Jerusalem 'ours for ever’

Press, 19 April 1980, Page 9

Jerusalem ' ours for ever’

NZPA Washington The Israeli Prime Minister: (Mr Menachem Begin) has] rejected all proposals for! Arab autonomy in East Je-| rusalem, saying the city will remain under Jewish sovereignty “for all generations.” Ail’d he said autonomy for the Arabs living on the! West Bank of the Jordan!

1 River and in Gaza can never, ■mean “a Palestinian State ineverything but name.” ; The Israeli Prime Minister • isaid he refused to heed sugjgestions that he postpone this response to suggestionsby President Anwar Sadat of I Egypt and others that the) Arabs of East Jerusalem be, given .a degree of local au-li iitonomy. j ii “May I now respond toi<

.all of those proposals: east, ■west, north, south — all of it — is under one sovereignty, that of Israel. . “Without any qualification the world should know — ■ all nations — that on this lissue Jerusalem is D.C., like | the District of Columbia, iD.C., David’s Capital,” he Isaid. j Mr Begin, nearing the end iof an American visit in

which he engaged in two days of summit conferences with President Jimmy Carter on the future of the 1.2 million Palestinians in territory occupied by Israel, addressed a joint meeting of the con-1 ference of presidents of main American Jewish organisations, the United Jewish Appeal and thd State of; Israel Bonds. ;