Zionist Revisionist Leader Out to Win
Support Among Young, Unaffiliated
By CHARLOTTE DUBIN
As the machinery revs up for
the new American Zionist Federa-
tion, one Israeli who claims to
represent majority opinion in Is-
rael is here to mobilize support for
his party, among the young and
unaffiliated.
He is Yitzhak Heimowitz, a 35-
year-old oleh (immigrant) from
the United States who is leading
the worldwide membership drive
for the Zionist Revisionists , the
right-leaning organization repre-
sented by the old Ilerut (now a
part of the alignment Gahal)
Party in Israel.
pressed the view that "any ter-
ritorial concessions would be to
Israel's detriment."
The government insists, with
Gahal's blessing, that everything—
except Jerusalem—is negotiable,
but Heimowitz added that "Nego-
tiations will come in the millen-
nium, certainly not in my genera-
tion . . . It will require a psycho-
logical revolution in Arab leader-
ship to sit down with Israel."
Heimowitz believes that the
Arabs understand force and force
alone. "The precondition for a
successful accommodation with the
Arabs living in occupied territor-
ies • " he said, "is the realization
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that
we have the superior force.
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made the difficult transition from The more doubts they have, the
the American to Israeli system of more resistance there will be."
law and was admitted to the Israel Ileimowitz objects to what he
Bar 11 years ago, was in Detroit calls "an effort by world media to
last weekend for a reception given play up dissident opinions," such
by the Zionist Revisionists at the
Steven Goldin home.
The Zionist Revisionist Organ-
ization of America, said Ileimo-
witz, is the only group here that
reflects the majority opinion in
Israel—although at one time, be-
fore the Six-Day War, the Zion-
ist Revisionist ideas and position
were regarded as extremist.
The traditional Herut map
("greater Israel") was within the
mandatory boundaries granted to
Britain under the League of Na-
tions. It included the area held
today by Jordan.
What was partitioned in 1948
was the remainder of that map
following several British deals.
The Six-Day War resulted in Is-
rael's taking some areas — Sinai
and Golan Heights—not included
in the traditional Herut map.
"Today, no one, including Herut,
advocates going to war to liberate
the other side of the Jordan," said
Heimowitz. "However, there is a
considerable body in Israel who
want to cross the -Jordan and take
the hills of Gilad to protect the
settlements in the Bet Shean val-
ley." These are not Herut senti-
ments, he added.
"Our policy today, is that the
future borders of the state of Is-
rael are subject to negotiations in
peace talks. But," he added, "the
movement doesn't have to be only
one way. It's conceivable to me
that negotiations could call for
adjustnients other ways." Those
who speak of concessions, he said,
"always seem to feel that Israel
will do the conceding. Perhaps
the Arabs will concede something."
Majority opinion in Israel is
Identical with the Zionist Re-
visionist-Gabal policy, that is,
negotiations first, with "no fore-
closures in advance," claims
Helmowitz. However, he also ex-
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as that of the ultra-leftist Matzpen,
the Israeli Socialist Organization.
(Following a television appearance
last week by Matzpen represent-
ative Arie Bober, the Zionist Re-
visionist Organization asked for
equal time, with Heimowitz as
guest on the Today's show.)
Although he looks upon Matz-
pen's views as extremely danger-
ous, Heimowitz feels that as a tiny
minority it has been greatly over-
rated abroad.
He similarly regards as danger-
ous the view of those Jews who
call for a Palestine entity within
Israel's borders. "Were Israel to
aid in setting up such an entity. on
I seldom if ever regret doing
anything, even although I may be
convinced that it was wrong. Once
it is accomplished, I dismiss it
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on the other side, by either the
Russians or the Arabs." What
Heimowitz foresees is a "con.
tinuing situation of enmity which
we will hold to acceptable levels,
till the Arabs or their successors
become convinced that they can-
not succeed militarily."
Not that the growing Russian
presence in Egypt is acceptable,
he added. "Those elements in the
State Department and U.S. govern-
ment who think the way to help
in the Middle East is to hedge on
aid to Israel are completely mis-
taken."
At the same time, Heimowitz
warned American Jews who op-
pose U.S. involvement in Cambodia
that "anything which weakens
United States credibility as a deter-
rent against Russian expansionist
ambitions hurts Israel."
Should the United States engage
in precipitate withdrawal from
Cambodia, he said, the Russians
may feel there will be no effective
counter to Soviet incursions in the
Middle East. "Israel is very wor-
ried about America's tendency to
isolationism," he said.
Heimowitz's view on Cambodia
admittedly wouldn't win any popu-
larity contest on campus, but he
insists that Zionist Revisionism has
something real to say to young
people "as an alternative to the
New Left."
"I think an error has been made
by most Zionist leaders who are
responsible for trying to attract
youth on campus," said Heimowitz,
former national president of Betar,
the Zionist Revisionist youth or-
ganization, in the U.S. "In their
(Zionist leaders') minds, they've
conceded all students to the New
Left and are trying to make Zion-
ism palatable to leftists." In real-
ity, he said, the great majority of
students are unaffiliated.
What the Zionist Revisionists
must do, said Heimowitz, is
present an "integrated Zionist
Philosophy": "Zionism is the na-
tional liberation movement of the
Jewish people and the frame-
work within which the Jewish
people participate for the strug-
gle of the liberation of man-
kind."
This was the key of the Zionist
program formulated by the one-
year-old Israel Zionist Council, on
whose executive committee Heimo-
witz sits. The council, consisting
of 200 adult and youth members
from the entire spectrum of Is-
rael's political life, is a new
phenomenon in Israel, where the
Zionist movement clearly has not
been appreciated among the young.
Today, Israelis show greater
understanding of what Zionism
means, and this must be projected
here as well, said Heimowitz. "Peo-
ple who say they're pro-Israel and
anti-Zionist are misinforMed. The
entire meaning of Israel only
comes within the context of Zion-
ism. If it isn't the state of the Jew-
ish people, then there's no reason
for the Jewish state."
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