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Moshe Dayan Is Pessimistic About London Peace Meetings
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Foreign Minister Moshe
4 Dayan cautioned Israelis
Wednesday not to expect too
much from his meeting with
Egyptian Foreign Minister
Mohammed Kaamel- and
U.S. Secretary of State
Cyrus Vance in London
_ next week.
Briefing the Knesset's
Foreign Affairs and Sec-
urity Committee, he said he
expected the Americans to
try to revive negotiations
for a joint Israeli-Egyptian
declaration of principles as
a means of skirting a dead-
lock over the conflicting Is-
raeli and Egyptian peace
proposals. He said he op-
posed such a move.
Dayan made it clear that
he thought the prospects for
progress in London were
slim. Dayan appeared be- ritorial compromises to-
fore the Knesset committee ward the American view
to present an up-to-date that Israel should return to
analysis of the political its 1967 borders with only
situation before his depar- minor boundary adjust-
ture for London. But most of meats. That charge brought
the session was taken up by angry denials from Labor.
a bitter clash between the
foreign minister and his
former Labor Alignment
colleagues.
Dayan was also ques-
tioned sharply by MKs of
the National Religious
Party (NRP), a coalition
partner.
wean the Israeli and Egyp-
tian peace plans, it is cer-
tain to fail. Contrary to
Dayan, they favored
another attempt to reach a
joint declaration as the
basis for further negotia-
tions. Yehuda Ben-Meir,
the NRP whip, warned that
failure in London was sure
to lead to an imposed
American plan. "The decla-
ration of principles is the
only way to push the
At an earlier meeting,
Dayan said that if current
negotiations with Egypt col-
lapse, Israel should unilat-
erally implement its "self-
rule" plan for the West
MOSHE DAYAN
Bank and Gaza Strip. He
accused the Labor Align- Most of the MKs agreed
ment of retreating from its that if the London meeting
position of reasonable ter- becomes an encounter bet-
negotiations forward and to
test Sadat's intentions," he
said.
Ben-Meir also disagreed
with Dayan's continued
criticism of the Vienna
meeting between Labor
Alignment leader Shimon
Peres and President Anwar
Sadat of Egypt over the
weekend.
Haim Bar-Lev, secret-
ary of the Labor Party,
said Wednesday that
there is a "fair basis" for
negotiations with Egypt
and that he agreed with
"the entire world" that as
long as Begin's govern-
ment refused to consider
territorial compromise in
all sectors, "there is no
chance to achieve
peace."
Bar-Lev declared in a
radio interview that when
President Sadat refrains
from demanding a Palesti-
nian state on the West Bank
and expresses readiness for
territorial adjustments in
consideration of Israel's
security needs "he provides
a fair basis for negotia-
tions."
In Washington on Mon-
day, Vance said that a "de-
claration of principles" to
An Anti -Semitic Revision of Recent Polish History
whelming influence of
"Behold! the Polish - American culture.
Americans" (Enduranc e Wytrwal refused to accept
Press) is Detroiter Josep h the outcome of the dilemma,
A. Wytrwal's most recen t and began searching for a
publication. It includes a scapegoat to blame for an
"Foreword" by Benedyc t unavoidable historic oc-
Markowski, a bibliography currence. He found one —
a demographic table of th e the public school teachers of
European Slays based o n Jewish descent. He asserts,
Hans Kohn's study "Pan "Not infrequently they (the
Slavism, Its History an d Polish students) were ex-
Ideology."
posed to teachers of Jewish
The introductory chapter descent whose parents mig-
"The Polish Inheritance" rated from Poland. Their
presents a concise chronicle presentation of Polish his-
of Poland. According to it, tory — in the context of
Poland's beginnings are world history — was far
legendary and its first ruler, from objective."
,Piast, is a legendary chief-
Not
surprisingly,
tain.
Wytrwal misstates that
Similarly, Jewish begin- "Countless numbers of
nings in Poland are legen- Poles lost their lives in
dary. According to a legend, defending their Jewish
a Jew named Abraham neighbors" and "Recent
Prokhovnick was declared studies have revealed
Poland's first king, but res- that some 300,000 Jews
igned in favor of Piast.
were able to survive the
By ALLEN A. WARSES1
After Poland's final
partition in 1795, Wytr-
wal states, the situation
of the Jews deteriorated.
