Israel's aggressive
Mid-East record

By TOM MORRIS

In an open message on Octo-
ber 16 Egyptian president Sadat
outlined a five-point plant for
ending the fighting. <

e “We want to recover our
occupied land and ensure the
legitimate rights of the Pales-
tinians and we are ready to
abide by the United Nations
resolutions in this regard.

e “We are ready to accept
a ceasefire based on immedi-
ate and complete withdrawal
of Israel to the borders exist-
ing before June 5, 1967. As
soon as the withdrawal is
completed we shall observe
the ceasefire.

e “We are ready to attend
@ peace conference at the
United Nations and I shall
try to persuade other parties
concerned to attend, and will
also try to bring the Palesti-
nmians around the conference

e “We -are ready- to re-
open the Suez Canal, and I

have actually given orders to

this effect and steps have

been taken.

‘@ “We are not ready to
accept vague promises. We
want clarity of intention and
of targets.” =

Chilling Reply

Israeli premier Golda Meir’s
immediate reply to Sadat, given
in parliament, was. chillingly
clear: “The ceasefire will come
only when the enemy power is
broken. When we bring our ene-
mies to the verge of collapse,
there will be no few volunteers
to offer mediation.” .

Two days later at the United
Nations, Israeli Foreign Minister
Abba Eban described Sadat’s
plan as “a very sharp hardening
of an already extreme posi-
tion . . .’ He put forward what
he called a “substantial compro-
mise” stating Israel may be
willing to give up part of the
occupied lands. :

Rather than being a new of-
fer, it is in fact neither new
nor a compromise.

eve

“What is the fate of many
leading Chilean Jewish figures
who were active in the legally

elected Salvador Allende popu-—

lar unity government?”

This and other questions were
raised, and with good reason, in
a New York Daily World article
(Sept. 29) by Simon W. Gerson.
One of them is: “Why did the
Israeli government ‘rush to re-
cognize the junta?”

Such questions, Gerson points
out, are “deeply troubling the

Jewish community, including
pro-Zionist groups, throughout
the world.

“The Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, a New York-based
news service funded largely by
Israeli sources, reflected the
deep worries of the Jewish com-
munity in one of its first syndic-
ated dispatches after the mili-
tary putsch against the Allende
government.” The Agency head-
lined a dispatch by news editor
Murray Zuckoff: “Chilean. Jewry
Faces Uncertain Future.” Zu-
ckoff said that “of immediate
concern is the fate of the Jews
who were most prominent
among the 150 or so Jews in the
Allende Administration.

Chile junta sti

“There is no immediate infor-
mation about the safety or
whereabouts of Jacobo Schaul-
sohn, a member of the five-man
Constitutional Tribunal who for-
merly served as president of the
Board of Deputies; Dr. Enrique
Testa, head of the Defense
Council, who, was long active in
Jewish affairs and was on leave
as president of. the Bank of
Israel in Chile; Jaime Faivovich,
Mayor of Santiago; Daniel Sil-
berman, director of the coun-
try’s Copper Mining Corpora-
tion; Jose Berdichevsky, chief of
Chilean military aviation in the
Southern Region, and Volodia
Teitelboim, the Communist Par-
ty senator.”

Since Zuckoff’s article ap-
peared, it has been learned that
Faivovich received asylum in
the Mexican Embassy in Santi-
ago and Teitelboim is out of the
country. :

Jewish Youth

“Commenting on the attitude
of the Chilean Jewish youth to
Allende, Zuckoff wrote:

“For many young Jews, espe-
cially the Zionist youth, the de-
posing of Dr. Allende and his

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In a speech 14 months ago,
August 17, 1972, Defense Min-
ister Dayan put out the same
proposal: “In the Sinai desert it
is possible, by agreement be-
tween Egypt and Israel, to draw
a dividing line, (through the oc-

-cupation territories)’ temporary

or permanent, which would
give the populated areas, both
of Israel and Egypt, a range of
security.” In simple terms this
offer means that entire dreas of
conquered Arab lands would re-
main occupied. In addition it ad-
mits to Israeli settlements and
construction — a vital part of
defacto annexation — with the
attendent replacing of the Arab
population with Israeli settlers.
Abba Eban’s “‘substantial com-
promise” is simply a warmed-up
version of Dayan’s 1972 propo-
sal which was then, and _re-
mains, unacceptable.

The 1967 Israeli attack on
Egypt, Syria and Jordan result-

~ed in the conquest of almost

35,000 square miles of Arab ter-
ritory — three times as much
land as the size of Israel itself.
In the six years since, Israel
has busily engaged in develop-
ing the occupied lands. By De-
cember 1973, 42 permanent new
settlements had been built. In
February 1972 more than 100,000
acres of land at the -southern
end of the Gaza strip were
fenced in. The Bedouin popula-
tion were driven out, their
homes, crops and wells destroy-
ed — all under the pretext of
“security”.

Israeli. annexation plans, ‘in-
cluding radical alterations to the
face of the land, were so dras-
tic that the United Nations Ge-
neral Assembly adopted a resol-
ution in December 1972 which
calls upon Israel “to rescind
forthwith all measures and de-
sist from all policies and prac-
tices affecting demographic
structure or physical character
of the occupied Arab territo-
ries.” Only six countries joined
Israel in opposing the resolution

government can only be a tra-
gedy. When S. W. Gerson was
in Santiago last April on a field
trip for the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, he says, he was told by
several Zionist spokesmen that
Zionist youth were deeply com-
mitted to helping the Allende
government implement some of
his socio-economic policies.”
Fears for the Chilean Jewish
community’s fate pre-date the
military putsch, according to
Zuckoff. He writes that “the
right wing tried to generate
anti-Semitism” long ago.

