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DEPA.
STATE
Department of State
:0 STATES STATE AMERICA UNITED
TELEGRAM
SECRET
0 291010Z APR 69
#5
FM AMEMBASSY TEL AVIV
68890
TO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 6039
1969 APR 29 AM 7:45
STATE GRNC
BT
SECRET SECTION 2 OF 2 TEL AVIV 1573
NODIS
DELIVER OPENING OF BUSINESS APRIL 29
FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY SISCO
REF: STATE 065414
% THERE IS ONE SUBSTANTIVE PARAGRAPH (POINT 13 IN DRAFT
DOCUMENT) ON WHICH I WISH REITERATE PREVIOUSLY VOICED STRONG
RESERVATIONS. SETTLEMENT OF THE REFUGEE PROBLEM ON THE
BASIS OF QUOTE FREE CHOICE UNQUOTE HAS ELUDED US FOR TWENTY
YEARS. DURING THAT PEIOD THE ARABS HAVE MAINTAINED THE REFUGEES
AS A POLITICAL WEAPON AND OUR SUPPORT FOR QUOTE FREE CHOICE
UNQUOTE HAS ENABLED THEM TO DO SO UNDER THE CAMOUFLAGE
OF HUMANITARIAN CONSIDERATION FOR THE REFUGEES'
WISHES. A MAJOR EFFORT (BY JOSEPH JOHNSON) BASED
ON AN ATTEMPT TO RECONCILE LIP SERVICE TO FREE CHOICE WITH
OUR POLITICAL ESTIMATE THAT FEW WOULD IN FACT WISH TO
RETURN FAILED TO GET OFF THE GROUND. AT THAT TIME ISRAEL
COULD PROBABLY HAVE BEEN PERSUADED TO TAKE BACK SOME
100,000. BUT SUBVERSIVE THREATS WERE NOT AS GREAT
THEN AS NOW. I THINK OUR CHANCES OF SUCCESS ON THIS POINT
HAVE BEEN CORRESPONDINGLY LESSENED. INCIDENTALLY, MRS MEIR,
AS FONMIN, HAD THE ANNUAL TASK IN THE UN YEAR AFTER YEAR
OF JUSTIFYING ISRAEL'S POSITION, AND REBUTTING THE POLEMICS
OF ALL ARAB SPOKESMEN, SHE IS MINUTELY AWARE OF AND
IMPERVIOUS TO ALL THE ARGUMENTS WHICH HAVE BEEN ADDUCED.
IN ANY CASE, IF IT IS STILL OUR JUDGMENT THAT ONLY A FEW
PRE-1948 REFUGEES WOULD WISH TO RETURN IF OFFERED THE
ALTERNATIVE OF RESETTLEMENT AND COMPENSATION, COULD WE NOT
DEVISE A NEW APPROACH CONCENTRATING ON THE LARGE MAJORITY.
TO BE RESETTLED AND COMPENSATED? NUMERICALLY AT LEAST BY SO
DOING WE WOULD BE ACCOMPLISHING MORE TOWARD A PRACTICAL
SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM THAN WE WILL BY REVERTING TO THE
STERILE FORMULAE WHICH HAVE FAILED FOR TWENTY YEARS.
8. IN SUMMARY, I AGREE WITH THE GENERAL ANALYSIS OF THE
SITUATION CONTAINED IN THE SUPPORTING MEMORANDUM, ACCEPT
THE SUGGESTED COURSE OF ACTION FROM THE THREE ALTERNATIVES
BUT TAKE ISSUE AS TO THE FIRST STEP IN PROCEDURE AND
ALSO WITH POINT 13 OF THE PAPER. IN BRIEFEST LANGUAGE,
SECRET
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