THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, October 15, 1976 17
Bonn Support of Israel Unchanged by Schmidt Re-Election
BONN (JTA) — Chan-
cellor Helmut Schmidt's
re-election by a slim
eight-seat majority in the
West German Parliament
is expected to bring no
change in Bonn's policies
toward Israel.
Social-
Schmidt's
Democratic Party (SDP)
and its coalition partner,
the Free Democratic
arty (FDP), headed by
Leon
Schoichit
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Foreign Minister Hans
Dietrich Genscher, won
252 seats. The opposition
Christian Democratic
Union-Christian Social
Union (CDU-CSU) won
244 seats. Schmidt and
Genscher pledged to con-
tinue their alliance for
another four years start-
ing Dec. 14.
Israeli and Jewish
sources in Bonn had ex-
pected no change in Mid-
dle East policy no matter
who won. As Dr. Nahum
Goldman, president of the
World Jewish Congress
and a long-time student-
of German politics said
recently: "Germany will
continue to follow more or
less the same lines of
even-handed policy, no
matter who wins the elec-
tion."
The SDP-FDP coalition
which came to power in
1969 continued to uphold
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HELMUT SCHMIDT
the "special relationship"
of support for Israel estab-
lished by the late Chancel-
lor Konrad Adenauer and
the late David Ben-
Gurion, but introduced the
concept of "neutrality"
towards,Mideast issues as
a whole.
In spite of occasional
setbacks in German-
Israel relations — espe-
cially after the massacre
of Israeli athletes at the
Olympic Games in
Munich in 1972 — and in
spite of a vast increase in
German-Arab trade in
the past five years and
German dependence on
Arab oil imports, ties with-
Israel have perhaps
never been better than
they are today.
Israeli Foreign Minis-
ter Yigal Allon visited
Germany (includ ✓ng Ber-
lin) five times in the past
15 months and several
German and Israeli
Cabinet ministers and
other delegations have
exchanged visits.
The flood of telegrams
and d6nations received
by the Israeli Embassy in
Bonn after Israel's dar-
ing Entebbe raid testifies
to the deep public sym:
pathy for Israel.
Israeli dependence on
Germany results partly
from the fact that the Fed-
eral Republic — the
economic giant of Europe
— is its second biggest
supplier of goods and its
third biggest customer
after the United States
and Britain. A big export
offensive is currently un-
derway- to cut back Israel's
massive $550 million trad-
ing deficit with Germany,
and a treaty was signed re-
cently to promote mutual
trade and investment.
Since the oil crisis of
late 1973, Bonn has
adhered more or less to
the EEC line on the Mid-
dle East, namely calling
for Israeli withdrawal
from the occupied ter-
ritories (this was recently
"elaborated" to "all" the
occupied territories) and
establishment of a Pales-
tinian state in return for
recognition of Israel's
right to exist in secure
borders. Observers consi-
dered it unlikely that a
CDU-CSU government
would have changed this.
Helmut Kohl, who was
the opposition's candi-
date for Chancellor, is be-
lieved to have no well-
defined opinions on
Mideast matters. His de-
signated Foreign- Minis-
ter, Prof. Karl Carstens,
is considered a friend of
Arab oil-producing coun-
tries. But CSU leader
Franz-Josef Strauss,
who, as shadow-Finance
Minister, would have
been the real strong man
in any CDU-CSU gov-
ernment, has supported
Israel in the past.
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Israeli Guilty
in Arab's Death
TEL AVIV (JTA) — An
Israeli army officer was
found guilty by a military
court of responsibility for
the death of Ahmed Dib
Dahloul, secretary of the
local Communist Party in
Salfit village in Samaria
last summer.
Dahloul died of injuries
sustained when he was
beaten by Israeli soldiers
following his arrest dur-
ing Arab riots on the West ,
Bank.
The soldiers testified
that they acted under or-
ders from the officer to
beat up six detainees, in-
cluding Dahloul, on the
way to the police station.
The officer's name and
rank were not disclosed.
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