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JERUSALEM (JTA)—Defense Minister Moshe Dayan said that Syrian disengagement terms which U. S. Secretary
they
of State Henry A. Kissinger is expected to bring from Damascus will be accepted by Israel only if acceptable and in
the
win the approval of a majority of the Knesset. He spoke for the caretaker government in reply to a Likud motion
Knesset for a discussion of the situation on the Syrian front and the government's stand on disengagement. Dayan
Kissinger's sug-
stressed that at the moment there are no pressures from the U. S. and that Israel had readily agreed to
gestion that he act as an intermediary.
Dayan observed that Israel has no "magic formula" to end the war of attrition now being waged by Syria. He said
Israel had three alternatives: to intensify the fighting in order to hit the Syrians harder; to advance further into Syria in an
effort to destroy the Syrian army and its equipment; or to try to end the situation in the north "under conditions agreed
to by the Knesset and the cabinet." Dayan said he would not recommend the first two solutions because any escalation of
the war would not be one-sided and even a successful Israeli operation into Syria would leave unanswered the question,
"What next?"

American Aid
to Egypt:
Valueless
Without
Israeli
Neighborliness

THE JEWISH NEWS

A Weekly Review

Editorial
Page 4

Vol. LXV. No. 8

Hate-Spouting
Anwar el-Sadat:
Friendship
for 'Henry'
Must Not Becloud
American
Principles

CX4

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Kissinger's Israel Visit Lacks Optimism

Chal-lengin - gissues Confront-
Nation on Sy - rid-Disengagement

Resurgence of Pro-Nazism
Distresses Austrian Jewry

By PETER FRIEDLINGER

(Copyright 1974, JTA, Inc.)

VIENNA—"Is there anything like a Jewish character?" the news-
paper advertisement read. "Are Jews more intelligent than ordinary
people?" another one asked. A male voice puzzled the listeners of
Austrian radio with the question: "What is a Jew?" Huge posters
featured the Austrian flag with the Star of David in the middle, a
taboo in this country for decades.
Thus the Viennese mass daily, Kronenzeitung, started on Palm
Sunday a new series on "Jews in Austria." The author is a former
Nazi and journalist who founded in 1949 the "Union of Independents,"
a party attracting mostly former Nazis. Victor Reimann is now star
columnist of the "Kronenzeitung."
The series was criticized immediately. Rudolf Antoni, editor-in-
chief of the government newspaper, Wiener Zeitung, said: - "Reimann
comes from the nationalistic camp . . . It is necessary to state this
because the author writes certain things which somebody else with
different opinions would have written differently."
Manfred Scheuch, chief editor of the Socialist Arbeiterzeitung,
said: "In Austria anti-Semitism survived even its victims, the Jews . . .
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New Israel Hero:
Bulldozed Road
on Mt, Hermon

TEL AVIV (JTA)—Israel hailed a
new hero on April 25, a 30-year-old
Moroccan-born father of three, Raha-
mim Amzaleg, who worked non-stop
for nearly 40 hours to bull-doze an
81/2-kilometer access road up the
slopes of Mt. Hermon, under Syrian
f-"Il fire over ice and rocky terrain.
. IN ! nzaleg, an employe of the Jewish
Na ional Fund's heavy equipment
company, was demobilized from active
military duty only a month ago.
He was asked to do the dangerous
job and readily agreed on one condi-
tion—that he be redrafted into the
army. Soldiers cheered when his bull-
dozer reached the 9,200-foot peak of
Mt. Hermon where Israeli forces have
been entrenched for two weeks under
constant Syrian barrages and air at-
tacks. The new road is being used to
bring reinforcements of armor and
. equipment to the height.
.. Amzaleg told reporters of his ordeal.
"For six kilometers I fought the ice
and the last 21/2 were even more dif-
ficult. There were rocks and canyons,"
he said.

