With impending peace between Israel and Egypt, Israel and the entire Arab population of 100 million in the Middle East would benefit from Israelï¿??s technological, scientific and economic know-how if the peace negotiations succeed between Premier Menachem Begin of Israel and President Anwar Sadat of Egypt.
This view was offered by Uri Ben Ari, Israelï¿??s Consul General in new York, in a wide-ranging interview with newspaper columnist Victor Riesel on radio station WEVD. The former Israeli deputy commander during the Yom Kippur War said that 98 percent of the Arabs in the Middle East were underprivileged, without human rights. He said that ï¿??we could have a blooming area if we could take our Jewish knowledge and combine it together in a fabric of mutual trust and understanding against a background of real peace.ï¿??
Ben Ari told Riesel that plans were now being made to bring Israeli scientific and technological assistance to Egypt once a peace was concluded. Ben Ari said that ï¿??we could go beyond a Common Market concept. We could cultivate lands in a major way and bring food to people. We could stimulate education in the area and bring science, health teams, so many wonderful thingsï¿??if peace comes.ï¿??
Ben Ari Stressed that tourism between Israel and Egypt would be a major factor of a peace settlement. ï¿??Many Israelis want to go to Egypt and many Egyptians would like to visit Israel. It could happen.ï¿?? He also told Riesel that even as the peace terms were being drawn and implemented there could be the beginning of commercial import and export between the two countries.
USSR INTERRUPTS U.S. MAIL
Rep. Benjamin A. Gilman (R.NY) has disclosed that the Soviet Union is systematically interrupting the receipt of letters and packages sent by Americans to persons in the USSR. In a report he prepared for the House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, Gilman documented what he termed a Soviet scheme to isolate its Jewish population in general, and the activists in particular, from any contact with the outside world.
He recommended that the committee initiate a formal inquiry into the Soviet Unionï¿??s ï¿??deliberate interferenceï¿?? with the flow of international mail, that a resolution be introduced urging the Executive Branch of the U.S. government to lodge a formal protest with the USSR over failure to adhere to the Universal Postal Convention of which the Soviets are a signatory, and that U.S. postal representatives at the next Universal Postal Union (UPU) Congress be instructed to propose a resolution calling for a strengthened role for the international bureau to ensure member statesï¿?? compliance with UPU regulations.
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