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Detroit Protests Mounting
A plfith Nationwide Momentum
to Assure Israel's Defense

In hundreds of Jewish communities throughout the land the latest
U.S.-USSR agreement calling for resumption of the Geneva Conference
on the Middle East with the provision of recognition of the P ale stinians,
brought forth condemnations of the new plan as a menace to Israel.
The move for organized protests commenced Saturday night at the
meeting the National Executive Committee of the Zionist Organization
of America at which the ZOA president, Dr. Joseph Sternstein, called
for an organized effort to resist the implied dangers to Israel.
Sternstein condemned the joint statement as a "new Munich." He
called for an immediate national mobilization of the Jewish people in
this country and urged the convocation of a leadership assembly in
Washington "to dramatize our concern at the lethal direction American
foreign policy has taken and its mortal danger to the state of Israel."
Stemstein said the joint statement "has done the work of the Pales-
tine Liberation Organization. The statement leaves Israel with nothing
to negotiate at Geneva: The phrase, 'legitimate rights of the Palesti-
nians,' is a code phrase for a Palestinian state ruled by the PLO. There
is now no point in Israel's going to Geneva since the United States and
the Soviet Union have announced their plan to impose their own solu-
tion in line with Arab demands, even though
President Carter has repeatedly and solem-
nly stated that the U.S. would not be a party
to an imposed solution."
Locally, Louis Panush, chairman of the
public affairs committee of the Zionist.
Organization of Detroit, called for telegrams
and letters to President Carter and Secre-
tary of State Cyrus Vance protesting the
U.S.-Soviet declaration and urging them "to
implement the pre-election promises and
decades-old American commitment to a
viable Jewish State."
He also called for letters to Michigan's
Congressmen and Senators "asking them to
fortify their long-standing support" for-
STERNSTEIN
Israel with sense-of-Congress resolutions
against recognition of the PLO and a Palestinian state on the West
Bank which could become a staging area for Russian dominance of the
Nfiddle East and lead to the destruction of Israel.
Similar action is being urged by the head's of Detroit's Jewish pro-
tective agencies, synagogues and temples.

U.S. Israel Procedural
Agreements Ease Crisis

UNITED NATIONS (JTA) — Israel and the United States agreed Wednesday that none of the parties to
the Middle East conflict have to accept the joint U.S.-Soviet statement of the Mideast issued last Saturday
as "prerequisite for the reconvening and conducting of the Geneva Conference."
The announcement was in the form of a joint statement issued at 2,a.m. after a six-hour meeting
between President Carter, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan. Israel
had charged that the U.S.-Soviet statement went beyond United Nations Security Council Resolutions 242
and 338 by urging that a settlement insure "the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people."
The statement issued after the Carter-Vance-Dayan talks said that the U.S. and Israel agree that the two
resolutions remain the agreed basis for the resumption of the Geneva Peace Conference and that all the
understandings and Agreements between them on this subject will remain in force. Israel had pointed out
that the 1975 Sinai Agreement requires the U.S. to base all Mideast negotiations on the two resolutions.
Wednesday's - statement also noted that American officials and Dayan discussed "proposals for
removing the remaining obstacles to reconvening the Geneva Conference" and Dayan would consult
his government on these proposals while Vance would discuss with the other parties to the Geneva
Conference.
Dayan said he would urge the government of Premier Menahem Begin to approve the proposals worked
out with Vance. He said he believed the Israeli government would act quickly but he refused to say what
the proposals were. _
Dayan would not predict when the conference would be held although he hoped it would be by the end
of this year.
In Israel, satisfaction was expressed over the communique issued at the end of the Dayan talks.- A
Foreign Ministry spokesman said the communique indicated that there was no change in the conditions
for reconvening the Geneva Conference.
The spokesman also noted "with satisfaction" that the joint American-Soviet communique of last,
weekend was not considered a pre-condition for participation in the Geneva Conference.

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President Carter's
Statement at the UN

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Labor Alignment
Criticism of Likud

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DAYAN

CARTER.

