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VOL. LXXII, No. 21 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $12.00 Per Year: This Issue 30c January 27, 1978
Israel Is Sharing U.S. Confidence
Negotiations Will Resume
American Rabbis Open
Egypt Religion Talks
NEW YORK (JTA)—An historic mission to Egypt by the
Synagogue Council of America will begin Feb. 12. Fifteen
leaders of the national Orthodox, Conservative and Reform
rabbinic and lay bodies of American Judaism will go to
Cairo to meet for the first time with President
Anwar Sadat and leaders of the Muslim and Christian
Coptic faiths. The delegation is headed by Rabbi Saul I.
Teplitz of Woodmere, N.Y., president of the Synagogue
Council of America.
The mission, originally scheduled to start this week,
was delayed "for logistical reasons."
According to Rabbi Henry Siegman, executive vice
president of the Council, "The purpose of this historic
mission is to open a Jewish-Muslim dialogue. Until now,
formal contacts between major faith communities have
involved only Jews, Protestants and Catholics.
"As a result of our conversations
with the Vatican and with the
World Council of Churches over the
past 10 years, major progress has
been made in Jewish-Christian re-
lations. However, there has been
virtually no contact between Jewish
and Muslim religious leadership."
Sadat's historic visit to Jerusa-
TEPLITZ
lem, and Premier Menahem Be-
gin's response to his visit, "have opened new possibilities
for a serious and fruitful encounter between Muslims and
Jews," Siegman stated. "The conflict in the Middle East
has been allowed to obscure the fact that Judaism and
Islam share significant spiritual and cultural links.
"It is our hope that as a result of our visit to Egypt, both
faith communities will be encouraged to draw on their
respective religious traditions to help heal the wounds
caused by 30 years of political conflict and hasten the day of
peace."
On Dec. 7, Ashraf A. Ghorbal, Egyptian Ambassador to
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JERUSALEM (JTA)—Premier Menahem Begin won Knesset endorsement of his policies by a comfortable 59-9
margin, with 19 abstentions, Monday after raising the possibility that the suspended Israeli-Egyptian military talks in -
Cairo could be resumed early next week. Begin conditioned that on the ending of what he termed anti-Semitic
diatribes in the Egyptian press.
The hopeful mood engendered by Begin's generally conciliatory Knesset speech was increased by an official
announcement that Defense Minister Ezer Weizman had postponed his visit to Washington scheduled for this week.
Weizman heads the Israeli negotiating team at the Cairo military talks.
Diplomatic sources said the U.S. wants to use an agreement on the "statement of principles" as the basis for
resuming negotiations, especially the political committee talks that were cut off by President Anwar Sadat. (Reports
from Cairo quoted Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Ibrahim Kaamel as saying that Egypt would insist on an
agreement in principle before resuming peace talks with Israel. He did not elaborate.) There have been other reports
that the U.S. proposes that the negotiations be resumed at a neutral site somewhere in Europe.
It was later announced that Weizman would go to . Washington next week, no matter when the Cairo talks resumed.
Sources speculated that Israel is concerned over U.S. arms supplies.
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Israeli officials say Weizman postponed the U.S. trip to be on hand in expectation of a Cabinet decision to
renew the Cairo talks. The Cabinet decided on Sunday to postpone the return of the Israeli negotiators to Cairo
but left a skeleton staff of officers there to maintain contacts with their Egyptian counterparts.
Weizman met Monday night with Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs Alfred
L. Atherton and U.S. Ambassador Samuel Lewis. Atherton remained in the region after Secretary of State Cyrus
Vance returned to the U.S. to continue efforts to get Israeli-Egyptian negotiations started again.
Court Hearing Monday
for Detroit _Nazi Store
The occupants of the Nazi bookstore on Vernor Hwy. were
served with a summons to appear in the Landlord-Tennant
Division of Wayne County Probate Court Monday morning.
Probate Court baliff Bill Freedman served the papers this
week. Edward Bullock, a Hazel Park school teacher who
owns the store, is seeking to have the Nazis evicted because
they concealed their political ties and told him the store
would be used for a printing business.
