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WASHINGTON1JTA) —
The Carter Administra-
tion's efforts to bring the
American Jewish commun-
ity leadership closer to its
views on major U.S.-Israel
policy differences appa-
rently were unsuccessful at
last Thursday's White
House luncheon and brief-
ing for 31 Jewish commun-
ity officials from 19 cities
across the country, accord-
ing to information obtained.
It was learned that the
guests - firmly took issue
with the Administration's
proposed "take it or leave it"
planes sale package for
Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Is-
rael and its attitude toward
Israeli settlements which
the Administration has
termed "obstacles to peace."
Zbigniew Brzezinski,
President Carter's National
Security Advisor, was the
principal spokesman on
Middle East political issues
at the luncheon, while
Energy Secretary James
Schlesinger stressed the
importance of Saudi Arabia
to the U.S. economy and fuel
requirements.
James McIntyre, direc-
tor of the Office of Man-
agement and Budget, -
discussed the new budget
without entering into the
facets of U.S. assistance
to Israel or her Arab
neighbors.
Brzezinski opposed the
Israeli position that its set-
tlements in areas won in the
Six-Day War constitute a
security matter. He said Is-
rael's position was fallaci- _
ous and that Israeli military
officers acknowledge that
settlements
are
not
security-related.
,
Regarding the $4.8 bill-
ion aircraft pa,ckage,
Brzezinski reportedly noted
that if Egypt did not receive
the proposed 50 F-5Es it
would again turn to the
Soviet Union for planes and
President Anwar Sadat;
would be overthrown.
The Saudis, he reportedly
said, could acquire aircraft
equivalent to the proposed
60 F-15s from France and
then thumb their noses at
the U.S. Should Egypt and
Saudi Arabia not receive
U.S. military equipment,
Soviet-supported Libya
would strike at them
Brzezinski was said to have
asserted.
Meanwhile, a State De-
partment official listed
factors that comprise the
current U.S. "percep-
dons" toward the Middle
East of which the Israeli'
factor ranked "last but
not least."- According to
Harold H. Saunders, the
acting assistant secret-
ary of state for near east-
ern and south Asian af-
fairs, the U.S. must take
into account "terrorism,"
the "support around the
world for Palestinian
nationalism" and Israel's
position on the "world
scene" when considering
the Arab-Israeli conflict.
But Saunders, addressing
a panel discussion at the
first National Young Lead-
ership Council of the United
Jewish Appeal, indicated
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priority for five other fac-
tors:
The possibility of an "ac-
cidental confrontation" be-
tween the U.S. and the
Soviet Union in the Middle
East, the fact that the U.S.
gets 20 percent of its oil
supply from the area, the oil
revenues and-capital hold-
ings in the region which can
have a "sharp impact" on-'
"the global economic order",
the fact that Saudi Arabia
and Algeria are "organizers
of the poorer nations" and
the possibility that the
Middle East conflict could
breed another oil embargo.
Saunders acknowledged
that there has been a shift
in U.S. perceptions on the
Middle East during the last
15 years but that it "does
not have to work against the
interests of any nation." He
said that 15 years ago the
Middle East was "important
but not vital" and there was
a need to prevent Soviet
dominance there.
In the 1970s, he said, the
region was "more nearly
vital to our interests" be-
cause of the oil require-
ments of the U.S. and its
friends and the needs of Is-
rael.
"Today, the percep-
tions are quite different,"
Saunders said, , growing
out of the "changed cir-
cumstances" since the
mid-70s, the "major shift
of many Arabs" toward
the West in the last few
years and the fact that
the Middle East is one of
the most rapidly growing
markets in the world,
which is being felt in
America by Americans
and "not only gov-
ernmentally."
He characterized ark
Arab-Israeli peace as
cial" in the "hard calculus"
of American interests in the
area. He stressed that the
U.S. role is that of "a
catalyst, not an imposer" of
a peace settlement.
The panel was addressed
by Rita Hauser, interna-
tional lawyer and former
U.S. representative to the
United Nations Human
Rights Commission, who
characterized Saunder's
presentation as "a perfectly
good academic summary of
current U.S. policy for going
astray."
Hauser said American
policy in the Middle East -
should be for peace in the
area without the Soviet Un-
ion's intrusion. "That was
true in 1945 and remains
true today," she said.
Synagogue Body Delegation
Calls Egypt Trip Successful
NEW YORK (JTA) — A has also agreed to hold by
12-member delegation of next year a Moslem-Jewish
the Synagogue Council of interreligious dialogue
America (SCA) which re- similar to the dialogues that
turned Sunday night from a have been held for last 10
two-week visit to Egypt and years between world Jews
Israel believes it made an and the Vatican and the
"historical breakthrough" World Council of Churches.
in Jewish-Islamic relations
The delegation reported
in Egypt.
that Egyptian government
The delegation, headed officials agreed to allow
by Rabbi Saul I. Teplitz, the Jewish scholars to survey
SCA's president, and Rabbi and catalogue manuscripts,
Henry Siegman, executive synagogues, cemeteries and
vice president, said the visit other Jewish institutions in
to Egypt was the first "by an Cairo and in other locations
official delegation repre- in order to take the neces-
senting the Jewish religious sary measures for their pre-
community in modern servation and if possible re-
times."
storation.
The SCA said that the de-
The SCA obtained per-
legation's visit in Egypt en- mission both from the Egyp-
abled it "to develop new re- tian government and the
ligious and cultural rela- leaders of the Karaite com-
tions" with Islamic leaders munity to bring to the U.S.
"that will help heal wounds on loan, for an exhibit and
caused by generations of analysis a collection of an-
alientation and conflict. cient Karaite manuscripts
While these relations are no and ceremonial objects.
substitute for political ag, Egyptian authorities ag- —
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reements they constitute reed that some 50 Torah
the human and spiritual in- scrolls that had been confis- \----
frastructure which can cated by customs officials
speed the day of-peace, and several years ago would be
when it comes, give it moral returned to the local Jewish
content and endurance."
community.
The delegation found it
accomplished more than
Pioneer Women
it expect6d, according to
Dedicate Dorm
a spokesman. Dr. Soufi
Abou-Taleb, president of
KANOT, Israel Ameri-
Cairo University, agreed
can Pioneer Women leaders
to have visiting profes-
attending the World Zionist
sors in various fields of
Congress dedicated a two-
Jewish studies offer
story dormitory at the
courses at the university
Kanot Agricultural High
while Egyptian Islamic
School, in honor of Char-
scholars will be made av-
lotte Stein, immediate past
ailable as visiting profes-
president of Pioneer Women
sors for American Jewish
of the U.S.
institutions of higher
Frieda Leemon of Detroit,
learning.
the new national president
Cairo University, the
of Pioneer Women, spoke at
largest in the Arab world,
the dedication.