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less iowin shalom, the
lvyy Iuw " SWEETEST WORD
At this writing the world is awaiting an official reply from Israeli
■Prime Minister Golda Meir on her nation's acceptance of the Nixon
■Plan for a Mid East peace which is prefaced by a 90-Day Cease Fire
Agreement.
JTA-Jewish Telegraph Agency
AJP- American Jewish Press
SAF-Seven Arts Features
WNS- World News Service
JCNS-Jewish Chronicle News Service
f Israel is considering the wording of the highly important docu-
ment. Mere acceptance of the Nixon Plan brought the resignation
of the Gahal faction from the coalition cabinet. Menachem Beigin,
■56 year old leader and co-founder of Herut, voiced the strongest op-
position to acceptance which he termed a "catastrophe."
We do not think Israel's conditional acceptance of the plan is cata-
strophic. We think it is one great step on the long road to final peace
m the Middle East. We also would prefer to speak affirmatively of any
plan that would hasten Shalom~as long as that plan does not include the
|dismemberment of a nation or the destruction of its defensive positions.
It is only fair to give the Arab-Soviet bloc all the room they need-
to save face and convince their dissenters from within-to get imple-
mentation of the Cease Fire under U.N. auspices as soon as possible.
Sometimes diplomats are so busily engaged in their intrigues and
diplomatic chess games they tend to forget that precious lives are
being lost.
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Israel Says 'Yes!'
Lives are precious.
| All lives whether Arab or Jewish.
With this predicate in mind let us consider one bask guarantee that
•the Cease Fire should ensure. (For we have had many Cease Fires be-
■fore and they have all been violated and it would only be redundant
to recite who did what to whom and why retaliation was necessary.)
A Cease Fire should mean exactly that. No shooting. That's base and
[a multi-nation patrol and observation team should be on hand to
make certain that no violations occur.
■ The next step-and this is one which worries Israel greatly and
Should be of equal concern to the Arabs-is that no build-ups of posi-
tions is allowable. Guaranteed inspection on the ground and by air
should be encouraged and allowed. Israel's major defense is her air
(supremacy over the region through effkient use of master-pilots. If
during the Cease-Fire SAM'3s are positioned along the Canal frontier
then the entire diplomatic operation would have been prelude to a
(farce and the round of combat following will make the Six Day War
■look like a teaparty. President Nixon spoke of guarantees preventing
this episode from developing and we trust that they will be effective.
| The next important step, once the Cease Fire is a viable and
cooperative agreement and arrangement, is to begin Peace negotiations
toward a permanent settlement of ail boundaries and outstanding dis-
putes. Refugees and water rights should be of high priority.
President Nasser, for whatever reasons which motivated him, has
agreed to the recognition of Israel by making this first step. Realistically
|ie "recognized" Israel the moment he ordered the first shot fired
against her. One doesn't engage a non-entity in battle.
i We respectfully suggest then that President Nasser and King
Hussein follow this to its logical conclusion and recognize Israel's
tight to exist independently with secure operations.
i It also means that Jerusalem must remain as the capital of a united
Holy City under Israel's sovereignty but with the same rights now
being accorded all religious groups.
I Peace in the Middle East can come.
^ In fact it should come.
It could bring an era of making the Middle East one of the garden
spots of the world with the Mediterranean being an attractive year-
pund resort promoted internationally for the benefit of all the nations
if the area.
Agriculturally and industrially Peace can take up the neglected
jultural lag that has pauperized the average Arab and made him a
pawn.
We hail this move toward real peace.
We pray that it will arrive with great speed.
1 With all the heroics of defense which are justafiably commend-
able the sweet word of Shalom is the best word in our language.
L
o Nixon Cease-Fire
TEL AVIV, (JTA) - Israel’s leaders grappled this week with one of the most agonizing
decision’s in Israel’s short history - how to word acceptance of the Nixon Administration’s
Middle East peace initiative despite its acknowledged hazards to Israel’s security.
The hard-lining Gahal faction quit the 38-month-old Government of National Unity,
in a flat rejection of the implied commitment in an Israeli acceptance of Israeli withdrawal
from much of the occupied areas. The walkout-which was approved by the party’s central
committee by a narrow vote-came as the Cabinet finally met, after many postponements,
to try to settle the issue.
In a surprise development, the Soviet Union lauded President Nasser of Egypt for his
qualified acceptance of the plan and denounced elements of the Arab world-with
specific reference to guerrilla groups - which have assailed the Egyptian dictator for his
stand. At the same time, the Chinese Communist regime denounced Nasser for his ap-
proval, and assailed both the Soviet Union and the United States for their roles in the moves
toward a settlement.
