The “basic difficulty” facing Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger in his effort to disengage Syrian and Israeli forces is that Syria has not given “the slightest indication it really wants peace with Israel,” according to the Israeli Embassy’s Charge d’Affaires, Mordechai Shalev.
Syria’s “new campaign of aggression,” Shalev told the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) at a dinner last night, is “supported politically” by the Soviet Union which he declared is re-enforcing Syria “by an almost daily flow of arms.” Nevertheless, he said, Israel in its talks with Kissinger “will do everything possible consistent with the security of its people.”
Shalev, who spoke in place of Ambassador Simcha Dinitz who is in Jerusalem in connection with the Kissinger talks, praised President Nixon and other governmental leaders and the American public for their support to Israel, but told the 300 dinner guests marking AIPAC’s 20th anniversary that Israel is “disappointed” that the United States voted for the UN resolution that condemned Israel for demolishing “empty houses” in Lebanon without mentioning that it was triggered by the massacre by Arab terrorists at Kiryat Shemona.
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