N.Y. Jewish Council Plans Aid for Blackout Sufferers
By MURRAY ZUCKOFF
Editor, Jewish Telegraphi,
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NEW YORK (JTA)—Plans for assistance to the Jewish sufferrs from the tragic New
york City blackout July 14 are being made by the Jewish Community Relations Council
of New york.
Dan Shapiro, a vice president of the council, said : "It is most important to 1 ,
that all the Jewish agencies are mobilized to deal with-the problem...so mai ' y of i
businessmen (whose stores were destroyed) were JeWish." Shapiro said there .S
of knowing how extensive the damage is now in terms of money or number t Je wish
businessmen affected.
Representatives of the council, and other communal leaders, had previously net with
Mayor Abraham Beame to discuss the crisis. The council representatives urgeu ti.at im-
mediate action be taken to insure that maximum federal, state, and local assistance
will be made available.
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According to Shapiro, the Jewish organi7f*A”.. will try to work "closely with the
mayor's efforts" by encouraging lawyers insurance people, accour' is, arfl others, to
volunteer their services to the city's emergency assistance centers. The council does not
plan to set up
up its own aid centers, Shapiro said.
to make sure that all the Jewish businessmen understand what
The council
funds (federal, state, and local) will be available," Shapiro said. The city has designed
a plan whereby $3.5 million dollars from the private sector will be made available in the
form of grants to small merchants victimized.
The massive power failue which blacked out New York City and Westchester County
last week also blacked out Jewish communal organizations as well as the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency.
At the JTA, the power failure idled the transmission services and stories that had
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Jerusalem and West Bank Not Negotiable
Begin's Peace Plan Proposes
Concessions, Talks at Geneva
WASHINGTON JTA—Premier Menahem Begin of
Israel unveiled his peace plan at a press conference
in Washington Wednesday proposing separate nego-
tiations between Israel and each of its Arab neigh-
bors within the framework of the Geneva conference
which he suggested should be reconvened in Octo-
ber. He said the talks would be aimed first, at en-
ding the state of war, second, at the establishment
of permanent boundaries, and third, at the estab-
lishment of diplomatic and economic relations to be
followed by agreements on such less vital matters
as tou-ism and fishing rights.
Begin said the participants in the conference
would br Israel Egypt, Syria, Jordan and possibly
Lebanon. He flatly ruled out any negotiations with
the Palestine Liberation Organization because that
group wants "to destroy our country and destroy our
people." However, Begin said, that Israel would not
object if PaleStinians—but not the PLO were mem-
bers of the Arab states' delegation. "If Palestinian
Arabs participate in the Jordanian delegation, we
will not look for their credentials," he said.
Begin's press conference in the executive office
building was broadcast live by satellite to Israel. He
declined to discuss details of the territorial issues
and, in fact, called for a "political truce" until the
Geneva conference is reconvened. He was lavish in
his praise of President Carter with whom he had
five hours of meetings in the last two days, includ-
ing a 90-minute private meeting in the President's
quarters at the White House following Tuesday's
working dinner.
He said of his talks with Carter, "We established a
personal rapport which will not only be for the
months ahead but for the years to come."
Begin stressed that "There is no confrontation be-
tween the U.S." and Israel and that he and Carter
had developed "deep and lasting" friendship be-
tween their countries. The Israeli leader also
stressed that the parties to the Geneva conference
must come to the negotiating table without .pre-
conditions. He said insistence that Israel- accepts
their position on territories and the Palestinians and
for Israel insistence on Arab acceptance of its posi-
tion on Jerusalem would constitute preconditions.
Begin proposed that when the parties get to Gen-
eva each would make an opening statement after
which "commissions"—three or four of them depend-
ing on whether Lebanon participates—would meet
separately under rotating chairmanships to work out
peace treaties between Israel and each of the neigh-
boring states. Begin acknowledged that this would
eventually take the form of the Rhodes armistice
talks in 1949. He said those talks had been expected
to result in peace and now, after 29 years, the proc-
ess could be resumed.
Begin Formula Called
`Naive' at Its Unveiling
by Gen.Dayan in Israel
Gen. Moshe Dayan, Israel's new foreign minister, made
public the Begin plan for peace in Israel at the same time
of its presentation to President Carter in Washington. The
plan was greeted with criticism, and was called "naive"
by prominent Israelis, including members- of the Knesset
foreign affairs committee.
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Begin's peace plan, however, contained two alter-
native proposals. He said that if the Arabs refuse to
go to Geneva unless the PLO was a participant, the
same commissions would be sA up, through the
good offices of the United States, "io convening in the
capitals of any of the participating countries or on
neutral grounds.
The second alternative was the convening in New
York of "proximity talks" of the kind first suggested
by the U.S. in 1972. The parties would meet under
the same roof but would negotiate indirectly through
U.S. mediators.
At the working dinner at the White House Tuesday
night, the President reassured the Israeli leader
that the U.S. will not "try to impose our will on any-
one" but will "act as a trusted intermediary" in the
Middle East negotiating process. However, Carter
stressed that the U.S. will not "avoid a controversial
issue and wherever appropriate" • will "open these
controversial issues up to public scrutiny."
Begin, in his response, said that after meeting the
President he was convinced that Carter is "whole-
heartedly a great friend of Israel." He said that
"with a sense of urgency on one hand and some pa-
tience on the other, I think we can build a founda-
tion of peace in the Middle East and the recognition
of justice for all and fairness for all as we believe."
The White House dinner was the second meeting
between Carter and Begin. Carter said that he and
Begin had conducted "far-reaching discussions" in
which "we have explored differences of opinion in a
very blunt and frank fashion." He said that "some
of the differences" have been resolved and that
"some very sensitive questions, some that can prove
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Begin to Carter: 'We Must Work for Free World'
We --- Will Never Disagree, Only Agree to Differ'
WASHINGTON. (JTA) — Israel Premier Menahem Begin declared upon his arrival in Washington
Tuesday that "all people of the free world must work to ensure human liberty." Calling President Carter
the leader of the free world, which he said has shrunk, Begin told the President, "We shall never dis-
agree, we will only agree to differ."
Carter hailed the Israeli leader as a man of "independence and principle" just as the people of Israel
constitute a nation of "independence and principle." He said that parallel was manifest in the writings
and biography of Begin which the President said he has read.
Begin was accompanied by his wife, Israeli Ambassador Simha Dinitz and other members of his en-
tourage. Carter was accompanied by Mrs. Carter.
Vice President Walter Mondale, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, Undersecretary of State for Near
Eastern Affairs Alfred L. Atherton and the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Samuel Lewis, made up the offi-
cial greeting party.
Saying that he "admires" Begin's "deep and unswerving religious commitments," Carter said that
he has been "encouraged" by the prime minister's statements that all points of dispute with his Arab
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