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SERVING OES MOINES, V6I.LV No. 40
.COUNCILBLUFFS, UNCOLN.OMAHA ,
Omaha, Neb., Fit, August 13,1978
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Capitol SpotUglit
The Code Word Is 'Intransigence' .-. By Joseph Polakoff Jewish Telgraphlc Agency, Inc. T A combination o( statements by Leonard Garment, Norman Podhoretz and Henry Waxman has helped to put Into perspective before Congress and elsewhere the "code word" that has come to be applied to describe Israel's position over law and land in the Middle East. That "code word" i» "intransigent." Garment, who is the U.S. representative io the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, observed recently in The New York Times that since the Yom Klppur War the word has "infiltrated the language of diplomacy and politics and journalism to the point where it stands In place of analysis and argument." Its use to characterize Israel's policy, he stressed, Is Incorrect, uneven, unfair, and dangerous. „.
Freedom Urged
The "revelant formulations" regarding the code word, he noted, Is that "Arab leaders are surprisingly flexible, Israeli NEW YORK - A wheelbarrow-loaded with petitions and signed leader* are predictably unyielding." The notion of Israeli intransigence "flows from the conven- by 100,000 Americans urging freedom for Soviet Jews was tional analysis of the Middle East power balance" that since the recently rolled to the front door of the Soviet Mission to the U.N. Arabs "have all the strategic cards — population, geography, In New York, in a graphic protest of the USSR's failure to adhere and shove ell else, oil, the Israelis will ultimately do what logic to the principles of the- Helsinki agreement signed one year ago. csis&sssds" ssd that "therefore, Israel's temporary refusal to Eugene Gold, chairman of the National Conference on Soviet recognize what is Inevitable and to act appropriately represents Jewry (NCSJ) said, "The Soviet Union signed the Helsinki Agreement but has since made a.mockery of the spirit and in'intransigence.'" , ' This analysis, Garment points out, ''deliberately Ignores the tent of the document by denying vast numbers of Soviet Jews obvious, which is that If intransigence Is to be used at all In this their human rights and the opportunity to emigrate." Delivering context It is at least as applicable, and perhaps more so, to the the petitions, a campaign organized by the National Conference on Soviet Jewry with the cooperation of the NJCRAC, are from Arabs." ' • Supporting his view that applying "Intransigence" to Israel left, Robert Abrams, chairman of the Greater New York Conis dangerous, Garment refers to a statement by PodhoreU, ference on Soviet Jewry; Eugene Gold, chairman of the NCSJ; editor of Commentary who is penetratingly critical of Amerlcjih Sister Rose Thering of Seton Hall "University; Bess Myerson, the t policy, andJays it amounts to bargaining over Israel's survival, formef Commissioner of Consumer Affairs for New York City; WASHINGTON (JTA) - 16 years in the House and f The greatejif danger In the Middle East, Podhoretz said, lies jn Rabbi David Hill of the National Council of Young Israel and Sen. Richard Schweiker of Senate, Schweiker has been ! policies "which are calculated to strengthen the hands of NCSJ flee chairman; and Velma Hill of the United Federation \ ' Pennsylvania, selected by outspoken in Insisting on Israel's enemies while Isolating and weakening and finally forc- of Teachers. Ronald Reagan to be his economic and military ing the Israelis into a desperate corner where only the memory running-mate if he wins the 'assistance for Israel and In of Samson will serve." • :,/ • Republican nomination for the : providing teeth In laws to help "Th« process of the peace" in the Middle Bast would be Presidency, Is easily one of the emigration of Jews and "well served If our foreign policy institutions, both public and the strongest supporters of v others from the Soviet Union. private, come to recognize the truth" of the Podhoretz stateCongressional legislation In ' • •'i'• The 50-year-old Schweiker, ment, Garment emphasized. ,''"'••• By Rose Hoffman Marty Rosensteln described support of Israel's re- who was re-elected two years ji w; ^Fojrpejce to the Middle East," Garment added, "dependji quirements and SovlctJcwry. 'ago to his second Senate term, *o*n something f arTO«e<oinptofrthfl)) apbHey pjrodue«d*^coin-; C TJES^O^ES—the national •; the effort a^a.;;falrty,t sue; _;^ petition campaign for "Soviet cessful one." Jim Bassman , Frequently honored by was one of 34 Senators who op- puters and war games In Brussels and Washington, it depends Jewish freedom culminated in directed synagogue youth upon the creation of conditions of physical and psychological posed the retention of' Air 'Jewish organizations for his New York on July 29, when a group leaders Ben Biber, activities on ' liberal causes • Force General George S: security for Israel" and "it certainly means abandoning the in- wheelbarrow loaded with Steve Zohn and Marty Swartz cantation of the word "Intransigence" whenever Israel refuses 'Brown as chairman of the and Issues affecting the 100,000 petitions, signed by to encourage their fellow Jewish community during his Joint Chiefs of Staff. to surrender slices of its safety." 