Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 21, 1980 Page: 2 of 20
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TEXAS JEWISH POST THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1980 PAGE 2
Muskie Blames Jerusalem Law
For Autonomy Talk Impasse
BY JOSEPH POLAKOFF
WASHINGTON [JTA] -
Secretary of State Edmund
Muskie, in his latest re-
marks on Egyptian-Israeli
relations, blames Israel’s
Jerusalem law for the
impasse in the West
Bank/Gaza autonomy talks
but makes no mention of
Egyptian legislative mea-
sures and actions that
preceded the Knesset proc-
lamation of the Jerusalem
law on July 23. The
Egyptian Parliament on
April 1 and July 1 adopted
measures establishing East
Jerusalem as Arab. Muskie
implies that the Jerusalem
law is meaningless insofar as
the autonomy talks are
concerned.
Muskie’s downplay or
silence on Egyptian pre-
judgments of the Camp
David agreements and pub-
lic criticism of Israel are
seen here by some analysts
as deliberately intended to
mollify President Anwar
Sadat out of fear that he
might upset President Car-
ter’s cardinal foreign policy
achievement and thus hamp-
er his reelection campaign.
Israeli anger is regarded as
less in this scenario, analysts
believe.
In an interview with U.S.
News and World Report,
published in a recent
issue, Muskie was asked
“Isn’t the Camp David
agreement on the Middle
East peace showing signs of
unraveling? Is there danger
that Egypt might pull out of
the negotiations?”
Muskie replied: “There is
that danger. There is a
problem with mutual reac-
tion — the tendency by one
side to take unilateral
actions that create political
difficulties for the other side
and produce reactions that
in turn tend to put the other
side on the defensive.
“The settlements question
and the Jerusalem issue,”
Muskie added, “have been
the most difficult. The
parties get diverted by
unilateral actions. Their
concentration is disturbed,
and they tend to cause the
other side to walk away
from the talks.
“The actions now taken
and being considered in
Israel on Jerusalem cannot
finally settle the status of
Jerusalem. At some point it
will be discussed as an issue.
If agreement eventually is
reached concerning the
status of Jerusalem, then
presumably both the Israeli
and Egyptian governments
will support it notwithstand-
ing any prior position either
government may have tak-
en. I’ve tried to make that
point to both sides.
“I regret the actions that
Israel is now taking because
the risk is that they will lead
to interruption of the talks.
At the same time, I make
the point to the Egyptians
that the issue of Jerusalem
really is still there to be
discussed, and they ought to
bear that in mind in their
reactions to such things.”
The State Department’s
reactions to the Jerusalem
issue as it relates to the
autonomy talks indicates a
double standard. It has
berated the Knesset law as
“an obstacle” to the Camp
David peace process al-
though not blocking it
because it “prejudges” the
matter.
However, it was left to a
reporter’s questions to the
Department’s spokesman to
note that Jerusalem is not
included in the Camp David
agreement except in side
letters and therefore is
excluded from the autonomy
talks, that the Department
had not criticized as “ob-
stacles” the Egyptian Par
liament’s measures on April
1 and July 1, nor Egypt’s
harsh anti-Israel statements
while voting on July 28 for
the United Nations General
Assembly resolution de-
manding that Israel with-
draw from all the occupied
territories, including Jerusa-
lem.
State Department Views
Responding to these ob-
servations, the Depart-
ment’s chief spokesman
John Trattner has said
“there is some sort of a
common agreement” to dis
cuss Jerusalem “at a later
stage." He also said “regard
less of whether it (Jerusa-
lem) is in the (Camp David)
agreement, Jerusalem is one
of the problems the Camp
David process seeks to
settle." The issue, he said,
“must be determined in later
negotiations," but mean-
while, “we would like to
move ahead” with the talks.
Recently, a Department
spokesman, David Passage,
said the U.S. position is that
Jerusalem, “sacred as it is to
the people of three faiths,
should be an undivided city
whose holy places should be
accessible to the people of all
religions and whose ultimate
legal status should be
determined by negotiations
among the peoples them-
selves. The Camp David
accords were and are intend-
ed to lead to a process of
neogotiations which ulti-
mately must consider all of
the questions at issue in the
occupied territories.”
/ess jawin Business is Business
Continued from page 1
Mecca. A work force of some 15,000 is expected to participate in the project.
Four of the five architectural, engineering and management firms that
designed the projects were American: Hellmuth Ohata and Kassbaum, St.
Louis; Dames and Moore, Los Angeles; Syska and Hennessy, New York; and
CHS, Houston.
In addition six firms, all American, have been invited by the Saudis to bid
for a construction management contract for the $1 billion health sciences
complex and King Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah. The center is being
designed by HDR International of Alexandria, Va., a subsidiary of the
Omaha-based firm of Henning son, Durham & Richardson. The facilities will
include an 800-bed teaching hospital.
The six firms involved in the bidding are Bechtel Co., San Francisco;
Parsons Ltd., Pasadena; Daniel International, Greenville, S.C.; Turner
Construction Co., New York; CM Associates, Houston; and McBro-Wallace, a
joint venture of McBro of St. Louis and Wallace International, Dallas. The
master plan also calls for 3,000 housing units and a women’s campus.
The Northrop Corporation, Los Angeles, received an $881 million contract
from the United States Air Force — part of a $2.5 billion project overall — to
modernize the Saudi Air Force earlier this year. The Saudis have already
bought more than $25 billion worth of U.S. weapons and support.
