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VOL.54 NO.53
DECEMBER 23,1970 - TE VET 2
Rabin Resigns,
No-Confidence \
I Vote Averted
- Israeli Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin resigned
Monday, Dec. 20, following
two days Of political crisis in
his government, which in¬
cluded the ousting of three
Religious party ministers
from his cabinet on Sunday,
Dec. 19.
Rabin's resignation was
timed to avoid a no-
confidence vote which was to
be introduced in the parlia¬
ment on Tuesday' by the
opposition Likud bloc. The
no-confidence motion was to
be withdrawn; according to
Menachem Begin, leader of
the Likud party:
The resignation means
new general elections will be
held within five months.
Rabin's Labor coalition
knew that they could not
count on enough votes to be
sure of winning- a no-
confidence test.
The ousting - of the
Religious* par'ty cabinet
members found Rabin minus
10 votes in parliament. After
the National Religipus party
withdrew their votes. Rabin,,
was lelt with-57 seats in-
parliament, lour less than a'
CONTINUE DOM PAfrF II
Carter Cabinet Appointments Show
nvolvement With Jewish Concerns
Jewish Group Meets With Pope
VATICAN! CITY - Pope Paul VI greets six members
of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith in a pri¬
vate audience. From left to right are: .David Sureck,
communications director for the ADL; Dr. Joseph L.
Lichten, the ADL's consultant in Rome; Maxwell ,
Greenberg, chairman of the National Executive Com- ,
mittee; Seymour Graubard, national chairman;
Benjamin R. Epstein, national director; and David H.
Litter, associate chairmarK of the National Program
Committee. The group had attended the annual meet¬
ing of the- ADL, first in Neto^.York and then in
Jerusalem, and had stopped in Rome on their return to
New York'when they learned that the Roman Catholic
leader would receive them.
Pope Paul expressed "deep satisfaction over the im-
" provement that has taken place in Jewish-Christian re-'
lations" during the meeting. Mr. Graubard, speaking
for his colleagues, said that, in the spirit of Vatican II,
- Catholic-Jewish relations had reached a new plateau of
- understanding and mutual trust in the United States.
"We welcome the establishment (by the Vatican in
1974) of the Commission for Religious Relations with'
Jews," the ADL official continued, "and believe the
• publication (in.l975J.of,theguidelines.onCMholic-Jew*'—--
ish relations will contribute to'further progress in thisi' '
field."    -
RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTcf
Zbigniew Brzezinski
WASHINGTON, (JTA) -
President-elect Jimmy Car¬
ter's appointment of
Zbigniew Brzezinski,
Warsaw-born history profes-
sor at Columbia-University
as national security, advisor
at the White House was seen
as bringing about a "much
more moral foreign policy"
by the United States, sea¬
soned Capital observers
said.
_ Brzezinski was asked by
American Professors for
Peace in the Middle East
last May 21 how his policy
would differ from Secretary
of State Henry A. Kissinger's
in resp'ect to the Arab-Israeli
conflict, "I am more' per¬
haps inclined to stress the
need to focus on what might
constitute ' the basic prin¬
ciples of an eventual settle¬
ment, including the neces¬
sary trade-offs," .Brzezinski
replied.   '
"But it has to be very clear
to 3(1 the Arab" parties con-
., ^erned<-tha^thpreJs.4iot4he-i*
" slightest chance of obtaining
a settlement unless they are
prepared to formalize and to
United Nations Moves Against Taking Of Hostages
By Yitzhak Rabi
(Copyright. 1978. JTA, Inc.)
UNITED NATIONS, (JTA) - A West German initia-
- tiye against the taking of hostages was adopted by con¬
sensus by the General Assembly Dec. 15. The resolu¬
tion called for the establishment of a 35-member ad hoc
committee' to draft an international convention for that
-purpose.   .       ;
It did not* mention terrorism. The wording of the
resolution represented a compromise reached after a
prolonged struggle in the General Assembly's, Legal
_ Committee 'where extremist Arab states, led by Libya
and Algeria, attempted to sabotage the German initia¬
tive. Libya insisted that the resolution refer only to the
taking of "innocent" hostages, implying that'certain
hostages, namely Israelis, were not innocent.
The Libyans dropped their demand after it' was
agreed that the resolution would not refer to the
punishment of persons faking hostages in the country
where they are caught or their extradition to. other
countries. Israel ^hinted out, in addressing the General
Assembly after the consensus, that the ad hoc commit¬
tee would have to deal with the issues of extradition
and punishment. The Western powers concurred.
The Assembly also adopted a resolution renewing the
mandate of the ad hoc committee on terrorism, es¬
tablished in 1972 at the initiative of Secretary General
Kurt Waldheim following the terrorist massacre of
Israeli blympic athletes at Munich. The vote was 100-9
with 27 abstentions.
Israel, the U.S. and Britain voted againstthe resolu-
*" Hon on grounds that it legitimized certain types of ter¬
rorism. Israel', in fact, had opposed the creation of the
ad hoc committee four years ago because the motivat¬
ing resolution at that time upheld the right of liberation
movements to pursue their struggle in a way that could
be interpreted as an endorsement of terrorist acts for
that purpose. The resolution adopted reinforced that
view. ' ,
One /clause said; "The General Assembly urges .
