Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 19, 1978 Page: 4 of 24
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TEXAS JEWISH POST THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1978 POSTORIAL PAGE 4
postorial
Don't Forget
The Arab Boycott
With the spotlight on Israeli-Egyptian peace
negotiations, the problem of the Arab boycott of Israel
seems to have been forgotten. Yet the boycott remains a
threat to Israel’s economic well-being and it is an issue over
which the American Jewish community must remain
constantly alert.
Congress for the first time last year adopted a tough
anti-boycott law which prohibits companies from
complying with boycott provisions or from refusing to do
business with Israel or with a company that trades with
Israel.
The Administration now has to announce the regulations
by which American companies will be required to fulfill the
law. However, there are many in Congress who believe
that the regulations being readied by the Department of
Commerce are too lax and do not meet the intent of the law
as passed by Congress. Congress, in the second half of the
current 95th, session, will be seeking to get the
Administration to adopt more stringent regulations.
The federal legislation was adopted because it was felt
that only a national law could combat the boycott in the
United States. When some states adopted anti-boycott
laws there is some evidence that business was diverted to
states that did not have such laws.
The same thing is true on the international level. The
anti-boycott leaders in Congress will now be seeking to
have the State Department push for cooperation by West
Europe in the anti-boycott activities. This is the one way to
end the boycott once and for all.
On both these points
provide its support.
the Jewish community mustl
Nationwide UJA Pony Express Collects $ 12 Million
NEW YORK - In the
first national United Jewish
Appeal Operation Pony Ex-
press, a fleet of five planes
flew across the country on
December 27 and 28 to more
than 40 airports and collect-
ed over $12 million in checks
from campaign leaders of 49
communities. The unprece-
dented airborne operation,
which helped raise the UJA
December cash total to more
than $74 million — the
largest sum ever collected
during that month — boost-
ed 1977 cash collections to
$272 million.
Announcing the results,
UJA National Cash Chair-
man, Stanley L. Sloane of
New York, attributed the
Operation’s success to the
sense of urgency it trans-
mitted to the nation’s
Jewish communities. “The
December flights dramati-
cally demonstrated the need
for ongoing cash support
from all communities," he
said, “for vital programs of
humanitarian aid to our
fellow Jews in Israel, around
the world and here at
home.”
Mitchell Rasansky of Dal-
las, Chairman of Operation
Pony Express, created and
successfully tested the con-
cept last June in the
Southwest and later in the
New England region. He
described the Operation as
“a dramatic way of reaching
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OPERATION PONY EXPRESS was a huge success in the Southwest Region as
evidenced by the elated faces of L/R Marshall Brachman of Fort Worth, member of the
S.W. Young Leadership Cabinet; his father, Leon Brachman of Fort Worth, Chairman of
the Southwest Region of UJA; Ziona Baiaban, Assistant Executive Director of the
Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas; Mitch Rasansky of Dallas, Cash Collection
Chairman for the Southwest Region and Mike Halpern, Regional Director of the
Southwest Region of UJA.
ten passenger Turbo Jet
provided by Burton I.
Koffman an Executive Com-
mittee member from Bing-
hamton, N.Y.; a twin-engine
Beech Craft from Executive
many communities quickiy
and motivating them to take
immediate action in meeting
regional cash require-
ments.”
The fleet consisted of
private planes donated by
national campaign leaders,
including a twin-engine Aer-
ostar, owned and operated
by Leon H. Brachman of
Dallas, UJA Southwest Re-
gion Chairman and member
of the Executive Committee;
a' six-seater Lear Jet, con-
tributed by Allan Glick of
San Diego and Las Vegas; a
UJA General Chairman,
Leonard R. Strelitz of
Norfolk, Va.
Among the participating
lay leaders were: David
Alpert, member of the UJA
National Campaign Cabinet;
Ben Elissar Reported in Bucharest
Kreisky: Jews Are Not A Nation
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UJA National Chairman
Joel S. Breslau, who heads
the Overseas Programs
Committee; Bert Rabino-
witz. Chairman of the
National Campaign Cabinet
Committee member Arant and President of the Israel
H. Sherman of Chicago, and Education Fund; H. Paul
a Mitsubishi MU-2, used on Rosenberg, member of the
both days and donated by National Campaign Cabinet,
and Charles Rutenberg,
Florida Region Chairman
and member of the Execu-
tive Committee.
The forty cities visited in
the National Pony Express
Cash Operation included
Dallas, Houston and Tulsa.
