(newspaper unidentified) · 1 October 1982

CP-1982-019

Israel voices thanks for backing by U.S.

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“Tel Aviv—The Foreign Ministry said yesterday that Israel is gratified by U.S. support in opposing Israeli expulsion from the U.N. General Assembly and technical conferences of the world body. ‘Israel is very appreciative and very pleased with the American approach to the problem,’ a ministry spokesman said.

Any formal Israeli statements on the subject would be made by Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, currently in the United States, he added. Secretary of State George P.

Shultz said Saturday that Washington would withdraw delegations and withhold payments to the General Assembly and the International Telecommunications Conference in Nairobi, Kenya, if those groups voted to expel Israel. In Nairobi, the balloting on the Algerian-sponsored resolution to expel Israel from the communications conference was scheduled for today.

Chief U.S. delegate Michael Gardner said he has sent copies of Mr. Shultz’s statement to the heads of all delegations. A commentary from the Soviet news agency Tass claimed Washington was backing Israel in the U.N. dispute because Tel Aviv was working to impose America’s ‘imperial designs’ on the Middle East.

‘Gross blackmail—that is how, and in no other way, one can qualify the latest demarche of the United States toward the United Nations,’ the Tass commentary said. Arab nations have spearheaded the drive to oust Israel in response to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon June 6 and the massacre of Palestinians by Christian militiamen in two Beirut refugee camps September 16-18.

Many Arabs blame Israel for the massacre because Israeli troops allowed the Christians to enter the Sabra and Shatila camps, ostensibly to rout Palestinian guerrillas.”

Context added by this archive

The camps are named in the last paragraph, and what happened there is given as what Arabs say.

A correction

The scan has no masthead. It arrived captioned as the Roanoke Times, 2012. The story refers to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon on June 6 and the camp massacres of September 16-18 as recent, to Shultz speaking on Saturday and to a Nairobi vote scheduled for today, which places it in the last days of September or the first days of October 1982. Neither the paper nor the exact day can be confirmed from the clipping.

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