JERUSALEM (JTA)—The caretaker cabinet met late into the night, Tuesday, wrest-
ling with the major issues of an Israeli-Syrian disengagement accord on which firm policies
must be established before Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger's arrival here. Officials
here do not seem to share Kissinger's optimism that an agreement will be attained. The
tendency of 'the government, therefore, is to stick to its previous policy which allows no
withdrawals from any territory captured from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War.
According to reliable sources, Kissinger is expected to ask Israel to reverse that
policy in the interest of a disengagement agreement.
The cabinet is expected to reconvene today after the initial round of talks with
Kissinger.
Tuesday's meeting was attended by
Local Romanians Issue Israel's
envoy to Washington, Ambassa-
dor Simha Dinitz, who briefed the mini-
Anti-Trifa Manifesto;
sters on the latest developments in U. S.-
List Iron Guardists
Israeli relations, and Chief of Staff Gen.
Mordehai Gur,' who reported on the mili-
A "manifesto" condemning the World War II
tary situation on the Syrian front.
criminal activities of Bishop Valerian D. Trifa and
The cabinet's main task is to make
challenging his status as a religious leader of the
Romanian community has been issued by a group of
policy decisions on five outstanding mat-
Romanian Christians here.
ters connected with an Israeli-Syrian sep-
Signed by the "Honest Romanians of America,"
- aration of forces:
the manifesto also lists other former Iron Guardists
1. Withdrawal from the Golan

in the U. S. and Canada who are leaders in Trif a's
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Walkarthon, Rally Link Jews
of Detroit and Soviet Kinsmen

Solidarity Day for Soviet Jewry—the day on which Detroit Jewry will express its sup-
port for Russian cousins who seek to live as Jews; or to leave the USSR—will be observed
with a Walkathon 1:30 p.m. Sunday at Cong. Bnai Moshe.
A •hree-mile route, concluding at the synagogue, will permit sympathizers of all ages
to participate in the event, sponsored by the Detroit Committee for Soviet Jewry in coop-
eration with the JewiSh Community Council.
At 3 p.m., there will be a rally at Bnai Moshe, addressed by Eleanora Poltinnikov, one
of the beleaguered Poltinnikov family of Novosibirsk, who have sought in vain to obtain exit
visas from the Soviet Union. Eleanora was permitted to leave in 1972.
Greetings from Governor Milliken will be brought by his special assistant, Roy Williams.
Hubert Sidlow, president of the Jewish Community Council, also will extend brief remarks,
as will a representative of the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry in New York. Rabbi Irving
Greenberg will join local religious leaders. Rabbis Moses Lehrman and Irwin Groner and
Cantor Louis Klein are included on the program.
Eleanora Poltinnikov, who is here from Israel on a tour for Soviet Jewry, will relate
'the plight of the Poitinnikov family, who have been "adopted" by several groups here.
Isaac and Irma Poltinnikov, and their daughter Victoria, were fired from their posi-
tions as physicians after they applied to leave Russia in March 1971. To assist them, and
prevent their arrest as "parasites," local doctors have hired the Poltinnikovs as consultants.
The family has been "adopted" by Cong. Beth Shalom, by the National Council of Jewish
Women Detroit Section and Maimonides Medical Society Woinen's Auxiliary.
Eleanora, her husband and grandfather were permitted to leave the USSR in June
1972, with the promise that the rest of the family would follow in 10 days. However, the
Russians broke their promise. Since then, .the Poltinnikovs have suffered arrest, continued
questioning and other forms of harassment.
While in the U. S., Eleanora will plead her case before U. S. officials.
Organizations participating in the walkathon are being encouraged to carry banners,
better to show the wide support for Soviet Jewry here.
The Detroit Committee also is seeking financial assistance for the Adopt-a-Family pro-
gram and other forms of support for the 180,000 Soviet Jews who have applied for visas but
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Nat'lGeographic
Hit for Untruths
on Syria Jews

NEW YORK—The American Jewish

Congress has protested as "untrue"

and "deceptive" the description of
Jewish life in Syria contained in an
article on Damascus in the April issue
of the National Geographic Magazine.
The article, by Robert Azzi, assert-
ed that Damascus "still tolerantly em-
braces significant numbers of Jews"
and that "even as Syria launched its
attack on Israeli troops, Sephardic
Jews of Damascus observed Yom
Kippur unmolested."
In a letter to National Geographic
editor Gilbert Grosvenor, Phil Baum,
associate executive director of the
AJC and director of its commission on
international affairs, declared that
"far from the secure existence por-
trayed by Azzi, Jewish life in Syria
remains dangerous to the point of
desperation." He listed the ways in
which Jews in Syria are persecuted.
Baum requested "rectification" of
the "distortions and inaccuracies" in
the article, and asked for a correc-
tion in "an early issue."
The American Jewish Congress
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