Kissinger Persuades Israel to Set Aside Its
Reservations About Geneva Conference
said "Our going to Geneva
By GIL SEDAN (Jerusalem) the "humanitarian aspects" officials in Kissinger's en- under present conditions will
of the problem he would not tourage seemed relaxed, ac-
and YITZHAK SHARGIL
cording to Yehoshua Tadmor, not he an easy task and we
elaborate.
(Tel Aviv)
a pool correspondent who shall have to face a pro-
The
POW
issue,
however,
Secretary of State Henry
joined
Kissinger and his longed and tough struggle on
A. Kissinger left Israel Mon- is much in the minds of Is- party.
every subject and against
raelis.
About
20
persons,
par-
day after successfully per-
When he expressed Israeli everybody, including the
,
ents
and
relatives
of
missing
suading its government to
concern over the fact that U.S."
set aside mounting reserva- soldiers, believed to be pris- the peace talks in Geneva
According to Rabin, Israel
oners
in
Syria,
demonstrated
tions over the Geneva peace
outside the prime minister's were under UN auspices and can go now to Geneva be-
conference.
office in Jerusalem as Kis- the possibility that the Pal- cause "the Egyptians have
At the end of a visit of singer emerged from his estinians would be repre- removed the barriers to it.
barely 21 hours, which in- talks with Mrs. Meir Mon- sented at the talks, the offi- Till now they declared they
cluded more than 10 hours of day afternoon.
cials, whose names the re- will not sit with us until we
intensive closed-door discus-
Shivering in the cold, they porter did not mention, told retreat to the June, 1967 lines.
sions with Israeli leaders, raised signs reading, "Bring him that Israel was exag- Now they are willing to sit
Kissinger was able to an- Our Boys Home From gerating its fear of UN in- when we are on the we -St
U. S. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger is shown col
nounce "complete agreement Syria"; "Prisoners Are Not volvement in the conference. bank of the Suez Canal."
about procedures and terms Hostages"; and "Kissinger, They also said they felt no
(Menahem Begin, Herut ferring with Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmi, whet,
of reference of the opening Keep Your Promise."
Arab pressure to give the leader, speaking at Rishon the latter visited Washington last month. Fahmi is repre-
senting his country at the Geneva conference.
of the conference."
Some of the demonstrators Palestinians representation le Zion, said the UN Secur-
This was confirmed by claimed that the foreign min- in Geneva.
ity Council's resolution
Foreign Minister Abba Eban, istry had promised them a
Former Ambassador to adopted last Saturday turns
who announced that Premier meeting with Kissinger.
Washington, Itzhak Rabin, the Geneva conference into
Golda Meir had requested
During the 15-minute flight addressing a weekend lunch- another element of the UN
him to proceed to Geneva to between Lod and Jerusalem, eon of the Bar Association, with all its consequences of
head the Israeli delegation.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A and blamed himself, too. He
probable bias. He blamed the
Kissinger and Eban, who
Labor government with con- top-ranking Israeli official contended that both Egypt
accompanied him to Lod Air-
tinuing to deceive the public denied that Secretary of and Jordan had been ready
port, used such words as
by claiming that the Geneva State Henry A. Kissinger had to talk peace on past occa-
"warmth," "friendship" and
conference is a historic turn- told a group of American sions, Elizur reported.
"harmony" to describe their
The correspondent did not
ing point.)
Jewish intellectuals and aca-
Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg,
meetings.
NEW YORK — Plans to
Kissinger ignored the army demics in a recent Washing- mention the source of his in-
Kissinger gave assurances honor the Rev. Daniel J. Ber- president of the American of journalists, TV camera- ton meeting that Israel would formation on the meeting,
that at Geneva "the United rigan with the Gandhi Peace Jewish Congress, in his re- men, photographers and the have to withdraw to its pre- which he said lasted 90 min-
States will maintain the Award here were protested buttal, called Berrigan's battery of microphones set June 1967 borders.
utes. During the course of
closest contact with the gov- by the American Jewish Con- charges examples of "old- up at the airport. He was
the meeting, Kissinger also,
The
official's
denial
came
ernment of Israel throughout gress following a recent fashioned theological anti- also obviously unaware of
reportedly claimed that Is-
after
a
report
in
Maariv
by
the negotiations." Both he speech to an Arab audience Semitism." He charged Ber- some 200 demonstrators in a correspondent Yuval Elizur, rael won a tactical victory
rigan
with
ignoring
the
anti-
and Eban, as they shook in which he blasted Israel.
far section of the airport stating that Kissinger had but suffered a strategic de-
hands, said they looked for-
feat during the war.
