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It's a Match. ZOA, Zionist Federation Together Again
(JTA)—The long and frequently acrimonious dispute between the
American Zionist Federation and the Zionist Organization of America has at last been
amicably settled.
Rabbi Israel Miller, chairman of the AZF, and Jacques Torczyner, chairman of
the administrative board of the ZOA, toasted the new accord here Sunday over Israeli
brandy as Mrs. Charlotte Jacobson, chairman of the World Zionist Organization-
American Section, looked on.
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The final settlement was ratified at a full meeting of the Zionist Executive here
which preceded this week's deliberations of the Zionist General Council.
The Dreyfus
Affair
Additionally
Reconstructed
in 'Prisoners
Honor'
The formal re-entry of the ZOA into the AZF will take place March 17 at a board
meeting of the AZF:
Avraham Shenker, the head of the World Zionist Organization's education and
information department, told the JTA that the basis of the rapprochement had been
laid early last year by the late Louis Pincus, WZO chairman. Acting chairman Leon
Dulzin had followed through with meetings in the U.S. with Rabbi Miller and with
ZOA president Herman Weisman.
The ZOA formally broke with the AZF in a resolution adopted by its national
executive in New York Feb. 20, 1972.
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Weakening on Pow Position
Denied by Israel Government
Genocide Convention's Passage
in Jeopardy as Ervin Leads
Strong Opposition in Senate
By JOSEPH POLAKOFF
JTA Washington Bureau Chief
WASHINGTON (JTA)—The Senate, engaged for the first time ever
in debate on the international treaty against genocide, is more than likely
to either filibuster it to death or vote it down.
Mail against the treaty is running about 200-1.
Although literally hundreds of American organizations have endorsed
it during the 25 years since the General Assembly of the United Nations
unanimously adopted it in Paris in December 1948, hardly any organization
is now encouraging those senators now backing it.
The opposition, however, has not been lackadaisical. The ultra-right-
wing Liberty Lobby is campaigning hard for its defeat, urging letters to
editors, calls to radio talk shows and contacts with senators to vote against
the "convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide."
Paradoxically, the opposition's chief spokesman is Sen. Sam J. Ervin
(D. N.C.), who has been hailed by liberals as "uncle Sam" for his stead-
fastness to constitutionalism in his chairmanship of the Senate Select
Committee examining the Watergate affair. The Liberty Lobby's chairman
is Curtis B. Da11, once the son-in-law of the great liberal President Franklin
D. Roosevelt.
Paradoxically, too, the U.S. government itself proposed, fought for
and succeeded in winning the •reaty's adoption by the UN. Every President
from Truman to Nixon has supported it. Yet it was a quarter of a century
before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee finally approved it last
March 10 for the first time. Now the debate has begun and promises to be
long drawn out.
"My guess is that there will be lengthy speeches," a spokesman for
an opposing senator told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. He was certain
that if the filibuster did not work there would be more than enough senators
on hand to block the two-thirds vote required from among the senators
present and voting to enact the treaty.
Opening the debate for the treaty's proponents, Sen. William Prox-
mire (D. Wis.) told of letters "from my constituents and other people from
all over the country vehemently protesting this treaty." While "many sena-
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JERUSALEM (JTA)—The government denied Wednesday that it was wavering
in its determination not to begin disengagement talks with Syria until the latter
provides a list of Israeli POWs in its hands and permits the International Red Cross
to visit them.
A statement issued by the prime minister's office Wednesday morning said
that Israel's position remains unchanged and that it had been restated to "interna-
tional bodies working to bring about an agreement between the two countries."
The statement was in response to a report published in Haaretz Tuesday that
the government had decided to begin discussions with the United States on separa-
tion of forces on the Syrian front before the Syrians allow Red Cross personnel to
visit Israeli POWs. According to Haaretz, the only condition Israel retained was that
Syria must provide a POW list 'before it would enter into negotiations.
Foreign Minister Abba Eban admitted Tuesday night, however, that the U.S.
had suggested that Israel exchange views with Syria before the submission of a POW
list. But Washington has not presented any demands or conditions on the question of
the prisoners, Eban said in a speech at Holon. He said there were signs that the
Syrians were willing to negotiate through the offices of the U.S. secretary of state:
Sources here said that the feeling the Israeli position had weakened probably
stemmed from Israel's response to an American offer to begin some form of nego-
tiations on disengagement.
Israel told the U.S. that as long as the subject of discussion was tactical and
not substantive, it would not be opposed to American contacts with Syria on the
subject of disengagement, the sources said.
They interpreted this as meaning that Israel would not oppose initial clarifica-
tions between the two parties—through the U.S.—but would not enter into discussions
before the Syrians complied fully on the POW issue.
The Syrians reportedly were prepared to provide a list of Israeli POWs before
negotiations started provided that Israel agreed to delay Red Cross visits to them until
after the talks begin. U.S. Ambassador Kenneth Keating is said to have conveyed that
suggestion to Premier Golda Meir Monday whereupon Mrs. Meir immediately polled
her cabinet ministers by phone. But the unanimous answer was no.
It was reported, meanwhile, that Defense Minister Moshe Day-an will visit the
United States at the end of this month, presumably to discuss the Syrian disengage-
ment problem with American officials.
Officially, Dayan will make the trip on behalf of the Israel Bond Organization.
But sources here noted that a similar visit by Dayan preceded U.S. Secretary of State
Henry A. Kissinger's week of "shuttle diplomacy" in the Middle East that resulted
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in the Israeli-Egyptian disengagement agreement.
Israel, Awakening From War shocks, Is Emboldened by Faith;
New, Era Is Anticipated as Nation Is Sobered by Its Many Errors
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
JERUSALEM—A saddened Israel became even more glum with the announcement of abandonment or total reduction of
subsidies on food items and on transportation, thus causing drastic increases in the cost of living. The war cause keeps
adding many new anxieties, and a nation constantly confronted with tension-causing dangers has begun more than ever to
draw upon the inspiration of the ages—gathering strength from hope and courage from an unending faith in the coming of
better days.
Years marked by triumphs on battlefields suffered an interruption that is marked by a rude awakening: that over-
confidence is treacherous and menacing. There is joy in the departure of Israeli troops from the Suez; there is sadness over the
events that fashioned it.
An interesting image of Israel had been created by cartoonist Dosh of the Hebrew daily newspaper Ma'ariv. The young
state is being portrayed by Dosh as a meek little fellow with a peaked hat. On the occasion of the withdrawal of Israel's
army from the occupied Suez area, Dosh gave little Israel a companion: The Wandering Jew. And as they travel the road
back to Sinai from- the Suez, the Wandering Jew says to his fellow traveler: "Nu, how was it in Africa?"
The soldiers had spoken of being in Africa, when they were on the Egyptian side of the Suez encircling, Egypt's Third
Army. On their way back home, during the disengagement, they shouted "habaita," — "back home" — they painted onto
their tanks "Shalom Africa," and they added to it: "Lo le-hitraot"—not to see you again.. It was part of their hope for peace,
part of an aspiration for an end to warfare.
Four designations had been given the war that started on Oct. 6: Milhemet Yom Kippur, Milhemet Yom HaDin, Milhemet
HaBanim and Milhemet HaHayalayim. The first two are logical: they mean the Yom Kippur War and the War of the Day
of Judgment. The fourth means the War of the Privates—because so many private soldiers had single-handedly repulsed
attacks by as many as a dozen enemy tanks. The third is the most deeply moving. It means the War of the Sons—and it is
because for the first time in Israel's struggles for survival fathers and sons fought in the same war, at times in the same
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