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Kollek invites celebrities
to prove Jerusalem is safe
by Yaacov Ben Yosef
Special to The Southern Israelite
JERUSALEM — Jerusalem’s
Mayor Teddy Kollek has appealed
to politicians and movie stars to
pay a lightning visit to Israel to
prove that the Holy City is safe.
The slaying of a British tourist in
Jerusalem this week gave Kollek
the idea.
Even before the shooting of 28-
year-old Paul Appelby at the Gar
den Tomb, Jerusalem’s hotels were
only half full—as Americans took
President Reagan’s advice and
were not traveling to the Middle
East this year.
Abu Nidal’s terror group took
credit for the attack.
Israeli tourist officials in Britain
reported that British citizens were
canceling trips to Israel in large
numbers as a result of the shoot
ing.
Teddy Kollek. the mayor of Jer
usalem, always angered over ter
rorism in the city he has presided
over since 1965, lashed out at Amer
icans for “handing a victory to
(Libyan leader Col. Muammar)
Qaddafi” by not traveling to Is
rael.
If anyone can get the big shots to
Jerusalem fast, it is Kollek; he has
managed to befriend an array of
talent from Frank Sinatra to
Danny Kaye, Henry Kissinger to
Jimmy Carter. Not that those peo
ple will be coming soon. But Kol
lek will be trying to get enough big
names to try to make the point that
Qaddafi should not have his way.
“It may be as dangerous to travel
in a taxi from one corner of an
American city to another as it is
here,” Kollek told newsman soon
after the attack on Appelby.
The slaying of Paul Appelby,
found with a Bible in his knapsack
and a bullet in his head, particu
larly disturbed Israelis. It marked
Yaacov Ben Yosef
the first time in five years that a
tourist had been killed by terror
ism in Jerusalem.
The Jerusalem shooting was not
the only troubling news for Israel
this week. Word came from New
York that three Israelis had been
arrested as part of a 17-member
ring alleged to be planning to
smuggle arms to Iran.
Soon after New York officials
announced the indictments, ques
tions emerged in Israel whether the
government here knew of the ring’s
existence.
According to the indictments,
the ring allegedly planned to
smuggle $1.5 billion of arms, in
cluding Phantom jets, Skyhawks,
helicopters, and missiles, to Iran.
Precisely how they were going to
do that has not been clearly spelled
out.
One of the three Israelis is a
reserve brigadier general, Avraham
Baram. His arrest caused a sensa
tion in Israel: Baram has been dec
orated for bravery in war and at
one time was under consideration
for a senior police post.
He and the other two Israelis
were arrested in Bermuda. Baram
told an Israeli newspaper reporter
that unless he was helped by the
Israeli government to return to
Israel he would talk freely about
the Israeli government’s role in the
deal.
Nonetheless, emphatic denials
rolled out of Jerusalem. Israelis
made it clear that Israel had halted
arms shipments to Iran some time
ago; the United States had sought
and received Israeli assurances
that Israel would not sell arms to
the Khomeini regime. One Israeli
newspaper reported that Israel had
sold arms to Iran since the advent
of Khomeini to power but that was
a small amount and occurred in
1981.
Hence, there was considerable
embarrassment in Jerusalem at the
prospect that three Israelis, acting
with or without the knowledge of
the government, may have acted
counter to an American-Israeli
understanding.
Furthermore, Prime Minister
Shimon Peres has been hinting of
new progress in Israeli contacts
with Jordan over the fate of the
West Bank.
While Peres did not acknow
ledge, as one Israeli newspaper re
ported, that he had met with King
Hussein of Jordan last week in
Paris, the prime minister did say in
an Israeli TV interview Sunday
that he had been conducting “quiet
diplomacy” of late and that could
be “characterized by mutual under
standing more than agreement.”
The next day sources close to
Peres leaked an unusual piece of
news. Jordan’s King Hussein had
expressed pique at the prime min
ister for divulging the quiet diplo
macy. The revelation was regarded
in Amman as potentially dam
aging to Hussein as he prepared for
meetings with other Arab leaders
in the coming days.
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