A third meeting for discussion of further details regarding Israel’s withdrawal of its troops from the Sinai Peninsula is expected to be held after Christmas between Maj. Gen. E. L. M. Burns, commander of the United Nations Emergency Force, and Ms. J. Gen, Moshe Dayan, chief of staff a the Israel army.
Israel circles here insist that while Israel intends to carry out its withdrawal promise faithfully, it wants to make sure that Egypt also observes United Nations resolutions. Specifically, Israel wants to be assured of freedom of passage for its shipping through the Suez Canal; adherence to the UN resolution forbidding the shipment of further arms into the Middle East; and the prevention by the United Nations of the establishment of more bases for the Egyptian fedayeen in the areas to be evacuated by Israel.
Meanwhile, the Israel Government was called on today, in a unanimously adopted resolution by a special conference of Achduth Avodah–a left-wing party in the government coalition–to discontinue troop withdrawal activities in the Sinai Peninsula, and to hold its defense positions there, in view of Egypt’s refusal to negotiate peace with Israel and in view of Egypt’s renewal of activities by fedayeen murder-sabotage gangs.
The resolution, which also called on the entire nation to “strengthen the government in its political struggle against pressure and threats,” was introduced by Gen. Yigal Allon, former commander of the Israeli army. In the resolution, the government was also warned against ceding the Gaza Strip, declaring that the problem of the Arab refugees in the Strip can be “solved constructively” in cooperation with the United Nations.
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