Their situation remained
precarious even after Po-
' land's rebirth in 1918.
Following Poland's re-
birth a dilemma — to return
or not to return to Poland—
confronted the Polish-
Americans. The majority
remained in the United
States. Moreover, "In time,
the nostalgic and sentimen-
tal attachment to Poland —
after the enthusiastic con-
clusion of World War I —
faded into the background."
The younger generation
of Polish-Americans faced a
similar dilemma — to re-
tain the Polish parental
heritage or adopt the
American way of life. Their
dilemma was resolved by
environmental factors,
principally by the over-
These heroes, if they
could, would have expressed
feelings of indignation at
Wytrwal's unfounded
exaggerations.
Wytrwal, furthermore,
follows the Russian gov-
ernment's "Babi Yar pol-
icy" of concealing facts
by blending them with
those that are in line with
his prejudices. Thus, he is
concealing the number of
Polish Jews who
perished in the Holocaust
by including them as
Poles in the total number
of Polish citizens the
Nazis exterminated.
Wytrwal devotes three
chapters to "Polish-Black,"
"Polish-Jewish" - and
"Polish-Indian" relations.
The chapter "Polish-
Jewish Relations in
America" is a malicious at-
tack not only on the Ameri-
Nazi Holocaust thanks to can Jews, but on world
the assistance given by Jewry. It commences with a
Poles who risked their lie and concludes with lies.
own lives in aiding the It reads, "One of the ironies
Jews."
of history is that the Poles,
True, as the "Encyc- who sacrificed more than
lopedia Judaica" points out, any other people to assist
the "Council for aid to Jews" their Jewish neighbors dur-
provided 'Aryan' documents ing World War II, have one
and shelter in Polish of the worst reputations in
houses, rescued children, this regard. Since World
extended financial aid and War H writers of the various
helped some 50,000 Jews. It Jewish histories have
is also true that there "were created a deliberate false
more than a few individual stereotype of Poles as rav-
Poles who had the moral ing anti-Semites."
strength to overcome fear of
The writers this reviewer
death (the punishment for is aware of, who created a
giving refuge to Jews) and "stereotype of Poles as rav-
the pressure exerted on ing anti-Semites," are none
them by the prevailing other than Joseph A. Wytr-
anti-Jewish climate of opin- wal and those like him, who
ion, to stretch out a helping for decades have been fab-
hand to the persecuted ricating books, pamphlets,
Jews. Some of these Poles, magazine and newspaper
along with their families articles, etc. saturated with
had to pay with their lives anti-Semitic venom, lies
for the courage- they dis- and innuendoes. Their
played in aiding Jews."
Jew-hating "creations"
could fill the shelves of the
Library of Congress.
Wytrwal, moreover,
repeats the vile fabrica-
tions of the Protocols of
the Elders of Zion and the
deceptions of Joseph P.
Goelibels.
He writes unashamedly,
"The current wave of ter-
rorism against the Jews —
not only in Israel, but in
other countries where they
are established — seems to
be the ultimate and periodic
reaction to Jewry's hatred of
the world's non-Jews ...
The Jew's selfish outlook at
the world will continue to
reap the harvest of bad seed
until their egomaniacal
concept 'of the chosen
people' is humanized into
one ofcaring about others --
especially non-Jews with as
much passion and en-
thusiasm as they are about
their own destiny and suc-
cess.
"It is this relentless
hatred which has inspired
the phenomenon of anti-
Semitism all over the world
wherever Jews have been
concentrated to become a
social problem."
Kfir OK A Gimmick?
By JOSEPH POLAKOFF
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
The U.S. government's posi-
tion of "looking favorably"
on Israel's sale of its Kfir
planes to Taiwan is a mean-
ingless gesture intended
merely to promote Israeli-
American amity.