JERUSALEM [JTA] -
Dr. Eliahua Ben Ellisar,
director general of the
Prime Minister’s Office, is
currently in Bucharest, Ma-
ariv and Israel Radio report-
ed. They said Ben-Elissar,
who recently headed the
Israeli delegation to the
Cairo talks, left for Rumania
secretly to brief Rumanian
leaders on recent political
developments.
It was assumed that
Ben-Elissar would meet with
Rumanian President Nicolae
Ceausescu. Ceausescu re-
portedly played a major role
in mediating between Israel
and Egypt, and was report-
edly instrumental ^arrang-
ing President Anwar Sadat’s
visit to Jerusalem last
November.
Another potential media-
tor, Prime Minister James
Callaghan of Britain, report-
edly has recently received a
cable from Premier Mena-
hem Begin on recent de-
velopments. Begin made a
point of meeting with
Callaghan on his way to
Washington last month and
on the way back.
BY MAURICE SINGER
VIENNA [JTA] - Jews
do not constitute a nation,
Chancellor Bruno Kreisky
said in an interview for a
supplement on the Arab
world in the newspaper, Die
Presse. "For me, the dif-
ferent Jewish groups are
communities of fate,” he
stated. "Jews live every-
where in the world. They
have much more in common,
both in appearance and
lifestyle, with their host
people than they have with
each other.” There are, he
added. Black Jews, Indian
Jews and Mongolian Jews,
which "proves that there is
no Jewish nation.
Kreisky also said he
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advocates the return of
“west Jordan territories” to
the Arabs. These territories,
although they had once
constituted Jewish pro-
vinces, should belong to
those who have lived there
for the last several centur-
ies. The only solution to the
Middle East conflict, he said,
would be the recognition of
the existence of the State of
Israel, but at the same time
the existence of a Palestin-
ian nation must also be
recognized.
The Chancellor, who is a
member of the Socialist
(Second) International and
has headed several fact-find-
ing missions of the organi-
zation, said he has recom-
mended round-table talks of
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Chetter Witch
Eli Davidsohn
Anita Braden
Wylma Hooker
Janie Hedgpeth
the members of the Interna-
tional on ways to solve the
conflict. In the second phase
of such talks, he said.
Socialist representatives of
Arab countries should be
invited to take part. Israel’s
TEL AVIV [JTA] -
Victor Shemtov, Mapam’s
new political secretary, said
in his first meeting with
political correspondents that
his party will “support any
plan” of Premier Menahem
Begin “that will prevent
war" and warned that if
progress towards peace is
not realized within two to
three months some forces
within Israel may emerge
that will jeopardize the
process and destroy chances
for peace.
Shemtov said Israel faces
“a possibility of a situation
called war or a situation that
will prevent war.” He
described Begin as a dove in
his plan for Sinai but a hawk
with regard to his plan for
the West Bank. The Mapam
leader said that preventing
any impediment toward
peace is the prime function
of his party at this time. He
also told the correspondents
that Mapam will hold a
discussion within six months
on ways to help revitalize
the Labor movement. This,
he stated, will have to
include a change and a
rejuvenation of the move-
Labor Party is a member of
the International but Arab
countries are not represent-
ed in it. Kreisky has
frequently been critical of
Israel’s Middle East posi-
tions.
ment’s leadership.
Shemtov also announced
that Mapam was planning to
launch an urban youth
movement that will parallel
Hashomer Hatzair which
will continue to function as
an educational youth move-
ment. The new urban youth
movement, he said, will be
aimed at mature youths and
will function as a kind of
young guard of Mapam.
Exports Up,
Imparts Down
JERUSALEM [JTA] -
Israelis were pleased to
learn that their exports are
up and imports are down but
Israel’s gross national pro-
duct increased by only one
per cent last year. Accord-
ing to figures just released,
Israel's exports of goods and
services rose by 11 per cent
in 1977. Imports were down
by about three, per cent
overall but military imports
dropped 25 per cent. The
GNP rose at a rate of one
per cent for the third
consecutive year. In 1971
and 1972 the annual rate of
increase was 11 per cent.
Memo -from the desk of
Erwin Waldman &
Steve Waldman
The Dallas AJC Chapter
will present Ira Silver-
man, Director of Spe-
cial Programs, at an
Open Community
Forum on Thurs. Jan.
26, 8 p.m., at Cong.
Shearith Israel.
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