THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
16 Friday, May 3, 1978
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American Strategists Laud Israel
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WASHINGTON (JTA) —
In the opinion of several
former American military
and diplomatic leaders, the
Carter Administration and
many Americans in general
do not adequately ap-
preciate Israel's strategic
value to the United States
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American intelligence-
gathering agencies.
Those views were ex-
pressed by former Under-
secretary of State Eugene
Rostow; former Ambas-
sador William Kintner;
Adm. (Ret.) Elmo Zumwalt,
former Chief of Naval Op-
erations; and Maj. Gen.
George F. Keegan, former
Chief of Air Force Intelli-
gence.
They participated in a
discussion of current U.S.
policy in the Middle East
and the Soviet threat to that
area at a symposium spon-
sored by Foreign Policy
Perspectives, a Boston-
based group that examines
U.S. involvement in inter-
national affairs.
Two other partici-
pants, Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Ar-
thur S. Collins, former
deputy commander in
chief of the U.S. Army in
Europe and Lt. Gen.
(Ret.) Benjamin 0. Davis,
former deputy comman-
der of the U.S. Air Force
Strike Command, ex-
pressed vieWs in favor of
the Administration's sale
of F-15 aircraft to Saudi
Arabia, a project roundly
condemned by the
others.
Kintner, who is director
of the Foreign Policy Re-
search Institute in Wash-
ington, and served as mod-
erator, described Israel as
"a strategic asset in a region
necessary in defense of
NATO" and as "an offset to
Soviet military power"
there.
"Lots of Americans look
at it (Israel) as a net
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strategic loss," he said.
"They are unwilling to rec-
ognize the strategic advan-
tage from our association
with Israel even though at
times it presents challenges
and difficulties such as com-
ing to Israel's support in the
Yom Kippur War."
Zumwalt said the U.S. is
incapable of successful mili-
tary activity in the Middle
East without Israel's sup-
port. He pointed out that
only the threat of Israeli in-
tervention stopped Syria
from attacking Jordan in
1971 when King Hussein
was battling Palestinian
terrorists.
Keegan said, "If you
could put dollar value on
Israel's military intelli-
gence" gained by the U.S.
"it would be in the bil-
lions of dollars." He
claimed that "five central
intelligence agencies
could not give us the in-
telligence information we
get from the Israelis."
Keegan challenged the
Pentagon's description of
the F-15 warplane as a "de-
fensive weapon." He called
that description "one of the
most misleading" state-
ments the Pentagon has
ever made. He denounced
the President's aircraft
package as injudicious be-
cause it has the effect of
weakening Israel and
thereby is detrimental to
U.S. interests.
But Davis observed that
Saudi Arabia, which will
receive 60 F-15s in the
package endorsed by the
Senate, is "pro-West" and
the package, he said, will
allow Israel to retain mili-
tary superiority in the area.
Collins said the U.S. could
not have supplied Saudi
Arabia with aircraft of les-
ser quality because the
Saudis are a "proud people"
and would regard such
treatment as an "insult."
Rostow said "no effective"
Middle East policy is possi-
ble without peace between
Israel and its Arab
neighbors that ensures Is-
rael's strength and sover-
eignty. He contended that
"President Carter has taken
a position blaming Israel for
the absence of peace. This is
almost inexplicable. Israel
isn't the obstacle.
. . . and Me'
Editor-in-Chief
Emeritus, JTA
(Copyright 1978, JTA, Inc.)
ON THE ALERT: An American friend of mine stationed
in West Germany sent me a letter describing the tactics
neo-Nazis use in attempting to influence American mili-
tary forces there with their vitriolic anti-Jewish prop-
aganda.
Accompanying the letter is a leaflet — in 'English —
disseminated near U.S. military compounds. The leaflet is
issued by the Kampfbund Deutscher Soldaten ("Associa-
tion of Fighting German Soldiers"). It contains the usual
poisonous Nazi incitement against Jews, and it singles out
"Zionism" and the Bnai Brith as "evil collaborators against
mankind and humanity." It seeks to create the impression
that German soldiers are speaking to American soldiers,
and it brands as "idiot and criminal" anyone who believes
that even one single Jew was gassed in Hitler's concentra-
tion camps.
