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Condition for Peace: Keeping Israel Strong

—Senator Henry M. Jackson

In his speech in the U.S. Senate, Monday, in support of his amendment provid i ng military credits for Israel, Senator Henry M. Jackson of Wash-
ington declared:

"Mr. President, the events of the last several days in the Middle East in which Egypt has moved to reduce the Soviet presence on her so'?
strongly support the view I have many times urged upon the Senate: that the determination to maintain the ra/itary balance in the Middle East
by helping Israel remain strong is the key building block on which peace and stability are based. Only by helping to assure that Israel will always be
in a position to defend herself will her hostile neighbors be brought to understand the futility of resort to military force and the importance of direct
negotiation toward a lasting peace."

Golda Meir's
Gestures
for Peace

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August 4, 1972

Senate Gets Bipartisan Bill
Assuring Support for Israel

Sadat Latest Utterances Viewed
as Aim to Cajole U.S. Attitudes

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's inter-
view in Newsweek this week was seen by observers here Tuesday as an
attempt to threaten or cajole the United States into reviewing its Middle
East posture. Sadat is believed to feel that such a review is possible, even
imminent, following his ouster of Soviet personnel from Egypt.

In his interview with Senior Editor Arnaud de Borchgrave, Sadat
indicated that pressure might be brought to bear on U.S. oil interests in
the Middle East. He also professed himself ready to make a "peace ar-
rangement but not a full-fledged peace treaty—with Israel provided Israel
withdraw from all the administered territories."

"I have never asked for a boycott," he said, adding: "All I can
tell you is that U.S. interests will shortly become part of the battle for
the recovery of our land."

Observers here noted wryly that while Sadat was fulsome in his

encouragement of other Arab states to act against U.S. interests. Egypt

itself maintains scrupulously good relations with Standard Oil of Indiana,
which has huge installations in his country. The observers also noted that

a "peace arrangement" was proposed by the Soviet two years ago, and
suggested that Sadat was seeking to counterbalance the positive effect in

the West of Israel Premier Golda Meir's Knesset speech of last Wednes-
day, in which she called on Sadat to negotiate directly with Israel.
Meanwhile, it is becoming increasingly clear in Jerusalem that
Egypt is strongly in favor of a reactivation of the Jarring mission. Egypt
has urged the five major powers to seek reactivation of Dr. Gunnar V.
Jarring's efforts.
According to one unconfirmed report, Egypt also has asked United
Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim, to whom Dr. Jarring reports,
to restart the mission. Dr. Jarring returned to New York Tuesday—to pre-
pare a General Assembly report, as officially indicated, or to meet with
the Middle East parties, as suspected, or both. Israeli sources do not put
much store in success for the mission as long as the intermediary insists
on an Israeli withdrawal commitment in advance of direct talks.

WASHINGTON (JTA)—Bipartisan legislation to insure continuity of Israel's line
of credit for purchase of military equipment from the United States was introduced
in the Senate Monday by Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D., Wash.) with Senators Gordon
Allott (R., Col.) and Abraham Ribicoff (D., Conn.) co-sponsoring the measure. Sen.
Jackson urged approval of an amendment to the defense procurement act, now under
debate in the Senate, which would extend authorization of "unlimited credit" to Israel
for an additional 15 months to Dec. 31, 1973. Section 501 of that act, providing tAie
credit, expires Oct. 31.
Sen. Allott also spoke for the authorization but Sen. John Stennis (D., Miss.) op.
posed it on technical grounds, contending it should come from the Senate foreign re ,
lations committee.
- The original credit measure, also introduced by Sen. Jackson, which brought
about the first line of credit of $500,000,000 for Israel, was approved by the Senate in
September 1970 by a vote of 87 to 7 over the opposition of Sen. J. William Fulbright
(D., Ark.), chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee. Sen. Jackson said he
was introducing the new legislation in view of the Senate rejection, on July 24, of
the foreign military aid bill in which Israel was to have received a military credit of
up to $300,000,000 and a supporting economic grant of $85,000,000.
Meanwhile, the House foreign affairs committe sent to the House floor Tuesday
legislation for a new . military sales act providing a total of $629,000,000 of which
$300,000,000 is earmarked as a credit for Israel to buy equipment, and an additional
$50,000,000 as a grant for economic supporting assistance. The Jewish Telegraphic
Agency was told that the House is not expected to act on that measure until next week.

