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Begin recovering
Menachem’s resting well
after bout with brain clot
The Souther
Israelite
The Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry
Our 55th Year
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VOL. LV
Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, July 27, 1979
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Failure of U.S. to fulfill
accords raises concern
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Premier
Menachem Begin is making a
“gradual recovery," doctors at the
Hadassah Medical Center
reported this week. They said the
symptoms of dizziness have
cleared up and he is able to walk
around in his room but he is still
suffering from an impairment of
vision. Begin was admitted to the
hospital Thursday night, July 19,
for treatment of a small blood clotl
that lodged in a vein supplying
blood to his brain.
He received get-well messages
from President Carter, Secretary
of State Cyrus Vance and
President Anwar Sadat of Egyt,
among hundreds of others from all
over the world. Sadat's bureau
chief, Hassan Kamel, telephoned
Begin’s chief aide, Eliahu Ben-
Elissar, to convey the Egyptian
leader’s best wishes for Begin’s
speedy recovery.
His doctors have ordered him to
remain in the hospital for 10-14
days after which he will require a
period of rest at home. They
advised that he should not be
disturbed by visitors or matters of
State and that only extremely
important issues be brought to his
attention while he is in the
hospital.
Begin was hospitalized after
complaining of giddiness and
impaired vision, symptoms that
apparently set in Wednesday, July
18, although he continued to carry
his full work load through the next
Begin
day. Dr. Asa Harel, director of tlje
Hadassah Medical Center, offered
a guarded prognosis Sunday. He
said Begin’s condition has passed
the acute stage and was stabilized.
He said that while the symptoms of
giddiness and loss of balance
would disappear over the next two
weeks, it was too early to say
whether Begin’s vision problem
would be corrected during the
recuperative period.
Hard said earlier that Begin had
a “tiny” clot lodged in a vein four
millimeters long. He underwent a
brain scan and, according to
Yediot Achronot, he was to
undergo another test this week to
determine the extent of brain
damage. Harel and the medical
team treating Begin noted that the
Premier was admitted to the
hospital “walking on his own two
See Begin page 24
by Yitzhak Rabi
UNITED NATIONS (JTA)—
In a last minute effort to solve the
issue of the future of the United
Nations peacekeeping force in the
Sinai, Secretary General Kurt
Waldheim met this week with
Israeli Ambassador Yehuda Blum
and Egyptian Ambassador Esmat
Meguid.
The mandate of the United
Nations Emergency Force
(UNEF) expired at midnight
Tuesday and won’t be renewed as a
result of Soviet opposition. Israel
is opposing the replacement of
UNEF with the United Nations
Truce Supervisory Organization
(UNTSO) to monitor the
Egyptian-kraeli peace treaty, as
agreed to by the Soviet Union and
the United States.
Prior to his meeting with the
Secretary General, Blum told a
meeting of Israeli correspondents
that Israel was “concerned" over
the U.S. failure to fulfill its
Late News
In a ceremony lasting barely
30 minutes, Israel turned over
2,400 square miles of the Sinai
to Egypt Wednesday as a
further step in implementation
of the peace process.
commitment as expressed in the
Camp David accords, to form a
multinational force in case the
Soviet Union blocked the
extension of UNEFs mandate.
Blum explained that the U.S. is a
party to many aspects of the peace
treaty between Israel and Egypt
and its failure to fulfill a
commitment in such an early stage
of the implementation of the treaty
is a cause of concern for Israel.
As to the immediate implication
of the expiration of UNEFs
mandate, Blum asserted it will
create “a legal vacuum” though in
reality UNEF troops will continue
to operate at least for a few more
weeks.
One of the major reasons Israel
opposed UNTSO, Blum said, is the
fact that it is not a creation of the
Security Council, and by making
UNTSO a part of the Egyptian-
Israeli treaty, “the Security
Council is taken out of the picture
of the peace treaty” and its
endorsement of the peace treaty is
purposely avoided.
Little-known Mideast facts
cause misunderstanding
by Alon Ben-Meir
exception of Pakistan and Britain. Dr. Mohammed Hassanein
After 30 years of Israeli
statehood many facts about
Israeli-Arab relations are still not
commonly known. This situation
has often been responsible for
gross misperceptions of the whole
Middle East conflict. The
following list should be helpful in
putting some of these facts in the
proper perspective:
1) The Arab countries refused to
accept the UN plan for partition of
Palestine of 1947, and, after a year
of terrorist activity, attacked Israel
on May 15, 1948. The War of
Independence resulted in the
borders known as the 1948 lines.
Had the Arabs accepted the UN
partition they would now control
an area almost twice as large as
they now claim.
2) During the War of
Independence in 1948 the
Jordanian army occupied the area
called the West Bank including the
Old City of Jerusalem and kept it
under Jordanian control until
1967. Official Jordanian
documents always described these
territories as “occupied.”
3) In 1950 Jordan announced
the annexation of the West Bank
and Old Jerusalem to Jordan
proper, an act rejected by all the
other Arab states and the
international community with the
What then is the basis of Jordan's
claim to Jerusalem and the West
Bank?
4) During the Jordanian
occupation of the West Bank, no
Jews were allowed to worship in
their holiest places, and many
Jewish synagogues and cemeteries
were destroyed or desecrated.
5) The Six Day War of 1967 was
clearly instigated by Egypt. Both
PARIS (JTA) French Foreign
Minister Jean Francois-Poncet
was to meet this week with the
Palestine Liberation Organiza
tion’s head of foreign relations,
Farouk Kaddoumi, amidst
increasing reports that PLO chief
Yasir Arafat might pay an official
visit to France sometime in
autumn. French officials say they
“khow nothing” about such a visit
but Palestinian sources claim “the
principle has been agreed upon
and now we must only work out
the details.”
The Palestinian sources say
Kaddoumi, who last met with
Francois-Poncet in February, will
Heikal, the former editor-in-chief
of Al-Ahram and Nasser’s
confidant, and later President
Anwar Al-Sadat in his
autobiography, “In Search of
Identity,” admitted that Nasser
wanted the war with Israel. The
closing of the Gulf of Aqaba to
Israeli traffic and the dispatch of
80,000 men and 2,000 tanks to the
See Facts page 24
discuss the details concerning such
a visit with the French Foreign
Minister. The sources say
Kaddoumi will also brief Francois-
Poncet on Arafat’s meeting earlier
this month in Vienna with
Austrian Chancellor Bruno
Kreisky and Socialist Internation
al president Willy Brandt.
According to the French daily,
L’Aurore, the PLO leader wants
“to obtain the backing of the nine
European Economic community
member-states, the only power
block with which he can make
some progress and which could in
turn influence America.” The
paper said French President
Valery Giscard d’Estaing favors
See PLO page 24
PLO hopes Europe
will influence U.S.
by Edwin Eytan
See it again
Memorable scenes from NBC-TV’s 1978 movie,
"Holocaust,” which will be shown again on national
television on four nights, Sept. 10-13.
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