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Premeir;, Reiterates Israels Negotiation Terms _'. j RECENTLY PUBUSIIED BOOKS of Jewish Interest by American authors displayed at the Fourth Jerusalem International Book Fair through arrangements made by the Jewish Book Council of the National Jewish Welfare Board (JWB) hold the Interest of Israel's Prime Minister, Mrs. Golda Meir. With Mrs. Meir is Dr. Sol Llplzin, a past president of the Jewish Book .Council and chairman of Us Israel Branch, who made the arrangements In Jerusalem for the exhibit.
Than* Asks Neutral Zones Be Set by UN Posts at Suez UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (JTA) —A proposal that neutral zones be set up around United N a t i o n s observation posts along the Suez Canal to protect UN personnel from Arab and Israeli gunfire was contained in a report on the Suez situation submitted to the 15-member Security Council by Secretary-General U Thant. The proposal for- the zones. was made by Lt. Gen.- Odd Bull, of Norway, chief of the UN cease-fire observers corps in the Mideast. Mr. Thant said in his report that he was "increasingly concerned about rc. cent d e v e l o p m e n t s which threaten the effectiveness" of the observers of the "ceasefire in the Suez Canal sector.". He asserted that the recent" . firing across the waterway by both sides exposed UN persounell to "grave danger" and interfered with their work. F o r e i g n Ministry officials sal4 In Jerusalem that Mr. < Thant's full report confirmed - Israel's assertion that Egypt was responsible for any danger to UN observers; They said, however ,that Israel would reject Mr. Thant's demand to place patrol boats - on the canal. They said that ! this would further endanger UN personnel in the boats and , would violate the mutual agree• ment between Israel and Egypt .precluding any navigation on j the waterway. The officiate i -: r— — —
'Jewish Cemetery Desecrated in Poland London (JTA)—Details of a recent desecration of a Jewish * cemetery itr Cracow, which Polish authorities sought to suppress, were disclosed by the eyewitnesses here this week. —Thejr~ said — the cemetery, .which is currently used by the Jewish community, was not only desecrated but virtually destroyed. Some 200 gravestones were overturned and - smashed and a monument to "Jewish martyrs was severely damaged. According to the eyewitnesses, the destruction was caused by an organized band ~vt about 200 vandals who descended on the burial ground at night. -When authorities were notficd, they placed a Jieavy guard around the cemetery to prevent passersby fronr vlewing the damage. The story was kept out of the Polish press sad oft radio and television;
said, however, t h a t Israel might agree to remove its gun positions from the vicinity of UN observation posts although the Secretary-General's report made it clear that there were no Israeli guns closer than several score yards from any UN post while the Egyptians positioned their guns only a yard or two away from UN posts on their side of the canal.
Hussein's Peace Talk'All Mouth1 Jerusalem (JTA) — Foreign Minister Abba Eban said this week that King Hussein of Jordan has admitted that his talk of peace during his official visit to Washington earlier this month was a matter of tactics and that he was actually preparing for a new military campaign against Israel. Mr. Euan, addressing newsmen at a Foreign Ministry briefing, referred to a speech by the Jordanian monarch in Amman the day before which he said was a far cry from his peace program announced in Washington,. : In an address to his people, King Hussein said the Arab states would end their belligerency against Israel only if arid when the'"Israelis handed over all the occupied territory, including Jerusalem. "Either this or there can be no peace," King Hussein said, adding that he and President Gamel Abdel Nasser of Egypt supported the goals of Arab guerrilla warfare against Israel and considered it perfectly legal.
Jerusalerri~TJTAJ?-PrenueP Golda Meir vehemently rejected any Middle East settlement that falls short of Israel's demands for a directly negotiated peace treaty with the Arab states. She scored the "maneuvers" of outside p a r t i e s which, she said, put forth all sorts of schemes but did not demand of the Arab rulers "that they make peace with Israel peace pure and simple . . . such as exists between most nations of the world." Mrs. Meir addressed the opening of the summer session of the sixth Knesset, its last before the general elections next fall. Her speech, in which she listed in some detail what Israel thinks a peace treaty with the Arabs must include, had prior approval of the Cabinet and represented a statement of policy of the coalition Government. Mrs. Meir dismissed as "dust In the eyes of the world" the professions of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser that he accepted the Security Coun-. cil's November, 1967 resolution as a basis for Middle East peace and the peace proposals enunciated by King Hussein of Jordan during his.vlsit to Washington last month. She warned the Jordanian ruler to halt Arab guerrilla raids across the border or face reprisal. She told Egypt that Israel would continue to fortify the ceasefire lines on the Suez Canal be-
eausetlrey-are-Israel's-''best guarantees." Mrs. Meir said proposals were now being made that were unacceptable to Israel because they did not satisfy its demand for a full and genuine peace treaty. "It is' possible that in our struggle for peace we shall face our most severe political test," she said, "but we shall not give our consent to illusory and ephemeral solutions." She spelled out Israel's interpretation of peace. "Peace must be expressed in signed peace treaties between Israel and each of the
-neighboring "The governments of the region and not external factors are responsible for working out and drafting- peace treaties* The peace treaties must include agreement oh secure and recognized boundaries. They must annul claims of belligerency, blockades, boycotts, in« terference with free navigation and the existence and activity of organizations or groups engaged in preparing or executing sabotage operations from bases and training camps on the territories of states signatory to the peace treaty.
