20 lt" ;S ‘ , ? les , ' 1•41 Friday, February 25, 1977 r)*"' THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Jewish Groups Back Williams-Proxmire Anti-Boycott Bill WASHINGTON (JTA) — Major American Jewish organizations urged Monday "swift enactment" by Congress of the Williams-Proxmire bill to combat the Arab boycott of Israel where it involves American com- panies doing business with that country. In prepared testimony to the Senate Subcom- mittee on International Finance which held the first of its three hearings on pending anti-boycott legislation, the Jewish groups said the measure offered by Sens. William Proxmire (D-Wis.) and Harrison A. Williams Jr. (D-NJ) is the one "most capable of shielding the MICHAEL KAPLIT Photography Weddings • Bar Mitzvas 642-1039 PAST DUE ACCOUNTS!! 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American exporters, to friends or take any ac- Greenberg, chairman of banks, freight forwarders tion to end the boycott the national executive and others to certify that which will perpetuate it committee of the Anti- goods being shipped to or retard the feeble Defamation League of Arab countries are not of movement toward peace Bnai Brith. Associated Israeli origin. The in the Middle East." A number of business with the ADL in the tes- Williams-Proxmire bill timony are the American prohibits such certifi- executives appeared to testify-against any anti- Jewish Committee, cates, Instead, it allows "posi- boycott legislation. American Jewish Con- gress and other con- tive" certificates of origin William_ R. Needham, stituent agencies of the "a common foreign trade vice-president of Black National Jewish Commu- practice" that calls for an and Veatch- Interna- nity Relations Advisory affirmative statement tional, who represented naming the country of the American Consulting Council. origin or manufacture. Engineers Council, noted In addition to the Proxmire said at the that President Carter is Williams-Proxmire bill, "a major dip- the subcommittee is con- opening of the hearings making effort at this very sidering anti-boycott that he did not "question lomatic towards a Middle legislation proposed by the authority of the Arab moment Sen. Adlai Stevenson (D- nations to refuse to do East peace settlement" Ill.). Stevenson is chair- business with Israel" but and that Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance, man of the subcommittee that he -did "object to the who will testify_beforethe and Proxmire is chairman Arab nations using their subcommittee Feb. 28, of the Senate Banking power to dictate the terms has conveyed invitations of trade to American Committee of which the from the President to firms." subcommittee is a part. Middle East leaders to Williams said "Ameri- visit Greenberg described Washington. can businessmen must both bills as "strong, yet "It would be unfortunate reasoned responses to the - have freedom choice as 'indeed if the U.S. Con- boycott's demonstrable to their commercial rela- gress were to pass legisla- intrusion upon America's tionships any place in the tion directed specifically commercial life." But he world, especially At against the Arab nations at said the Williams- home." a time when the executive Proxmire measure was Stevenson, advocating branch of the government preferable because of its his proposal, cautioned is seeking to reconcile op- posing views," Needham said. - Israeli Roses Have Thorns *He warned that "the • a for German Flower Growers BONN (JTA)—German flowers, blossom all- year and Dutch flower growers round. The German Flower have expressed alarm at massie• imports of cheap Growers Association has told its members there is Israeli roses. it can do. It re- Daily flights of Israeli nothing that they fruit and flower-laden commends to growing more jumbo jets started arriv- switch exotic flowers which, un- ing at Cologne Airport like roses and carnations, late last year. By the end cannot be transported 647-6250 of this winter, Israel will long distances. have sold about 50 million roses to Europe, and this and also. at figure is expected to dou- Arabs Cheating ble next winter. -- for PLO Funds 10 Mile & Lahser The Europeans say LOS ANGELES — In- their roses cost about surance investigators be- 354 7 9340 eight cents apiece to lieve that as much as $5 grow, but Israeli roses, in million in fradulent in- Mike Davis, his son-in-law will be operat- spite of air freight costs, surance claims have been are being sold to collected by Arab stu- ing the 10 Mile and Lahser service station. wholesalers at "a fraction dents in the U.S. since of this." In fact, German 1971 and funneled to the Both will offer the same guaranteed de- flower sellers are not pas- Palestine Liberation Or- sing on this 'cost advan- ganization. pendable auto repairs that Zygie has tage to their customers The California High- been known for over the past 23 years. on Europe's biggest way Patrol disclosed re- flower market. cently that it had uncov- New Diagnostic equipment is used Roses, whatever their ered a group of Middle origin, cost about 24 cents Eastern students who by expert mechanics. to 40 cents each, retail. 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Let us love our enemy- Feed him and clothe him Fill his purse with gold Fill his arms with guns Fill his mouth with lies Make him a democrat Flesh of our flesh Soul of our soul! anti-boycott legislation which is before this com- mittee would have a chil- ling effect on American business development in the Middle East and have the practical effect of di- verting that business to other nations." George Helland, presi- dent of the Petroleum Equipment Suppliers As- sociation, said Arab coun- tries would turn to other countries for goods if U.S. industry were prohibited from complying with the boycott. "No American will ben- efit from such legislation, nor will Israel benefit," said John Withers of the Associated General Co tractors. "The benefit instead will accrue to the Western Europeans, the the and Koreans Japanese who will absorb the nearly 15 percent of the Middle East market now being handled by American firms." Earlier, the American Jewish Congress hailed a report -by the New York Chamber of Commerce and Industry that Iraq, Kuwait, Libya and Saudia Arabia no longer required negative certifi- cates of origin on goods shipped from the United States to their countries. Noting that the re- quirement for such a cer- tificate was a "major Weapon in the Arab boy.: cott," Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, president of the Congress, declared, "The voluntary elimina- tion of the negative cer- tificate of origin by these four major participants in the Arab boycott is an important and significant development. "We call upon those companies and banks that are con- tinuing to furnish such certificates to cease at once in light of this new Arab policy. Canadian Affirms Support for Israel TORONTO (JTA.) — Premier William Davis of Ontario affirmed that Canada must commit it- self to preserving Israel. The head of the Progres- sive Conservative gov- ernment of Canada's most populous province told a meeting of the To- ronto United Jewish Ap- peal that Canada's foreign policy must never "to become ,so be weak or so soft or so vague or so self-seekirig that it no longer has room for a stand of principle in the Middle-East." Davis, who was being honored by the 850 UJA guests, said his govern. • ment would not tolerat any submission to the Arab boycott against Is- rael - or any Canadians who trade with Israel to the extent that provincial human rights laws could prevent this. He recently returned from a trip to Is- rael. While the fire is burning, - cut the pumpkin and bake it. —The Talmud