The store has been picketed almost daily by neighborhood
and anti-Nazi groups since it opened in December. It has
been distributing literature that tells Jews, "There is an oven
in your future," and claiming that Jews are actually a
Russian tribe and not Jews at all.
Another leaflet claims to document "Jewish" and "Zion-
ist" torture of Arabs and quotes a section of the Talmud as
Jewish justification for such practices. Much of the propa-
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From a Reporter's Notebook:
Goverment Under Spell of Media;
Israel Not Lacking in Assurances
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
SHINGTON, D.C.—An unexpected voice from Cairo, which sounded as if it intended
,... ..estroy all the roads leading to peace in the Middle East, reached the news media and
the U.S. government officials at about the same time, with equal shocks of puzzlement.
For the media it was the report that President Anwar Sadat had recalled his delegation,
headed by Foreign Minister Mohammed Kaamel, was another occasion to monopolize the
streamer headlines. The U.S. government spokesmen once again displayed calm . They
did not expose shock, although it was another incident intimating that perhaps the media
get the news ahead of diplomats. The calmness was another occasion for adherence to an
established policy: statesmanship dictated reaffirmation that the U.S. stands firm in a
policy of portecting Israel's right to exist, with pledges of aid in retaining and attaining
security.
This merging statesmanship with the media of communications occurred on the
afternoon of Jan. 18, when the State Department commenced the hOsting of a National
Foreign Policy Conference for editors and broadcasters. There were more than 200 media
personalities, and while less than a dozen were from the Jewish press, the interest in the
Middle East and in the Arab-Israel issues predominated no matter which of the foreign
-- policy matters was under discussion.
At the very outset, therefore, both the press and diplomacy came into sharp play. The
conference was called earlier in the month in the name of Secretary of State Cyrus
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Atherton and Lewis conferred with Israel Foriegn
Minister Moshe Dayan on details of a "declaration of
principles" Which, it is hoped, can still be agreed on
by Israel and Egypt. Atherton was expected to fly to
Cairo to convey Israel's position on the wording of
the key Palestinian clauses to the Egyptians.
In Cairo, Sadat conferred with U.S. Ambassador
Hermann Eilts and declared his qualified readiness
to resume talks "provided there are no pre condi-
tions from the Israeli side."
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Begin's closing remarks after the Knesset debate
were tougher than the speech he delivered. He
warned that there would be no more talks if "state-
ments insulting Jewish honor" continued to be pub-
lished in the Cairo press. He also threatened that if
Sadat continues to insist on total withdrawal it would
mean that he sought "not peace with Israel but
peace without Israel" and he would not get it.
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Hadassah-led Slate Sweeps U.S.
Zionist Voting; Labor Trounced
NEW YORK, Jan. 19 (JTA)—The Hadassah-Bnai Zion-American Jewish League slate
swept the field in the elections for the upcoming 29th World Zionist Congress with 93,284
votes out of 198, 112 total valid ballots cast. There are some 900,000 registered Zionists
nationally.
The Zionist Organization of America received 29,116 votes. The Labor Zionist Alliance-
Pioneer Women-Friends of Labor Israel slate was severly trounced, garnering 17,534
votes. In the last elections, it received the second largest number of votes.
The number of valid votes cast for the other slates were: Religious Zionist Movement,
24,934; Herut-United Zionists Revisionists of America, 17,872; ARZA-Association of
Reform Zionists of America, 11,373; Progressive Zionist List, 2964; and the New Coalition,
1035. Neither ARZA nor the New Coalition participated in the last elections. Both were
formed last year.
The election committee of the American Zionist Federation officially approved the
distribution of the 152 delegates from the U.S.: Hadassah-Bnai Zion-American Jewish
League, 72; Zionist Organization of America, 22; Religious Zionist Movement, 19; Herut-
United Zionists Revisionists of America, 14; Labor Zionist Alliance-Pioneer Women-
Friends of Labor Israel, 13; ARZA-Association of Reform Zionists of America, 9;
Progressive Zionist List, 2; and the New Coalition, 1.
According to the proportional system used in the elections, "no votes can be lost,"
explained Moshe Kagan, chairman of the American Zionist Federation election
commission. "The remainders, or fractions of delegates in excess of the 152, delegates
which are not assigned to American organizations, are allocated to the world movements
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