Telephone Co* Declares Anti-Semitic Message Legal Chicago (JTA) — An attorney for the Illinois Bell Telephone Co., has claimed that an anti-Semitic, anti-Negro message that can be dialed on local phones is perfectly legal and that the phone company was not obligated to remove it. The attorney, John Heinrich, was approached on the subject by Bob Gale, a staff member of The. Sentinel, an EnglishJewish weekly published here. The paper had received numerous calls protesting the message which advocates t h e user of force and violence to solve the "Jewish and Negro problems."
The message purports . to come from the American National Socialist White Peoples Party, of Arlington, Va., a successor to the defunct American Nazi Party of the late George Lincoln Rockwell. According to Mr. Helnrlch, the telephone company is not legally responsible for the contents of the message because) the name and address of its sponsor is given. He suggested that any action taken would have to be against the sponsors. He also- stated that "tha telephone company does not want to set itself up as a censor," Mr. Gale reported.
fioarcfof Governors Elects Exeeufive .Committee Members Five new members were elected to the Omaha Jewish Federation Executive Committee at the first meeting of the 1969 Federation Board of Governors held Wednesday, April 30, at the Jewish Community Center. Leo Eisenstatt, Dr. Edward Malashock, C h u c k Monasee, Steve Rlekes and Morley Zjpursky were elected to serve threo year terms on the board. Retiring members of the board Include: Alvin Abramson, Norman.. B,att, David E. Beber, Lawrence Chapman, Leonard Goldstein, Howard M. Kooper, Mrs. James Llpsey and Sam S. Steinberg. The remaining three seats on the board
are to be filled by appointments by the Federation president, S. Elmer Gross, :":;-• In addition to the election of the executive committee members, The Board of Governors m a do recommendations for changes in the Federation constitution. • Mr, Gross Indicated that in addition to the regular executive committee meetings,- the
Board of Governors would also be convened several times during the year to. act on major Issues. The Board of Governors consists of members of the Exec* utive committee and representatives, based on membership, of all synagogue and Jewish service organizations in tha community, _ _
United States Teenagers Triumph At International Bible Contest in Jerusalem
AJCongress Opposes Sfafe Funds for Church Colleges New York (JTA)—The Amer-. Jean Jewish C o n g r e s s h a s urged leaders of the New York State Senate and Assembly to reject bills before botlr*:hambers that would authorize state funds for church-affiliated colleges and universities. Tho AJCongress' New York metropolitan council stated that the measure would v i o l a t e the state and Federal Constitutions and the principle of separation of church and state. In "channeling- vast funds o v o r tho years to church-affiliated colleges and sectarian i n s t i t u tions" the state would "deprive public colleges and universities
of desperately needed funds," the AJCongress charged. It noted further that the legislation would eliminate present, requirements that private institutions receiving state aid meet the same educational standards applicable to public colleges and u n i v e r s i t i e s . "Thus, the p r o p o s a l would make it possible for private . and sectarian institutions inferior to existing public colleges to receive state aid whilo~ the state university and the city university struggle along on austerity b u d g e t s," the AJCongress message declared.
Thraa. of the first four win. tiers «t tho International Bible Conteit held (ri Jeruulem on Independence Day were Americans. (I. to r.) Howard Koenlg, of the Joel Brtiverman H.B., Brooklyn, N.Y., who came In second; Yaron Reich, of the Yeihlva of Flatbuih, Brooklyn, N.Y., who cam* In third! ancf Gillian fUlzersdorfer, of the Yoshlva University H.6. for Glrlt, New York City, who •laced fourth, Th» winner was
Zohar Noam, a fourteen year old Israeli, an American born youngstep who settled permanently In Israel at the ago of 4. Seven Americans, winners of Bible contests In the U.S. In1947 anCi»«« conducted by the Department of Education and Culture of t h * American Section of the Jewish Agency for lirael, Wera amonfc." the 29 conteitanti In t h * ftna.i£
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