2 November 7, 1975
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Purely Commentary
False Claims of Moderation Demand Expose of Sadat
Image . . . Background Vital to Current Attitudes
on Deliberations at UN and Anti-Jewish Campaign
By Philip
Slomovitz
Stench of a Visitor
Who Echoes Holocaust
of dictatorial regimes is guilty of many things, but not of far as the UN is concerned, George Will understands it well
sincerity. Those regimes know that Zionism, far from being in relation to the Zionist canard as indicated in his conclud-
racism, is an especially defensible form of nationalism. ing words to his powerful column on Zionism:
Anwar el Sadat came and enjoyed the glory of Ameri- Zionism — the word was first used publicly in 1892 — is the "One hundred years hence, if historians bother to re-
can hospitality, and few seem to have detected the stench he belief that the Jewish people, having come this far through member the UN at all, they may remember it as a mob of
has spread during his stay in this country. . a uniquely hazardous history, deserve a common future. regimes representing force without legitimacy, all power
With
White
House acclaim
as if he Arab
were incitations
a man of And
is the
belief that a national homeland is important and no authority, venting their rage against one of the few
peace,
he kept
repeating
the nauseating
to to it that
future."
nations truly represented there."
hatred. His utterances were an echo of the Holocaust.
Will it be possible in the course of time to expose the
That's the tragedy about a world organization to which
He might have gotten away with a masked image in "regimes" in the best interests of civilization and of the very one must apply the old warning about hell: "Abandon hope
spite of his introductory attacks on Zionism had it not been masses suffering from the barbarism of their rulers? Inso- all ye who enter here."
for his comments about Jews controlling the wealth of
Egypt in 1950 when he was believed to have passed his poi-
. son off as a joke. He said a Jewish merchant refused to sell
him a radio.
There were some 72,000 Jews in Egypt before World
War II. In that crucial year he referred to — in 1950 —
there were more than 65,000 Jews in the land of the Nile.
They were the creators of great department stores, of vast How does Secretary of
Henry Kissinger's tions to the relevant com- We're approaching an elec-
industrial enterprises, they were manufacturers. Did they State Henry A. Kissinger
mittees in Congress and tion year. We have people
Self-Appraisal
harm or help Egypt, and what has happened to the wealth react to his Jewish back-
showed the correspond- who have to stake out a posi-
By Trudy Feldman
Sadat and his predecessors confiscated from the people they ground? Two conflicting
ence to them. No one who tion different from that of
exiled because they were Jews, after torturing many of views were expressed on the
Secretary of State Henry saw the evidence has ever the Administration. It's a
them in their prisons?
subject this week. The nega- Kissinger reviewed his two questioned it."
curious argument that the
Sadat is not persecuting the Jews who are left from the tive aspect appears in the years as U.S. Secretary of
In
answer
to
the
criticism
way
to help a moderate is
Holocaust of his and Nasser's making: there are just about impressions of academici-
State in this recent inter- of the second-stage Israel- not to let him makeprog
300 to reckon with!
the of
positive
contains
When Sadat came to power, this column called atten- -cians;
refutation
the former
in a view, and defended his posi- Egypt interim agreement, ress.
tions from a number of cri- Kissinger said, "Well, I
"I would have thought if
tion to an expose of the new hero in Robert St. John's biog- an interview Dr. Kissinger
ticisms.
think I moved the area we had followed that ap-
raphy of Nasser, The Boss," in which Sadat was linked gave to Trudy Feldman, a
Dr. Ray Cline, former di- closer towards peace and I proach, Egypt would have
with assassins.
White House free lance
rector
of the State Depart- hope all of the participants been radicalized rather than
What's the background of the man who came to this writer.
ment intelligence bureau, — especially Israel — will that the other countries
free land to preach hatred in the spirit of the Holocaust of
* * *
said in Septembh he realize that."
would have become more
the Egyptian brand? Here is the Sadat record as traced by
Dr. Kissinger has con- moderate. I believe the
tried to warn Kissinger of
Kissinger Scored
authoritative sources:
the impending Yom Kippur stantly been accused of course we have pursued in
During the years 1941-44, when Great Britain
A recent publication ti- War in October, 1973, but "selling Israel down the the Mideast is the best hope
was struggling for its life and waging a battle of
"Kissinger As Seen by was unable to get through to river." He indicated that for peace in that area."
