European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 22, 1973, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday november 22, 1973 khad Afy s voice is Bellicose and solitary by Jurate Kazickas Belgrade a his is almost a solitary voice calling for a continuation of the Mideast War until an Honor Able peace for the arabs. Col. Moa mar khad Afy of Libya laughs at the so called peace plan. For him it is capitulation. There is nothing except War. War is the Only solution if we cannot reach our Aims he said in a private interview. He says the Only solution to the Mideast crisis is to let the palestinian people return to their Homes and make the jews who came after 1948 return to their Homes because they Are citizens of other countries. If we cannot reach this aim there is no other Means but War. So War will be a necessity for peace. If it does not happen in this generation the War situation will explode in another time if not this year then in other at 33, khad Afy is the youngest of the Arab leaders. When he first came to Power four years ago in a smoothly executed bloodless coup his youth and passionate exuberance was captivating. Now there Are craggy lines on his rough and handsome face. He is older but he is still As outspoken and committed to the Arab cause As Ever. Something to Stop fighting we laugh at this plan of peace he said. We Don t consider it a plan of peace. It s just something to Stop the fighting and Exchange prisoners. It s like when somebody is ill he needs surgery not an aspirin. If the jews do not go Back to their countries there is nothing but he added that the jews who were there before 1948 Are our Brothers and must live with us together in khad Afy also said the palestinian question was the Only Means to unify the Arab nations. The struggle for Palestine will make the unification Strong. There must be an Active struggle together to restore khad Afy recently sent president Anwar Sadat of Egypt a Cable denouncing the acceptance of the . Peace plan and expressing his bitterness that libyan Leader Moa mar khad Afy left visits yugoslavian president Tito. Up he claims it was at the expense of Arab Honor. He said that Sadat had not yet replied but that he was hoping to have a meeting with him in the following asked about a possible anti Arab backlash because of the Oil embargo khad Afy laughed and said he did t think it was the arabs fault if the world had to shiver without Oil this Winter. It s the fault of those governments that support Israel he said. We want to sell Oil and we want to buy things from the United states. We need peace and the benefits of Exchange. But if you support our enemy we Are obliged to Stop the Why has t the Arab world used Oil As a weapon sooner he was asked. It s a much More powerful weapon now said khad Afy smiling. Before the need for Oil in Europe and America was not necessary like now and our production was t As great As it is khad Afy had said earlier in the week he would not object to a meeting with Secretary of state Henry Kissinger. The first thing i would like to Dis cuss with him is where do the interests of the United states lie. Is it in Israel or the Arab world if he has a mind he must know that there Are More inter ests for the United states in the Arab world. Either the United states should be on the Arab Side and Don t say Arab say the right Side or the United states should be if the United states continues to support Israel our future relations with the United states will be very very bad he said. But you know we never had a bad past with the United states As we did with England France Italy or Portugal before this crisis. So if the situation is resolved our future relationship will be very khad Afy said earlier this week he had considered breaking All relations with the United states but in this interview he admitted that he would very much like to visit the United states one Day. I would like to talk to the youth of America. The ones who have rejected the materialism of the states the hip pies he said after great difficulty in finding the right word. I want to talk to groups like the children of he flashed his Best smile and added i think they would be my khad Afy is a deeply religious Man whose Zeal some critics have said approaches fanaticism. He has conceived a third International theory of islam that he sees As the Only Hope against communism and capitalism. Khad Afy does not smoke and has made his distaste for alcohol a Rule of the land in Libya. And foreign visitors have been known to shorten their stay in Tripoli simply because the Only cocktail available is a bitter soda. 20-hour Day khad Afy says he works As Many As 20 hours a Day and has Little time to pursue interests other than political. He says he plays football soccer and Tennis though no one in his official party questioned about his game has Ever seen him on the courts. When i want to relax i like to get in a car and drive outside of Tripoli some times alone sometimes with friends he said. He is particularly close to pre Mier Abdel Salam Jalloul and other military officers he went to school with and who joined him in the military coup against the Royal regime of King Idriss. Khad Afy was recently called a male chauvinist of the month by an italian woman s Magazine after a statement he made during the summer in Cairo that women Are biologically inferior. Have you Ever seen a pregnant woman parachutist he reportedly asked. Some jobs not suitable when asked his views about the role of women in libyan society he said