86 Friday, September 5, 1975

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

`The Kissinger Experience:' Critical Look at U.S. Policy

the paths of therapy. accommodation in the
proceed to the essential job scale nuclear alert in the Oc- Rather, they maneuver the United Nations, but taken
ister
struggling
against
oil-
tober
War;
the
less
publi-
A scathing attack on U.S.
of settling with Israel.
another vector of forces within the as a blueprint for Middle
Secretary of State Henry minded tormentors of his
It is of course true that cized beginnings of
people,
we
have
plot
fit
for
e
crisis"
ear- framework of conflicts and East peace in subsequent
Kissinger, his policies in the the popular Yiddish stage, the Arabs craved even a Cuban "missil
hope that this brings peace diplomatic activity.
,
Middle East and throughout in essence an updated semblance of martial suc- lier, in 1970,
Whether in fact this com-
when the Rus- nearer.
cess, but why this should sians appeared to be build-
the world, are contained in a
Although
some
may
have
promise
(not between Israe-
dissolve their rejection of ing a submarine base in that academic backgrounds, the lis and Arabs, incidentally,
new book by Prof. Gil Carl Purim play.
In
staging,
playing
and
AlRoy of Hunter College,
Jewish statehood was not island.
foreign policy makers' per- but between wider and var-
improvising the plot Kis-
spective is diplomatic, not ied blocs) bears any such
singer displayed much in- clear. It was there before
scholarly. Their imagina- relation to the stated objec-
genuity and resourceful- the humiliation of the bat-
tion of problems derives in tive seems hardly to concern
tlefield that presumably
ness. At one point, when
essence from conversations, the diplomatic actors.
Dinitz showed signs of stood in the way of peace.
Writing as an acad—ic
That is the stuff of which
chiefly with other policy
wavering, it occurred to
-
much of the foreign policy
makers. This may at times student of internation f
Kissinger to have a special
■ .es-
produce
shrewd
insights,
lations,
in
"A
World
'.1
folklore
is
made,
and
the
telephone installed in the
but as a method has no nec- toned" and elsewhere, Kis-
Israeli Embassy — a "hot theory affected real events
in
that
critical
situation.
essary or even probable re- singer himself argued that
line" for Dinitz.
lationship to reality. That is peace could not he made the
The plot had to be impro- Yet another form in which
what scholarly researchers goal of foreign policy;
wised almost daily, so a vari- the anti-Israeli act appeared
are about, assuming that rather, it had to he seen as a
ety of plans for getting sup- positive was to view it not as
they do their work properly. bonus flowing from a well-
plies to Israel appeared one giving the Arabs victory, but
Thus they would think of conceived policy. As practi-
after the other, all terribly rather as merely preventing
chances for peace in the tioner, he has lately demon-
complex and esoteric, suffi- a too crushing defeat for
Middle East in terms of Is- strated the sophistic poten-
ciently promising to engage them. Since their earlier
debacle was seen as having
lamic conceptions of war tial of this presumption. in
Referring to his moves
and international order, the
certain
to
abort,
making
only
hardened
the
stale-
HENRY
KISSINGER
GIL CARL ALROY
the
Middle East, he urged
status
of
Jews
in
the
Muslin
room for yet another, and so mate, another one could be stic as th
against
ideal visions of
"The Kissinger Experience," on. When Schlesinger's expected to freeze it perma-
tradition, or the political
As characteristic
peace, asserting that peace
subtitled "American Policy "Haman" required addi- nently.
significance
of
Islam,
rather
success big stick is theta." It was
Kissinger's
in the Middle East."
than in relation to what is the diplomatic process it-
plausibility, William
Jack Anderson's revelation
The book, published by Clements w as brought into hinged on his ability to
President Tito or Secretary self.
that gave us a first candid Brezhnev may be saying, as
What Kissinger does is
Horizon Press, describes play; as a Texan connected restrict the drama to high- gse
of Kissinger at war.
Kissinger and America's to the petroleum industry, level diplomacy in the ex- Behind a facade of benevo- policy makers are more peace. This equation of self
with peace is only consistent
policies in chapters analyz- he lent himself well to the elusive circles supportive lent neutrality, concern and likely to do.
with the intense personali-
or acquiescent of moves
ing Kissinger as seen by the role of spoiler.