life and death in the Middle East, Mr. Sadat was tled,
the People of the Middle Kissinger.
such charges are not only
Anyway, he adds, "We
.
secretly engaged in establishing contacts with the East," includes an evalua-
" That's just not accur- painful, but unfounded. "I have to wait until everyone
Germans. At his initiative, an effort was made to
smuggle a high ranking Egyptian officer through tion of Kissinger's personal ate," Dr. Kissinger retorted. consider those accusations settles down. It was a very
British lines to Field Marshall Rommel's head- attitude towards Judaism "First of all we have no rec- highly offensive. It's obvious major step, and therefore,
quarters in order to suggest to the Germans a plan and the state of Israel. Au- ord that he tried to reach I'm doing no such thing. My very unsettling."
Kissinger said that al-
to break through British lines 'at El Alamaine. This thor J. Carl Alroy, a noted me. I was at the United Na- whole record should make
American orientalist and tions seeing foreign minis- that clear."
though the Middle East set-
effort, however, failed when the Egyptian officer
He adds that the survival tlements and the first SALT
and Mr. Sadat failed to reach the front lines be- professor at Princeton Uni- ters until midnight. Even if
versity,
recalls
his
student
he
had
tried
to
reach
me
and
and
security of Israel have (Strategic Arms Limitation
cause their car broke down. Upon returning to
days
at
Harvard
and
how
couldn't,
he
had
an
obliga-
always
been an American Talks) agreement were
Cairo, Mr. Sadat collaborated with the agents of
the German Fifth Column (espionage). He was Kissinger appeared to him tion, if he thought there goal and, "in fact, I'm cer- "high points" in his diplo-
caught redhanded during one such clandestine as a rabid anti-Zionist, mak- would be a war, to alert the tain I prevented a military matic career, the "most ex-
ing -a strenuous effort to Director of the Central In- collapse in Israel in 1973 — citing, single thing I did was
meeting and imprisoned.
separate himself from all telligence Agency; or the by starting the airlift and the secret trip to China."
Mr. Sadat never concealed his pro-German at- Jewish
and Israeli affairs.
Assistant Secretary of State giving them support. Fur-
Asked his opinion of how
titude, and is known to be an admirer of Adolph
A
colleague
of Kissinger's for Near Eastern Affairs; or thermore, I believe the cur- he would be judged on his
Hitler. His anti-Semitic feelings are well con-
cealed, but do surface from time to time, as they at Harvard, Prof. Carl the Deputy Assistant for rent agreement has moved seven years in Washington,
did Oct. 27 at an appearance at the National Press Friedrich, who is pro-Zion- National Security Affairs; Israel towards this goal. It he responded simply: "It's
Club in Washington when he said that he couldn't ist, tells of his conflicts with or the White House Situa- is my goal as well, and his- too early to tell."
the present U.S. Secretary tion Room, or to send me a tory will have to judge
One thing he would
buy a radio in 1950 in Cairo because, in his words, of
State.
whether I helped achieve it boast about, however, is
Kissinger's flash cable.
"all our economy was in the hands of the Jews at teacher and "discoverer,"
or not . . ."
the State Department.
that time because they received orders from Zion- Fritz Kramer, expressed the is "What sort of business
it when someone tries to
The Secretary described "Strangely enough, in the
ism, from Israel, you will not believe, I was denied view that Kissinger was
phone the Secretary of the emotional aspect of the whole atmosphere of post-
a radio-set to buy because I couldn't buy it except completely disinterested in
State to tell him that war diplomatic 'shuttles' to the Watergate Washington we
from the dealer at the time and all the dealers and the fate of the 3 million
is imminent and when he Middle East capitals: "One's have high morale here. I
everything in our country was in the hands of the Jews of Israel.
can't get through, says emotions are extremely think I brought the ablest
Jews."
Alroy makes the point
something like 'Well, I'll drained because you're deal- people in to key positions.
