Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 17, 1975 Page: 1 of 20
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i jess {0Will Boruch Ahtaw Adonoy!
Dallas has had a flurry of visitors within this past week all speaking for their
cause. Last Sunday we heard General Moshe Dayan. Tuesday night Yigal
Alien, Israel’s Foreign Minister spoke to a select group of Metroplex Jews at
Dallas’ Fairmont Hotel in behalf of the State of Israel and under the
| sponsorship of the United Jewish Appeal.
And preceding them Rabbi Baruch Korff came to Dallas...
Dayan and Allon were speaking on a crisis of worldwide importance: The
situation in the Middle East and whether Jews would again be able to muster
the strength and courage to withstand the rigors of their adversaries, the
£ Arabs and the Soviet Union.
Rabbi Korff, ex-President Nixon’s almost sole defender, spoke about the
hardships the former president has endured as a result of the Watergate and
subsequent exposures and pleaded for funds for his legal debts and to save
the presidency.
■ We are especially interested in Rabbi Korff s exposition. He appeared on
WFAA-TV Channel 8 recently on “At Issue” and “Probe” and was adamant in
Nixon’s innocence. Rabbi Korff conveyed a new thought transition which
deserves examination.
Previously, he was only interested in telling everyone that President Nixon
was above guilt and conveyed the idea that anyone who implied or inferred
gthat Mr. Nixon had a taint to him was off their ruddy rocker. There was no
in-between. No margin-for error.
Since President Nixon’s revelation that he knew more than he said he did
and since his resignation, Rabbi Korff has now emerged with a new theory.
The new idea is that President Nixon should not be considered guilty
because his presidency is “just a link” with’ former presidencies. That the
presidency has to be regarded as a never ending or infinite “chain.”
m In short Rabbi Korff wants us to regard Mr. Nixon as above mortal man,
™ above the law and on a par with rulers who declare themselves divine. We
have to do this, Rabbi Korff argues to preserve the presidency.
This premise we have to reject.
President Ford and all the former presidents who have preceded him are
just mortal men. They are made of the stock and fibre of America. Citizens,
they are reduced to the common denominator of being a homo-sapien, a
human being.
A man grows into the office. A man measures up to the presidency and
should lead this nation for the greater pursuits and the treasured objectives
for which it is dedicated according to its Declaration of Independence and its
^Constitution.
Rabbi Korff would rather have us vest our solid and strong faith in the man
that holds office, in that “link” into which he has been forged by democratic
use of the secret ballot.
It is rather ironic that Rabbi Korff who claims that he knows of the
tyrannies of dictatorship can not even flick an eyelash at his pronouncements.
Can he not see the analogy of the Nixon Administration with a stampede to
one-man rule dictatorship?
_Continued on Page 18
Peres - Israel Sought
7-10 Year Cooling
BY YITZHAK SHARGIL
TEL AVIV (JTA) - Defense Minister Shimon Peres revealed April 9 that Israel’s
position during the recent bilateral negotiations with Egypt called for a 7-10 year
“cooling-off” period if Egyptian President Anwar Sadat felt he was incapable of
concluding a substantive peace settlement with Israel at this time. He also said that
the reason the talks, conducted by Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, collapsed
was because they turned out to be attempts on both sides to gain American good will
rather than negotiations between Israel and Egypt. Addressing the monthly meeting
of the Working Mothers Association here, Peres said that what Sadat offered Israel
was at best a deferment of hostilities for several months. “We argued that if Sadat was
incapable of making peace at once, he should be able to promise a cooling off period of
7-10 years, but he refused,” Peres said. He also said that Sadat wanted to involve Syria
and the Palestine Liberation Organization in the process but we cannot discuss the
future with parties who simple declare they want our destruction.” Peres predicted
that this summer would be a decisive time for the Middle East. He said the key to
stability and the choice between peace and hostility was Egypt’s. If Egypt chooses a
peaceful approach and reopens the Suez Canal, it may be sure that Israel will not
interfere, he stated. The Defense Minister said he was sure the present differences
between Israel and the U.S. would be cleared up in time, just as previous differences
had been amicably resolved.
