Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 18, 1971 Page: 1 of 16
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We would like to report that the news is good and bright.
It is not.
SAME OLD SONG
Astute observers and reporters read ominous meanings from the statements and counter-statements emanating from Washington, Moscow, Cairo and Jerusalem.
It appears to many, and justarfiably so, that the United States and England are pressuring Israel to relinquish territory captured following the Six Days War of June, 1967 prior to
any concrete and direct nogotiations between the belligerents.
A proposal coming from the State Department, and being supported by Senator Fullbright, urges Israel to withdraw to her 1967 boundaries before any direct negotiations
are begun or treaties are signed.
What folly and mockery this is!
Let us look at the historic facts:
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AND JUSTICE
The Arabs refused to sign a permanent peace and only agreed
upon a truce which they immediately conspired to either ignore or
violate. No one in the family of nations helped Israel or came to her
defense.
This led to the tulmultous events preceding the Sinai Campaign of
1956. Same boastings of destruction. Col. Nasser, spurred by his am-
bition to rule over Pan-Arabia, used Israel as his whipping boy to build
his image. Nasser thought it would be easy to defeat the Israelis,
especially with the material help and aid and comfort of the Soviet
Union and the Chinese Peoples Republic who were supplying arms
and credits to Egypt and Syria respectively. The war cry was that
Israel did not exist. The logic of trying to destroy a nation which
didn't exist soon became a rhetorical platitude. Nasser didn't stop
for logic. If he had, the Israelis and Arabs could have been living in
peace and have had a flourishing area. Nasser was interested in re-
creating an Egypt that would once again rule the entire area.
Spurred by the Russians he tried and was again soundly defeated.
The great powers convinced Israel to withdraw--the main pleader
was our Secretary of States Dulles. "Withdraw and all will be perfect,
your borders when they are finally drawn will be recognized and
guaranteed," was the theme song.
The song was written on hollow notes and the words laughed at
the melody. The Arabs had a bigger laugh. They could keep Israel on a
war footing, drain its economy, violate truces, create a guerrilla and
terrorist force to disrupt her externally and internally. Israel had to
stand alone and she perservered.
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Single-handedly Israel fought the entire Arab might and/ though
the odds were over 200 to 1,the Israelis were victorious and were
ready to sign a just and lasting peace with the Arabs.
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THE SOUTHWEST’S LEADING ENGLISH-JEWISH WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
READ BY MORE THAN 20,000 EACH WEEK
U.S. DENIES
ISRAEL PRESSURE
Washington, (JTA) -- Joseph J. Sisco, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and
South Asian affairs, denied that the United States was pressuring Israel to withdraw from
the Sinai Peninsula. In a letter in the March 10 issue of Near East Report, a weekly news-
letter on American policy in the Near East published here, Sisco wrote that such reports
"could not be more wrong," noting: "It has never been our policy that the Security Coun-
cil resolution of June, 1967, requires total Israeli withdrawal in all cases to the pre-
June 5, 1967, armistice lines where a return to those lines would leave elements of that
conflict unresolved." -----------—
Have we forgotten the sad, anguished days preceding the June, 1967
conflict?
This writer was in the Soviet Union a few months preceding the
Continued on Page 9
Fort Worth Tops 1970 By 45%
As Federation Reaches $279,000!
The Jewish Federation of Fort Worth's 1971 "Survival Means
Sacrifice" fund-raising campaign reached $279,119 at a dinner held at
Shady Oaks Country Club last Sunday night.
General Campaign Chairman Sheldon Labovitz said that the figure
outpaced the $193,586 reached at a similar dinner held last year. On
a card-for-card basis the increased giving soared to nearly 45% over
last year's pledges.
Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld, president of the American Jewish Con-
gress, who returned recently from the Brussels Conference on Soviet
Jewry, told 225 in attendance that "The State of Israel is a fullfilment
of the Dream of the Ages...we are old oldtimers in this effort and we
no longer need a crisis to motivate us...we have come here out of a
sense of commitment...knowing full well what our obligations are,
knowing full well that demography has changed the Jewish people
and we are no longer the league of travelling Israelites...no longer
frightened...we see the light at the end of the tunnel." Turning
to Russia, he said "the three million Jews of the Soviet Union are
being denied their rights...but there may be a great flow-even with
Russian permission--of Jews into the State of Israel from the Soviet
Union."
