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VOL. 54 NO. 3
JANUARY 15, I97G - SHEVAT 13
PARIS (WNS) — Premier Yitzhak Rabin has
indicated that the only way Israel would ever consider
talking with the Palestine Liberation Organization is if
the PLO Renounced its aim of destroying the State of
' Israel. In an interview with the French weekly, Nouvel
Observateur, Rabin answering a "hypothetical"
question, said Israel would expect deeds not words
from the PLO. He said one such deed would be for the
PLO to completely renounce its "Palestinian
Covenant" which calls for the replacement of the State .
of Israel by a "secular, democratic state" of Arabs and
Jews. "Afterward we shall draw the consequences and
niaketbenecessary conclusions," Rabin said.
LONDON (WNS) — British Chief Rabbi Immanuel
Jakobovits has rejected charges by Soviet emigre
groups in Israel that he was taken in by Soviet
. propaganda during his nine-day visit to the USSR. The
Chief Rabbi's office issued a statement defending the
Rabbi noting that he is "known as a person of acute
and perceptive judgment and is the last person" who
could be accused of being duped. The statement also
rioted  that many  of the remarks  attributed  to
"- Jakobovits "are factually incorrect or distorted." The
Israeli, reaction was due in part to Jakobovits' report
thathis trip^gaye liim.c&use to hope that the lot of
Soviet Jews would be improved. He told an overflow
meeting, at St. John's: Wood Synagogue that the
• campaign for Sbyiet Jewry should have two slogans,
"Let my people go" for the half million Soviet Jews
who want to go to Israel and "let my people live" for
the remaining two million Jews.
VIENNA (WNS) -Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal
has announced that he was shifting his efforts to track*
down wanted Nazi war criminals 40' the United State's
, and other countries and away fromAustria because
Nazis are almost invariably acquitted by Austrian
courts. He said he was cooperating Aith the U.S.
Immigration and Naturalization Service and the
Department of Justice tp uncover evidence on at least
70 former residents pf Eastern Europe now living in
the U.S. who are wanted for/ war crimes in a number of
countries./
NEW  YORK   <WNS) .to, RabbiDavid   Polish,
: president of the Chicago Zionist Federation, has been
named chairman of a commission on Zionist ideology
set up by the American Zionist Federation. AZF
president, Faye Schenk, said the commission which
will include 31 Zionist scholars and leaders will meet
several times ayear to consider such questions as the
contemporary character of Zionism, how to distinguish
between Zionism and pro-Israel activity and whether,
the Zionist philosophy needs updating and revision.
Warns Foreign Powers, Specifically
Israel And Syria, To Stay Out Of Lebanon
WASHINGTON  (JTA) -
The        United       States
government warned Jan. 8
against intervention- by any
foreign    power    in    the
Lebanese   situation   and
specifically mentioned Syria
ahd  . Israel     in     that
connection.      State
Department    spokesman
Robert   Funseth   said   the
warning was in response to
statements   by   the   Syria
Foreign   Minister   Abdel'
Halim Khaddam that Syria
would annex Lebanon if that
country was partitioned and"
by Israeli Defense Minister
Shimon  Peres  that  Israel
would not stand idly by if
Syria'  intervened  in   the
Lebanese crisis. "'The U.S.
has repeatedly expressed its
support for the territorial
integrity   of    Lebanon,"-
Funseth said, referring to
Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger's   letter   to   that
effect to the Prime Minister
of  Lebanon  last  Nov.   5.
Funse,th   in   a,  prepared
statement fead to'reporters,*
said:' "During the course of
.the difficulties in Lebanon,
we have made clear that the
U.S.  opposed  any  outside
interference   in Lebanon's
affairs. This position' was
made     known     to     the
governments in the area.
Our view has not changed.
No country should intervene
in Lebanon. We are opposed
to any outside intervention in
Lebanon by  any. country,
including Syria and Israel."
Funseth   noted   that   "My
response is to the statements
of both the Israeli and Syrian
officials,"   meaning  Peres
and Khaddam. Asked if
there was any foreign
intervention now in
Lebanon, Funseth referred
the questioner to the
Lebanese authorities.
TEL AVIV (JTA) -
Defense Minister Shimon
Peres warned Jan. 8 that
Israel would react if Syria
intervened in any form in the
current fighting between
Moslems and Christians in
Lebanon. He made the
comment to the newspaper
Maariv in connection with.a
reported statement' by the
Syrian Foreign Minister,
Abdel Halim Khaddam, that
Syria would annex Lebanon
should that country stand in
danger of becoming divided.
Peres said any Syrian
intervention would be
tantamount to an invasion of
Lebanon with all of its
consequences and that Israel
would not remain indifferent
. but   would   consider'  its
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Await Security Council Mideast Debate
(Editor's Note: As the Chronicle
prepared to go to press early in the
week, the results ol Ihe U.N. Security
Council debate were not yet known.
The following analysis of possible
consequences is presented at this
time. Next week's issue will consider
the results of the debate in detail.
By David Landau
JERUSALEM (JTA) -
Jerusalem last week
awaited with trepidation the
Security Council debate on
the Middle East,'on Jan. 12.
The main fear among top
policy-makers was that the
Arab-initiated debate could
result in ' even greater
isolation of Israel, and 3ven
in a rift'opening between
Israel and the United States.
Foriegn Minister Yigal Allon
was instructed by the
Cabinet to ascertain as
precisely as possible what
can be expected from the
U.S. as the Security Council
drama unfolds.
