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Abourezk Hits `Israel Lobby'
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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
26 Friday, April • 1, 1911
DENVER (JTA)—Sen.
James Abourezk (DSD) un-
leashed a vitriolic attack
against the "Israeli lobby"
and dual allegiance to the
United States and Israel at
a Democratic Party Jeffer-
son-Jackson Day dinner
last Saturday night. His at-
tack won him a standing
ovation by the 700 persons
attending.
Many prominent Demo-
crats, labor leaders and
Jewish officials had protest-
ed his appearance and re-
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fused to attend the dinner.
Efforts were made to find
a substitute speaker or an
additional speaker to
counter-act his well-known
pro-Arab views. Abourezk
responded by demanding to
know whether free speech
was no longer possible in
Colorado.
The Senator told the din-
ner audience that he had
not originally intended to
deal with Middle East
issues but that in view of
the dispute he now felt com-
pelled to do so. He further-
more claimed that the dis-
pute surrounding his appear-
ance was sparked because
he was not sufficiently pro-
Israel.
"I gave an oath to sup-
port the United States, but I
am not willing to swear alle-
giance to Israel or any for-
eign government," he
stated. The Senator
charged that it is easier for
Americans to criticize their
own government than Is-
rael's because critics were
afraid of being tarred with
the brush of anti-Semitism.
"Just as we have seen
U.S. Presidents wrap them-
selves in the American
flag, in efforts to stiffle crit-
icism of their policies, so
do we see a foreign country
wrapping itself in its state
religion, so that criticism of
the state or its policies is
perceived as a form of rac-
ism. - he said.
Abourezk said the 'Is-
raeli lobby" wielded "ex-
traordinary influence" in
Washington. The ability of
this lobby "to accomplish
virtually any legislative
feat involving military or
economic assistance to Is-
rael is legend," he de-
clared.
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The Pentagon has an-
nounced that one of the 12
bodies released by Hanoi
and flown to Hawaii for lab-
oratory examination by
U.S. experts was not that of
Air Force Capt. Lawrence
H. Golberg of Cloquet,
Minn., but is in fact that of
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a crew member of the
plane commanded by -Gol-
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JERUSALEM—Moshe
Sasson, veteran diplomat
and Middle East affairs ex-
pert, is to be "coordinator"
of the Foreign Ministry's
preparations for resumed
peace negotiations. His new
role was announced last
week, along with his ap-
pointment as deputy direc-
tor-general of the ministry.
Sasson is currently am-
bassador in Rome and will
be taking up his new assign-
ments later in the spring.
He will supervise the
preparation of documents
and position papers in ad-
vance of the reconvening of
the Geneva talks, the offi-
cials explained.
A good deal of work in
this area was done back in
1973-74 by a number of
"think tanks" coordinated
by .the then director-general
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Jerusalem Matzot
BY JOSEF
GOLDSCHMIDT
Deputy Mayor
of Jerusalem
MOSHE SASSON
of the Prime Minister's Of-
fice, Mordechai Gazit, who
is now ambassador in
Paris. All the Gazit mate-
rial is on file, and much of
it will be useful to Sasson
and his team, officials said.
Aid Limits Set for Soviet Jews
PHILADELPHIA
(JTA)—The Federation of
Jewish Agencies here has
joined the Jewish commu-
nities which have decided
to limit outright grants to
newly--settled Soviet Jewish
immigrants. The federation
said the new policy was
adopted by the Jewish Fam-
ily Service in the form of a
combination of grants and
loans designed to help ad-
vance the self-reliance of
the newcomers and to
stress the importance of
their active participation in
a democratic society.
Under the new policy, all
funds to the immigrant fam-
ilies will be provided as out-
right grants for the first
three months after arrival
of the newcomers here but
all financial aid after that
period will be made on q .
loan basis. Grants are
made for food, clothing and
shelter.
For those Soviet Jews
who come with adequate
English language skills, and
who prefer not to accept
the first available job open-
ing because they hope to
find a job equivalent to the
one they left in Russia, fi-
nancial aid will be contin-
ued on a loan basis with the
understanding that such
newcomers will accept the
next job opportunity.
JERUSALEM—In Jerusa-
lem, matza baking takes on
special significance. Dozens
of hasidic congregations in-
sist on baking the matzot
for the Seder night on the
eve of the festival in the af-
ternoon. Special squads go
out to some of the fields in
the previous summer to cut
the wheat for these special
matzot and then watch over
the grain day and night to,_
keep away rain and deg'"
and moisture of all kind,
which would disqualify the
grain and the flour made
thereof.
A great battle raged in
the last century over the in-
troduction of machine bak-
ing, and some sticklers in-
sist to this day on hand-
baked matzot.
We are familiar with mat-
zot that are crisp and
brittle, but there also mat-
zot that are thin and soft.
pliable enough to be
wrapped around vegetables
or meat, and this is per-
haps the classical type of
matza that was known and
used in talmudic times.
Such matzot are still baked
today in Jerusalem by
Yemenite Jews.
Dinitz Hits PLO
WASHINGTON
(JTA)Israeli Ambassador
Simcha Dinitz has empha-
sized that the Palestine Na-
tional Council's resolution
adopted in Cairo last week
shows it is standing by its
call for the destruction of Is-
rael.
Dutch Labor Gives
`Critical' Support
AMSTERDAM (JTA ?—
Eduard van Thijn, parlia-
mentary chairman of the
Dutch Labor Party, told a
meeting of the newly estab-
lished Socialist-Zionists
group that while the Labor
Party and he personally are
in solidarity with Israel it is
not one of uncritical sup-
port. •
Israel must agree to es-
tablish a Palestinian state
on the West Bank and the
Gaza Strip, he stated.
Van Thijn said he wel-
comed the fact that some
Labor members of Parlia-
ment had contacts with
Arabs. The Socialist-Zion-
ists group has replaced the
Poale (Labor) Zionists
group which is no longer ac-
tive here and is generally
more left-wing than the lat-
ter.
New Religious
Party Forming
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Moshe Sasson to Coordinate
Peace Talks Preparations
JERUSALEM (JTA)—
About 100 religious Jews an-
nounced a new group to im-
plement "the ideals 'of reli-
gious Zionism." They de-
scribed themselves as a po-
litical-social movement but
said they did not intend to
run candidates for the Knes-
set in the May 17 elections.
According to their spokes-
man. Rabbi Yaacov Fil-
berr, the ideological plat-
form of the National Reli-
gious Party "is beautiful"
but "NRP members do not
•implement it. -
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