Arab Threat to Appeal to Security Council on Border Clashes Fades

The United Arab Republic threat to make an issue before the Security Council of the Syrian-Israel clashes in the Huleh Lake area faded today after both sides issued statements here.

Mordecai R. Kidron, Israel’s acting permanent representative to the United Nations, told the Security Council that the two Syrian attacks were a repetition of “a familiar pattern of Syrian aggression,” and that Israel “has not submitted” to such attacks “in the past nor will it submit in the future.”

The assertion of Israel’s insistence that its work in the Lake Huleh area is permitted under the Syrian-Israel armistice agreement was made in a letter submitted by Mr. Kidron to Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., American chief delegate and this month’s president of the Security Council.

Simultaneously, the UAR delegation issued a statement asserting that “now that Israel hostilities in the Lake Huleh region have stopped, and in view of the earnest efforts being undertaken by the United Nations itself, the United Arab Republic has considered the

postponement of convening an urgent meeting of the Security Council.” The statement contained a warning that the UAR would ask such a meeting “if hostilities were resumed by Israel.”

Mr. Kidron, who asked that Israel’s letter be circulated to all members of the Security Council, pointed out that Syria has been trying to hamper Israel’s work in the region by various means since 1951. He said Syria used “full-scale armed aggression against Israel” in the area in 1951, 1953 and 1957.

The Israel representative rejected UAR claims that current reclamation work trespassed on Arab-owned land, asserting that no Arab land was involved and that the armistice agreement also was not involved because the current work was “wholly outside” the demilitarized zone in the reclaimed area of Lake Huleh.