Two subsidiaries of Pullman, Inc., Chicago, have been awarded a $367
million contract to build a fertilizer complex at A1 Jubail in Saudi Arabia.
Pullman KelJog, Houston, involved in the fertilizer deal, is also constructing a
steel complex and gas liquefaction plants in Algeria.
The Lummus Company, an engineering concern of Bloomfield, N.J., is the
chief contractor in an international consortium that has nearly completed a
$1.2 billion petrochemical complex in Basrah, Iraq. Lummus is a subsidiary of
Combustion Engineering, Inc., Stamford, Conn. The complex, with a capacity
of 100,000 tons, will begin commercial production next year.
The Mid east construction boom will mean a doubling of the market for
construction machinery, including tractor dozers, rough terrain cranes and
hydraulic excavators.
* * *
The Arabs maintain a strict compliance with firms who do business with
them. They refuse to deal with firms who trade with Israel, and, in many
cases have extended this policy to Jewish firms outside Israel.
Their paradox is moral. Planning educational facilities is constructive. How
can they equate this with their boycott policy and the huge destructive
results of a Holy War?
For the firms which comply, decisions are easy: Business is business!
Egyptian Paper
Apologizes To I
Herr Hitler I
BY GIL SEDAN
JERUSALEM [JTA] -
Foreign Minister Yitzhak
Shamir formally protested
to Egyptian Ambassador
Saad Mortada over yet
another anti-Israel state-
ment in the Egyptian daily
Al-Gumhouriya. The paper
published a cartoon depict-
ing Adolf Hitler handing a
medal to Premier Menachem
Begin and Israel portested
that cartoon. In response,
the paper published an
“apology” — to Hitler.
Support
Continued from page 1
freedom to exert your
influence. The intimation is
that as of November you will
be a free man to act firmly,
to deal with the Israel issue
without interference from
the pleadings that come in
behalf of Israel and from the
friends and supporters of
the Jewish State .... What
of November 5 and its
aftermath, Mr. President?”
Reply By The White House
In response to the letter,
Powell replied:
Thank you for your recent
letter to President Carter
expressing your concern
over news media predictions
and unsubstantiated reports
that claim the year 1981,
after the Presidential elec-
tion, will be a “tough” year
for Israel and that President
Carter wfll be a free man to
“bear down” on our friend
and ally.
We regret that you lend
so much credence to these
reports and urge you to,
once again, review the
public record and the words
and actions of President
Carter.
In March, 1978, he repeat-
ed a pledge he has never
varied from: “We have a
commitment to the preser-
vation of Israel as a nation,
to the security of Israel, the
right of the Israeli people
who have suffered so much
to live in peace, that is
absolutely permanent and
unshakeable." The Presi-
dent has never wandered
from his commitment, and
never will.
In his recent statement to
the Democratic Platform
Committee, which laid down
an agenda for 1981 and
thereafter, the President
pointed out: “Our nation
feels a profound moral
obligation to sustain and
assure the security of Israel.
That is why our relationship
with Israel is, in most
respects, a unique one. It is
organic; it is derived from
our deepest moral impera-
tives."
The President's commit -
“We apologize to Adolf—
Hitler because he did not*
murder the desire of the®
peoples of the world for
peace, but made peace a
target and hope. Hitler did
not murder the desire of the
Jews to live, but increased
their lust for life and Hitler
bears most of the responsi«|
bility for the establishment®
of the State of Israel. On th<®
other hand, Begin killed the
desire for peace in the
hearts of Egypt, Israel and
the U.S.
“The Palestinians, firing!
Hussein [of Jordan] and th®
rest of the Arabs refrai®
from joining the peace
_See Apology-page 4
ment to achieving peace in
the Middle East is also
unshakeable. No previous
President has devoted so
much of his personal time, A
much of his heart and sou®
so much of his wfll powe ™
and sincere prayer to achiev-
ing peace in the Middle East
than Jimmy Carter.
We know of no intentions,
to quote your words, dL
putting “pressure” on Isra®
after the elections. Our ro®
has always been that of a
mediator, a friend, talking to
one side, then the other,
trying to keep the negotia-
tions alive and moving.
Pressure never works and
we do not employ it, aqfr
won't in the future. We wi®
however, continue to stre®
the vital importance of
constantly working towards
peace ....
You wrote of echoes of
what is being repeated “in
the spoken commentaries, ®
the printed columns ®
correspondents, in the co^
elusions reached that at the
moment there is an election
at stake.” But none of these
sources carries the words of
Jimmy Carter. Ike reports
do not reflect the Preside^
and his plans. He he®
repeatedly made his commi®
meats known, his intentions
known, his hopes and pray-
ers known, and has never
wavered from them as
regards Israel and the
Middle East. Nor wfll he.
I do agree that 1981 wifl
be a “tough" year. It will b®
tough on the United States
because of our economic and
energy problems. It will be
tough on other nations
which are suffering from
higher inflation and mor^
desperate energy problem®
than we are. It will be toug®
on nations of the Middle
East as we try to work
through some difficult nego-
tiations. It will be tough on
the developing Third Word
Nations, on the hungry
people of the world. Buka
“tough" also means chal®
lenge — an atmosphere ii®
which President Carter is
disciplined, compassionate, a
man of peace and fair play.
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