus indicated that Egypt was
willing to accept a temporary
cease-fire along the Suez Canal
con-current with informal talks
under the auspices of special
United Nations envoy Dr. Gun-
nar V. Jarring. But Egypt also
insisted that Israel withdraw
from “all occupied territories.”
Israel has rejected that idea as
inconsistent with the UN res
olution, which calls for with
drawal from territories occu
pied” during the Six-Day War.
The American initiative uses
the phraseology of the resolu
tion, omitting the word “all.”
Nasser also announced: “He
(Mr. Riad) told him (Mr. Rogers,
via Mr. Bergus) that we agree
to enforce the Security Council
resolution and that withdrawal
from all Arab territories and the
safeguarding of the Palestinian
peoples’ rights were essential.
He also told him that they (the
U. S.) said Israel wants peace
and that we want war and the
extermination of the Jews. He
told him that the true picture
is that Egypt has agreed to the
Security Council’s resolution
since 1967 and that Israel did
not.” The “extermination” re
mark was apparently a refer
ence to President Nixon’s alle
gation July 1 that Israel sought
peace but that the Arabs want
to drive Israel into the sea.”
Copyright'1970, JTA
Israel Agonizing
Continued from page 1
cized aspects of the U. S. plan,
notably the cease-fire, she will
now find it very difficult, if
not impossible, to reject it out
of hand in the face of its ac
ceptance by the two top Arab
leaders. A favorable response is
thus expected. ,
JWV Auxiliary
Meeting Aug. 10
The Ladies Auxiliary of the
Jewish War Veterans Atlanta
Post 112 will hold an open board
meeting at 8:15 p. m., Monday,
Aug. 10, at the Atlanta Jewish
Community Center.
The forthcoming national con
vention will be discussed.