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Southern Israelite I
The Weekly Newspaper For Southern Jewry
Our 55th Year
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VOL. LV
Atlanta, Ca. Friday, February 23, 1979
No. I
Dayan arrives in the U.S
for another round of talk.
He’s optimistic about Camp David and
hopeful that obstacles to peace can be removed
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by Yitzhak Shargil
TEL AVIV (JTA)—The long
close cooperation between Israel
and Iran officially came to a sad end
Monday with the return of the last
33 Israelis from Teheran. The large
Iranian delegation here also
announced it had been recalled.
The end of what had mainly
been economic relations, since
Iran had never established official
diplomatic relations with Israel,
came amid reports from Teheran
that the government controlled by
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
had turned over the Israeli trade
mission building to the Palestine
Liberation Organization. Iran
announced Sunday night it was
expelling all Israelis.
PLO chief Yasir Arafat, who
received a warm welcome in Iran,
presided at the takeover Monday
and was reported to have said: "We
freed Iran today and we will do the
sgme with Palestine tomorrow.
Under the leadership of Ayatollah
Khomeini and with the help of
Iranian freedom fighters, we will
free Palestine."
Arafat, who was the first foreign
official visiting Iran since the
revolution, was told by Khomeini
that Iranians would "turn to tne
issue of victory over Israel” once
the new Iranian government had
consolidated its strength. Arafat
reportedly declared that the
Iranian revolution had “turned
upside down" the balance of forces
in the Middle East. He said “every
Iranian freedom fighter is
represented in the Palestinian
revolution."
The returning Israelis were
welcomed home almost as
returning hostages by a high-level
delegation.
The returnees included El AI,
Jewish agency and economic
mission personnel. Among them
was Mordechai Ben Porat, a
former MK who went to Iran on a
special mission to help bring
Iranian Jews to Israel. He said in
the last few days there were a
growing number of Jews who
wanted to leave but the new
Iranian government has banned all
Iranians from emigration.
“We came out of hell,” one of the
returning Israelis said. “These were
the most difficult daysof our life."
The Israelis had stayed in hiding
during the last few days in a
Teheran suburb and were
evacuated along with close to 800
Americans to Frankfurt from
where they were flown by El AI to
Israel. They were apparently told
when they arrived here not to talk
to the press, but the agony they had
gone through could be seen on
their faces.
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Foreign
Minister Moshe Dayan and his
aides arrived in the U.S. this week
for a new round of talks with
Egyptian Prime Minister
Mustapha Khalil and Secretary of
State Cyrus Vance which began
Wednesday at Camp David. The
objective is to remove the obstacles
blocking the way to an Israeli-
Egyptian peace treaty.
Dayan replied affirmatively
when asked by reporters at Ben
Gurion Airport if there was any
point to the second Camp David
meeting inasmuch as the Egyptians
have announced they will not
retreat from their previous
positions.
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry
Sunday that Khalil will not
with Ds)$i and Vance,
life observed before bn
departure that the meeting was
initiated by the U.S. “and
apparently they have some
proposals that may be acceptable
to both gjdes. It is |1} in the hands
of the Americans," Dayan said. He
added, however, that the U.S. has
not set any fixed agenda for the
talks, probably because Vance was
accompanying President Carter on
his visit to Mexico last week.
Dayan is expected back in Israel
Sunday to report to the Cabinet on
the results of the first stage of the
Camp David discussions. In a
televised interview last weekend,
he stated that a summit conference
would be necessary even if the
ministerial level talks at Camp
David are “a staggering success."
He said he would regard them as “a
influence Israelis to take
cognizance of objective realities.
The Foreign Minister said hedid
not see his role in the new talks as
that of a “mailman” merely to
“read out Israel's position, listen to
the Egyptian and American
positions, not them down and go
back to Jerusalem to report." He
Bulletin!
As a U.S. Defense Department survey team made preparations
to go to Egypt hi response to President Anwar Sadat’s request for a
board range of sophisticated American arms so it can expand Its
military role hi the Middle East, U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus
Vance, Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan, and Egyptian
Prime Minister Mustafa Khalil began new talks at Camp David.
With a strict newt blackout in force, the atmosphere was caked
"warm and Infnsmal," in contrast to the two feet of snow outside.
great success” for Israel if they'
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would be able to clinch the treaty
at a subsequent summit
conference."
Dayan also explained that his
remarks last week about the
Palestine Liberation Organiza
tion’s importance in the peace
making process had no “operative”
meaning inasmuch as he was not
proposing that Israel sit down and
negotiate with the PLO. He said
the intent of his statement was to
sandhis role, as he saw it, would be
to “probe... to put forward teat
ihnerminr where, in our estimation,
understanding or agreement could
be reached despite the difference of
opinion.”
He disclosed that the issues on
the agenda would include five
unresolved treaty issues: the
“review clause” (Article IV); the
"priority of obligations clause’
(Article VI, paragraph 5); the
"linkage clause” (Article VI,
paragraph 2); and the “target date"
See Dayan, page 21
Housekeeping, Israeli style
These Israeli soldiers are no powder puffs. See story page 20.