Foreign Policy Advisors to Leading Democratic Presidential Hopefuls Say Israel Should Give Up Territ

The foreign policy advisors to the three leading aspirants for the Democratic Presidential nomination, voiced criticism here yesterday of Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger’s step-by-step diplomacy in the Middle East and advocated an overall solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict in which Israel would relinquish virtually all of the occupied Arab territories in return for Big Power guarantees of its security.

The experts, all of whom served in the Johnson Administration, participated in a panel discussion on foreign policy at the convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.

They are George W. Ball, former Undersecretary of State, who is one of the advisors to Sen. Henry M. Jackson of Washington; Prof. Zbigniew Brzezinski, of Columbia University, a former member of the State Department’s Policy Planning Council, who is advising former Governor Jimmy Carter of Georgia: and Paul C. Warnke, a former Assistant Secretary of Defense, who is an advisor to both Carter and Rep. Morris K. Udall of Arizona. He is also a foreign policy consultant to Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota, who has not officially declared his candidacy but is regarded as a strong contender for the Democratic nomination.

Ball contended that the Israeli-Egyptian disengagement agreements in Sinai which were worked out through the mediation of Kissinger created a situation in the Middle East “more dangerous than it was” because the Sinai accords had isolated Egypt and its President. Anwar Sadat, from the rest of the Arab world.

The three experts faulted Kissinger’s policies for having squandered American leverage in the Middle East and missing an opportunity for an overall settlement there by pursuing the step-by-step approach. All favored a settlement worked out by the U.S. in coordination with its European allies and the Soviet Union through the United Nations.