The Nelson tax reform bill, now in the hands of the Senate finance committee,
contains a provision that may affect bequests made by Americans to institutions
abroad, including those in Israel.
When the JTA made inquiries about the measure, Senate committee staff mem.

bers observed that England, France and Israel are among the countries ranking high
among those whose institutions receive such bequests. The Nelson Bill, introduced by
Sen. Gaylord Nelson (D., Wisc.), has among its 50 provisions one that says a bequest
by an American "shall be deductible (for income tax purposes) only if it is to be used
predominantly within the United States or any of its possessions." The word "pre-
dominantly" in the bill's context has not been precisely defined, the JTA was told.
JTA was informed that if the bill should pass the Senate it is virtually certain to
be rejected by the House. The Nelson bill is co-sponsored by 11 Democrats—Sena-
tors Hart, Kennedy, Eagleton, Tunney, McGovern, Mondale, Church, Harris, Hughes,
Humphrey and Metcalf.

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Forest Hills Solution
Hailed as Satisfactory

NEW YORK (JTA)—Milton A. Seymour,
chairman of the New York Board of the Anti-
Defamation League of Bnai Brith, cited
the "Report of Investigation Concerning Forest
Hills Low-Income Housing Project" issued by
Mario M. Cuomo as containing "welcome rec-
ommendations which constitute a constructive
attempt to meet the needs and concerns of

the community."
Cuomo recommends that the project be

reduced in size to 432 units in three buildings,
each 12 stories high: "At 432 units the project
as here recommended would be approximately
85 per cent of the size of this project when it
was originally designed for Corona . . . I
would not recommend a reduction beyond that
Point (432 units). Anything less will move
too close to dangerous ground so far as con-
stitutional implication is concerned and would

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Educator's Ouster Asked by Four
National Groups; Anti-Semitic
Abuses Documented in Charges

NEW YORK (JTA)—The New York Regional Director of the Bnai
Brith's Anti-Defamation League told the JTA that ADL has received from
15 to 20 telephone calls from teachers and educators in School District
One on the Lower East Side expressing fear for their jobs and the pos-
sibility of harassment as a result of the appointment of Louis Fuentes, an
alleged anti-Semite, as the district's school superintendent. According to
Robert Kohler, the ADL together with other Jewish bodies have gotten
calls from 30 to 50 Jewish teachers in the district expressing distress over
Fuentes' appointment.
The ADL was one of four Jewish organizations that urged jointly in
letters to state and city education and human rights off'cials that
they nullify Fuentes' appointment because of his "well-documentel" record
of anti-Semitic statements. The other organizations were the American
Jewish Committee, American Jewish Congress and the Jewist: Labo`r
Committee.

In a separate letter addressed to Mayor John V. Lindsay, New
York City School Chancellor Harvey Scribner and the New York Board
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Israel Distressed by New

Jarring-Waldheim Act

JERUSALEM (JTA)—Israel's United Na-
tions Ambassador Yosef Tekoah protested to
Secretary General Kurt Waldheim the appar-
ent resumption, without consultation with Jeru-
salem, of Dr. Gunnar V. Jarring's UN-spon-
sored Middle East peace mission. At a meet-
ing with Waldheim, it was learned here,
Tekoah re-emphasized that Israel does not
accept Dr. Jarring's demand that it declare
in advance of negotiations its readiness to
evacuate the administered territories.
(The Secretary General told UN corres-
pondents last week that Dr. Jarring would
arrive at the UN Tuesday, for a two-week
stay to "consult" with the parties concerned
"and me," and make an "up-to-date analysis
of the situation in accordance with Security
Council Resolution 242.)"

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