Kissinger Tactic: Arabic Saying for the Arabs, Hebraic Proverb for the Israelis
In his opening statement to the assembled delegates at the Geneva conference last
Friday, U.S. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger resorted to Arabic and Hebraic lore.
In Arabic, he said "Eli fat mat," which means "The past is dead." Then, in
English, he 'quoted Hillel: "If I am not for myself, who is for me? But if I am for
myself alone, what am I?"
Hopes for Peace:
Eliav, Crossman
Views Analyzed
Expose of Arab
Slave Market
Red Cross
Under Challenge
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An added Kissinger comment about his quotation from Hillel was: "There is a
greater justice still in finding a truth which merges all aspirations in the realization
of a common humanity."
An Egyptian delegate commented: "Kissinger is masterful. He used a Jewish
proverb to get at the Jews and an Arab proverb to reach the Arabs."
Bonn Neutrality
Comforts
Neo-Nazis
of Jewish Events
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Jordan Also Asks Disengagement;
Proposal Opposed by Religious;
Hopes for Peace Seen Mounting
Moshe Dayan Batt-tes
For Political - Life
TEL AVIV (JTA)—With only three days
left for campaigning before the Knesset
elections, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan is
battling for his political life. He is speaking
more frequently and getting more media
coverage than other cabinet ministers and
in his speeches he is stressing areas where
his expertise is undisputed—military matters
and security.
Addressing a Labor Party meeting in
Haifa Wednesday, he offered a frank ap-
praisal of Israel's military position and
conceded that the situation is more difficult
and fraught with more peril than before
the Yom Kippur War.
Addressing newspaper editors here Tues-
day, he assessed the prospects of the Israeli-
Egyptian disengagement talks at Geneva
and suggested that they include declarations
of non-belligerency.
Gen. Dayan's intensive campaigning is
attributable to his loss of stature since the
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By DAVID LANDAU
JTA Jerusalem Bureau Chief
JERUSALEM (JTA)—A new dimension seemed to have been added to the Mideast peace talks complex
last weekend with Jordan's suggestion at Geneva Saturday that it, too, conduct "disengagement talks" with Israel.
Said el-Rifai, the Jordanian foreign minister, obviously did not intend to demand an immediate start to
such talks. But U.S. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger has indicated his view that such talks could begin in
a few weeks.
The suggestion gained two positive responses fromIsrael—from Deputy Premier Yigal Allon Saturday, and
from Foreign Minister Abba Eban on his return from Geneva Monday. The National Religious Party now even
took Allon to task, at Sunday's cabinet meeting, for seeming to agree to the Jordanian suggestion. They raised
the issue again at the special cabinet meeting.
Sources close to Allon said that he does not envisage disengagement talks with Jordan aimed at an
actual Israeli pullback—on the pattern of the disengagement talks with Egypt. Allon and Eban have explained
Nixon Signs $2.2 Billion Israel Aid Bill
WASHINGTON (JTA)—President Nixon signed without comment the $2,-
200,000,000 emergency bill to aid Israel, the White House announced Wednesday.
Mr. Nixon had requested that sum from Congress, and it complied over-
whelmingly in less than two months with authorization and approriation legislation.
The legislation puts a ceiling of $1,500,000,000 that the President may give to
Israel as gifts.
Mr. Nixon is authorized to determine what part of the total will be in grants
and credits and the circumstances of this support.
An additional $400,000,000 in aid to Israel, three-fourths of it in credits
for U.S. military procurements, is in the foreign aid bill, which the President
is expected to sign soon.
Pro-Israel Sentiments
Increase: 571 l'er Cent
in IT .S. Show Sympathy
In spite of the tensions that arose from the energy crisis
the concern over an emerging anti-Semitism, the latest
:1ap Poll shows an increase in pro-Israel sentiments in this
country.
Three recent tabulations reported in Gallup Polls indi-
cate rise in sympathy for Israel, starting with the Yom Kippur
War through the first week in December, as follows:
No
Arab
States Neither Opinion
Israel
14%
24%
8%
54%
Dec. 7-10
25
21
6
48
Oct. 19-22
25
22
6
47
Oct. 6-8
Reasons given by those expressing their sentiments in
favor of Israel included such comments as "Israel is fighting
for survival," "Sympathy for the underdog," "The Israelis
have a right to a homeland" and "Israel was attacked first."
Nevertheless, there is concern that anti-Jewish feelings
may grow as a result of the difficulties that may confront
Americans with the curtailment of power usage and decreased
supplies of oil and gasoline for home warming and automobile
operations.
Polls conducted in European countries show an increase
in pro-Israel sentiments in Holland, where it is 72 per cent,
in England, Italy and even in France, where 63 per cent of
the people expressed opposition to their country breaking
relations with Israel.
Bishop Trifa
Probed by U.S.
Bishop Valerian Trifa, whose leadership
role in Iron Guard pogroms against Romanian
Jewry was charged in The Jewish News as
long ago as May 1972, was the subject of a
Page 1 New York Times article Wednesday.
The head of the Romanian Orthodox Episco-
pate of America, with headquarters in Grass
Lake, Mich., is under investigation by the U.S.
Immigration and Naturalization Service on
charges that he lied about his past anti-Semitic
activities and membership in Romania's fascist
Iron Guard when he applied for admission to
this country in 1951 and for U.S. naturalization
in 1957.
Trifa has been the object of an intense
effort by Romanian-American Jews to have
him extradited to face trial in Romania.
However, because there is no extradition
treaty between the U.S. and Romania and be-
cause American authorities had hesitated to
raise the ticklish issue of a clergyman with
fascist ties, there was no effort to bring Trifa
before a review board.
The Jewish News first printed a story on
Trifa in 1972 after contracting many sources
concerned with the case. Articles appeared
periodically, particularly with the assistance
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through their aides that they have in
mind talks aimed at thinning out the
forces arrayed along the Jordan River
banks — perhaps by - agreed pullback of
all artillery and tanks leaving only
mechanized infantry to patrol the border
which stretches down through the Arava
to Eilat. Allon also thinks in terms of
cooperation with Jordan against the Pal-
estinian terrorists who are expected to
intensify their violence on the West
Bank with the aim of sabotaging peace
talks. Both Israel and Jordan should
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Nedzi Delegation to Israel
and Egypt Told of Gains,
Mistakes on Both Sides
The surprise attack by Egyptian forces across the Suez
Canal on Oct. 6 was the result of years spent in training, and
despite heavy losses, was a major psychological victory for
Cairo, according to a report by a group of congressmen who
recently visited the Middle East.
Michigan Congressman Lucien N. Nedzi was among the
members of the special subcommittee on the Middle East
who took the fact-finding trip to Israel and Egypt Nov. 17-24.
Their report has just been released.
The subcommittee concluded from talks to Egyptian
President Anwar Sadat that it would have been "impossible
for the Arab leaders to go to a peace conference without
feeling that their forces had redeemed themselves on the
battlefield." The report added that the Egyptians were "ex-
tremely proud" of American equipment captured from the
Israelis, which was being displayed in a downtown park.
Nedzi's group said the Egyptians believe that time is
on their side during peace negotiations "because they have
a large army and would be paying their soldiers whether or
not they were at the front. On the other hand, the Egyptians
believe Israel is hard pressed to maintain their forces in a
state of readiness since the majority of their troops come
from the reserves who have a regular place in the business
and industrial life of that country."
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