Blames Jews

“On April 12, for example,”
he writes, ‘the right-wing daily,
La Segunda, carried an article
attacking Faivovich for a policy
he was trying to institute in
Santiago . . . In the last few
weeks, as tensions mounted...
anti-Semitic harangues became
more frequent and_ sharper.
More and more the pattern was
emerging, blame the Jews, espe-
‘Cially those in government, for
the social ills of the country.”

After the putsch, JTA report-
ed in its Sept. 20 bulletin, a
letter appeared in El Mercurio,

but the annexation policy con-
tinued.
World Opinion

Hand in hand with their an-
nexation policy, Israel consist-
ently sabotaged all efforts aim-
ed at arriving at a just settle-
ment of the problems confront-
ing the Mid-East. Fresh from
her military victories in June,
1967 Israel. defied U.N. Security
Council Resolution 242, passed
in Nov. 1967, which clearly sets
out world opinion. The resolu-
tion starts by “emphasizing the
inadmisibility of the aquisition

‘of -territory by war” and lays

down two principles as the
basis for negotiations: “a. With-
drawal of Israeli armed forces

from territories occupied in the -

recent conflict; b. Termination
of all claims or states of belli-
gerency and respect for and
acknowledgement of the sover-

, eignty, territorial integrity and

political independence of every
state in the area.”

As far back as February 1971,
UN special representative Gun-
nar Jarring sent Israel and
Egypt a memorandum request-
ing answers to specific ques-
tions on the practical realization
of Resolution 242. The Govern-
ment of Egypt replied without
delay to these questions, there-
by confirming its intention to
carry out all points in the resol-
ution and, in the event of the
withdrawal of Israeli ~forces
from occupied Arab territories,
conclude a peaceful settlement
with Israel.

The Israelis refused to fulfill
the Security Council resolution
and other resolutions later
adopted by the General Assem-
bly.

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one of the two major dailies
permitted under the _ junta,
which stated that “the Jewish
Communist conspiracy had to
be destroyed. There should be a
Jew hanging from every lamp
post in Providence” (a middle
class section of Santiago).
Israel’s Action Assailed

Paralleling. the fears for the
Chilean community of 25,000
Jews is a mounting wave of
indignation at the obscene haste
with which the Israeli govern-
ment extended diplomatic re-
cognition to the Chilean murder
regime. ©

On Sept. 25 the Union of Jew-
ish Students in France called on
“all progressive and democratic
Jews” ‘to voice their “indigna-
tion” at the Israeli government’s
recognition of the junta. Brand-
ing the action -“unspeakable,”
the student union said Israel
“hasn’t even the excuse of try-
ing to assure the security of the
Chilean Jewish community.”

In New York, the Hashomer
Hatzair (The young Guard) of
North America, which describes
itself. as a “socialist-Zionist
youth movement,” a week be-

fore Gershon’s article appeared, .

_ through

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.ing the criminal the victim and

rs fires of anti-Semitism

of the Palestinians — both key

‘clearer to many people. The —

haste to recognize such 4

__. Waldheim Plan —
The Waldheim Plan, offered
by UN Secretary General Kurt
Waldheim, calling for a peace
conference to be attended by
Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, |
Israel and the Great Powers was
rejected by Israel. In its place
the Israelis continue to propose
“direct negotiations’ without
prior withdrawal of troops and
without referrence to the plight

Arab conditions for: a‘ lasting
peace.
The Israeli record of belliger-
ancy, aggression and coloniza-
tion, coupled with its rejection —
of the will of the overwhelming
majority of states, as expressed —
the United Nations,
clearly marks that country’s ap-
proach over the years as one of
expansionism. The world-wide
Zionist war cry, “Israel shall |
live!”, -which unfortunately has —
caught up many well-meaning ~
people in this country, paints
Israel as fighting for its exist-
ence against a horde of Arab
nations. It twists history, mak-.

describes Arab lands sized by
aggression as “security zones”. ’

But the record proves the op-
posite. and this is becoming

only solution to the Middle East
problem is the cessation of
Israeli aggression, the elimina-
tion of. its effects, the with-
drawal of Israeli troops from
illegally occupied Arab lands
and a political settlement of the
crisis, taking into account the —
legitimate rights .and interests |
of all the peoples of the area,
including the people of Pales-
tine.

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called on Israel to refuse a
cognition, a plea spurned by th
Golda Meir government.

Lesson of History -

“Democracy is the only, secut,
ity for the Jewish minority:
the group said. “This is a lesson
we learn, from the history of OP”
pression our people have suffer
ed under the: gun of -militat™
oppression.

“Hashomer Hatzair calls upor
the Jewish Community indiv®
duals and organizations, to Pf”
test the coup and register sol!
darity with the Chilean workit
class. ; t

“Hashomer Hatzair calls i
the Jewish Community to unl
around the slogan: Back ;
Democracy — Down with th
Junta.”

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Simon W. Gerson as unansw*,
ed are those which ask ‘t
Jewish organization's wh
they stand on support — fs
Chilean democracy against ie
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