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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, October 4, 1967
Mid-East impasse seen by authority
A Middle East authority sees the Arab-Israeli situation as a deadlock.
E. A. Bayne, associate of the American Universities Field Staff (AUFS) said Israel faces a critical situation because with the acquisition of Arab land in the 1967 war, Israel has a 40 per cent Arab population.
Bayne spoke at a press conference in the Kansas Union Jayhawk Room.
Israel doesn't want to create a secular state with the Arabs as second class citizens like the Jews had in Europe. Bayne said.
However, he said, Israel was intended to be a Jewish state, not a pluralist state.
Not a land ambition
Israel's acquisition of Arab land, he said, was not because of territorial ambition. Israel just wants to be recognized as a state by the Arabs.
Israel, Bayne contended, would be willing to give up Arab land with the stipulation that the land be turned into a demilitarized zone.
Israel and Jordan are divided by a vast difference in social organization, a comprehension of democracy, economic format and culture, he said.
Founded in 1951
AUFS was founded in 1951 as a nonprofit educational organization. It is supported by 12 universities and colleges and KU was one of the founding institutions.
Associates such as Bayne are employed on a full-time basis, spending long periods abroad and returning to the U.S. periodically to lecture on the campuses of member universities.
Bayne is a writer and political observer, who for over 25 years has been closely associated with
the economics and social development of Africa, Asia and Europe. Before joining the AUFS, he lived and worked in these areas as an official attached to American or international projects.
Bayne has been the personal economic advisor to the prime minister of Iran and nationalist China, a consultant to the department of state and a director of the American economic aid program to Europe's colonial overseas territories.
The Israelis wish to confront the Arabs directly and come to some negotiated treaty, Bayne said.
There is some indication, he said, that the Arabs never intended to open a full-scale war.
Used as scapegoat
Nassar was chosen as the falluy, Bayne said, to save Egypt from an embarrassing situation caused by the spectacular defeat.
He said seven Arab countries have dismissed American ambassadors. Almost all of these, however, have been relocated in other areas. Of the American families which left the Arab countries, 600 moved to Rome and 400 moved to Athens.
During the 1967 war with snipers everywhere, some 4,000 to 5,000 people, Bayne said, visited the Wailing Wall, a national symbol of their unity.
Moise Dyan, although the "darling of the American and European press," Bayne said, is not as popular in Israel. Dyan's undisciplined quality makes him unacceptable to many Israelis.
Next year, Bayne said, the state of Israel will celebrate its 20th anniversary. On May 14, 1948, leaders of the Jewish Agency in Palestine proclaimed a Jewish state which would comply to the principles of the United Nations Charter.
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