'Schweiker also authored the Waxman, a freshman Democratic Congressman from Los Americans all over the United Jewish youth to sign and ethnic studies program to br- Angeles, presented these views to the Congress and added some States was rolled to the front return their petitions in a ing national attention to the ' of his own. In the House of Representatives, on July 27, he door of the Soviet Mission at massive calling" campaign which followed the contributions to America of stressed that "it has become distressingly fashionable for the United Nations'. immigrant peoples, including critics and analysts of the Middle East to paint Israel as the in- This action was in protest of community-wide mailing. JERUSALEM, (JTA)-The Jews. Bassman recognized Valley transigent party in the area — that if only Israel would withdraw Soviet disregard for the five World Zionist Organizato the 1967 —1948? — borders, that if only Israel would uncondi- Helsinki agreement of a year High School student Marty • tlon shlfchim and the three In his consistent 'voting > tionally turn over Die West Bank and the Gaza Strip to the ag6 which called for the'.'freer Swartz for his additional ef7 Argentine Jewish employes of record for aid to Israel and In Palestinians,; that if only Israel would pay reparations to the _flow of people' and ideas' forts^to get the petition ' the WZO who were arrested In exhorting' the President to refugees of the 1948 War of Independence, peace would come to ' across national borders."; ' distributed to Valley High Cordoba, Argentina July 22, maintain Israel's needs, the Middle East for all peoples. The petition, addressed to - social studies classes where . ' '••< have been released, the Schweiker backed the amend"It is a convenient and Illusory argument," Waxman added. Soviet Communist Pajpty numerous signatures were ob' Foreign Ministry announced ment by SenV,Henry M.' "It Is one which seeks to rationalize the exploitative power shift Secretary Leonid I. Brezhnev, tained,:,, . Aug.- 4. The announcement Jaefcson (D.Wash.) to the which has gracedthe Arab oil producing states, and their Soviet demanded freedom for all On the national scene,. came after the Ministry was Defense Procurement Act that arms backers, since the Yom Kippur War. It is one which closes - Jewish Prisoners of Cons- Brooklyn District Attorney. - Informed of the release by the provides unlimited loan credit the eyes to the horror of terrorism, and which washes its hands cience -and 'refusnlks' and Eugene Gold, who is chairman Israeli Embassy' In Buenos until Dec.\l3,1977 trjnt Israel of the hemorrhage that Is Lebanon today. It Is, finally, an argu- called for an end to persecu- of the National Conference on Aires. , ' v ^ : . ; :-•:,,.;;,:,-•• ; finds necessary to buy tion of Soviet Jews who wish to Soviet Jewry, said the Soviet's 'American aircraft and related ment which remains blind to the basic obstacle to peace between \ emigrate. have "made a mockery of the Israel and its neighbors: the refusal of the Arab states arid the There Is still no Information equipment. ... • •:. Des Molnes contributed spirit and Intent of the. , Palestinians to accept Israeli existence within secure and here as to the cause of the arover 1,500 signatures from ( H e l s i n k i ) d o c u m e n t " recognized borders." rests. The release came afterpetitions circulated among because of their failure to live Cable Refused d i p l o m a t i c e f f o r t s In 'Jewish groups, the black com- up to the agreement. Gold . Jerusalem and Buenos. Aires JERUSALEM, (JTA) munity and church gather- cited as evidence the ijJOJXn and two days after three ma- The People's Republjc of Ings. The ..Jewish Press requests (or emigration which . jor Argentine Jewish, groups. China has returned to Israel a ' featured a clip-out petition on the Soviet authorities have not ' announced that they had ask- cable sent by Premier Yitzhak • May 28 for individual processed. . . .. „ ed the Argentine government. Rabin In whlch'fce expressed members of the community to In many communities Ine to free the eight prisoners. the government's sorrow at ' sign and mall to. the national petltiori-to-Brezhnev project the loss of life In last Week's Soviet Jewry of flee. will continue until Human earthquakes. Rabin sent his Members of the Des Moines RighMDayDec.lO. Comajitice pi Concern fsr f yi -Two Mlnister Him Kuofeng imSoviet Jewry, chaired, by, Dr. Clients Leaving . fragments of clay tablets In- mediately after-news of the. Sol Davidson, conducted scribed with five lines of 80 disaster arrived In Jerusalem*. signature gathering for this LONDON, (JTA) - Since H e b r e w ' f e t t e r s were- The cable was returned to project of 'concern. Marty being taken over by a group of Rosensteln, Jim Bassman and Arab businessmen last month, ^dfacovered^Jby'Israeli ar : Israel at; the beginning of last chaeolflglsts at Izbet Sarte, "week with a "note that since" th the reMue at Entebbe that electrified the world Ruth Kamlnsky were respon- London's famous ~ about 10 miles northeast of Peking does not have on July 4, 1976, have been memorialized In "The Medal of sible for the signature cam- Hotel has begun to lose some Tel Aviv. The tablets are diplomatic relations with Deliverance," announced by The Judaic Heritage Society. The paign under the direction of of its oldest and most valued believed to contain the oldest Israel it. cannot accept the medal also honors the man whose vision did so much to inspire Sol Davidson and Paul Kagin clients. At least seven of the' ; ifebiwrTwVjUiJg,5 even oider ^message. Jisssabte jndudea; the "cation of the .state^^ofJwaej;^^»ewiojj^uu^«nd«- and coordinated by Communi- Ieadlng-Jewisn"drganiznn6ni3—~~ t^an the 10th Century B.D.E. an Israeli offer for medical ecuted the rescue at Entebbe,1' says Society President Robert ty Relations commission Pro- - have canccueff runuiions uwy ' g r a n D i r e c t o r L o r n a were to have held Ihfrg. f>r -TP jqgZaf jgghwjjnr, '_tft>'|h»_ IUK. and other assistance to7the WeberJ.!w«e surely Imbued wjttThipBdorHejrzl'hrttU Chinese people. ,~-- '~"~ ^ f f l l t t l t l d l ^ 1 Michelson. -r":~rT covered until now.. * •<• In the process.of doing so. -
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