The letter speaks for itself. It reads:
"One of our American Jewish friends told me that the
Bonn government is planning to take some sort of legal
action against the group distributing the flyer. Personally,
I find it difficult to believe that the Federal Government of
Germany, as sensitive as it might be to the real dangers in
this vicious propaganda campaign, would ever risk the
publicity of raising this question to a level of public issue. It
is inconceivable to me that a government which for 30 years
has largely succeeded in insulating its younger generation
from the horrible truths associated with Hitler's Germany
would prosecute some of its own citizens for a 'logical' re-
statement of its own lie of omission.
"In any event, the open distribution of new instruments
of propaganda in West Germany is a dangerous symptom in
the Federal Republic. In addition, I am afraid that many
young Germans don't know the real truth and are likely to
believe the kind oFlies they read in flyers they find on their
windshields."
DISTURBING SIGNALS: The neo-Nazis may not suc-
ceed in their attempts to penetrate into the ranks of Ameri-
can servicemen in Germany with their anti-Semitic prop-
aganda, but they are obviously having some success among
men in the German military service.
An ugly scene took place in Munich when a dozen drun-
ken army officers-in-training tossed slips of paper with the
word "Jude" scribbled on them into a bonfire, as a symbolic
act of killing Jews and cremat_ng their bodies. Following
this repulsive example, a group of high school students
repeated the performance. In Frankfurt, Nazi swastikas
are being smeared on term papers. Nazi flags and anti-
Jewish slogans appear from time to time in Berlin. Neo-
Nazi information booths are set up every Saturday in
Hanover, distributing anti-Semitic newspapers and blar-
ing Nazi songs from loudspeakers. Macabre jokes are being
spread about the Holocaust.
Some leaders of the Jewish community in Germany are
inclined to consider neo-Nazis as not a serious threat.
JEWISH STAND: The Central Council of Jews in Ger-
many believes that the most serious problem is the failure
of the German schools to teach young people about Hitler's
responsibility for Germany's collapse in World War II. The
Council feels that behind the new anti-Semitic manifesta-
tions is the ignorance of a whole generation of Germans of
what has really taken place during the Nazi regime.
Several years ago, when I visited Germany, I had an
opportunity to discuss this matter in the Ministry of Educa-
tion in Bonn with top officials of the Ministry.
I found that this tragic subject is dealt with in just a
meager paragraph or two in the text books and in mere
passing, with the exception of one book which gave it about
Party for Israel
one full page illustrated with photos of "Jude" signs
smeared by Nazis on windows of Jewish stores. Former
JOHANNESBURG
Nazi teachers were still teaching contemporary history in
More
than
6,000
—
(JTA)
people jammed the Film high schools but the programs were being supervised by
Trust Arena last week for non-Nazi principals.
I left with the impression that the Bonn government
an evening of music and
dancing to commemorate sincerely wanted to erase anti-Semitic feelings implanted
in German youth during the Nazi era, but was not entirely
Israel's 30th anniversary.
The festivities were successful in this task. It was cautious not to develop an-
highlighted by slide pre, tagonism between parents and children in families where
sentations tracing the his- the parents were members of the Nazi Party or Nazi sym-
tory of the Jewish state and pathizers. In many homes there were conflicts between the
by a theatrical production parents and the youngsters when the latter spoke of the
depicting the economic, Nazis as criminals.
political and social de-
Pay Advanced to Stall Strikes
velopment of the people of
Israel.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — months.
The decision was promp-
Outside, on the arena's The Ministerial Wages and
parking lot, thousands of Economic Committee has
given the employes of
young people took part in an decided to grant all state
government-owned banks
Israel anniversary youth employes a 75 percent ad-
which
a prece-
by established
advances already
rally organized by the vance on their salaries if ted
dent employes.
for thousands of other
Johannesburg Jewish they agree not to go on state
strike for the next six
Youth Council.