U.S. and Israeli
Statesmen in Key
M.E. Negotiations

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Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin will meet with U.S. Sec-
retary of State Henry A. Kissinger Saturday in Bonn, West
Germany, to continue important negotiations towards a
new interim peace agreement between Israel and Egypt.
Earlier in the week; Kissinger held lengthy discussions with
Tti a e 1 s Ambassador to the U.S. Simcha Dinitz.

YITZHAK RABIN

SIMCHA DINITZ

HENRY KISSINGER

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Edifice Complex
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American Jewry
and 1976
Politics

Jewish Center
and Communal
Pragmatism

Editorials
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July 11, 1975

Reports of an Israel-Egypt
Agreement Inspire Hopes

Jerusalem Toll Mounts

JERUSALEM (JTA) — The name of the 14th victim of the
terrorist bombing here last Friday was released Tuesday. He was
Shabtai Chikashwilli, 10, of Jerusalem. His father, Yosef, remains
hospitalized with burns suffered during the bomb blast.
Six of the 14 victims of Friday's terrorist bombing in the heart
of Jerusalem were buried Sunday. Funeral services were held at
the Sanhkria Cemetery for Michael and Rifka Ben-Yitzhak, who
had lived in Jerusalem's Neve Granot quarter.
An entire family, Meir Zimmerman, 35, his wife Rosa, 28 and
their 11-year-old daughter, Ahava, were buried in Haifa. A Chris-
tian service was held in Nazareth for Daoud Khoury, 50, one of the
four Arab victims of the blast.
The other dead were identified as Yosef Amar, 28; David
Cohen, 46; and Yoram Aivovi, 41, all of Jerusalem; Nahiza Mo-
hammed Hamed, 25, of East Jerusalem; her aunt, Fatima Moussa
Hamed, 53, and a relative, Mohammed Abu Khadija, both from
Amman, Jordan, who had come to Jerusalem for Nahiza's wedding;
and Mira Berger, 34.
The blast of a booby-trapped refrigerator killed 14 and
wounded 73.

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The 'Jewish Vote'

As a Media Fancy

By Jewish News

Special Correspondent

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Egypt has agreed to include in any interim accord reached with
Israel a secret undertaking that the accord would be in effect for three years, reliable sources
are saying. The sole remaining points still at issue are the exact lines to which Israeli forces
would be pulled back under the terms of an accord and the fate of the electronic surveillance
stations on which Israel presently relies for advance warning of a possible Egyptian attack;
the sources said.
Neither of these points is minor. In the ongoing bargaining, Israel is seeking to retain
some foothold in the strategic Mitle and Gidi passes. The government is still not satisfied that
it knows precisely what Egypt's position is.
Cairo flatly rejected an Israeli proposal offered by Premier Yitzhak Rabin in Wash-
ington last month but has not yet responded with a definitive proposal of its own indicat-
ing exactly what it means by "passes," "entrances to passes" and "slopeS." Ambassador
Simcha Dinitz, who returned to Washington Monday after consultations here, has been
instructed to find out from Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger precisely what the
Egyptians regard as the components of an interim accord.
The State Department announced that Kissinger will meet with Israeli Premier Yitzhak
Rabin in Bonn, West Germany, Saturday, "to continue discussions within the framework of
their efforts to achieve peace in the Middle East." Rabin left Israel Tuesday on a four-day
official visit to West Germany, the first ever made by an Israeli premier. Kissinger left for
Europe Wednesday, and will meet in Geneva with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko.
State Department spokesman Robert Anderson said he had no comment on reports that
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A Time-Worn Canard Brought Home to Roost

WASHINGTON. D. C. — An old canard has regained a platform in
the ranks of communications media and political analysts, columnists
and commentators who are having a heyday.
It's nearly a year off before the two political parties will hold their
national conventions, and gossip is already reverberating about the
power of the so-called Jewish vote.
It didn't have to stem from the Arab propaganda mills where it
finds a gloating method of accusing friends of Israel of being overpow-
ered by "pressures" from Jewish voters. Columnists and commentators
need an excuse for denigrating what has already been branded Jewish
and Israeli intransigence. Israel's delay in submitting to what could
well be voluntary suicide if some sort of insistence upon protective con-
cessions had not been elicited from overwhelming enemy ranks. As long
as the hesitancy by Israel to submit to danger-laden borders continues,
the geniuses in the ranks of the political analysts must find a formula
for their critical attitudes. Therefore they resort to the accusation that
Israel, and her Jewish kinspeople in the United States, are waiting for
final action until the crucial presidential election. Then, so the briefing
goes from Arab and anti-Israel ranks, the Jewish vote will be resorted
to for attainment of benefits for Israel.
It's been used as a .weapon and mentioned when 76 U. S. Sena-
tors found the need for a special message to President Ford, before
he had proceeded for the exchange of niceties with the Egyptian
ruler in Salzburg. Now it is being readied as part of the wisdom that

is already stemming from the nation's capital that Jews are mobil-
izing the Jewish vote.
Apparently the U. S. senatorial ranks are wiser and more just. The
condemnations for their action as a plea for justice for•srael has failed
to irritate the Senators. Their letter to Ford spoke of justice, not of votes.
How powerful really is this vote that has been equated as Jewish
pressure? The 76 U. S. Senators who signed the important letter come
from 46 states. A study of Jewish population figures indicates that the
following states have fair-sized Jewish populations: New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Michigan, Texas, California, Connecticut,
Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Florida. Count them: Twelve out of a to-
tal of 50 states, 12 out of the total of 46 from whose ranks stem the
signers of the now famous letter. Several of the states listed have less
than 50.000 Jewish citizens.
Conclusion: The U. S. Senators were motivated by the spirit of
fair play that is so vital to the traditions of this land. But the news
media have a different theory: For them it is a matter of a Jewish
vote, and resort to that canard will be heard often, routinely, as part
of the prejudices that are now blunting the thinking of the geniuses
in the news media who are afraid to speak out for justice in a world
scenario of Arab oil pressures.
The canard has returned as a roost in the oncoming presidential
campaign. Get ready to hear it often: that the Jewish vote influences
American friendship for Israel. That's how a basic American principle
of justice and fair play gets lost in prejudiced minds.