The award, sponsored by war efforts of Jewish leaders shouting "Kissinger go said this.
ward to meeting again in an organization called Pro- and the Jewish community. home" at the top of their
He expressed the view that
The official asserted that
Geneva at the end of the moting Enduring Peace, was
voices.
the Arabs could have scored
Kissinger
could
not
have
dis-
week.
The demonstrators identi-
to be given to Rev. Berrigan Misleading Social
cussed this and then hope to greater successes were it not
Israel's hesitation over the for his antiwar activities.
fied themselves as groups op-
continue in his present role for their mistakes, such as
Geneva conference was at- However, his speech pre- Security Book Ad
posed to Israeli withdrawal
exposing their armor unpro-
tributed to concern that it sented to the Association of Exposed by Test
from the administered Arab in the Mideast.
tected to Israeli air attack.
According
to
Elizur,
who
would become a UN-control- Arab University Graduates
"Some misleading adver- territories. Seventeen mem- is also the Israeli corres-
Kissinger also reportedly
led event and thus weighted in Washington caused Rev. tising on the social security bers or supporters of the
expressed the hope that the
pondent
for
the
Washington
in favor of the Arabs.
Donald S. Harrington of the program has appeared Jewish Defense League were
There also was the serious Community Church here to thronahout the Detroit met- arrested along with their Post, Kissinger met with the territories evacuated by Is-
problem of Syria's refusal to reconsider presenting the ropolitan area recently," said leader, Rabbi Meir Kahane, group that included four Har- rael would be demilitarized
vard professors and Norman as a result of the Geneva
comply with the Geneva pro- award.
Sam F. Test, district man- after they attempted, at Ka- Podhoretz, editor of Com- talks.
tocols on prisoners of war;
The controversy began ager of the Detroit-North- hane's exhortation, to break mentary, in the hope that
fear that a Palestinian dele-
through police barriers.
when
the text of the speech west social security office.
•
gation might be given rep-
The King David Hotel, they would exert their influ-
"These ads have contained
appeared
in
American
Re-
ence on the Israeli govern.
resentation at the last min-
where
Kissinger
and
his
en-
provocative statements about
ute; and apprehension over port, an organ of Clergy and social security that are mis- tourage spent the night, ment.
The meeting was reported-
indications that Egypt sought Laity Concerned. Berrigan leading in the extreme and bristled like an armed camp.
to turn the talks into a forum called Israel "a settler state" are obviously designed with Armed border police sur- ly held at Kissinger's initia-
NEW YORK (ZINS)—Ac-
on Israeli withdrawal rather seeking "a biblical justifica- one objective in mind — to rounded the hotel and lined tive Dec. 6, a day before his cording to an article in The
tion
for
crimes
against
hu-
meeting in Washington with
than a genuine peace con-
promote the sale of the the routes Kissinger's motor- Israeli Defense Minister Forward by Jack Hyman,
manity."
ference.
Secretary of State Henry
cade
took
from
the
helipad
Calling Israel "a criminal book!" added Test. The near the Knesset to the hotel, Moshe Dayan.
Kissinger apparently suc-
Kissinger "was and excellent
booklets generally sell for
Jewish
community."
Berri-
(Podhoretz, called by the all-around student and dis-
ceeded in allaying some or
from the hotel to Premier
$3.00-54.99
or
can
be
obtained
most Israeli fears. But there gan charged that those who by subscribing to a consum- Meir's office and from there Jewish Telegraphic Agency, tinguished himself as well in
were indications that he and found refuge in Israel follow- er-type newsletter. As an to Foreign Minister Eban's confirmed the statement by his Jewish studies, becom-
the Israeli leaders still do ing the Holocaust "arose like added inducement, some pub- residence, where the secre- the Israeli official that Kis- ing well-versed in Bible and
not see eye to eye on all warriors, armed to the teeth lishers agree to provide the tary of state dined. Thou- singer had not discussed the the basic Rashi Commen-
. . Israel entered the im-
problem of Israel's borders.
matters.
subscriber with a "confiden- sands of Jerusalem residents He told JTA that he was not tary."
In his remarks at Lod, Kis- perial adventure. She took up
lined
the
streets
despite
the
Hyman, who lived for five
of
your
social
tial report
sure why the secretary of
singer stated specifically, the imperial weapons, she security account" at no addi- foul weather.
years
in the Kissinger home
"We also agreed that the spread abroad the imperial tional cost.
Kissinger ended his visit to state called the meeting.
in Fuerth, Germany, said
("I
think
he
may
have
opening phase of the confer- deceptions."
