16 Friday, July 4, 1975
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Modern Israelis Compared With Christians of Crusades
Prescription
Garry Wills, a former
Jesuit seminarian, contends
in an article, "A New Way
to Perceive the State of Is-
rael," that in order to under-
stand modern Israel one
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must first understand the
Crusaders.
In the article, appearing
in the July issue of Esquire
magazine and written after
his recent visit there, Wills
finds that "Israel repeats
Crusader themes una-
wares." He cites as exam-
ples the fortification of land
captured from Jordan in the
Six-Day War which was
similarly fortified by the
Crusaders, the objectives of
the Israeli army as com-
pared to the Knights Tem-
plar: Always advance and
assault despite casualties;
never halt and retreat.
Wills makes several ob-
servations about Israel, and
not all of them are compli-
mentary. He writes:
"Israel has fallen short
of its own goals; it has
tried to hang on to occu-
pied lands, once they were
won, in ways that under-
cut its own moral claim.
Israel has had its terror-
ists, profiteers, corrup-
tion, soiled enterprises.
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Peres Proposes
Israel, West Bank
Federation Plan
JERUSALEM tJTA) —
Defense Minister Shimon
Peres has proposed a plan
for a federation between
Israel and the West Bank
which he hopes the Labor
Alignment will begin dis-
cussing.
Peres said the plan should
be promoted both on a na-
tional and an international
level and the government
should adopt the federation
plan perhaps during the
negotiations for an overall
settlement of the Mideast
dispute.
Peres' plan would give Ar-
abs both in Israel and the
administered territories a
free choice of citizenship,
with those accepting Israeli
citizenship being able to
vote for the Knesset.
Peres said the problem of
ensuring a Jewish majority
could be solved by using
what he called the "Can-
adian system" in which a ra-
tio of two-thirds Jewish
votes and one-third Arab
votes could be maintained
until the area was stabi-
lized.
He also suggested a high
degree of autonomy for the
residents of the occupied
territories both on a local
and a regional basis.
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The country can be brutal
as a psalm or cruel as the
Iliad."
At the same time, Wills
defended Israel against the
recent UNESCO indignities
by writing:
"Israel has now become
the defender of the holy
places, which are better
kept and more open to all
faiths than they have ever
been. A sample of the Israe-
lis' contribution is the daz-
zling excavation at the \Vest
Wall, so foolishly con-
demned by UNESCO . . .
"The title of Defenders of
the Holy Places has de-
volved upon the Israelis,
who are trying to wear it
worthily, despite the failure
of so many others who took
up the task. If they do not
keep the land holy, then no
one can."
House Withdraws U.S. From
Participating in ILO Activities
WASHINGTON, (JTA) —
The House of Representa-
tives has withdrawn the
United States government
from participation in the In-
ternational Labor Organiza-
tion because the ILO gave
the Palestine Liberation
Organization status in that
United Nations affiliate as
an observer.
Supporting the position of
the AFL-CIO, the House
voted last week to delete
from appropriations to the
State Department the funds
to pay into the ILO. The cut-
off is effective as of last
June 12.
Rep. John Slack (D-W.
Va.) and John Murtha (D-
Pa.) led the fight to delete
Deckhands Strike
at Israeli Ports
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Is-
raeli deckhands went on a
wildcat strike last week.
Other branches of the sea-
men's union refused to go
along.
One Israeli ship was idled
in Haifa harbor and the
crews of others were delib-
erating whether to join the
walk out which was con-
demned by Histadrut and
the shipping companies.
Several Israeli ships on the
high seas radioed that they
would strike on reaching
Israeli ports.
The strike was called by
Moshe Levy, secretary of
the deckhands' branch of
the union, to protest one of
the tax reform measures
now before the Knesset that
would tax a portion of sea-
men's salaries hitherto ex-
empt.
Meanwhile, the Seamen's
Union Council ordered
striking deckhands back to
work but also demanded
that Histadrut take proper
action to protect seafarers'
wages which may be threat-
ened by the tax reform mea-
sures now before the Knes-
set.
The council also rejected
Histadrut's decision to sus-
pend Moshe Levy, secretary
of the deckhands' branch of
the union, who unilaterally
called the wildcat strike.
Finance Minister Ye-
hoshua Rabinowitz met
with El Al air crews to dis-
cuss the impact of the tax
reforms on their wages. He
assured them that their net
income would not suffer but
did not address himself to
the main bone of contention
— whether increments such
as foreign currency allow-
ances for lay-overs abroad
would he regarded as taxa-
ble income.
the funds. They were op-
posed by Reps. Elford Ced
erberg (R-Mich.) and Milli-
cent Fenwick (R-NJ).
Slack, who introduced the
deletion legislation, pointed
out that while observer sta-
tus in non-voting and non-
paying, it permits the PLO
representation in ILO pro-
ceedings.
Cederberg argued he has
"never been a real fan" of
the ILO, but Secretary of
State Henry A. Kissinger
and others in the State De-
partment explained to him
that suspending U.S. funds
to the ILO "at this time
when we are carrying out
these negotiations (in the
:Middle East) just adds an-
other problem that we
really do not need at this
time."
The State Department
said it "regrets" the action
since the ILO "is a highly
useful organization."
Spokesman Robert An-
derson noted that the U.S.
had voted in the ILO against
observer status for the
PLO. The ILO, he observed,
is for government, worker
and employer representa-
tives, and the PLO "has no
government or recognized
worker or employer groups"
and "has no business to be
taken up in the ILO."
El Al Predicts
Tourist Decline
TEL AVIV (JTA) — El
Al, Israel's national airline,
said that it expected to
carry 3,000 fewer tourists to
Israel from the United
States this summer season
than it did during the same
period last year.
Amos Torin, deputy di-
rector general of El Al for
the U.S. region, said that
the forecast was based on
the economic recession in
the U.S. and reports in the
American news media of
the security situation in Is-
rael.
He disclosed that El Al
was forced to cancel V
flights in the last two
months owing to the drop in
traffic.
According to Torin, the
airline had in fact antici-
pated a growth of 6,000
tourists this summer so that
its total loss will amount to
9,000 passengers. Mean-
while, El Al has instituted a
new service for the conveni-
ence of its passengers from
Jerusalem who may check
their baggage there before
proceeding to Ben-Gurion
Airport.