U.S. Jewish Groups Show Concern Over U.S. Mid East Policies WASHIN6TON, D.C.—National Commander Bernard 13. Direnfeld of the Jew- ish War Veterans of the USA disclosed that he had asked Secretary of State William P. -Rogers to clarify whether the administration has abandoned the Middle Eastern Policy espoused by President Nixon. The JWV. leader said his organization was - deeply concerned by the implica- tions of Secretary Rogers' speech of Dec. 9. This new statement of U.S. policy - appears to favor a concession by Israel fur unilateral withdrawal without a similar prior agreement by the Arabs to sign a real peace treaty. It is an apparent departure from the previous position of the U.S. and a seeming concession to the Arabs and the Soviet Union." The American Jewish Committee told Secretary of State William P. Rogers that his public statement on the Arab-Israel conflict, especially his detailing of specific • element's of a possible settlement, "points in the direction of an imposed peace and deludes the Arabs into believing that less than a full peace will be acceptable." THE JEWISH NEWS Russian Enigma: The Confused Attitudes Over Rights of Jews to Emigration Michigan Weekly Commentary Page 2 Our New Offices are in Honeywell Center 9 Mile and Lodge Service Drive Review of Jewish News Phone: 356-8400 Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper — Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle Vol. LVI, No. 15 -- 27 17515 W. 9 Mile Rd., Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 — 356-8400 — December 26, 1969 $7.00 Per Year; This Issue 20c Does Nixon Shirk Israel Commitment? Israelis Embittered by New Policies; Mrs. Meir Reveals 'Injustice Feeling', Says Proposals Encourage Guerrillas WASHINGTON — President Nixon has been asked by Rep. Bertram L. Podell, New York Democrat, to clarify whether he has abandoned commitments to Israel in light of indications of pressure by the Nixon administration for unilateral Israeli with- drawal from occupied areas. Quoting President Nixon's assurances to Israel, Rep. Podell said that "The Congress has a right to know whether to regard Secretary of State Rogers' expressions or your own words as the Official guideline to our Middle East policy." He referred to Rogers' address of Dec. 9 in which the secretary voiced a new Middle Eastern policy. Rep. Podell said Congressmen "were confused as to whether the administration is still backing Israel's insistence on a real peace as the essential precondition for any rolling back of Israeli forces from the present firing lines." The Congressman asserted that "Secretary Rogers has open- Pandora's box of confusion by giving the Communist bloc and the Arabs the impression that the United States might press Israel to withdraw in exchange for some flimsy accord that Would fall short of an actual peace settlement. The notion is Spreading that our government is willing to use its great in- fluence on Israel to accept a withdrawal similar to the 1967 roll- back." The Congressman charged that a situation has now de- Yeloped in which "I, as a member of Congress, do not know What is going on with reference to our Middle East policy." ed a JERUSALEM (JTA)—Premier Golda Meir will make a statement to the Knesset Monday on American policy toward Israel. It is expected to be along the lines of Monday's cabinet communique which flatly rejected the latest U.S. proposals for a settlement between Israel and Egypt and Jordan. Mrs. Meir granted an interview to New York Times correspondent James Feron Monday following the emergency session of the cabinet devoted to the latest U.S. initiatives in the Mid East conflict. Highlights of the interview, broadcast by the Israeli Radio Tuesday ., pictured Mrs. Meir as bitter over what she regarded as a serious erosion of U.S. support for Israel amounting al- most to appeasement of the Arabs. The prime minister's office said Tuesday that the broadcast gave an incorrect impression that Mrs. Meir had complained that the Nixon administration was consulting Israel less titan the administration of President Johnson. "The prime minister made no such comment nor did she draw any comparison whatever between the administrations," the communique said. In the New York Times report, Feron made a comment of his own. He said that "Mrs. Meir spoke of the stream of proposals that has been presented to the Major Powers by Wash- ington. Under President Johnson,— Israel apparently was consulted beforehand; now it ap- pears that some (proposals), were submitted as late as 11 weeks after they were presented to the Big Powers. ' In her interview, Mrs. Meir quoted from successive U.S. formulations on boundaries and (Continued on Page 181 Campaign Budgeting Indicates Mounting Obligations; Increased Requests for Education, Appeals. for Day Schools' Support; Aid Urged for Retarded Children need for increased services by the Jewish agencies supported by the Allied .rbwish Campaign Inflationary trends and the drive, it became apparent at the 21st annual budgeting con- the approaching Will account for vastly increased income from held at the Jewish Center Sunday morning. ference of the Jewish Welfare Federation, mounting interest in the communal needs, including more evident participation of youth in the A record attendance and deliberations which were preliminary to the allocation of campaign funds, and to arriving at a discussions, marked the campaign goal. While there were no definite decisions on either score, and there were no indications of the amount of money that will he apparent from the remarks of the campaign chairman, Maxwell Jospey. that the Israel. it was of than needed increasingly in support larger before. Jospey pointed out that from the 1969 campaign income of 510,350.000. $7.000.000 goal this year will be much compared this sum to the $3,000,000 amount for overseas causes three years ago and ou Was allocated for overseas needs. Ile received for 1970—marking increases of 24 per cent—he predicted another triumph for the basis of advanced gifts already participation in community affairs and said that, in an over-all communal in welcoming youth the coming drive. He joined challenge generosity." with greater energy and greater striving, ::We will meet the marked by emphasis on the need to give priority to educational needs and there was an Sunday's conference was in behalf of the day schools for which a number of appeals were made by the participants. especially evident growing sentiment was a moving plea for efforts to provide for needs of retarded children. An innovacation at the conference deliberations, William Avrunin, executive vice president of the Federation, pointed out that Summarizing the morning's for increased allocations made in the presentations by heads of the various divisions showed appeals for additional requests Support in the following categories: Community relations, health and welfare, education and central services, from the 1 969 (Continued on Page 6) U.S. Is Accessed of Compensuling Libya for Abuses By MILTON FRIEWMAN (('opyright 1969. JTA. Inc.) WASHINGTON — A huge Christmas present in the form of U.S. airbase facili- ties of great military value is being given to the leftist Arab regime of Libya. The giveaway was quietly arranged by the State Department shortly before Christmas. It involves the - Wheelus Airhase complex. By next Christmas the American-built Tun- ways and hangars may accommodate Soviet TU-16 bombers and MIG jets flying survel- lance over the nearby American Sixth Wheelus cost the American taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. It is the most advanced training base outside the United States. The scored target ranges were important to NATO. The latest elec- tronic and radar facilities were installed over the years. Its strategic and strike capacities were unmatched in the Mediter- ranean area. The U.S. lease had two more years to run. It would have been an -important two (Continued on Page 5)