he did have enough time for an appropriate answer but said he Felt men and women were different and that some jobs were just not suitable for women. Hard difficult jobs like working in a factory in a mine or on the Street Are against the nature of a woman he explained. It is More suitable for her to think to write to khad Afy in a philosophical mood pondered a question about what he considered to be the most important thing in life. He paused for a few seconds and then said to know god to find Faith in our selves to be Brothers and to help each he then added there should never again be Israel s elder statesman neighbors keep tabs on Ben Gurion s illness by Hugh a. Mulligan see Boker Israel a while David Ben Gurion fights for his life in a Tel Aviv Hospital bed his friends and neigh Bors in this Negev desert Kibbutz follow his Progress three times a Day by Tele of the Kibbutz has practically moved into the Hospital with him said Pnina Buckbinder the Kibbutz Post mistress who sometimes types his memoirs. Joshua Cohen his closest Friend Here Seldom leaves the bedside and keeps us informed of his condition by Ben Gurion was still in serious condition after suffering a cerebral Haemorrhage sunday that left his right Side paralysed. See Boker deep in the Negev desert is where Israel s founding father found peace and fulfilment after 13 Stormy years As his Young country s first Premier. This is where the Patria Chical old Man always longed to be in the land of Zin the desert wilderness where Abraham tended sheep and Moses took a Bride. Before he entered the Hospital the old Man took a two mile walk around the Kib Butz twice a Day. A spectacularly plumed Parrot called out shalom peace " As he passed by and he always stopped at the Cage for a Chat. As evening shadows filled the deep cratered Valley behind the Green irrigated Fields Ben Gurion liked to sit at the win Dow of his four room clapboard Bungalow watching the peach and Willow Trees Bend in the ceaseless wind. The Trees of see Boker speak to me in a special Way he once told a visitor. I helped grow them and they bring me greater pleasure than All the forests of to the consternation of Israel s religious leaders Ben Gurion always has insisted that the Negev Means More to him person ally and More to his country As a Symbol than the wailing Wall in Jerusalem. The supreme test of Israel lies not in the struggle with hostile forces at our fron tiers but in wresting Fertility from the wasteland that constitutes 60 per cent of our territory he said. Ben Gurion was born David Gryn in a wooden House on the Street of the goats in the unpaved jewish Quarter of Plonsk a Small Market City 40 Miles Northwest of Warsaw. The Little wooden House he now Calls Home can hardly be much larger but it satisfies his Pioneer dreams of being part of the land and having helped make it from the time Ben Gurion arrived deck class in a russian freighter in the old crusader part of Jaffa he looked upon himself mainly As a Farmer and a Pioneer come to reclaim the land of his ancestors. He was 19 then and his dreams of build ing a jewish Homeland were inflamed by the Bible stories his russian Grandfather told him. He took the hebrew name of Ben Gurion which Means lion cub and immediately went to work pushing a plow behind a pair of oxen in the Jordan Valley at de Gania Israel s first Kibbutz. A half Century later the Man who declared Israel s Independence and was on speaking terms with Eisenhower de Gaulle Macmillan and Adenauer re turned to the land and insisted that his name be put on the blackboard at see Boker for work assignments just like any one else. The Foreman wrote or. Ben Gurion and assigned him to tending the sheep. He accepted the Job but insisted on being called just Plain but no one Ever does Call him David except those who Are trying to show How important they Are said. The Post mistress. Around Here he is b.g., but to his face we Call him Ben go after he passed his 75th birthday Ben Gurion worked less in the Fields and More on his memoirs but he never gave up his yoga exercises. He taught himself arabic in the belief that arabs and jews would soccer riot kills girl posadas Argentina a a Youn girl was killed and 20 soccer fans were injured when a dispute at a game Here erupted into a two hour free for All wit police. One Day live Side by Side in peace As naturally As the swedes and norwegians.". On his walks around the Kibbutz Ben Gurion hated to hear his neighbors talking yiddish especially second and third generation sabras native born israeli whom he upbraided for being too Lazy to learn yiddish is the language of the ghetto the language of humiliation he chided. Hebrew is the language of the torah and the talmud the matrix of our jew the old Man off in the Hospital the Flag staff next to his television Antenna is empty of its Blue Star of David but Cpl. Anwar Trushan thie guard out on the Lawn listens on his transistor radio for Hospital bulletins. The King of Nepal once set Down in a helicopter on this Lawn and All sorts of dignitaries were escorted onto the screened in porch for a meeting with the lion in his wilderness Lair on Friday nights the eve of the Sabbath . Is missed in the dining room where he always took his meal after visiting his wife s grave a few Miles up the Road at Midrash at see Boker where the desert Falls away into a breathtakingly Beautiful Qaji Yon the Man who lives As a Monument to Israel has stated his desire to be buried beside his beloved Paula in the Negev sown version of Monument Valley