"Actually, this report can Israel with a tour of Yad wanted to make his position that Kissinger, who studied
Berrigan charged that Is-
ence should be over the prob-
be obtained by sending a Vashem, the memorial to the clear that he had no inten- under Dr. Braslower, the
rael
was
furthering
the
racist
lem of the separation of
post card available in our Jewish victims of the Holo-
rabbi of Fuerth, "was puncti-
forces," meaning the disen- ideology of the Nazis by office free of charge," said caust. Wearing a yarmulka, tion of harming Israel in any
lious in observing the com-
gagement of Israeli and "fostering the myth of the Test. A review of these books Kissinger was taken on the way," Podhoretz said. "This
mandments, to the extent of
Egyptian forces along the `barbarian Arab'." He said reveals that they merely tour by Gideon Hausner, the was not a political meeting
wr apping a handkerchief
the
dream
of
Israel
has
be-
of
the
people
in
since none
Suez cease-fire lines.
contain information that is prosecutor of Adolph Eich-
attendance has a consti- around his wrist on the Sab-
Eban confirmed this, but come a nightmare."
mann
who
is
now
an
Inde-
bath," holding to the tenet
He said that "Israel has compiled from standard so- pendent Liberal Party Knes- tuency.")
went on to remark that the
cial security publications
of not carrying anythin
not
abolished
poverty
and
reported
that
Kis-
Elizur
problem of separation of
that are also free at any set member.
the Sabbath. Hyman
misery;
rather,
she
manu-
forces will be taken up some
At a ceremony in a driv- singer had told the group he called that Kissinger "would
social security office."
hoped to push the Geneva
time after Jan. 1, following factures human waste, the
ing,
cold
rain,
Kissinger
Test said, "While most
the Israeli elections on Dec. byproducts of her entrepre- publishers are reputable and stood with bowed head dur- talks along at a brisk pace put on the tefilin daily."
neurs
the
military-industrial
dealing with one issue at a
Hyman said that the adult
31.
have set the highest adver- ing a service and the chant-
time and hoping the confer- Kissinger always joins his
Kissinger, however, seemed complex."
ing
of
El
Mole
Rahamim.
"Her absurd generals, her tising standards, we are con- Newsmen and cameramen ence would be concluded parents in New York for
to regard the "opening
cerned about the few that
phase" as that which will military junk, are paraded have been engaged in these were excluded from the ser- within four months.
Passover. At the seder, he
on
national
holidays
before
Kissinger also reportedly asked the "Four Questions"
take place today, and last
vice
at
Kissinger's
request.
misleading tactics."
for one or two days. That the narcotized public. The
Hausner presented Kissin- told the group that the U.S. and helped complete the Hag-
Test concluded by assuring
also is, apparently, the model is not the kingdom of the public that his office will ger with his book on the airlifted 110,000 tons of equip- gada with his Orthodox par-
peace, it is an Orwellian
ment, approximately 25 per ents.
Egyptian view.
provide free social security Eichmann trial, "Justice in
Kissinger obviously did not transplant, taken bodily from literature, speaker service Jerusalem," and a book on cent of conventional hard-
bring with him from Damas- Big Brother's bloody heart," for organizations, and an- the destruction of the Jews ware that the U.S. had stock-
piled for its own forces, in
Put your
cus the list of Israeli POWs Rev. Berrigan said.
swer any general or specific in Bavaria, where Kissinger
in Syrian hands.
money where
question on social security. was born. Reading Hausner's order to resupply Israel dur-
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Asked about Israel's de- FOR AMERICAV
your heart is
The office is located at 17500 inscription in his book which ing the Yom Kippur War,
and he implied that Israel
cision not to participate in
state,
"To
the
Great
Peace-
in America
Lahser, Detroit. A trip to the
AND
FOR
YOU
*
could not expect a repetition
any aspect of the Geneva
office can be saved by call- maker," Kissinger replied
should a new war erupt in
talks that include Syria until
"I hope I deserve it."
ing 537-9310.
Sign up for
the Syrians comply fully with Sign up for
The tour of Yad Vashem the Middle East.
Kissinger blamed both Is-
the Geneva Convention, Eban U. S. Savings Bonds, —
with
its
photographs
of
Ger-
There are many scape-
rael and the U.S. for missing U.
said the Israeli attitude had New Freedom Sharei
goats for our sins, but the man barbarity against Jews
"golden opportunities" for
not changed, but because of
most popular is Providence. is given to all visiting foreign
peace negotiations in the past
dignitaries.
—Mark
Twain.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Israeli Official Denies Kissinger
Insisted on Pre-June '67 Borders
Berrigan May Lose Peace Prize
Due to Speech Given to Arabs
Kissinger Was
Good in Heder
46 Friday, Dec. 2L 1973
—
S. SAYINGS BONDS,
FREEDOM SHARES