The State Department
had spoken approvingly in
an apparent reversal of its
position last March regard-
ing a possible Israeli-
Taiwan contract but it now
seems Washington knew all
along that Taiwan would
not buy the Israeli aircraft.
Taiwan has been dicker-
ing for the U.S. Phantom
F-4 but the Carter Ad-
ministration is reluctant to
go through with such an ar-
rangement since it would
upset the People's Republic
of China with which it is
seeking to improve rela-
tions. Fresh U.S. military
support for Taiwan would
be displeasing to Peking.
It is this political factor
plus Washington's desire
to mend psychologically
its tattered relations with
Israel that caused the
Carter Administration to
put a public okay on an
Israeli-Taiwan deal.
The matter arose again at
the State Department after
press reports said Taiwan
has rejected buying the
Kfir. The Taiwan Defense
Ministry in Taipei was
quoted by news services as
saying that "over the years
the Ministry has time and
again categorically denied
such fighter deals with Is-
rael," and declared it has
"no plan to buy Kfir jets
from Israel."
In being questioned on
this aspect, the State De-
partment was asked
whether it knew in advance
of July 5 that Taiwan would
not buy the Kfirs. The De-
partment replied that it
would supply an answer la-
ter. Meanwhile, it continues
to insist that the decision is
Taiwan's to make and
Taiwan has not yet made it.
Traffic Experts
to Meet in Israel
NEW YORK — Interna-
tional experts on integra-
tion of traffic and transpor-
tation engineering in urban
planning will convene in
Tel AViv for five days in De-
cember.
Discussions will take
place on finding low-cost
solutions to air and noise
pollution, decreasing fuel
consumption, lessening
traffic congestion and
promoting increased road
safety.
Town planners and
transportation engineers
will discuss physical design
of systems to move people
and goods; vehicle design,
town planning and en-
vironmental topics will be
featured as well as public
transportation and traffic
engineering issues.
broaden "future negotia-
tions" for a Middle East set-
tlement will be "one of three
documents" on the table in
London. He told a news con-
ference that the other two
documents will be the re-
spective proposals of Israel_
and Egypt, neither of which
is acceptable to the other.
Vance did not elaborate
on the "declaration of prin-
ciples." The State Depart-
ment later said the declara-
tion referred to by Vance is
"primarily a product of
negotiations between the
two sides." A department
spokesman said that "it is a
paper that states the posi-
tions of the two parties up to
now."
He observed that Egypt
and Israel have been
"tinkering" with a decla-
ration and the secretary's
reference is a reflection
of that. He acknowledged
that the U.S. has been in-
volved in the discussions
but did not say it was an
American document.
Vance told reporters that
he "would not confirm" re-
ports that President Carter
has worked out pre-
conditions" for a Mideast
settlement.
Vance described both the
Israeli and Egyptian prop-
osals as having "deficien-
cies" but said they also have
"positive elements" and "we
should build on those posi-
tive elements."
Over the weekend, Chan-
cellor Bruno Kreisky of Au-
stria released a four-point
program for a Middle East
peace settlement that opens
with a call to Egypt and Is-
rael to resume their sus-
pended negotiations and
continue them in direct con-
tact until a peace treaty is
concluded and signed.
The document was
drafted by Kreisky and
former West German Chan-
cellor Willy Brandt, head of
the Socialist International,
which held a conference in
Vienna.
The document elicited
favorable comment from
Shimon Peres, who con-
ferred with Sadat for five
hours in Vienna.
The key Palestinian
clause of the document
which speaks of the right of
the Palestinians to partici-
pate in the determination of
their future, follows almost
precisely the language used
by President Carter in the
Middle East peace formula
he proposed at his meeting
with Sadat at Aswan last
Jan. 4.
Peres was quoted as say-
ing that the absence of any
reference to a Palestinian
state or the PLO was favor-
able.
At the same time, Sadat
relayed a message to the Is-
raeli people "that I shall
continue with my peace in-
itiative to the end. Political
handicaps and misun-
derstandings between me
and the Israeli premier will
not prevent me from going
on with my plans," he told
Yediot Achronot correspon-
dent Ilan Kfir in a Vienna
interview.