THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS October 31, 1975 21 Sadat Adds War Threat to PLO, Anti-ZionistCrusade (Continued from Page 1) • Speaking to the National Press Club earlier in the week, Sadat made a strong attack on Zionism, said that the Palestinians must be included in any Middle East settlement, and declared that normal relations be- tween Israel and the Arab states must be left to the next generation. He also called on the U.S. to do its best to "fulfill an- other disengagement be- tween Syria and Israel simi- lar to 1974" on the Golan Heights. Sadat's harshest attack during his press club ap- pearance was on Zionism. Asked if his government equates Zionism with rac- ism—and if not why did Egypt support the resolu- tion in the United Nations Third Committee—Sadat sought to separate Jews from Zionists. "We have had Jews al- ways in our country," he said. "The Jews had the Arab economy in their hands until 1952. We did not complain. This Zionism is- sue has changed every- thing—really." When he was asked whether he would allow a National Press Club dele- gation to go directly from Cairo to Tel Aviv, Sadat implied he would not per- mit this. Expressing "my theory for peace," he said, "I am ready for a peace agreement with Israel," but added that regarding "normal rela- tions" after 27 years of belli- gerency "you can't take a plane from Cairo to Israel. That would be open bor- ders." Regarding Jerusalem, he said that "my idea" is that "no Arab, Moslem or Chris- tian in the Arab world will agree at any time to Israeli sovereignty of Old Jerusa- lem. This will never happen at all. No one will agree to this." He said by Old Jeru- salem he meant not only the Arab sector, "but all of Old Jerusalem." Following a meeting with President Ford, Sadat met with reporters and repeated his attack on Zionism which he said came with "hatred," violence, war and blood" to the Middle East. "This is our assessment of Zionism," Sadat said. He said the "Palestinians are ready to accept a secular state with the Jews but not the Zionists" and accused Is- rael of trying to impose its peace conditions on the Ar- abs. Sadat said he told Ford at their meeting that he believed the United States should enter into a dia- logue with the Palestini- ans to hasten reconvening the Geneva conference. He said he urged such a dia- logue because "the United States holds most of the cards in this game." Sadat said he was not asking the U.S. to end its special relationship with Israel, adding, "I become concerned when some new, sophisticated arms go to Is- rael, like the Pershing mis- sile." He disclosed that the pos- sible sale of Pershings to Israel came up in his talks with Ford and said he told the President that it would affect the Middle East arms balance and the prospects for a peaceful solution. Sadat said he had dis- cussed U.S. arms sales to Egypt only in a broad way and that his main concern was Egypt's economic re- construction. Meanwhile, the Senate Tuesday by a voice vote and without dissent adopted a resolution con- demning the United Na- tions Third Committee ac- tions against Zionism and urged the UN General As- sembly to repudiate that action. The Senate acted swiftly on the motion of Richard Stone (D-Fla.) to adopt the bipartisan reso- lution sponsored by Sens. Hubert H. Humphrey (D- Minn.) and William Brock (R-Tenn.). The resolution was en- dorsed before the Senate vote by 40 Senators, includ- ing Democratic deputy leader Robert Byrd (W.Va.) and minority leader Hugh Scott (R- Pa.). The Senate's action fol- lowed the endorsement of an identical resolution by 415 members of the House of Representatives last week. That number is be- lieved to be a record for any resolution. * * * Ford Toasts Wrong Country On Sunday, Daniel P. Moynihan, the U.S. Am- bassador to the United Na- tions, warned that the UN Third Committee's resolu- tion equating Zionism with racism and colonialism could, if adopted by the General Assembly, legitim- ize anti-Semitism in many parts of the world. Moynihan quoted the So- viet Nobel Laureate and dis- sident Andrei Sakharov as saying that the resolution "will give anti-Semitism the appearance of international legality." Moynihan added, "This is not just Israel. We are talking about the Ukraine, we are talking about Bra- zil, we are talking about our own country perhaps and that is just appall- ing." The American envoy characterized the draft reso- lution as "not a question of left or right but rather of despotic governments in the main voting against those governments which main- tain the tradition of liberal democracy." He said that if the resolu- tion is endorsed by the Gen- eral Assembly the only way the democracies can "re- spond in any effective way would he to say it is not important. "And, of course, that is saying the LN is not impor- tant, saying we don't pay at- tention to things like this and in order to prevent its impact on Israel, on the le- gitimacy gitimacy of that state, on the whole question of anti- Semitism in the world. we are just going to have to act like the United Nations is not very important, and we don't want to do that. We most emphatically don't want to do that." WASHINGTON (JTA) — Tuesday night, President Ford