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IN OUR 47TH YEAR OF SERVICE TO THE DALLAS-FT. WORTH JEWISH COMMUNITY
VOLUME 47 NO. 20
THURSDAY, MAY 20,1993 29 IYAR 5753
24 PAGES $.75 PER ISSUE
JESS JAWIN: "Cap the Knife"
Casper Weinberger, former Secretary of Defense “Cap the
Knife” in the Reagan Administration whose forbears were Jew-
ish, has always had the hots for Israel. Luckily he was pardoned
by former President George Bush before the latter left office.
Otherwise Weinberger might well have languished in prison
rather than capture the prestigious position as head of Forbes
Magazine. Moreover Weinberger had a vendetta against
Jonathan Pollard. Pollard never denied that he passed secrets
to Israel. The entire argument was why he did, their content, and
after his conviction, his punishment. Not only having the hots for
Israel, Weinberger had the double hots for Pollard and not only
threw “the book” at him but managed to make certain that he
would never see the light of freedom.
Morrie Amitay, noted attorney and one of TJP’s contributing
writers from Washington, D.C., has background insight on
Weinberger which we would like to share with you. The following
is Amitay’s report:
As the saying, attributed to Henry Kissinger, goes - “even
paranoids have enemies”. And if the memoirs of former Secre-
tary of State George Shultz and former Reagan White House
Middle East advisor Howard Teicher are accurate - Israel’s
paranoia with regard tocertainU.S. leadership was well-founded.
Both Shultz (‘Turmoil and Triumph”) and Teicher (“Twin Pillars
see JAWIN p. 21
AJCommittee and AJCongress Agree
Remaining Separate is Best for Now
By Larry Yudelson
NEW YORK (JTA)—Merger
talks between the American Jew-
ish Committee and the Ameri-
can Jewish Congress came to an
unsuccessful end with the two
organizations agreeing to remain
separate.
A merger had promised to re-
duce overhead, administrative
expenses and overlapping pro-
grams of the two groups, which
have ostensibly similar goals of
protecting Jewish interests around
the world and promoting Ameri-
can democracy at home.
Similar talks had taken place in
the early 1970’s. Given the gen-
eral decline of money available to
Jewish organizations, as well as
specific budget crises undergone
by the two groups in the late
1980’s, this round of talks as
seen as potentially more fruitful.
But the once-bitter differences
see SEPARATE p. 21
Israel Installs Seventh President
With Pageantry and Hopes for Peace
By Cynthia Mann
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel
spared little in its lavish inaugura-
tion last Thursday of its seventh
president, Ezer Weizman, the
hawk-tumed-dove politician and
former air force commander.
Outside the Knesset prior to the
swearing-in, the red carpet was
rolled out, an honor guard stood at
attention and blaring trumpets her-
alded the transfer of presidential
power from incumbent Chaim
Herzog to Weizman.
Inside, following a farewell
speech by Herzog, who held the
presidency for 10 years, Weizman,
68, took the oath of office for the
five-year, largely ceremonial post.
The sound of shofars signaled that
the transition was completed.
Knesset Speaker Shevach Weiss
proclaimed the traditional “Long
live the president of Is-
rael!” which those as-
sembled echoed three
times.
In his 15-minute
speech, Weizman re-
counted Israel’s struggles
to establish itself as a state
where world Jewry would
settle, celebrated how
much the country has de-
veloped since its incep-
tion and sounded his
hopes for peace.
He said that while prob-
lems such as social ineq-
uities have not been elimi-
nated, there have been tie- LEGENDARY ESER WEIZMAN was
mendous achievements sworn in May 13 in Jerusalem as
that compare favorably to Israel's seventh president,
those of far bigger countries, and He said it is Israel’s mission to
this in spite of constant threats to sound a positive message about it-
Israel’s survival. see PAGEANTRY p. 22
Americans Believe a Holocaust
of Europe’s Jews Could Recur
By Deborah Kalb
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — A
majority of Americans believes a
holocaust against the Jews of Eu-
rope could happen again, accord-
ing to a national survey.
The survey was commissioned
by a group called the Committee of
Concerned Christians, which de-
scribes itself as “the first all-de-
nominational Christian organiza-
tion whose sole purpose is to en-
sure that the Holocaust is never
forgotten.”
Fifty-four percent of respondents
said they believed another holo-
caust similar to the Nazi Holocaust
could happen in Europe.
Thirty-two percent said it could
not happen again, and the remain-
der was unsure or did not know.
The survey, released May 11 in
the office of Richard Halverson,
the chaplain of the U.S. Senate and
a member of the committee’s advi-
sory board, sampled 1,022 adults
between April 30 and May 2.
Ben Friedman, founder of and
spokesman for the committee, said
in a statement that the results show
most Americans do not believe the
Holocaust-related slogan “Never
Again” is accurate.
The slogan “is an obsolete and
ineffective warning against another
sm HOLOCAUST P. 22
Jewish Groups Express Impatience with Slow U.S. Response on Bosnia
By Deborah Kalb
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — The
organized Jewish community,
which has been pushing the United
States to take tougher measures to
halt atrocities in Bosnia-
Herzegovina, is becoming increas-
ingly frustrated with the Clinton
administration’s seeming inability
to decide on a course of action.
Convinced that only stronger
U.S. action will stop the killings
and “ethnic cleansing” campaign
in the former Yugoslav republic,
Jewish leaders have continued to
press their opinions in meetings
with high-level administration of-
ficials.
Last week, executives of the
American Jewish Committee,
American Jewish Congress and
Anti-Defamation League discussed
the situation with Deputy National
Security Adviser Samuel Berger.
For months now, Jewish groups
have been encouraging the United
States to help alleviate the plight of
the Bosnians. The Jewish commu-
nity has expressed special concern
about the “ethnic cleansing” prac-
ticed against Bosnian Moslems
mainly by Bosnian Serbs, which,
for some, stirs up memories of the
Nazi Holocaust.
Among the steps urged by Jew-
ish groups in recent months have
been the lifting of the arms em-
bargo against the Bosnian Mos-
lems and military action, if neces-
sary, to stop the killings.
One leader who attended the
meeting with Berger, AJCongress
Executive Vice President Henry
Siegman, expressed impatience
with the administration.
Speaking for himself, and not
for his organization, Siegman said
he felt a “deep sense of disappoint-
ment and disillusionment. It does
not seem that this administration is
at all clear about what it intends to
do,” he said.
By being “indecisive,” Siegman
said, the administration is signaling
to the Serbs that “they can really
continue with the genocide and eth-
nic cleansing with absolute impu-
nity,” and that nobody in the United
States or Europe will “lift a finger
to stop them on this bloody road.”
ADL National Chair Mel Salberg
and AJCommittee President Alfred
Moses, the other participants in the
Berger meeting, were less critical,
saying they understood the compli-
cations facing the administration,
in dealing with often-reluctant Eu-
ropean allies, for example.
But both leaders also said they
in IMPATIENCE p. 8
Index
Shavuot: Are Freedom and Obligation Compatible?................................2
Washington Watch........................................................................................4
Dallas Doings.............................. 5
Honors for Neil Cogan at AJCongress Religious Liberty Luncheon.......6
Dallas Israel Bonds Dinner Selling Out Fast..............................................6
Harmony Awards to Honor Mexican President Next Friday...................7
20th Anniversary of Dallas Federation Foundation Set for June 12........8
Synagogue Services............................................................................18,21
Around the Town................................................................ 19
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