Such is the anti-Semite who would have the unknowing that there are precedents in
go to dinner'.
ing with two countries that They're doing excellent
believe that what he preaches is anti-Zionism. Such is the Jewish history, where Jews
"For the week before the have profound distrust of jobs and I'm proud of
way in which anti-Zionism has become the vilest form of who had attained high office outbreak of the war," he dis- each other, and basically do them."
anti-Semitism.
in government followed an
As for his own incredible
closed, "I was the only sen- not understand one another.
Many were "taken in by the bluff of his being a moder- inner urge to prove their un- for official in Washington Therefore, in attempting to pace and how he keeps up
ate. His moderation stands exposed. The poison he has impeachable loyalty to who thought something bridge that gap, we came with his staggering work-
brought, to the UN, to the U. S. Congress, to the National adopted non-Jewish land, by weird was going on. I re- away physically exhausted load, he said, "The tougher
Press Club, is now part of a program that advocates recog- renouncing any other alle- quested intelligence esti- and emotionally drained. the pressure, the rougher
nition for the PLO, that brings 12 guerrillas to the UN to giance to their own heri- mates every two days, and We went through an impor- the crisis, the harder I work.
carry
on his unfinished
work.
And it
is has
with
of anti-Semitism
to this country
that Israel
now
to this
ne- messenger tage. each time I was told there tant emotional and political I thrive on trying to solve
problems. Besides, I'm no
no danger of war.
and moving experience."
gotiate!
Prof. Alroy recalls how
"I requested that Israel be
Dr. Kissinger was asked good unless I do something
Kissinger once denigrated
queried every two days. Is- for his reaction to George believe in and when I do
Golda Meir's "Jewish
Is There Hope for a Modicum
rael said there was no dan- W. Ball's criticism of the something I believe in, I'll
ghetto." He cites a gather-
of Decency from Arabism?
ger of war, so I reluctantly recent agreement in the work on it for 15 to 18 hours
ing of Jewish professors at
began to believe it — I mean Mideast. Ball, under-sec- a day."
The hopeful would like to believe that the potentates, Harvard which took place
I accepted it. I was uneasy, retary of state under Pres-
But, if Kissinger has been
on
Dec.
6,
1973,
at
which
the rulers, the dictators are responsible. Is there even a
but I accpeted it."
idents Kennedy and John- praised for shaking up the
modicum of hope that the masses of the Arab people, them- Kissinger blamed Israel
And, what about the Oc- son, said recently that Department of State and
selves oppressed by their masters, could one day awaken to for the outbreak of the
tober 24th global alert of all "time is worth buying if it- causing its excellence to
Yom
Kippur
War.
their own enslavement?
United States military works on the side of peace shine through the crust of
In one of the most convincing and most gratifying repu-
Alroy warns: "Let no one forces that frightened so — and in this case that is bureaucratic habits, he has
diations of the Arab tirade against Zionism, in his syndi- in Israel harbor any illu- many people at the time?
doubtful. For, just as also been criticized for his
cated column, George F. Will wrote about "regimes" that sions as to the problems
"We had strong evi- Egypt is, for the time secrecy.
introduce and dominate with venom and indecency. He re- Kissinger is creating by his
dence that led us to believe being, essential to the
He is a secretive man and
fers to the UN vote "to declare that Zionism is a form of anti-Zionist attitude and by
that the Soviet Union was fighting, it is also essential he can rationalize his pen-
racism" and he says: . his posture as a pal of
thinking of military inter- to the peace-making and, chant for secrecy most per-
"This move was sponsored by Arab regimes and was "brother Sadat." "Kis- vention," Kissinger ex- by eliminating Egypt from suasively. "A balance has to
supported primarily by dictatorial regimes. I refer to re- singer's actions should serve
plained. "We received a the struggle, we have be struck between the ne-
gimes not nations, because given the nature of the regimes as a warning to all those
threatening note from muted the most • powerful cessity of disclosure, but
of UN members, there are very few nations — meaning peo- who have to make critical
(Leonid I.) Brezhnev and voice for moderation on there also must be an area
pies — represented there. The vote censuring Zionism was decisions in Israel about the we felt we had to head it the Arab side."
of diplomacy which must be
a vote by numerous regimes, representing nothing but credibility of this so-called off with a decisive move.
Kissinger responded: "I kept confidential to protect
themselves, against a single nation, Israel. The UN majority "Jewish" foreign minister.
"We gave full explana- can't answer each critic. confidences . . ."
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