Policy
makers
are
more
compassion appeared in
zation of American foreign
that
broader
American
Israelis, the Arabs and
aware
of
the
decisions
con-
Kissinger could count on
warrior in mufti dering
Americans, Kissinger's the sympathetic cooperation opinion would reject. The his staff to "tilt" energeti- cerning the Middle East policy and the confusion of
scheming during the Yom of players and bystanders in Israelis could only be led, cally toward the "Paks"
than what their or lasting his career, perceptions and
Kippur War, the revolving Washington, where the cli- not coerced, into staying (who were slaughtering impact on the area may be. needs with it.
But it at least helps us
MTddle East," and Kissin- mate had turned increas- there, and, having already Bengalis by the tens of An illustration is furnished
look for the "why" of United
his lead into the
ger's lasting impact.
by
the
earlier
cited
Security
ingly antagonistic to Israel's followed
thousands daily).
The following article is a resolute stance on negotia- war, tended to follow him
Council Resolution 242, rep- States policy in the October
When the Greek military
.
chapter on Kissinger's han- tions with Arabs.
further.
resenting a parliamentary War.
Staying with him in the Junta overthrew Makarios,
dling of the Yom Kippur
As
indicated
earlier,
Is-
rael appeared to much of air-lift crisis then made fol- Kissinger d id not , rush
to
War:
t- Humility Defined
lowing him into the cease- quench the flames accep
By GIL CARL ALROY
Ethel E. Sobel 80
in
the foreign policy commu-
ing the S ampson regime
re
By LEO BAECK
nity as the main obstacle to fire more probable still. (By
His management of the
Ethel Esther Sobel, an
now the Israelis had "built Nicosia and failing to dis-
October War occasioned
"The Essence of Judaism"
active clubwoman in the
up" a psychological invest- suade the Turks from invad-
for Henry Kissinger per-
The essential meaning of Detroit area for many
ment in cooperating with ing the island, indeed con-
haps the greatest personal
humility, as it grew up in years, died Aug. 29 at age
Kissinger.)
When
Kissinger
tinuing
to
supply
them
as
successes of hig career.
the Jewish soul, is the 80.
then came to extricate them they fought another Ameri-
The crucial maneuver was
knowledge of the position
from
the
lingering
pain
of
can
ally.
Born in Hungary, Mrs.
the denial of supplies to Is-
And in the October War,
which man has in infinity
his cease-fire, at their ex-
rael and in this control of
Sobel lived 60 years in De-
earlier,
he
had
worked
and
eternity;
it
is
the
full
re-
pense, their dependence on hard to deny America's
one individual was vital.
ligious feeling of life in the troit. She was a charter
him deepened further.
For so long as (Israel Am-
friends
critical
supplies
man who knows that he has member of Cong. Bnai
The "what" of his man-
bassador Simha) Dinitz
for
as
long
as
he
could
—
been created by God. Thus Moshe and a past president
agement of the October War even as they suffered
could he persuaded that
there is in it nothing deli- of its sisterhood. She was a
is as characteristically Kis- grave losses — only to la-
supplies for his country
berate or intentional, noth- member and past president
singerian as the'how." If bor just as energetically to
would he forthcoming by
ing which crushes or op- of the Henrietta Szold
the latter reveals him as deny them the fruits of
working with Kissinger, he
presses; it is no self- Chapter of Hadassah, a
clever manipulator, the for- their victory, once they
would refrain from taking
humiliation, but it is insight member of Pisgah Chapter
mer shows him in typical
his case to the Congress and
into man's own existence, of Bnai Brith and Pioneer
recovered.
warrior posture. When in
the public. It was unthinka-
the realization that it has Women. She resided at
The problem of "why" is
war,
Kissinger's
inclination
ble that supplies could he
come into being through 22020 Harding, Oak Park.
is
not
to
rush
to
put
out
the
in
foreign
policy
almost
al-
denied if the American peo-
SIMHA DINITZ
God. It is the mood which She leaves her husband,
fires, but rather to use them ways unnecessarily encum-
ple were aware of the situa-
bered by a quite theological
pervades life when it be- James; three sons, Morton
to
further
his
purposes.
tion; indeed, when Dinitz a settlement that the loom-
habit. The statesman is rare
comes conscious of its pro- of Albany, N.Y., Stanford of
One
must
recall
that
Kis-
finally threatened to break ing energy crisis made seem
whose purpose is not
foundness, when it listens Blaufelt, N.Y., and Milford
singer displayed a rather "peace" and ubiquity of the
from Kissinger, one week increasingly urgent. What-
within to itself; it is the H.; a daughter, Mrs. Her-
casual
approach
to
war
(in-
later, supplies suddenly ever the full or real intent
abstraction
empties
it
of
New-
sound in which the harmony
deed, nuclear war) at the meaning as motive, even if
behind the anti-Israeli act,
started flowing to Israel.
