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May 14, 1976
Ford Re-Affirms Israel Support;
olicy Statement Explains Veto
M.E. Confrontation
Expected by Rabin
After U.S. Election
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Premier Yitzhak Rabin
has warned the Labor Party Knesset faction that Is-
rael faces a decisive confrontation with the United
States at the end of this election year no matter who
the next American president is. The gloomy prognos-
tication was made in the course of the Premier's ex-
planation of the Cabinet's decision Sunday regarding
the Gush Emunim squatters in Samaria and West
Bank settlement policy.
The warning of a serious divergence between Je-
rusalem and Washington was the second made pub-
licly by Rabin in less than a week. In an Independence
Day eve television interview, the Premier predicted a
clash of views with the U.S. over recognition of the
Palestine Liberation Organization.
Rabin told his party colleagues that history has
shown that Israel and the U.S. are generally in agree-
ment over interim settlement proposals but in disa-
greement on the nature of an overall Middle East
peace settlement.
He cited the 1970 cease-fire which ended the
War of Attrition with Egypt as an example of an
interim step on which Israel and the U.S. were in
concert. The "Rogers Plan," enunciated in 1969 by
then U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers,
was an example of American-Israeli disagreement
over long term measures, Rabin said.
He indicated that the U.S. itself believes that
step-by-step diplomacy has run its course and intends
to move vigorously toward an overall peace settlement
after the presidential-elections are held, one based on
the Rogers formula calling for Israel's retreat to its
pre-June 1967 borders with only minor boundary
modifications.
Knowledgeable Israeli observers appear to agree
with the Premier's assessment. They believe that if
the next "crisis" date is passed — renewal by Syria of
the mandate of the United Nations Disengagement
Observer Force (UNDOF) which expires May 30 —
the U,S. will, in effect, allow the Middle East situa-
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Special to The Jewish News
Explaining his veto of the mutual security assistance bill because "it would un-
dermine the PreSident's authority to conduct the decisive foreign policy that Israel
along with our other friends and allies rely upon," President Gerald Ford denied that
his action was taken because there was too much money designated for Israel.
In a statement to Congressman William S. Broomfield, who had questioned the
President's veto, the President declared that "nothing could be further from the
truth" and that the charge of an anti-Israel action was "incorrect."
The President's statement to Broomfield is viewed as a new policy declara-
tion on Israel. It re-affirms the President's pledges for uninterrupted American
support for Israel, with the added provisos that are an indication that what had
been feared as implied cuts in allocations to- Israel are not the President's
intentions.
The complete Ford statement to Rep. Broomfield follows:
GERALD FORD
"Thank you for your question on the matter of my veto last week of the Mutual
Security Assistance Bill.
"As you know, there have been incorrect reports that I used the veto because this
bill contained too much money for Israel. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The fact is that I vetoed the bill because it 77ould undermine the President's author-
ity to conduct the decisive foreign policy that Israel, along with our other friends and
allies. rely upon.
"The bill would
have imposed unwise
and intolerable limits
on my ability to conduct
foreign policy. In to-
day's world, as during
the Yom Kippur War of
1973, we can have only
one foreign policy —
Hyman Safran, chairman of the annual dinner of the
that of the President.
Council of Orthodox Rabbis, to be held next Wednesday in
"Our relations with WILLIAM BROOMFIELD
honor of Rabbi Leizer Levin, announced Monday that a con-
troversy over Hashgakha has been resolved and the dinner
the Afab states will not be pursued in my administra-
will be held at the Jewish Community Center, 6600 W. Ma-
tion at the expense of our special relationship with
ple Rd., West Bloomfield.
Israel. Indeed, I regret that my veto has delayed the
funds that the Israelis need so urgently. As soon as
Because of a dispute over Hashgakha the dinner site
the Congress sends me a bill free of unacceptable re-
was set at the Dovid Ben Nuchim congregation. Safran said
strictions, I will immediately sign it so that Israel
that an agreement was -reached for the Vaad Harabonim,
the Council of Orthodox Rabbis, to finance Hashgakha, to
may receive these vital funds."
provide the mashgikhim and thereby to assure the serving
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, acting
of kosher meals at the new Jewish Center to members and
without dissent, adopted a compromise foreign aid
non-members alike.
authorization bill Tuesday which goes a long way
"The agreement, therefore, enabled us to hold the an-
toward meeting the objections voiced by President
nual dinner at the Jewish Center, as originally planned,"
Ford.
Orthodox Rabbis Dinner
Site Returned to Center
After Dispute Resolved
Safran said.
Synagogue Speech Re-Assuring;
Baltimore Agog Over Kissinger
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Detroit Boost for Judaic Studies
at Harvard Is Slated for Tuesday
Special to The Jewish News
BALTIMORE, Md. — Wearing a white yarmulke, fully
HENRY KISSINGER
enjoying-the applause of 1,600 who packed the main sanctuary
of Chizuk Amuno Synagogue, and an additional 800 who filled
a tent installed on the grounds of one of the oldest congrega-
tions in America, Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger
brought a message of cheer to American Jewry in a stirring
address delivered at that synagogue Sunday evening.
"We are thoroughly convinced that Israel's survival is
inseparable from the future of human dignity,' Kissinger
said, "and we shall never forget that Israel's security has
a special claim on the conscience of mankind."
Announcement a month ago of Kissinger's acceptance of
Chizuk Amuno's distinguished leadership award immediately
aroused interest and concern and attacks on the synagogue
leadership for having invited the Secretary, who was attacked
as an enemy of Jewry and Israel.
During his visit Sunday for that presentation, Kissinger
told officers of the synagogue and others that he was con-
cerned about Israel's fate, that his father was murdered by the
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Harvard University will host a dinner of Detroit communal leaders Tuesday
evening at the Standard Club to spur support for the university's $15 million endow-
ment effort for its Center for Jewish Studies.
The ambitious Harvard program, which has been receiving national support,
would endow six professorships in Judaic studies, endow additional curatorships
for the Harvard College Library Judaica collection, the largest in the world, and
expand and enrich the school's rigorous academic programs in Judaic studies.
Co-chairmen of the Detroit committee are Mandell Berman, Toby Citrin,
Max Pincus and Alan Schwartz, and committee members include Judge Victor
Baum, Maurice S. Binkow, Donald R. Epstein, Mrs. Leonard J. Grabow, Irwin
Green, Prof. Robert N. Grosse, Prof. William Haber, Norman D. Katz, Sander
Levin, Jeffrey Miro, David Page and Seymour Podolsky.
The proposed $15 million endowment includes six professorships, with an en-
dowment of $1 million needed for each one, 24 endowed fellowships at $150,000
each, $2.5 million needed to endow book funds and curatorships at the library and
$2.9 million to endow visiting professorships and scholars. The fund drive is de-
scribed as a one-time effort to insure "income in perpetuity" for continuing Judaica
scholarship.
According to a university spokesman, the expansion of Jewish studies at Har-
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