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...concern of the superpowers reflected the fragility of the Middle East situation. Early last week indirect United Nations negotiations got started under the coldly evenhanded direction of Gunnar Jarring. In the first meeting, Israel's U.N. Delegate Yosef Tekoah reiterated his country's complaint that the Egyptians had broken the terms of the 90-day cease-fire by placing Soviet SAM-2 and SAM3 missiles in position on the west bank of the Suez Canal. Then, in the next breath, he startled Jarring by announcing that he was flying home that very night for consultation with his government...
...Egyptians wanted the representatives to be of ambassadorial rank and the site to be New York. Israel finally agreed to New York meetings and said that the preliminary sessions could be handled by ambassadors. As its part of the bargain, the Israeli Cabinet was expected to nominate U.N. Ambassador Yosef Tekoah as its representative. But when the talks reach substantive issues, the negotiating rank probably will be upgraded to the ministerial level. By then, the foreign ministers of the countries involved are scheduled to be in New York attending the U.N. General Assembly, which convenes Sept...
...went on to castigate Pius XII for being silent "when millions of Jews were murdered" during World War II. Israel rejected the U.N. censure as hopelessly one-sided, since Arab nations are regularly protected from similar blame by Soviet veto. Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations, Yosef Tekoah, termed the censure proof of "the moral, political and juridical bankruptcy of the Council regarding the Middle East situation." Tekoah continued, making a justifiable point that most Israelis felt summed up their case: "Is the single life of the Israeli engineer killed in Athens worth less than all the metal...
...foremost chronicler of this new Wandering Jew-this spiritually displaced person-Shmuel Yosef Agnon, 79, won a Nobel Prize in 1966. An unhurried Jewish anecdotist, a patient sketcher of modest, baffled characters, a leisurely Talmudic dialectician, Agnon is not the sort of writer to have spectacular impact. But he has the cumulative aftereffect and the stubbornly expanding grip on common experience that measure a substantial talent...
...surprise. Four days before the invasion, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan warned that the Arabs were preparing for a "new wave of terror," which Israel would take steps to contain if King Hussein of Jordan could not. Premier Levi Eshkol told the Knesset much the same thing, and Israeli Ambassador Yosef Tekoah on the same day filed two complaints with the United Nations against the Arabs' "repeated acts of aggression." The stage was set for retaliation...