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Ford Speech Backs Israel, Pushes for '67 Borders
(Continued from Page 1)
On the funding, he said
he favors aid to Israel of
more than $4 billion in the
two budgets he has sub-
mitted to Congress "be-
cause it is so clearly in the
national security interest
of the United States and so
essential to preserve and
promote peace in the Mid-
dle East."
Following the President
to the rostrum, Israeli Am-
bassador Simcha Dinitz,
after thanking Ford, Con-
gress and the American peo-
ple for their continuing sup-
port of Israel, pointedly
alluded to two pillars of Is-
raeli policy.
With the President listen-
ing intently a few feet away,
Dinitz observed that Israel's
independence began in the
hills of Judaea and the
streets of Jerusalem 4,000
years ago, apparently in re-
ference to Israel's insistence
on some territorial security
and Jerusalem as its capital.
After four wars and 28
years of statehood,
Israel "has not won peace
because the Arabs have not
acquiesced to the thesis of
an independent existence of
the Jewish state," Dinitz
emphasized. "This is the
heart of the problem and
the core of the issue," he
said, to applause.
Ford's appearance and
speech were widely con-
sidered as having national
political overtones in view
of the taut Presidential
primaries taking place
and the national election
to come. But a highly-
placed Israeli Embassy
officer, when asked for his
opinion, declared that his
feeling was only that the
address was "the warmest
a President has ever made
about Israel."
The President was intro-
duced by Detroiter Max
Fisher, who is honorary
chairman of the AJCommit-
tee's National Executive
Council. Lawrence Cardinal
Sheehan, Archbishop of
Baltimore, and Clarence
Mitchell, director of the
Washington bureau of the
NAACP, were other speak-
ers. The guests included am-
bassadors and leaders of a
dozen foreign countries and
high officials of the U.S.
government.
Sen. Jacob K. Javits (R-
NY), strongly critical of the
new Israeli settlements in
areas under her control,
appealed at the AJCommit-
tee convention to the Ameri-
can Jewish community to
assist Israel in her search
for peace. "It is absolutely
correct to point out to Israel
that new settlement of these
areas cannot be permitted
to change what ultimately
may be their disposition,"
Javits said. He added, "In
these new settlements the
Israelis are strictly on their
own."
Javits said that the
United States must make it
clear that the settlement
issues "will not make a dif-
ference" in U.S. policy. He
said that "the new Israeli
settlements in the West
Bank and other adminis-
tered areas" are "the most
serious symptom of the cur-
rent tensions between Israel
and the bordering Arab
states, Israel and the United
States government, and
even Israel and some of her
close friends in the United
States."
Javits said, "The Amer-
ican Jewish community
can and must play a force-
ful role in assisting the
Israelis to emulate in the
search for peace the bold
risks that they have so
successfully assumed in
war. It is time to offer new
alternatives, new perspec-
tives and new possibili-
ties."
He offered a six-point
program that included Is-
rael offering "yet again to
sit directly across the table
from her Arab neighbors in
return for the neighboring
Arab states explicitly ac-
cepting Israel's sover-
eignty." Emphasizing that
"there is a Palestinian na-
tionality because the Pales-
tinians — including those
on the West Bank — express
it." Javits urged a solution
whereby the Palestinians
"can assert themselves as an
entity."
In this connection, he sug-
gested a Jordanian confed-
eration with the West Bank
as "a real potential." He
ruled out the PLO, saying
that in his recent visit to the
Middle East he became
"very convinced" that the
PLO offered no solution. Be-
sides its embroilment in
Lebanon and "its inhuman
terrorism," Javits pointed to
the PLO's "unwillingness to
come to any position where
it can be taken seriously as
a negotiator."
Praising Kissinger's re-
marks in Baltimore that
"Israel's survival is insepar-
able from the future of hu-
man dignity," Javits aid
that "in view of recent
events, I hope Dr. Kissin-
ger's words signal the end of
an unhappy era."
\ He added that some of
tike recent actions "seemed
to reflect a lessening of
commitment to the sur-
vival and national integ-
rity" of the Middle East's
only "truly democratic
state."
This, he said, "con-
tributed to a clithate that
has helped to create a
`garrison state' mentality
among many Israelis."
Javits did not identify the
events but he is believed to
have been referring to the
coolness that developed
between the Ford Admin-
istration and Israel dating
back to 16 months ago
when Israel rejected the
first Sinai agreement pro-
posal offered to Israel by
Kissinger in March 1975.
With reference to the
West Bank settlements, Jav-
its said that the U.S. should
make clear "without neces-
sarily using the stringent
language of Ambassador
William Scranton," — the
U.S. envoy to the UN — the
U.S. policy regarding the
area.
