22 April 16, 1976
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Israel Hopes for Foreign Aid Compromise
NVITATIONS
by HATTIE
SCHWARTZ
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Foreign Minister Yigal Al-
Ion expressed hope Monday
for a "positive solution" to
the dispute with the Ford
Administration over the
$550 million in additional
foreign aid he said had been
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"promised" to Israel to cover
the transitional quarter be-
tween fiscal years 1976 and
1977.
"We are not interested in
a confrontation" and nei-
ther is the U.S., Allon told a
special session of the Knes-
set in reply to a Likud mo-
tion on the transitional aid
issue.
At the same time, he
firmly rejected proposals by
some Cabinet ministers that
Israel forego the extra fund-
ing in order to avoid a rift
with the White House. Pres-
ident Ford has said he
would veto any foreign aid
bill that contains transi-
tional quarter funds for Is-
rael and some 50 other coun-
tries. -
Allon said that Secretary
of State Henry A. Kissinger
and other Administration
officials had told both Israel
and Congress that the Ad-
ministration would not op-
pose the transitional
quarter aid if Congress ini-
tiated it. But the Adminis-
tration's attitude changed
last month, Allon said.
He stressed the import-
ance of the extra money for
Israel. without it, the
Treasury would be $613
million out of pocket for
necessary arms purchases,
he said, noting that even
with transitional quarter
funds the deficit would be
$63 million.
Last Thursday, Israel
Premier Yitzhak Rabin said
Israel had been specifically
promised the funds, but sof-
tened his statement by
pointing out that Israel had
received $7 billion in U.S.
aid since the Yom Kippur
War. His remarks followed
criticism by U.S. Ambassa-
dor Malcolm Toon, who was
critical of the Israeli press
for not describing the extent
of U.S. governmental and
private aid to Israel.
At the same time, how-
ever, former Histadrut Sec-
retary General Yitzhak
Ben-Aharon said Israel
could do without the addi-
tional aid if it cracked down
on tax evaders.
Israeli officials who
briefed newsmen Monday
stressed that the issue was
between the Administration
and Congress rather than
between Washington and
Jerusalem. One Cabinet
minister expressed relief
that Congress has post-
poned a final vote until after
its Easter recess ends April
26. "This will allow the issue
to cool off," he said.
The ultimate extent of
the appropriations, how-
ever, may not be deter-
mined until late May, only
a few weeks before the
current fiscal year ends
June 30, since both the
Senate and House must
approve the legislation
and it must be signed by
the President before going
into effect.
The postponement of the
House vote by Rep. Otto
Passman (D-La.), chairman
of the House sub-committee
on foreign aid, came after
he conferred with the House
leadership and President
Ford. Passman indicated
that the President contin-
tied to be opposed to the
transition quarter funding.
"We will have the oppor-
tunity to think this thing
through and have a meeting
of the minds," Passman
said. "I predict that in the
end all will be well and all
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troit 48226.
$45 Million Loaned
to Alexandria Port
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
The World Bank announced
that it is lending Egypt $45
million to help it rehabili-
tate and modernize its main
port, Alexandria.
It said Alexandria han-
dled about 90 percent of
Egypt's port traffic in 1975,
approximately 2,700 cargo
ships.
friends will be reunited."
Passman, however, declined
to discuss any possibility of
a compromise and said the
President is "adamant"
against additional funding
for Israel. Passman said the
House would sustain a veto.
The President's support-
ers say Israel stands to lose
more than $1.5 billion if the
controversy is prolonged.
They say that since the cur-
rent fiscal year will have
only two months left when
Congress again takes up the
bill, many members will
feel that the year is about
over and kill the legislation.
In its place they would
seek to vote a resolution
that would extend the 1975
level of funding through
the 1976 year. In 1975 Is-
rael was provided with
$624 million in military aid
and economic supporting
assistance. The current
legislation before Con-
gress provides Israel with
$2.2 billion.