The Sisco statement was in
reply to charges, published in the
March 3 issue of NER by editor
I. L. Kenen, that “We seem to be
reliving 1957, when the Soviet
Union and the U.S. competing for
President Nasser’s favor, forced
Israel to withdraw completely from
Sharm el-Sheikh and other positions
occupied in the Sinai War. Once
again, as in 1957, the Great Pow-
ers are pressuring Israel to surrender
to Egyptian terms, total withdrawal
from the Sinai Peninsula.” In
denying the charges, Sisco wrote:
“It has been fundamental to our
policy since June, 1967, that there
should be no return to the condi-
tions of the past; that there must
this time be a settlement which
replaces armistice with peace based
on direct and reciprocal commit-
ments of the parties to each other,
a settlement that recognizes Israel’s
borders and its sovereignty and
terminates all claims of belligerency,
and that includes security arrange-
ments that are inherently durable.”
Sisco added that while the U.S.
recognizes that borders may have
■to be changed, the U.S. believes such
believes sach changes should be
insubstantial since “in our judge-
ment peace is not attainable on the
basis of substantial alterations in
the map of the area that was in
existence before the June 1967
war.” Commenting on the Sisco
letter, Kenen said: “It is true that
our government’s stated objective
may differ from 1957, in that we
seek a peace treaty. But our pro-
cedure may bar that objective.” He
said that by attempting to fix the
Israeli-Egyptian border in advance
of direct negotiations, the U.S. had
circumscribed Israel’s capacity to
negotiate freely. “In that respect,”
he continued., “the difference be-
tween 1957 and 1971 —to use the
word of the day-may prove to be
‘insubstantial.’”
STATE DEPARTMENT APPROACH CACTtOCS
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WASHINGTON, (JTA) -- The State Department continued to take a cautious, non-commital approach
to the part of United Nations Secretary General Thant's Middle East progress report last week criticizing
Israel for refusing to commit herself to total withdrawl from the Sinai. Department spokesman Charles
Bray told reporters he could not verify the transcript of the March 8 briefing by Robert J. McCloskey.
McCloskey said the United States endorsed the Thant report generally, but he refused to say whether
it approved the specific call for a response by Israel on the withdrawal question. Bray said he was not
questioning the validity of the transcript. A copy of the text, made available to the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency failed to confirm a New York Times story claiming that McCloskey had expressed U.S. endorsement
of the full Thant report, including its call to Israel to 'respondfavorably."
Continued on Page 4
Brotherhood Awards
In comparing alternatives to the survival of Israel, Rabbi Lelyveld
asked "Who shall the Jews of Israel be led by: Sudat? Hussein? El
Fatah?...we are not dealing with an abstraction-but with a reality.
There is no alternative. When one has no choice one stands and fights.
Sudat's bluster is backed by Russia's might...Soviet support of thfe
U.A.R. is complete with military and funds while U.S. support
of Israel is qualified and uncertain...the considered judgement of the
U.S. State Department is that Arab territory is not negotiable but
Israeli territory, in the eyes of our State Department, is negoti-
able. The same double standard that has appliea r 25 years still
stands. Jordan took the West Bank and Jerusalem by torce of arms but
no one complained about that or the erection of a hotel on top of the
Mount of Olives and using the gravestones of the cemetery for
roads..." Rabbi Lelyveld told how the Arabs receive munitions free but
Israelis have to pay "cash on the barrelhead" for theirs.
The "double standard is still apparent" he said.
Sheldon Labovitz received a standing ovation for his efforts in
spearheading the drive. He promised new targets of $350,000. "And
when we reach that," he said, "We're going to push for $390,000."
Dallas civic leaders, from left, Ben A. Lipshy, Paul Carrington and James W. Simmons Jr. received Brother-
hood citations at a dinner March 18 in the Sheraton-Dallas Hotel given annually during the National
Conference of Christians and Jews' Brotherhood Week. The awards are given for "religious commitment
and civic leadership."
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