Massive Agenda for Nixon-Meir Meeting
WASHINGTON—President Nixon
has passed the word that he wants
the official state visit of Israeli
Prime Minister Golda Meir to be
an auspicious success. He is aware
that the Sept. 25-26 visit occurs
only a month before the Israeli
general elections, but he is con-
cerned with U.S. diplomacy and
domestic politics rather than the
fortunes of the Israel Labor Party.
Mrs. Meir's visit will mark the
first time an American President
is Meeting with an Israeli premier
since the late Levi Eshkol saw for-
mer President Lyndon B. Johnson
at the LBJ ranch in January 1968.
On that occasion, Johnson prom-
ised to sell Israel 50 Phantom jet
fighter-bombers to balance the flow
seek additional military jets from
Washington. This may be a topic
of the Nixon-Meir talks. But arms
are not likely to be the main
subject.
The Nixon administration has
scrupulously honored commitments
to sell and deliver equipment to
Israel. During the election cam-
paign last autumn, Nixon promised
to "tip the balance of power" in
Israel's favor to deter aggression.
This has not occurred, although
Washington officials have at least
issued the prompt and proper ex-
port licenses for military material
on order. Elements of achievement
and glamour may be confined to
the start of Phantom delivery when
the talks occur. Israelis hope that
of Soviet MIGs to Egypt, Syria, a long-deferred American grant
and Iraq. The contract, after many for a desalination project will be
delays, was signed last December. announced. But this is unlikely ow-
Delivery of the Phantom jets is ing to the popular opposition to
scheduled to begin during the foreign aid and the domestic tight
last quarter of 1969. It is possible money situation.
that a few Phantoms will arrive
In past year the sum, $40,000,000
In Israel before Mrs. Meir's re- would have been considered negli-
turn in early October. There gible in terms of the breakthrough
have been published reports sought. Had Johnson honored his
that the continued French re- 1964 commitment on a joint de-
fusal to honor a jet contract with salting undertaking, the necessary
Israel and escalation of Soviet machinery could have been or-
shipments have forced Israel to dered with water for peace in the
By MILTON FRIEDMAN
(Copyright 1969, dTA, Inc.)
offing. Now the nuclear concept tion paper the State Department is
may prove too expensive. A con
ventional dual-purpose plant, to
distill fresh water and generate
electrical power, remains possible.
High on the agenda that Mrs.
Meir will bring to Blair House is
the topic of Iron Curtain Jewry.
Since the President scored such
an impressive success on his visit
to Romania, the only Communist
nation retaining relations with
Israel, it seems inevitable that
this subject will be pursued. U.S.
diplomats will say for the record
only that the President and Sec-
retary of State William P. Rog-
ers will "review all matters of
mutual interest." But they hint
that Nixon may seek greater re-
straint and flexibility on the part
of Israel. The diplomats are urg-
ing the President to press Israel
to make concessions in its de-
fense policies to preserve the
"pro-Western" regimes of Leb-
anon and Jordan.
Another main item in the posi-
t)efn co
preparing for Presidential aide
Henry Kissinger is the so-called
bilateral approach of the U.S. and
USSR to the Middle East. Bi-
lateral talks may be resumed in
early September. But the rigid
Russian attitude indicates no
chance of a breakthrough before
the Meir visit. The Moscow line re-
mains identical with that of Rus-
sia's extremist Arab clients. The
President has stated that he will
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ruling in Mineola, L.I., holding church property.
that a Conservative congregation
had lost a portion of its immunity
from taxation because it had
leased part of its property for
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Temple Beth Sholom in East Hills
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ail rooms except the sanctuary
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Dr. Bernard Segal, executive
director of the United Synagogue
of America, the association of
Conservative congregations, told
JTA that the United Synagogue's
position has been that any house
of worship which makes Its fa-
Mlles available for commercial
purposes should be prepared to
pay the taxes on such earnings.
He said that this position ap-
plied to the East Hills ruling.
Spokesmen for the Union of
American Hebrew Congregations,
the Reform congregational agency,
and for the Union of Orthodox
Jewish Congregations of America,
Indicated that the Mineola ruling
was under consideration. The
UAHC spokesman said the issue
bad been under study for some
time.
Earlier this year, the Synagogue
Council
of America, the national
coordinating agency for the lay
and rabbinic arms of Reform, Con-
servative and Orthodox Jewry,
said the SCA had been considering
the Issue for some time.
The statement was made by
Rabbi Henry Siegman, SCA execu-
tive vice president, in response to
an Inquiry by the JTA on the
reactions of Jewish organizations
to an announcement that the U.S.
Supreme Court had agreed to hear,
this fall, a challenge to the consti-
tutionality of state laws exempt-
ing church property from real
estate taxes.
Rabbi Siegman explained that
the SCA had been "grappling with
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