Paradoxically, the worst
fear is that the Arabs will not
be extremist, but moderate.
Their moderation could
tempt the U.S. into
.supporting a new Council
resolution broadly
sympathetic to the
Palestinian   cause   —   a
resolution which would drive
a wedge between Jerusalem
and Washington. Gone are
the days when the Arabs
could be counted on to
• prejudice, with bombast and
extremist rhetoric, their own
best interests. Now, under
Soviet coaxing, the Arabs —
even the Syrians — might
well soften their hard-line
demands, and propose a
. moderate formulation on the
Palestinian question which
Washington would, be hard
put to veto.
They might well-make use
of formulations  actually
used by the U.S. itself in the
past, such as the "interests
of the Palestinian people"
referred to in the joint
communique issued June
1973 by President Nixon and
Soviet Communist Party
Secretary Leonid Brezhnev
and repeated at the
Vladivostok summit
between Brezhnev and
President Ford last year. A
resolution in this vein would
mean, m the present context,
Israeli policymakers say, a
call to reconvene Geneva
with the PLO participating.
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Noted Rabbi Will Speak
At Open Public Meeting
Rabbi Marc H.
Tanenbaum, one of the
outstanding speakers and
religious thinkers in the
American Jewish
community, will address an
open public meeting this
evening —Thursday, Jan. 15
- — at 8 p.m. at Agudas Achim
Synagogue. Rabbi
Tanenbaum's topic will be
"Vatican II — Ten Years
Lessons Of 1975 — Challenges In 1976
.   By Murray Zuckoff
(Copyright 1976, JTA, Inc.)
NEW YORK (JTA) - For
Israel and the Jewish people
1975 could not have ended too
soon. It,-was a year of
diplomatic defeats for Israel
and steam-roller victories
for the Arab-Communist-
T^ird World bloc: It was a
year of economic crisis and
political dissension in Israel
which threatened to split the
Alignment and the coalition
government. It was a year
when many friends of the
Jewish State — including the
United States, France,
Sweden, Mexico, Chile and
Brazil — left Israel in the
lurch and capitulated to
Arab, Communist and Third
World pressure. It was also a
year of world wide economic
crisis in which many Jewish
communities were caught in
an- economic < crunch; in
which the pgHt" of Soviet
Jewry increased both in
terms of a precipitous
decline in emigration and in
mounting harassment and
arrests of Jews seeking to
emigrate; and in which
detente veered off course
and threatened to collapse
altogether over the issue of
Angola; The only bright
moments for Israel and the
Jewish world was the second
interim Sinai accord
between Israel and Egypt
and the outpouring of
international solidarity
be t w e e n Jewish
communities and Israel over
the issue of Zionism. .Yet,
even these positive
developments were
darkened by anxiety and
fear regarding their long-
range consequences. The.
ramifications of all these
developments will be
manifested in lull scope in
1976 and confront Israel and
world Jewry 'with 'soflie of'
-the most crucial challenges
and fateful decisions since
the. Jewish State came into
existence. In 1975 nothing
seemed to go right for Israel.
The deep-going! economic
crisis, reminiscent of the
1960's, provoked a series of
major strikes. The.
government was under
mounting pressure froni
doves within and outside the
government to change its
attitude toward the
Palestinian issue. The illegal
settlement move in Sebastia
by the Gush Emunim and the
compromise the government
reached with the settlers
created a furor in the Labor
Party ahd caused Premier
Yitzhak Rabin to threaten to
resign. The victory of a
Communist Mayor in the
Nazareth election brought a
series of charges that the
. government; had neglected
the, problems < of; Israeji
Arabs and countercharges
that the Communists were
preparing a base in that city
for terrorist activities.
Throughout all this, terrorist
bombs ripped through
downtown Jerusalem in
July, October and November
killing a total of 21 people
and injuring 46, and terrorist
activities in Tel Aviv and
along the border were
responsible for the death of
some 24 Israelis and
terrorists.
The year 1975 was also
filled with a series of ironies
and perversities for Israel
and the Jewish world, The
adoption by the General
Assembly in November of a
resolution equating Zionism
with racism was a
perversity because it was
the culmination of a series of
similar resolutions adopted
in Mexico City at the
International Women's Year
Conference, in Lima, Peru at
a meeting of ministers) of
non-aligned states, in
Kampala, Uganda at a
meeting of the Organization
of African Unity, which were
convened to deal with the
socially progressive issues
involving the elimination of
• apartheid, colonialism and
, imperialism. It was ironic
that the groundswell of
Voices in Israel calling for
talks with any Palestinian
group that renounced
terrorism and recognized
Israel's sovereignty was
. attributed in large measure
to American pressure for
accommodation with the
Palestine Liberation/
Organization rather than an
ongoing demand over the
years by progressive and
radical Israeli and Jewish
' political leaders and
intellectuals. . It was
perverse that immediately
.after Israel signed the
interim accord with Egypt in
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Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum
Later," and will be an
analysis of Christian-Jewish
relations'ih the world today:
The meeting will be
sponsored by the Committee
on Christian-Jewish
Concerns of the Community
Relations Committee, with
the cooperation of the
Columbus Board of Rabbis,
the Amei-ican Jewish
Committee . and Agudas
Achim .Synagogue. Robert
Shamansky, Chairman of
the Committee oh Christian-
Jewish Concerns, will chair
the meeting.^
"After the. Community
Relations Committee of the
Columbus- Jewish
Federation and the
Columbus Board of Rabbis
announced Rabbi
Tanenbaum would be in
Columbus on Jan.   15  to
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