In his keynote address at
the four-day meeting, Ber-
tram H. Gold. AJCommit-
tee executive vice president,
while acknowledging that
relations between Chris-
tians and Jews had im-
proved in the past decade,
warned that there seemed
to be "a growing separation
between the Christian and
Jewish agendas."
Among the points of dif-
ference that could lead to
mutual misunderstanding,
he listed such issues as
abortion, aid to parochial
schools, school prayers, the
Palestinian problem, and
differing attitudes toward
Israel's economic, military
and territorial needs.
Within the American
Jewish community itself,
Gold noted growing pres-
sures for some consolida-
tion of the multiplicity of
organizations designed to
protect Jews and Judaism,
and to help the state of
Israel.
Gold stated that the
United States, as part of its
attempt to limit Soviet
power in the region, has be-
come a "major source of
arms for the so-called mod-
erate Arab states," and in
its effort to regain control of
Middle-East negotiations
has been "influencing, if not
pressuring Israel to take
risks for peace."
"Shouldn't we be urging
the American government
to put pressure on the Arab
countries for concessions
equal to those being asked
from the Israelis?" he quer-
ied.
Expressing concern about
recent criticism of Israel,
Gold said: "Even among
American Jews, I sense a
greater questioning_of some
Israeli policies — most par-
ticularly the West Bank set-
tlements and the apparent
insensitivity to Palestinian
aspiration . . . so, even as
we intensify our efforts on
behalf of Israel we must be
prepared to speak more
frankly and more often with
both American and Israeli
officialdom."
Stating that the United
Nations in recent months
had become a "major
launcing pad for political
and psychological assaults
against Israel," and that
these attacks would "in-
tensify in the months
ahead," Gold stated that
the AJCommittee would
"re-examine the basis of
our traditional support for
the UN, and think through
very carefully how we feel
about its future, and espe-
cially our country's ac-
tions in that body."
On the subject of aid to
Soviet Jews, Gold offered a
threefold program:
• He recommended con-
sideration of "a new diplo-
matic initiative . . ."
• Increased "attention to
the cultural and religious
needs of Jews who remain
in the Soviet Union to help
them live as Jews in dignity
and security,"
• Consideration be given
to "reframing the struggle
on behalf of Soviet Jews in
broader terms" to encom-
pass the needs of other
groups who are also being
denied their rights by the
Soviet government.
Numerous speakers ad-
dressed the convention dele-
gates on a wide range of top-
ics during the four-day
meeting.
Dr. John Slawson, exec-
utive vice president emeri-
tus of the AJCommittee,
called on the adversaries
in the Middle East conflict
to recognize each other's
problems in the interests
of peaceful solutions.
Norman Podhoretz, editor
of Commentary magazine,
accused both the liberal and
conservative elites in this
country of lapsing into iso-
lationism and warned that
such a policy is tantamount
to "making the world safe
for Communism." However,
he added, there is no assur-
ance that the masses of
Americans have adopted
this attitude.
Dr. Gerson D. Cohen,
chancellor of the Jewish
Theological Seminary of
America, urged Jews inter-
ested in Israel or in the wel-
fare of Jews in the Soviet
Union to develop within
themselves a sense of Jew-
ish identity. His words were
echoed by Irving Howe, au-
thor of the best-selling
"World of Our Fathers,"
who stated that the factors
that have preserved Jewish
identity among American
Jews over the past several
decades — memories of the
immigrant experience, the
sense of horror at the Holo-
caust, the rise of the state of
Israel, the commitment to
liberalism, intellectuality
and learning — "seem ei-
ther to be fading or, at least,
to be insufficient."
In other convention ac-
tions, Benedict M. Kohl, a
member of the New Jersey
Bar Association, was
named president of the
AJCommittee's New Jer-
sey State Advisory Coun-
cil.
A new booklet, "Dialogue
on Diversity: A New Agenda
for American Women," was
also released at the conven-
tion. Nancy Seifer, director
of the Center on Women and
American Diversity, pre-
dicted that American wom-
en's struggle for equality
risks being stalemated un-
less women of diverse back-
grounds can join together in
new coalitions built on a
foundation of respect for
group differences.
Youth Take Exam
on Hebrew, Israel
NEW YORK (JTA) — A
total of 4,120 Hebrew lan-
guage students in 97 high
schools in 22 states, took
part last month in the sec-
ond annual national exami-
nation in Hebrew culture
and knowledge of Israel.
Dr. Judah Lapson, direc-
tor of the sponsoring Na-
tional Hebrew Culture
Council, reported that the
1976 examination had been
designated as in honor of
the American Bicentennial.
He said the test consisted of
100 multiple-choice ques-
tions covering a wide range
of topics in Hebrew litera-
ture, leading Jewish person-
alities, major events in Is-
rael, the Jewish experience
in America, and contribu-
tions by Jews to the develop-
ment. of the United .States.