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Allon in Dallas
For Fed.-UJA
Israeli Foreign Minister
Yigal Allon told a standing
room only audience of over
325 Regional Community
leaders at a dinner meeting
Tuesday at Dallas’ Fairmont
Hotel that “the main pur-
pose of our foreign policy is
to achieve a just and durable
peace with the Arab coun-
tries...if we can not do this
let us at least avert a war for
as long as possible. To do
this we have to be strong...
and if we cannot avoid or
postpone war let us not be
forced to fight on all fronts
simultaneously.”
Allon revealed that the
government was continuing
a “policy of strengthening
our settlements, our mili-
tary aid and our foreign
policy...and on the eve of
independence we are about
to produce supersonic air-
craft and many other ele-
ments of munitions. In basic
munitions we are almost self
sufficient.
Referring to the break-
down in the Kissinger
negotiations, he said that
“all those who condemn us
because of Israel’s ‘intran-
sigence’ are mistaken...the
Egyptians wanted very
much from us at a very low
BY JIMMY WISCH
price.” Allon said that the
Egyptians wanted the oil
fields “worth about $450
million a year and supplying
55 percent of Israel’s oil
needs. We were willing to
give them up.” He added
Israel was also willing to
give up the strategic posi-
tions and “we’re ready to
satisfy ourselves with less.
YIGAL ALLON
It is not true that we were
the party” responsible for
the breakdown of the talks.
“We saw the talks were
ready to be suspended. We
offered new ideas. We
offered to withdraw further
East from the passes and
just keep our early warning
system in the U.S. zone in
order to give them the same
advantage.”
Assessing the future, he
said, “a new opening is
needed more than ever
before and maybe in the
future such an initiative may
be started.” He stressed the
importance of the continua-
tion of the United States
role in pursuing a peace
settlement in the Middle
East.
Community leaders as-
sembled on short notice
from Texas, Oklahoma,
Louisiana and New Mexico
to hear Allon, Moshe Rivlin,
Director General of the
Jewish Agency and Frank
R. Lautenberg, UJA Gen-
eral Chairman. It was the
second leg of a chartered
flight “Operation Israel”
which was in Miami earlier
in the day and included top
UJA cabinet officials as well
as UJA executive vice
chairman Irving Bernstein.
Rivlin compared the dark
days of 1948 following
Israel’s declaration of In-
dependence with today,
Israel’s 27th anniversary of
Continued on Page 17
Allon-Kissinger Meeting
Expected to Ease Tension
BY DAVID LANDAU
JERUSALEM (JTA) - Foreign Minister Yigal Allon is visiting the United States this
week to attend major fund-raising meetings of the United Jewish Appeal and has been
invited by Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger to meet with him in Washington.
According to the sources, Dallas was chosen for a cash drive meeting this Tuesday,
The State Department confirmed that Allon would meet with Kissinger, but did
not announce the date of the meeting. Israeli Ambassador Simcha Dinitz met with the
Secretary of State three times last week in a move to ease the strains between
Washington and Jerusalem that grew out of the failure of Kissinger’s Middle East
mission last month. Sources here said that Allon would not be bringing any new ideas to
Washington and noted that the Cabinet made no new decisions at its meeting here and
that Israel stands firm on the offers it made to Egypt during the recent second-stage
negotiations-all of which Cairo has rejected. Allon’s visit to the U.S. and meeting with
Kissinger follows a week of reports that American authorities had indicated to Jerusalem
that it would not be opportune for top Israeli officials-Allon or Defense Minister Shimon
Peres-to come to Washington at this time while the Administration was engaged in the
reassessment of its Middle East policy, ordered by President Ford last month.
Sources here said that
Allon had been invited some
time ago to attend the UJA
rallies but hesitated to
accept because of the state
of relations between Wash-
ington and Jerusalem. They
said the Minister did not
want to “impose” himself
upon Washington if he were
not welcome 'there. But
Dinitz’s reports of his latest
meetings with Kissinger
apparently indicated that
Allon’s visit would not be
unwelcome, and after con-
sultation with Premier
Yitzhak Rabin both decided
that he should go to the U.S.
The fact that the Foreign
Minister is away from Israel
when it celebrates its 27th
Independence starting April
16 was an indication of the
importance attached to
Allon’s trip. While it was
Continued on Page 17
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