Cyprus Crisis Opens Pandora's Box for Jews, Israel and Kissinger

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man but that we will always
listen to reason.
"We will act in foreign
policy as trustees of the fu-
ture, conscious that we will
be judged on how well we
built an enduring peace and
not how often we bowed to
emotional demands of the
moment."
According to observers, Is-
rael can draw little consola-
tion from this statement in
view of her own imperative
needs. The unease experi-
enced in Israel about what
appears to be a new Wash-
ington line on international
conflicts was echoed last
week by Rabbi Israel Miller,
chairman of the Conference
of Presidents of Major Amer-
ican Jewish Organizations.
He told reporters repre-
senting the Israeli and Jewish
press that he was concerned
over events in Cyprus be-
cause the mystique of Kis-
singer has worn off and be-
cause the nation with mili-
tary power presents facts—
as Turkey has done—and the
world accepts it.
The lesson of Cyprus is a
lesson, as one source noted,
of "botched U.S. diplomacy,
the inability to have recog-
nized potential trouble after
Archbishop Makarios was
overthrown (July 15) and the
lackadaisical, almost indif-
ferent attitude, the U.S. dis-
played after Turkey enlarged
its hold on Cyprus after the
breakdown of the Geneva
peace talks two weeks ago."
Another observer noted
that the Soviet Union's pro-
posal for an international con-
ference—which calls for all
15 members of the United
Nations Security Council,
Greece and Turkey and Greek
and Turkish Cypriots—to take
over the task of seeking a
solution for divided Cyprus
may also be a harbinger of
Soviet demands in the Mid-
east peace talks.
"If the U.S. has not been
able to use her clout with
Turkey what will she do if
Russia flexes her political
muscles regarding future
Mideast talks?" this observer
asked. "If America knuckled
under once, will she do it
again?"
Influential European ana-
lysts have noted in the past
two weeks that if the exam-
ple of Turkey—ignoring the
Geneva talks and flaunting
them with a military fait
accompli — is successful, "it
would have devastating con-
sequences."
There is already wide-
spread anger and mounting
anti - American feelings in
Greece and Cyprus. These
feelings reached a tragic
climax when U.S. Ambassa-
dor Rodger Paul Davies was
shot to death when an angry
crowd of Greek Cypriots
stormed the U.S. Embassy
building in Nicosia to protest
U.S. policy in the strife be-
tween Greece and Turkey-
The U.S. has also been a
target of demonstrators in
Athens. An Associated Press
photo from the Greek capital
several days ago showed a
group of demonstrators hold-
ing a placard reading, "Kis-
singer Killer." These feelings
have also spilled over into
anti-Israel feelings.

10— Friday, August 30, 1974

The JTA reported from
London at least one leading
Athens newspaper repeatedly
refers to Kissinger as "the
German Jew Kissinger." The
Aug. 16 editorial of the left-
wing daily, Athenaiki, ac-
cused the U.S. of having
treated the Greek government
and people as "serfs," and
declared: "We no longer
want to be the `sole means
of survival' for any more
Israels."
A JTA reporter, who is a
specialist in Greek affairs,
noted that Athenaiki was one
of the newspapers forced to
suspend publication during
the seven-year regime of
Greece's military junta which
was overthrown last month.
He said the paper represent-
ed the Greek Center Union
Party, one of whose leaders
is the current deputy prime
minister and foreign minister
of Greece, George Mavros.
The reporter also noted
that Greece traditionally has
had friendly relations with
the Arab countries which
even the Athens Airport mas-
sacre by Arab terrorists
failed to shake. Expressions
of sympathy for Turkey in
the Israeli press after the
Greek junta coup that de-
posed Archbishop Makarios'
regime in Cyprus were seized
upon by pro-Arab papers in
Greece to generate hostility
toward Israel.
This was further exacer-
bated by the arrest of the
Greek Catholic Archbishop
Hillarion Capucci in Jerusa-
lem on suspicion of espionage
and aiding terrorist activi-
ties, the reporter said.
According to the reporter,
the anti-Israel sentiments in
Greece may bring about a
revival of latent anti-Semi-
tism which has deep roots
dating back to the early 19th
Century when it was alleged
that the Jews were allied
with Turkey during Greece's
struggle for independence.
Such allegations were wide-
spread during the Greco-
Turkish war in 1821 when it
was claimed that the Turks,
after hanging the Greek
Patriarch, handed over his
body to the "Jewish mob" in
Constantinople which dese-
crated it, dragging it through
the streets.
That tale, and other fabri-
cations, resulted in the mur-
der of Jews by Greek rebels
under the command of the
Greek national hero Koloko-
tronis. There are already in-
dications of an attempt to
revive these ancient "blood
libels" using Kissinger as a
symbol for the Jewish people
and describing U.S. policy as
serving Jewish interests, the
reporter said.
He added, however, that at
the moment there is no cause
for panic inasmuch as Greece
has more urgent matters to
attend to than its relations
with Israel or a quarrel with
Jews.
For Israel, therefore, the
crisis in Cyprus underscores
its own vulnerability should
the U.S. find it expedient to
adopt a policy of indifference
to "small conflicts" being
settled by force.
Observers note that Israel
is beginning to wonder
whether the U.S. might not
begin to abandon its interna-
tional commitments to help

