• How Israel's Enemies Cut Each Other's Throats But Are United by Their Hatreds HE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review VOL. LXXI, No. 26 of Jewish Events The Tragedy of 'No Peace' • Washington and Beirut Inconsistencies Editorials, Page 4 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $12 Per Year; This Issue 30° September 2, 1977 Israel's 'No to PLO' Remains Firm (Don't Threaten Us,' Begin Warns; Arab League Geneva Role Nixed Israel and Romania Leaders Are Satisfied With Meetings JERUSALEM (JTA)—Premier Menahem Begin called his five-day official visit to Romania "important, interesting and exciting" upon his return to Israel Tuesday, and said that Romanian Premier Manea Ma- nescu has accepted an invitation to visit Isreal, the first by a Romanian premier. "Without even trying to play down our differences over the question of a Middle East peace, we agreed that they must not affect our very close relations and friendship," Begin said. He said he tried to convince the Romanian leaders that the Likud government want- ed peace as much as the previous Labor governments. Begin said the joint communique signed by the two Ceausescu countries at the end of the visit stressed that Israel and Romania will continue their close relationship despite their differences on the Middle East and will encourage all efforts to achieve an end to the Mideast conflict. The communique, which recognized the differences be- tween the two countries, added, "The differences of opinion in this respect must not bear on the friendly-re- lations between the two peoples." The question of whether to use the term "friendly re- lations" or "standing relations" involved some arguing, according to Israeli reports from Romania. When Pre- mier Golda Meir visited Romania in 1972 relations were described only as "normal." When Begin and President Nicolae Ceausescu went for a cruise on Lake Snagov they agreed on "friendly relations." Begin (Continued on Page 7) JERUSALEM (JTA)—Premier Menahem Begin warned Arab leaders not to threaten Israel with war because the Jewish state is capable of defending itself against agression. "Israel is not interested in war and will never initiate one," he told newsmen upon his return from Romania. "But if attacked, we shall defend ourselves and sometimes as a result of an attack there is a necessity to counter-attack. We cannot be threatened with aggression." Government sources said this statement was a clear warning to the Arab states against the threats of war that have been made recently by Arab leaders. The sources_ said the premier's remarks are meant to warn the Arabs that if they attack Israel the result might be "quite different" than what they might expect, including the loss of even more territory. Begin's statement at Ben-Gurion Airport on Tuesday was in response to questions about a statement by Syrian President Hafez Assad in an interview with the New York Times, published Monday, that he was pessimistic because he believed the only alterna- tive to peace was war. "There's no third choice, " Assad was quoted as saying, "It's either peace or war. I don't mean today or tomorrow. But eventually Israel will not be able to continue.challenging us." Begin also rejected Assad's suggestion that the Arabs League might substitute for the Palestine Liberation Organization in Middle East negotiations. "The Arab League is not a country and, as stipulated by the provisions of the Geneva Conference, only countries can be a signatory to a peace agreement," the Israeli premier declared. "The League's presence at Geneva, therefore, is completely unacceptable." In Washington on Monday, State Department spokesman Nodding Carter said Assad's idea of substituting the Arab League for the PLO was not new and that a "number of proposals" have been suggested regarding the participants at Geneva. The Knesset was scheduled to interrupt its summer recess on Thursday at the govern- ment's request to hear a foreign policy statement by Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and then hold a four-hour debate. Begin is expected to renew his efforts to push through a resolution supported by all (Continued on Page 6) Anti-PLO Group Begun on W. Bank University Chair for Hebrew Language Established at Technion for JN Editor HAIFA — A professorial chair in honor of the dean of American Jewish journalists, Philip Slomovitz of Detroit, will be established at the Technion - Israel institute-of Technology..This was announced by Major General (Res.) Amos Horev, president of the Technion. The chair will be known as the Philip Slomovitz Chair for the Hebrew Language. ____ Gen. Horev will attend a dinner in Detroit on Oct. 10 when the project will be officially launched. The occasion will also mark the presentation to Philip Slomovitz of the American Technion Society Einstein Award for 1977. The award is given annually to ATS members "in recognition of their outstanding service to the society." The president of the Detroit Chapter of the American Technion Society is Louis Milgrom of ltroit. The dinner will be held at Cong. Shaarey Zedek. .;lomovitz, editor and publisher of The Detroit Jewish News, founding president of the American Jewish Press Association, was born in Russia and came to the U.S. in 1910. He attended the University of Michigan where his interest in journalism began and led him to a glittering ca reer. Editor and publisher of The Detroit Jewish News since 1942 and accredited UN correspondent since 1945, Slomovitz has - also contributed widely to many national magazines and periodicals. His activities have not only been confined to journalism. As a young man he was deeply involved with the Detroit Young Judea, and he has been highly active in the Jewish National Fund Council of Detroit, the World Jewish Congress and the World Zionist Congress. MM. GEN. HOREV i is a vice president of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and the Zionist Organization of America and a former vice president of the Jewish Publication Society of America. Slomovitz is a former president of the ZOA - Detroit District, the Detroit Zionist Council and the Detroit Chapter of the American Jewish Congress. He has been the recipient of some of the most prestigious national and Michigan awards in recognition of his services to journalism and the community. His name appears on the Founders Well in the Churchill Auditorium, Technion City. [He • ' PHILIP SOLOMVITZ JERUSALEM (JTA)—A newly formed Arab group on the West Bank declaring itself to be against the Palestine Liberation Organization is under bitter verbal attack by the Palestinian mass media both in the occupied territories and abroad. Hussein Shuyuhi of Hebron, the leader of the group, denounced PLO chief Yasir Arafat and charged that he was stealing Palestinian money. Shuyuhi also claimed that he has received threats but these will not stop him from con- ducting his anti-PLO campaign. As evidence of this, leaflets were distributed throughout the West Bank condemning the PLO. Nevertheless, a press conference which was to have been convened in Jerusalem by the group was cancelled at the last minute by its organizers. The reason, they said, was that Shuyuhi had suffered a "slight heart attack." This is the first time a public campaign by West Bank Arabs has been mounted against the PLO. Sheikh Mohammed Ali Jaabari, the former mayor of Hebron and still an in- fluential leader in the West Bank, has always supported a "Jordanian solution" for the fu- ture of the West Bank. But this is the first time that this line has congealed into a politi- cal movement. (Continued on Page 6)