Congress Ignored on Its Stand to Deny Aid
To Aggressors, Near East Peace Imperiled

Amsterdam Jewish Paper
Marks 100th Anniversary

By MILTON FRIEDMAN
But, this year, the "moderate and istration's professed aim of reduc-
(Copyright, 1966, JTA, Inc.)
new" Nasser denied the same right ing Near Eastern tensions and
WASHINGTON—The failure of to an American ship.
prevention of an arms race.
the White House to achieve a "con-
Congress last year urged the
Both Farbstein and Rosenthal
-----sensus" on the Administration's
President to deny aid to nations are Democrats who usually sup-
/_ .ecision to provide arms and aid threatening
aggression. However, port the administration. The in-
to the Arabs will cause a confront-
/ \tion between the legislative and the State Department politely ig- tensity of their feelings can serve
nored bellicose Jordanian and
-xecutive departments during the Saudi Arabian threats against Is- only as an early indication of
second session of the 89th Con- rael when approving massive arms the outcry to be voiced by Repub-
licans.
gress.
shipments to those countries.
The early outlines of the debate
The new Congress is not yet
Saudia Arabia is to be provided can be discerned. Congressmen
holding President Johnson person- rockets and jets of American and will ask for the reasoning behind
ally accountable for the shift in British manufacture. U. S. Air the escalation of military prepara-
Near Eastern policy. There is gen- Force experts are cooperating tions jeopardizing Israel at a time
eral bi-partisan recognition that with the Royal Air Force in per- when Communist China would like
the President has been preoccu- fecting for oil-rich Saudia Arabia nothing better than a diversionary
pied with the dangerous and per- the most modern air arms in the Near Eastern conflagration.
plexing Vietnamese war.
Near East. The first transaction
The executive department's dis-
dain for Israel's interests arises
Congressional opinion is that is estimated at $400,000,000.
Jordan has been receiving U.S. from a belief that many Ameri-
State Department policy makers
have exploited the crisis in South- Patton tanks and other weapons, cans have become less interested
east Asia to seek Arab favor at secretly shipped. Communists in in Israel, and exert less influence
Israel's expense. The State De- Jordan were aware of the trans- at a White House level. State De-
partment alleged that Egypt is action. The secrecy was intended partment officials are not neces-
taking a pro-American, new to keep the transaction from the sarily anti-Israel, but are ready
course, marked by moderation in notice of Congress and friends of to arm the Arabs in an illusory
all dealings with the United States. Israel. Two members of the House quest for Arab friendship.
"Israel is in our pocket," said
Nevertheless, Congress was quick Foreign Affairs Committee. Rep-
to note that the "moderate" Nas- resentatives Leonard Farbstein one official. "The diplomatic ob-
ser regime tightened anti-Ameri- and Benjamin S. Rosenthal, both jectives important to America are
can blockade resrictions. A United of New York, issued angry state- in the Arab world," he noted.
The traditional system of checks
States Liner was told she could ments when the facts were re-
not transit the Suez Canal if she vealed. The State Department had and balances will come into action
intended to make a subsequent not taken interested Congressmen when the State Department this
into confidence.
year asks Congress to vote funds
stop at Haifa.
Rep. Farbstein said: "The gov- to pay for the new arms and aid
The case of the S. S. President
Roosevelt emerged just at that ernment's actions run contrary not for the Arabs. Saudia Arabia is
moment the Department was only to the expressed policy of rich and can pay the tab. But Jor-
drafting a vast new surplus com- the administration but also to the dan and Egypt are bankrupt. Con-
modities program benefiting wishes manifest in countless reso- gressmen will ask why the Ameri-
Egypt. But State Department lutions and amendments to the can taxpayer should prop up the
sources said the time was not foreign aid acts of Congress." He economies of nations which refuse
propitious to annoy Nasser about saw the supply of large quanti- to renounce the threat of aggres-
his intensification of the boycott. ties of heavy arms to the Arabs sion against a neighboring dem-
as inconsistent with the Admin- ocracy friendly to America.
It was pointed out that President
Johnson's special envoy, W. Av-
erell Harriman, was then in Cairo
trying to persuade Nasser of
America's desire for peace in Viet-
nam. Harriman was beseeching
Nasser to help promote peace in
MIAMI BEACH (JTA)—The na-
Waldor, in a statement and in-
the Far East.
tional commander of the Jewish terview, said that he was "disgust-
But what about peace in the War Veterans of America praised ed by those groups, Jewish or non-
Near East? Nasser, strengthened President Johnson's peace offen- Jewish, so concerned about • the
by the generous new commodity sive Sunday as evidence to the right to dissent, about the rights
N
agreement and pending loans, con- world of the American desire for of the peace-niks, that they seem
tinued buying sophisticated new peace, but asserted that if it failed not to recognize that freedom re-
weapons from Russia for the to achieve its ends, the United quires responsibilities. They are
admitted purpose of eventual war States should resume full-scale less articulate about our country's
against Israel. He showed no bombing of North Vietnam.
right and need to wage a vigorous
peaceful intentions when he tight-
Addressing an Americanism Day war against communism in Viet-
ened restrictions on the use of the rally sponsored by the Florida De- nam."
Suez Canal. Last year, the Nor- partment of the Jewish War Vet-
Rabbi Maurice N. Eisendrath,
wegian ship, S.S. Bergenfjord, was erans, Milton A. Waldor, the JWV president of the Union of Ameri-
allowed to use the Canal and call national commander, described his can Hebrew Congregations, and
at Haifa on a round-the-world trip. experiences on his recent visit to Rabbi Jacob J. Weinstein, president
Vietnam and told the audience of of the Central Conference of
800 that he had never seen men American Rabbis, expressed "shock
First Time at
so dedicated and inspired as the and dismay" that Waldor should
This Low Price!
American troops there.
term as "disgusting" statements by
In a joint statement issued rabbis and United States Jewish
earlier by the presidents of the organizations urging cessation of
Union of American Hebrew Con- bombings and commencement of
gregations and the Central Con- peace negotiations with North
ference of American Rabbis, the Vietnam.
national commander of the Jewish
He is also quoted as saying that
War Veterans was strongly criticiz- his group will seek "to mobilize
ed for "bomb-rattling jingoism."
and activate the American Jewish
The presidents of the lay and community to eradicate any doubts
about the vital necessity for a deci-
rabbinic arms of American Re-
form Judaism sharply denounced sive victory by whatever means re-
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edition of the Amsterdam Jewish
weekly, Nieuw Israelietisch Week-
blad, was published here Jan. 5 to
mark the newspaper's 100th anni-
versary. Included in the special is-
sue were many features on Amster-
dam Jewry during the past 100
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