Hebrew U. President Speaks at Emergency Rally Monday
Avraham Harman, president of the Hebrew University in Jeru-
salem and Israel's former ambassador to the United States, will be
the guest speaker at an emergency meeting of the Allied Jewish Cam-
paign-Israel Emergency Fund, 7:45 p.m. Monday at Cong. Beth Achim,
the 1974 campaign co-chairmen, William Davidson and Lewis S. Gross-
man, announced.
Harman came to the post of ambassador after a notable career
with Israel's diplomatic corps. In 1949 he was appointed his govern-
ment's first consul general in Montreal. He has been director of the
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Israel office of information, counselor to the Israeli delegation to the
United Nations and consul general of Israel in New York.
He was assistant director general of the ministry for foreign af-
fairs in Jerusalem in 1955 and was elected a member of the executive
of the Jewish Agency the following year. He was appointed ambas-
sador of Israel to the United States in 1959, a post he held until 1967.
Harman is a law graduate of Oxford University.
For reservations to attend this emergency meeting, call the cam-
paign office at WO 5-3939.
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Arabists in State Department,
Oil Blackmail, Weakening U.S.
Support Mark New M.E. Threats
Fifth N. Y. Synagogue
Vandalized Since War
Is Destroyed in Fire
NEW YORK—The destruction of a yeshiva and
synagogue in two fires in 12 hours has kindled the
anger of the Orthodox community here, who charge
that police protection was lacking despite numerous
threatening phone calls received at the Brooklyn
school.
A painter working in the building, the Sephardic
Institute for Advanced Learning, 511 Avenue R, in
Flatbush, was killed in the first blaze Nov. 21. The
second fire took place the following morning.
Loss estimates range as high as $1,000,000.
About 300 Jews, including students, rabbis and
members of the Jewish Defense League, demon-
strated in front of the destroyed building. At the
same time, about 20 yeshiva students, assisted by
neighbors, tried to salvage books from the burned-
out building.
Since the start of the Yom Kippur war, four other
synagogues and yeshivot in the area had been van-
dalized: Shaare Zion, Bnai Akiva, Ahavath Achim
and the Mirrer Yeshiva.
Rabbi Moshe Shama, chief rabbi of the Sephardic
Institute, said the telephone threats started about a
month ago, when the school started a fund-raising,
drive for Israel. He said the callers spoke in unin-
telligible English and in Arabic.
He said some police protection had been provided
short time but that it had been withdrawn. JDL
_ .2,abers said they had instituted a security patrol of
the area.
-Agonizing Appeals .. .
to Arabs for Peace .. .
to Leftists for Justice
Reports of continuing pressures upon Israel from Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger for
withdrawal to the June 4, 1967 borders, and fears that her enemies' ultimate aim will then be Israel's
total destruction; the naming of an Arabist to the key U.S. Middle East role in the State Department;
the oil threats, the submission to blackmail by Holland, Japan and West European countries—these
are among the mounting elements of gravity in the situation affecting Israel. While there have been
renewed assurances that the Nixon- administration will not alter its friendship for Israel, the rumored
Kissinger attitude of exerting pressure upon Israel to yield to Arab demands has caused gravest concern
in a situation that remains tense in spite of the planned Geneva conference to discuss continuation of
the cease fire as an approach to peace. Meanwhile. Israeli-Egyptian negotiations on the issue of disengage-
ment at Kilometer 101 have bogged down, and both sides are reportedly reinforcing their military positions.
WASHINGTON (JTA)—President Nixon indirectly reassured Israel of his continuing support of its
"sovereignty" while Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger let it be known that the Arab oil embargo will
probably continue until the Arabs make some gains against Israel.
These points emerged after the President and Dr. Kissinger conferred at the White House with
10 senators and 12 representatives constituting the leadership of both parties in Congress. The meeting,
which lasted an hour and 40 minutes, was devoted almost entirely to the Middle East, the energy crisis
stemming from the embargo and Soviet-American relations.
Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott (R., Pa.) told newsmen afterward that President Nixon stressed
the U.S. commitment to the "sovereignty of Israel" and that Israel's "sovereignty should not be infringed
upon."
UN, Red Cross Receive Proof
of Syrians' Murder of POWs;
Security Guarantees Demanded
UNITED NATIONS (JTA)—Israel has officially charged Syria
with the "crimes of murder and mutilation committed on the persons of
Israeli prisoners of war, officers and men of the Israel Defense Force
who were taken prisoner by the Syrians in the region of the Golan
Heights."
The complaint was submitted by Israeli Ambassador Yosef Tekoah
to Secretary General Kurt Waldheim and the International Committee
of the Red Cross in Geneva. Tekoah, in his covering letter to Waldheim,
stated that the photographs sent to the Red Cross illustrating Israel's
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(A statement published in the Israel daily
Ma'ariv, quoting blunt warnings to Israel by
Dr. Kissinger, with demands for submission
to Egyptian free movements of non-military
supplies to the trapped Third Army, was
described as disquieting by the Zionist Or-
ganization of America. Kissinger's warnings
to Israel, described by Ma'ariv as having
been neither diplomatic nor courteous, were
made during Golda Meir's talks with Presi-
dent Nixon at the White House. The Ma'ariv
report, based on "well-informed sources,"
said Kissinger is pressuring for Israeli with-
drawals to the June 4, 1967, borders. Such
was the promise made to Egyptian Presi-
dent AnWar el Sadat, Ma'ariv claims).
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Israel's Hebrew Writers Send Plea to Arab
Colleagues . . . Socialist Asks for Justice
EPISTLE TO THE LEFTISTS
By OLIVIER TODD
Senior Editor of Le Nouvel Observateur
Small leftist groups in Western Europe have described the Israelis as a pack
of "expansionist Fascists" and "racists." But on the whole, traditional socialists,
from the British Labor Party to the German Social Democrats, were lucid: they
saw that on Oct. 6 the main problem to be considered was the survival of the
Jewish state.
When kindly inclined, European left-wingers insist that in the Middle East
one should respect the historical and human rights of both Arabs and Jews—
frequently in that order. And now, in all quarters, this platitude is backed up with
lyrical references to Arab "honor". Cairo and Damascus, the argument runs, should
not be "humiliated."
I can understand old-fashioned conservatives using this line. But when it is
advanced by people who pride themselves on being more rational, I am puzzled.
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The following appeal was addressed by the Israel Writers Association to
writers in Arab states:
We, the writers of Israel, address ourselves to you, writers in Arab states,
in this difficult and decisive hour for our peoples and countries.
This is the fourth war between Israel and the Arab states in the last quarter
cf a century, and it is the bloodiest of them all, but it is doubtful whether even this
war will solve the basic problems that are at the root of the Israeli-Arab conflict.
Who knows better than we that wars only complicate problems, increase suspicion
and destroy mutual trust between peoples—a trust that is the basis for all negotiations
and for all true solutions.
Let us join hands in dealing with the root of this conflict which, to the best
of our belief, inheres in an erroneous and dangerous concept that the state of Israel
is a foreign body in this region, and that it is possible to eradicate it through con-
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