Meanwhile, they say Con-
gress is preparing a new bill
that will earmark Israel for
$1.8 billion for the fiscal
year 1977. This bill, which is
to go before the House sub-
committee for a vote May 6,
would give Israel $4 billion
over a 27-month period be-
tween July, 1975 and Sept.
30, 1977.
The veto threat is seen by
observers as not altogether
feasible for the Administra-
tion to use. While it is di-
rected openly at Israel, it
will hurt some 50 other
countries, including Egypt,
Jordan and Syria.
In New York, Dr. Judah
Shapiro, president of the
Labor Zionist Alliance, said
Ford's veto threat not only
hurts Israel, but "under- -
mines the credibility of
American Foreign policy
commitments." He called on
Ford and Congress to grant
the aid, stating that it
would mark the first-time a
U.S. President had opposed
aid to Israel.
Approximately 150 mem-
bers of Detroit's Arab corn-
munity held a rally in Ken-
nedy Square Saturday,
calling for an end to U.S. aid
to Israel. The proteste'd
"Israeli colonization" of
Arab lands.
`Behind-the-Back' Remark
Draws Protests from Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
U.S. Ambassv.dor Malcolm
Toon was under fire for his
remarks last week, attrib-
uted to "a Western diplo-
matic source" in which he
accused Israel of playing
"dirty pool" by allegedly
going behind the back of the
Ford Administration to con-
vince Congress to allocate
an additional $550 million
for Israel to cover the tran-
sitional quarter between fis-
cal years 1976 and 1977.
The Israeli Broadcasting
Authority, meanwhile, was
blasted by the Foreign Press
Association in Israel for
blowing Toon's "cover" in a
television commentary Fri-
day.
The government so far
has refrained from any offi-
cial comment on the matter
though a sharp but presum-
ably unofficial rebuke was
administered to the Ameri-
can envoy by Foreign Minis-
ter Yigal Allon in a speech
at Kibutz Givat Brenner.
Toon's remarks were "an
unfortunate utterance," Al-
Jon declared. "Since when,"
he asked, "has an Israeli's
meeting with a U.S. Con-
gressman been considered
an attempt to go behind
anybody's b'ack?"
Noting that both Israel
and the U.S. were open so-
cieties, Mon said, "I have
never regarded a meeting
between a foreign ambassa-
dor and a Knesset member
as an attempt to go behind
the back of our govern-
ment."
The TV correspondent
who revealed Toon to have
been the "Western diplo-
matic source" did not at-
tend the briefing but
learned of Toon's remarks
from a newsman who did.
He contended that since he
was not invited he was
under no obligation to ob-
serve the cover.
But Steve Delany, chair-
man of the Foreign Press
Association, thought other-
wise. In a sharp telegram to
Yitzhak Livini, director gen-
eral of the Broadcast Au-
thority, he called the report
on Toon's briefing "a classic
example of unethical jour-
nalism" and said "it will be
a long time before a repre-
sentative of the Broadcast-
ing Authority is admitted to
any news function organ-
ized by the FPA."
Yeshiva Offering Torah Tape Library
NEW YORK — Syn-
agogues and yeshivot
throughout the country are
being invited to apply for
help in setting up their own
library of cassette tapes of
religious lectures and dis-
cussions by Torah Tapes,
Inc., the first non-profit or-
ganization to create and dis-
seminate Jewish knowledge
through the tape recorder.
Torah Tapes, has pro-
duced more than 1,000 tapes
in English and Yiddish. It
was the first to establish a
tape
pe library
in the United States, which
is housed on the Flatbush
campus of the Yeshiva To-
rah Vodaath and Mesivta,
whose alumni began the re-
cording project in the lat(
1960's.
For information, write
Yeshiva Torah Vodaath and
Mesivta, 425 E. Ninth St.,
Brooklyn, N.Y. 11218.
Terrorists Jailed
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
An El Fatah terror group
which planned_ a major ex-
plosion in downtown Jeru-
salem has been appre-
hended by the police, the
capital's police commander
David Kraus reported.