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four Anti-Israel Resolutions
Adopted By General Assembly
By Yitzhak Rabi
UNITED NATIONS,
(JTA) — Four anti-Israel
resolutions-were overwhelm¬
ingly adopted by the General
Assembly Dec. 16., Three of
them condemned Israel's
practices. in the occupied
Arab territories, its, es¬
tablishment of settlements
there ahd its alleged' mis¬
treatment of the Arab popu¬
lation. The fourth demanded
that Israel pay compen¬
sation to Syria for its alleged
destruction of, the* Golan
Heights town of Kuneitra.
Addressing the Assembly
before the voting, Israel's
ambassador to the UN,
Chaim Herzog; charged that
. the draft resolutions
"obscure the truth instead of
highlighting   it"   and   that.
they "only serve to prolong
the dispute instead of resolv¬
ing it."     ,      ,
The ■ resolutions were
based on, -the report of. the
Special Committee , to
Investigate Israel's
Practices Affectipg Human
Rights of- the Population of
the. Territories Occupied by
Israel. Israel has refused to
.recognize or cooperate with.
the special committee which
consists of Senegal, Yugo¬
slavia and Sri Lanka,
countries that have no diplo¬
matic relations with Israel.
- The, first, resolution was
.adopted by a vote of 129-3
with four abstentions. The
negative votes were cast by
Israel, the US. and Haiti. It
strongly deplored , Israeli
measures   altering   "the
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institutionalize their accept¬
ance of Israel as a
permanent and legitimate
presence in the Middle
East."
Michael Blumenthal
WASHINGTON. (JTA) -
Behdix Corporation Chair¬
man Michael Blumenthal.
who was designated Dec 14
by  President-elect  Jimnn
- Carter to be his secretary of
the .treasury, is the second
refugee from Hitlerism to
reach a pinnacle of political
power in the United States.  '
Like Secretary of State
Henry A. Kissinger who fled
from Germany with his
parents, and brother in the
late 1930s. Blumenthal and
his; parents and sis'n (to-
parted five -years after the
Nazis took over Germany's
government.
The Blumenthal famUy in
Berlin- was "completely
secularized and non-reli-
gtous." fin aide, to Blumen¬
thal told the Jewish Tcle-
ugFaphie Agency Amnlil-the
■' Nazis Jcame dlohgv to remind'
them they were Jewish"
The aide said Blumenthal is
Jewish, "no question about it
— culturally and ethnically
Jewish" but "Jewish activi¬
ties are not in the center of
his preoccupations." A',
Howerver, major news
media reports described his
- parents'. as non-practicing
Jews and Blumenthal as a
"baptized Presbyterian." It
was also reported- that the
family  converted  to Pro¬
testantism when the Nazis
..were rising to power.
Andrew Young
NEW YORK, (JTA) -
President-elect Jimmy
Carter announced in Plains.
Ga., Dec. 16 that he has
named Rep. Andrew Young
(D. Ga.) a former associate
of the late Dr. Marti.) Luther
King Jr., to be Ihe next U.S.
ambassador ti, the United
. Nations. ' -
Young, 44, was the first * *
Hack electoral to Congress
from the deep south-in this
century and the first' black
that Carter has appointed to
a high post in the incoming - ~
Administration: Young
served as executive director
of the Southern Christian
Leadership during the civil
rights struggle headed by
Dr. King in the 1960s.
Rabbi Alexander M.
Schindler, chairman of the
Conference of Presidents of
Major American Jewish Or¬
ganizations, hailed Young's
-appointment  -and - praised«»<*"
hhn as "a -maft of courage
and intellect, of deep com¬
passion and broad under¬
standing."  He said Young
* "will bring to his post not
only these personal qualities
but also a close knowledge —
based on his own leadership
in the civil rights movement
—. of the contributioas of
American Jews, to the strug¬
gle for racial' iustice in
America and the aspiration.-,
of Israel's people (<> live in
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Hebrew School 'Friends'
To Honor B. Mandelkorn
The "Friends" ol the..
Columbus Hebrew School
will pay tribute in their An¬
nual Dinner to Ben M.
Mandelkorn. upon his
completion of twenty years
of, devoted service to the
Jewish community, an¬
nounced Arthur Katz, chair¬
man of the "Friends", and
Ben yit. Mandelkorn...._
Dr. William Gilbert, presi¬
dent of the Columbus He¬
brew School. , •_   .
The Annual Dinner,
planned for January 23. at
the Agudas_ Achim So .ial
Hall, will feature Mr.
Charles Zibhel. a national
Federation leader. . .who'
holds the position of - as¬
sociated director of ihe
Council of Jewish Federa¬
tions and Welfare Funds: as
guest speaker.
A special program will be
presented by students of the
Hebrew School, and a visual
exhibit in the lobby will high¬
light the history and develop¬
ments of the school for more
than 30 years.
Mr.  Katz said that the
"Friends"   are   proud   to-,
honor Mr.  Mandelkorn in'
recognition of his twenty
years of competent and dedi-
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