Israel does not favor stationing United Nations cease-fire observers along the Israel-Jordan demarcation line for fear that their observations would necessarily be one-sided, diplomatic circles said here today. The proposal to place observers on the Jordan-Israel line was made by U.S. Ambassador Arthur J. Goldberg at an emergency session of the Security Council in New York yesterday.
The Israeli objections stem from the fact that the guerrilla tactics employed by the Arab raiders are not easily observable since they are carried out mainly at night by small armed bands along a broad front. On the other hand, Israeli counter-measures are conducted by large forces who operate in daylight. The U.N. observers would not be able to detect Arab infiltrators but they would mark Israeli countermeasures, the Israelis say.
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