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January 17, 1975
Pessimism Strikes Israel, USSR Jewry
Waldheim's Fears of UNDOF's End,
Disruption of Detonte, -Link - Ceis - es
Arab Students' Animus
Hurts Israeli Colleges
By MOSHE RON
Jewish News Special Israel Correspondent
TEL AVIV — Lately some actions occurred which have
aroused the indignation of the Israeli population and have
widened the gap between it and the intellectual Israeli Arabs.
The Israeli writer Yizhak Orpas, who since the Six-Day
War was active in circles of Arab writers as an avant-garde
for mutual understanding and peace between the two peoples
'has published a letter in the Israeli press, in which he ex-
pressed his bitter disappointment from his activity for seven
years. He reveals that an Arab poet has proposed to him to
publish a united protest against the administrative arrests of
Arab Communist members by the Israeli military authorities
in the occupied territories.
The appeal came a few days after the terrorist attack in the
Chen cinema in Tel Aviv, where two people were killed and
dozens were wounded.
Orpaz proposed that a protest against administrative arrests
should be linked to a condemnation of the terrorist attack in the
' Chen Cinema, but the woman poet reacted, saying that con-
demning this terror was a political step and she was not ready
for such a step. Orpaz refused to sign the protest petition.
At the same time, Arab students delivered at a symposium
on the Haifa U. campus solidarity declarations for Arafat and
stated that he represented all Palestinian Arabs. The Education
\ Minister, Aharon Yadlin, who spoke a few days later in a
students' assembly in Haifa, expressed his regret-about these
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United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim's expression of fear that the agree-
ment for renewal of the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) may not be renewed again
in May, thereby adding to mounting war threats; Russia's rejection of the 1972 trade pact which
was approved by congressional action last month, because of the USSR's refusal to accept the
U.S. demand for unrestricted emigration of Jews and other nationality groups in the Soviet
Union and the statements by President Ford in Time magazine, emphasizing the possibility of
limiting continued American aid to Israel, combined to add tensions in Israel and for world
Jewry. Only the continuing optimism of Israel Foreign Minister Yigal Allon that there still are
hopes for a possible Middle East peace retained a measure of calm in the process of new global
developments.
While the USSR's rejection of the trade pact, which shocked Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger, causing him to say that efforts to restore the agreements will continue, and the
Waldheim and other statements may appear unrelated, they nevertheless affect Israel because
either directly or indirectly they have a Russian involvement and inevitably lead to renewal
of the energy crises and possible U.S.-USSR conflicts.
The publication, on the eve of Foreign Minister Allon's Washington visit, of President
Ford's Time interview devoted largely to the Mideast is seen — both in timing and in content —
as a firm but gentle nudge aimed at eliciting further concessions from Israel before second-stage
talks. The President's offer, observers here feel, of formal U.S. guarantees following "substantial"
further progress towards a settlement is intended to soothe Israel's security susceptibilities and
prod her toward greater generosity in her offered. Sinai pullback.
The effort to arrange at short notice a Ford-Allon meeting is seen, similarly, as evi-
dence of the President's own pressing concern that the U.S.'s Mideast efforts should move
forward — and should be seen to move forward. The President's veiled warning that while the
U.S. and Israeli interests coincide at present, they might not always do so, and in that case the
U.S. national interest must take preference in policy-making, is seen here as a piece of psycho-
logical arm twisting — probably engineered by Kissinger — in advance of the Allon talks.
Nevertheless, observers do not ignore the fundamental truth of the President's assess-
ment. Official thinking here is very aware indeed of the currently very real and definite
• American interest in attaining a second-stage settlement and thereby further thwarting Soviet
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4-Year Old's Brit Mila Starts New , Life
After Emigration From Soviet Union
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Dimitry Kazavchinsky, center, and his mother Mayah, left, are shown
with Sinai Hospital staff Monday, before the four-year-old Russian emigre
underwent a ritual circumcision three months after coming to the United States.
Four-year-old Dimitry Kazavchinsky was given his Jewish name and underwent a brit
on Monday at Sinai Hospital of Detroit. The event — routine for male Jewish children in the
United States — was a hallmark for the Kazavchinsky family which arrived in Detroit from
Moscow just three months ago.
Alex and Mayah, the parents of Dimitry, described the experience as, "A great day in our
lives and a great day for Dimitry. It i,s a wonderful, wonderful thing and we are very proud....
People ask us, 'Why did you cling to your Jewishness in Russia. It was easier—maybe wiser—
to hide/it. Yet you wanted yobr identity as Jews. Why?' This is why, for this day and this
child."
Rabbi Irwin Groner of Cong. Shaarey Zedek officiated at the brit which was performed
surgically by Dr. David Donitz in a Sinai Hospital room. The arrangements had been made
through the Jewish Community Council _by Israel Elpern. -
The parents expressed themselves as tremendously lucky in, as the father said,
"deciding when to ask to leave Russia. Dr. Kissinger was holding discussions with Leonid
Brezhnev, and the timing was opportune. It took us only three months of waiting. We know
friends who have been waiting for more than three years. , . ."
Alex Kazavchinsky was the assistant director of a toy factory and his wife a teacher
of German in a Moscow high school. "We left," said Mrs. Kazavchinsky, "because we were
denied the right of our Jewishness. It is as simple as that," she explained .through Elpern
who served as interpreter. (Continued on Page 5)
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