of
the
great
creation
—
the
Bert
(Elaine)
Miller
of
New-
berry;
three
sisters,
Mrs.
berry;
In his handling of Dinitz, it could be interpreted irr start of his political career, sincerely deduced.
music of the spheres one is
(Katharine) Greenber-
Kissinger showed remarka- this and similarly positive in the 1950's as adviser to
But the familiar sugges-
inclined to say — rises up in ger, Mrs. Robert (Edna)
Nelson Rockefeller, which tion of peace as the purpose
ble skills at manipulation. terms.
-1
the human soul.
Persky of Sunrise, Fla
made him for many the per- of statecraft is reinforced by
One popular theory held
He ingratiated himself with
k
Mrs. Nathaniel (Je22_
sonification
of
Dr.
Strange-
that
the
Arabs
had
to
gain
the Israeli Ambassador,
a popular misconception of
Deceive No One
e0
,:rc
i
a-e
grandchii
Pernick;
3;t
love.
As
chief
foreign
policy
appearing invariably sym- some self-respect on the adviser to President Nixon, the process of foreign pol-
Deceive no one, be he Jew and three great-grandchil -
pathetic to his country's battlefield before they his interventions in various icy. As Daniel Patrick Moy-
or
non-Jew. Do not argue dren.
need and fears and flatter- could start negotiating
armed conflicts have im- nihan reminded us, politics
and
quarrel with people,
with
the
Israelis.
The
ing to her envoy. As with re-
not to be confused with
pressed students of interna- is
regar dless of what religion
the process of scientific in-
porters, he presumed to a theory was attractive for tional affairs as brutal.
they confess. Be honest in Eva Levinzon, 65
fallacious sense of solidar- several reasons: in the
"Kissinger's temptation quiry.
business. Do not say that a
ity, and with similarly dele- first place, it made support
This does not mean that
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA)
certain price has been of- — Eva Levinzon, co-founder
terious results, as Dinitz, for such an act seem al- to brandish the Bomb — policy makers are indiffer-
most
pro-Israeli,
since
first
elaborated
in
Nuclear
fered
for
your
merchandise
of the Pioneer Women in
too, tended to identify with peace is said to be Israel's Weapons and Foreign Pol- ent to peace — peace is of-
when it is not so, and do not Brazil, died here at age 65.
ten ardently desired by
the Secretary.
pretend to be unwilling to
For the basic ploy, Kissin- chief objective. (Could a icy — is sometimes irre- them — but that their ac-
Born in Warsaw, she im-
sell when you are. Such con- migrated here in 1930 and
ger resorted to what Lut- member of Congress en- sistible," Ronald Steel re- tions in pursuit of peace are
cently wrote. The
duct is unbefitting a Jew was active in Poale Zion and
twak and Laqueur termed dorse such a policy unless
Christmas 1972 terror not governed so much by
. . . If a contract is con- in Jewish community life.
the "Mutt and Jeff" police so explained?).
dispassionate
study
of
the
cluded between Jews and Her husband, Leiter Levin-
Moreover, the theory bombing of North Vietnam nature of conflicts as by the
routine, playing the friendly
non-Jews, mutually bind- zon, who died in 1969, was a
cop, who endeavors to help sounded expert — for is it emerges from Szulc's weight of pressures on
ing, the former must live up leader in the Poale Zion
the mark, victimized by an- not known that Arabs are probe of the cease-fire ne- them.
to it even if the latter do not movement here.
particularly emotional, gotiations as a superero-
While not incurious as to
other cop.
gatory, if not wanton, ex- the nature of conflicts they
. . . No one must be
The had guy was Schle- proud and inordinately
Mrs. Levinzon settled in
wronged, whether he belong Israel three years ago, but
singer; Nixon, as usual, was much concerned with ercise in violence.
encounter,
policy
makers
do
Then there was the dis-
Thus
it
seemed
to
our
religion
or
to
anoth-
the benevolent but distant shrewd to give them just patch of an aircraft carrier not probe them as, say med-
visiting her children at
er.—Judah HeHasid in was
presence in the background. enough satisfaction on the to the Bay of Bengal in the ical researchers probe ill-
the time of her death.
"Sefer Hasidim."
With the Jewish refugee battlefield to enable them to Bangladesh War; the ,full- ness — in order to unlock
become the Emperor's min-

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