VANCE

Congressmen, Labor Assail Threats in New M.E. Policy

Members of Congress circulated a protest letter to Presi-
dent Carter Wednesday over the signatures of Reps. Sidney
Yates (D-Chicago) and Jonathon Bingham (D-NY) protest-
ing the U.S.-USSR joint statement on the Middle East. Rep.
JarnesiBlanchard (D-Michigan) expected the letter would
receive more than 100 signatures.
Blanchard told The Jewish News that the Congressmen
were trying to arrange a meeting with President Carter on
Thursday to present the letter and discuss it.
The letter states:
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"We want to express our grave concern at the joint U.S.-
viet communique issued over the weekend on the subject
' the Middle East.
"Both in substance and in the sudden and unexpected
manner of its issuance, the joint statement came as a
shock. It is highly significant that the statement has been
hailed as a victory by the PLO and various Arab govern-
ments, and has been met with dismay and. a sense of
betrayal in Israel. -
"The most disturbing aspect of the communique is that it
suggests the United States and the Soviet Union are now
moving in the direction of an imposed peace in the Middle
East, instead of seeking to promote direct negotiations
among the nations involved.
"Through the use of the words "the legitimate rights of
the Palestinian people." the United States has apparently
accepted a phrase which has particular significance for the.
Arabs in sustaining a partisan Arab- viewpoint. It has been
asserted that this is "an important change in policy," and
that is precisely what we fear.

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"We urge you, Mr. President, to reaffirm that the United
States continues fully to support UN Resolutions 242 and
338, and will agree to no amendments that are not accept-
able to all the nations involved. We trust also that you will
reaffirm the basic commitment of the United States to the
survival of Israel within secure and defensible borders, to
the necessity for a genuine peace, and to the principle that
the only road to such a peace is through direct negotiations
among the nations involved."
In television interviews on Sunday the U.S.-USSR state-
ment was attacked by AFL-CIO president George Meany
and Sen. Henry Jackson (D-Wash.). Appearing on CBS's
"Face the Nation," Meany said an imposed settlement will
not work since a peace settlement could only come from the
parties involved. "I just can't see an imposed settlement."
he said.
Jackson said on NBC's "Meet the Press." that by agree-
ing to a joint effort with the Soviet Union, the U.S. had
allowed "the fox...back in the chicken coop."
He said the joint statement elevated the Soviets to an
influential position that they had not even dreamed of hav-
ing in the Mideast. "It is a step in the wrong direction," he
said. "It's going to raise issues of confrontation."
Others who denounced the joint statement included: Sen.
Daniel P. Moynihan (D-NY) and Reps. William Brodhead
(D-Mich.), Benjamin Rosenthal (D-NY), Edward Koch (D-
NY), Robert F. Drinan (D-Mass.), John Cunningham (R-
Wash.), Charlotte Jacobson, chairman, American Section,
World Zionist Organization; Bernice S. Tannenbaum,
Hadassah president; Richard Maas, A nteric an Jewish Corn-

nittee president; Burton M. Joseph, chairman of the Bnai
l3rith Anti-Defamation League; Sen. Robert Dole (R-Kan.)
and GOP Chairman William Brock.
Rabbi Alexander Schindler, chairman of the Conference
of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations,
accused the Carter Administration of reneging on President
Carter's pledge to support a negotiated settlement in the
Nfiddie East on the basis of the United Nations Security
Council Resolutions 242 and 338 and requested Secretary of
State Cyrus Vance "the opportunity of a clarification from
you of the American position."
In a telegram sent to Vance, Schindler said, "We are pro-
foundly disturbed" by the joint U.S.-Soviet statement
"which on its face represents an abandonment of America's
historic commitment to the security and survival of Israel
and imperils our country's interests by giving a major role
to the USSR, not merely at Geneva but in the Middle East
itself.
"The statement also appears to be a shocking about-face
of the President's public pledges of support for the prin-
ciples of a negotiated settlement within the framework of
UN Resolutions 242 and 338. The U.S.-Soviet plan calls for
an imposed settlement that will inevitably lead to further
turmail in the area. It is not a prescription for peace but
rather a formula for reducing Israel...into a vassal state
dependent in part for its physical protection and thus its
very survival on the Soviet Union...We respectfully request
the opportunity of a clarification from you of the American
position."