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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 \ m O U! O UJ VOL. LV Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, July 27, 1979 Nc.. 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. Ab220