President Nixon, speaking at a press conference in Los Angeles, expressed the belief
that Israel could safely accept the key feature of the proposal made to the contending
parties on June 19 by Secretary of State Rogers - a 90 day cease fire on the Suez Canal
battlefront. He repeated earlier assurances from his administration that Israel could ac-
cept the cease-fire without fear of a Soviet-backed Egyptian military buildup along the
west bank of the canal.
The Gahal faction, which holds
six of the 24 cabinet Ministries and
opposes concessions on occupied
Arab territories, said a cabinet ap-
proval of the U. S. initiative lead
to their break from the coalition;
The Labor Alignment leaders - in-
cluding Premier Golda Meir, De-
puty Premier Yigal Allon, Foreign
Minister Abba Eban and Defense
Minister Moshe Dayan - favor
acceptance of the U. S. initiative,
despite doubts about its efficacy.
The Meir government controls 18
of the 24 cabinet seats, but Mrs.
Meir has urgently pressed for un-
animity.
The split within Gahal is along
factional lines. The Liberal wing,
headed by Minister-Without-Port-
folio Joseph Sapir is believed al-
most unanimous in wanting to stay
in the government. There is also
reportedly a strong leaning toward
the Liberal point of view within
the Herut faction. According to
some observers, the Herut wing
could be persuaded to remain in
the government were it not for Mr.
Beigin. The latter, who also holds
ministerial rank without portfolio is
strongly supported in the cabinet by
his colleague, Haim Landau. He is
supported, but with less enthusiasm
reportedly, by Herut s third cabinet
member, Minister of Transport Ezer
Weizman, a former Air Force gen-
eral. Gahal sources reported today
Minister without Portfolio and Leader of the Gahal Party Mr. Mena-
hem Beigin, explains why he left the meeting at which the leaden of
his party decided to leave the Israel Coalition Government of Mrs.
Golda Meir agrees to implement the Rogers Plan.
that Mr. Beigin was being visited by the State of Israel.” He didn’t make
deputations of private citizens urg-
ing him to reconsider in the in-
terests of national unity. Dr.
Joseph Burg, Minister of Welfare
and a leader of the National Re-
ligious Party, appealed to Gahal
today to stay in the coalition. He
claimed that “on any tactical or
strategic step Israel takes, it is im-
portant that the voice of Gahal be
heard.” Dr. Burg also called on
American Jews to “make their
voices heard at this crucial time for
Cry of anguish from Leningrad Jews
it clear whether he was asking
them to urge Gahal to stay in the
cabinet.
VIEW FROM WASHINGTON:
FIRST STEP FOR MIDEAST
PEACE BUT STILL LONG WAY
TOWARD SOLUTION
WASHINGTON, (JTA) - Official
Washington indicated this week that
it believes the first small step has
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Two Leningrad Jews have written to the Presidium of the
Supreme Soviet and the Procurator General of the USSR pleading
for the release of eight Jews arrested in Leningrad on June 15,
| mtesting against the hours of degrading searches suffered by other
x^eningrad Jews, and declaring that the city’s Jewish community
lives in “ agonising uncertainty . .. waiting for what will follow.”
Grigory Vcrtlib, a jurist, and
Gilel Shur, an engineer, say in
their letter that a trial is being
prepared against people who wan-
ted only one thing : to go to Israel.
The arrest and trial of these
people, they allege, is revenge on
the part of the authorities who had
not been able to break their spirit.
“ We categorically state: those
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“FAST DAY TO HILITE
JEWS PLIGHT.”
arrested had written all their com-
plaints and petitions in complete
accordance with Soviet la\^s. They,
like us, had never thought to com-
mit any act that violates the law
or which is harmful to the Soviet
people.”
Was it the decision of the Soviet
Government to assimilate those
Jews who did not want to go to
Israel and to subject the rest to
oppression ? the two Jews asked.
They did not know how the KGB
would attempt to formulate its
charges, “ but we know this : the
main reason for the start of the
legal proceedings against them is
the firm desire of those arrested
to go to the historical homeland of
the Jewish people in Israel.”
In these difficult days, said Mr
Vertlib and Mr Shur, “we cannot
keep silent, even if revenge falls
on us. We have already experi-
enced repression at work. . . .
What next, Procurator General of
the USSR ? Another trial against
us ? And later more trials against
others who wish to go to Israel?
“We demand freedom for the
innocent people arrested f Give
them, and us, the possibility of
going to Israel! ”
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