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achieve peace in conflict-torn
areas and begin to reassess
her relationships between
former friends and foes.
Observers also note that
Israel is beginning to feel
that there are forces in the
new administration in Wash-
ington that may try to force
the Jewish state to surrender
to Arab demands in order to
offset its diplomatic setbacks
in Cyprus.
This feeling was under-
scored when President Ford
and King Hussein signed a
joint communique in Wash-
ington calling for continuing
consultations between Am-
man and Washington "with
a view to addressing at an
appropriately early date the
issues of particular concern
to Jordan, including a Jor-
danian-Israeli disengagement
agreement."
Israel and Jewish leaders
in the U.S. have indicated
that the U.S. is being "too
friendly" to the Arabs. Rabbi
Miller, for example, noted that
U.S. statements after adanin-
istr ation officials conferred
with Hussein and Egyptian
Foreign Minister Ismail
Fahmi went beyond "good
friendship."
Israelis are wondering
whether in the future if the
U.S. is forced to choose be-
tween her indispensable ally
Israel and her new found
friends among the Arabs, the
Middle East will became
another "Cyprus test" for the
U.S.
Will Israel be viewed as
another Greece or another
Turkey by the U.S.? No one
is claiming that the U.S. will
permit the Arabs to cut a
swath through Israel as it
has by inaction permitted
Turkey to do in Cyprus.
But the gnawing question is

there, observers note, and it and that the Greeks were describing the mistreatment
is exacerbated by the ambi- preventing the Red Cross of Israeli prisoners of war in
guity in Kissinger's speech to from attending to the medi- Syria after the Yom Kippur
the American Legion in his cal needs of the Turkish mi- War.
statement that "for the Arabs nority on the island.
there can be no peace with-
The Turkish request re- 4 Afraid of the High Cost
out a recovery of territory mains under consideration,
Of TV Repairs??
and the redress of griev- but it has created a dilemma
.
Call
ances of a displaced people. for the IMA inasmuch as Is-
For Israel, peace requires rael is trying to remain neu-
both security and recognition tral in the Greek-Turkish con-
of its neighbors of its legiti- flict over Cyprus.
macy as a nation."
experienced reliable,-
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Meanwhile, Syria is being
hand that the Greek Medical service at reasonable prices.
armed to its eyeballs by the
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to
a
letter
from
the
IMA
playing down reports of this
development, Israel has con-
ducted a mobilization of its
reservists, and war tensions
are gripping all the nations
of the Middle East. Less than
a year after the Yom Kippur
War, Israel is entering a new
year fraught with uncertainty
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example of a well-known type
of misinformation."
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with all states involved in
the Cyprus crisis and hoped
that it would soon be solved
by peaceful means.
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