offered a toast to "The great people and govern- ment of Israel" in the pres- President Ford's state- ence of Sadat and an audi- ments last week assailing ence of about 200 American and Egyptian diplomats and the UN draft resolution their wives attending a din- were hailed by the Confer- ner given by President and ence of Presidents of Ma- Mrs. Sadat in honor of Pres- jor American Jewish Or- ganizations, the American ident and Mrs. Ford. Jewish Committee, the The chief executive had just received enthusiastic Anti-Defamation league of Brith and other Jew- applause when he told the Bnai ish groups. gathering that he had in- The leaders of the major structed Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger "to ex- Jewish religious denomina- plore every possibility" to tions issued a joint state- assure diplomatic success in ment through the Syn- of America the quest for peace in the agogue Council * * * Middle East. Then, raising his glass in Israelis to Buy a toast, Ford declared: "Let Sadat a Radio me say it is a pleasure and a privilege for me to offer a TEL AVIV (JTA) — toast to you (Sadat) and the Egyptian President Anwar people that you represent, Sadat may soon be able to the great people and the get the radio he claims Zion- government of Israel . . . of ism denied him in 1952. Egypt . . . excuse me." Sadat told the National (President Ford's faux Press Club in Washington pas inspired several Jewish Monday that when he News readers to turn to the sought to buy a radio at that Bible and recall the story of time an Egyptian Jew re- Balaam, without prejudice fused to sell him one on or- to Ford. Balaam was about ders from Zionists in Israel. to curse Israel but his After hearing of this, tongue was twisted, and in- Eliahu Tal, head of an Is- stead he pronounced what raeli advertising agency, became one of the major announced that he and sev- Jewish morning introduc- eral dozen others have tory prayers: "My tovu ohel- formed an "Israeli-Egyptian oekho, Yaakov, mishkene- Friendship League." The sekho, Yisrael" . . . "How group's first step was to goodly are thy tents, 0 Ja- place an ad in the Jerusalem cob, thy dwelling places, 0 Post to raise money for a ra- Israel"). dio for Sadat. stating that Zionism, in ad- dition to being a political movement, is also "an ex- pression of Jewish religious belief and hope." The statement added, "For if traditional anti- Semitism denied the indi- vidual Jew his personhood, this new anti-Semitism seeks to deny the Jewish people its nationhood." The statement was signed by Rabbi Joseph H. Look- stein, Synagogue Council of America; Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld, Central Confer- ence of American Rabbis; Rabbi Alexander Schindler, Union of American Hebrew Congregations; Rabbi Mor- decai Waserman, Rabbini- cal Assembly; Arthur J. Levine, United Synagogue of America; Rabbi Fabian S c h o n f e l d Rabbinical Council of America and Harold Jacobs, Union of Orthodox Jewish Congrega- tions of America. At the same time, Secre- tary of State Henry Kis- singer told a UN Day din- ner gathering in Washington that the U.S. will work to defeat the res- olution when it comes to a vote in the General Assem- bly. Other statements attack- ing the resolution were made by the U.S. Ambassa- dor to Israel Malcolm Toon, who pledged every possible effort to kill the "poisonous resolution," and the Boston City Council. * * * Beame Refuses to Honor Sadat NEW YORK (JTA) — Mayor Abraham D. Beame informed the State Depart- ment Monday that he would not participate in ceremon- ial greetings for Egyptian President Anwar Sadat Wednesday. He said it would be "an act of hypo- cricy" for him to do so. New York City's first Jewish mayor was report- edly under heavy pressure from the State Department to welcome the visiting Egyptian leader and present him with the ceremonial key to the city. Beame said it would be hypocritical for him to greet any chief of state who was a party to the United Nations resolution linking Zionism with racism. A spokesman for Sadat said Beame's office re- quested last May that Sadat and Beame meet during Sadat's current U.S. visit. Beame's office said that it had contacted Sadat as a matter of routine to find out his availability, and that no meeting was ever formal- ized. New York Gov. Hugh Car- ey's office at first denied that the governor would meet with Sadat. The gover- nor's office later announced that he would be willing to meet the Egyptian presi- dent if Carey could try to persuade Sadat to change his views on the anti-Zionist resolution. There was no indication whether Sadat and Carey would meet. The ADL announced a na- tionwide educational pro- gram "to combat the Arab- led, anti-Semitic campaign to defame Zionism and Jews as a means of destroying Iseael." The American Zionist Federation said it would mail to every UN delegation basic educational materials on the origins, philosophies, aims and achievements of Zionism. Meanwhile, Israel has asked Brazil, Mexico and Chile, which voted for the anti-Zionist resolution, to reconsider their stands be- fore the issue is voted on by the UN General Assembly. BE HAIR FREE ELECTROLYSIS s7.50 1 /2 hr. 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