The Response
to the UN Fiasco:
Israel's Fate
Is Not Negotiable

THE JEWISH NEWS

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VOL. LXXVII, No 2

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The UN Blunder,
Its Consequences,
President Carter
and the PLO

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March 14, 1980

Jewish Leaders Demanding
Clarified U.S. Policy on Israel

By DAVID FRIEDMAN

NEW YORK (JTA) — The more than 100 Jewish leaders who met with top

close, but the President would have won.
Rabbi William Berkowitz, president of the Jewish National Fund, told the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency later, that if a straw vote had been taken it would
have gone against the President.
Berkowitz and Malcolm Hoenlein, executive director of the Jewish
Community Relations Council of New York, told the JTA that those
attending the meeting stressed that even if references to Jerusalem had
been omitted from the UN resolution it was still a bad resolution which
the U.S. should have vetoed. Carter maintained that the resolution was
approved by the Administration because it was incorrectly believed that
all references to Jerusalem had been deleted.
Berkowitz said that what Strauss was saying was an echo of the President's
oft-repeated statement, "Trust me." Stanley Lowell, former chairman of the
National Conference on Soviet Jewry and an organizer of the meeting, said that
in demanding a public statement from the President the audience said it had to
come from Carter personally and not from Vice President Walter Mondale or
other Administration spokesmen.
There were serveral clashes with the police as Kahane and about a dozen
people with him sought to gain entrance into the Harmonie Club. Kahane called
those entering the building "Jewish Judenrat,"' and one of the persons with him
had a sign calling those inside "Capos."
Earlier in the day, seven members of the JDL took over the Carter-Mondale
election campaign office in Miami.
In Washington on Tuesday, President Carter said that the security
of Israel" is the "first and foremosSt"
principle that guides U.S. policy in
the Middle East and "secondly,
Jerusalem to be an undivided city."
The President made those remarks in
the course of a White House meeting
with a group of New York City civic and
communal leaders, including several
Jewish community leaders, during
which he spoke of the "legitimate rights
of the Palestinian people" but strongly
re-affirMed his opposition to an inde-
pendent Palestinian state and his re-
fusal to recognize the Palestine Libera-
tion Organization without pre-
conditions.

aides of President Carter on Tuesday demanded "a clear public statement" from
the President stressing his support for Israel.
Most of those attending the closed-door meeting at a Manhattan private
club did not appear to accept the reassurance of this support from Robert
Strauss, Carter's campaign manager, and Sol Linowitz, the President's special
ambassador for Middle East negotiations. Many said they still do not accept the
President's explanation that the United States voted for a resolution condemn-
ing Israel in the United Nations Security Council on March 1 because of a
communications "foul-up."
While the meeting was in progress a crowd of more than 100 persons, mostly
young people, demonstrated against Carter, chanting slogans such as "Carter
must go," and "Dump Carter now." There were several scuffles with the police
and Rabbi Meir Kahane, leader of the Jewish Defense League, and several
others were arrested. Manhattan Borough President Andrew Stein, who was
one of the demonstrators, accused the police of using excessive force.
At a brief press conference after the meeting, Strauss said that while
the UN vote was a mistake it has not stopped Israel and Egypt from
carrying out the start of diplomatic relations and continuing their efforts
to achieve peace through the autonomy talks. He said there was no
lessening of the President's commitment to Israel and the efforts to
achieve peace in the Middle East.
Jack Spitzer, president of Bnai Brith, told the press conference, that he
believed there was no question of the
President's commitment to the security
of Israel." He said that as Israeli Pre-
mier Menahem Begin has accepted Car-
ter's explanation of the UN vote so does
he. Rep. Stephen Solarz (D-NY), who is
on record as supporting Carter, said he
believed the meeting had helped to as-
suage the Jewish community.
Strauss maintained that if a straw
poll had been taken at the meeting the
President would have carried it very
well." But Benjamin Epstein, executive
vice president of the Foundation of the
Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith,
and one of the organizers of the meeting,
ROBERT STRAUSS
JIMMY CARTER
interjected and said it would have been

New York Mayor Blasts Carter's
`Gang of Five' on Foreign Affairs

WEW YORK (JTA) — Mayor Edward Koch of New York asserted Tuesday in a
bii.cering denunciation of the Carter Administration's handling of an anti-Israel resolu-
tion at the Security Council for which the United States voted, that President Carter was
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, ounded by "a Gang of Five" advisers. Koch said the five key advisers were pushing
dent Carter into an anti-Israel position.
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He listed the five as Harold Saunders, assistant secretary of state for Near East and
South Asian affairs; Cyrus Vance, secretary of state; National Security Adviser Zbigniew
Brzezinski; U.S. Ambassador to the UN Donald McHenry and former U.S. Ambassador
Andrew Young.
The mayor, a leading Jewish supporter of Carter's re-election, urged the
President to quickly re-affirm his authority over the State Department before the
"Gang of Five" damaged Israel. The substance was to position
Koch as a Jewish supporter who did not hold the President
solely responsible for the mix-up over the anti-Israel Security
Council resolution of March I.
Koch warned that the U.S. vote had seriously damaged the
President's chances for winning the March 25 New York state pri-
mary and his chances for re-election.
Indicating he doubted whether the President's surprise disav-
owal on March 3 of the U.S. vote, which referred repeatedly to
Jerusalem as part of the "occupied territories" and called for the
dismantling of Jewish settlements in those areas, would end the
concern of Jewish voters. Koch called on Carter to publicly clarify
f
KOCH
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SOL LINOWITZ

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French Are Pushing Europe
to Formally Recognize PLO

TEL AVIV (JTA) — Israeli officials are bracing for a possible attempt by France,
West Germany and Britain to nullify United Nations Security Council Resolution 242 or
amend it in a way that would recognize the Palestinians as a political entity. The thrust
of the three countries, the most powerful members of the European Economic Commu-
nity (EEC), was made clear in the recent statements by President Valery Giscard
d'Estaing of France, endorsing Palestinian self-determination. He was backed up
strongly by West German leaders.
Resolution 242, agreed to by all parties as the basis for a Middle East peace settle-
ment when it was first formulated in November 1967, is the foundation on which the
Camp David accord rest. Premier Menahem Begin warned last week that any alteration
of the resolution would eliminate the basis of the Camp David agreements with inevita-
ble consequences.
Giscard's position was stated in the course of his visit to
the Persian Gulf states and Jordan. He said in Amman that the
Palestine Liberation Organization must be given a voice in a
Middle East settlement and that it was time to cease regarding
the Palestinians as refugees but as a people with the right to
self-determination. Resolution 242 refers to the Palestinians
in the context of a refugee problem.
In Washington, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt
supported the idea of self-determination for the Palestinians. West
German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher was quoted in an
interview published in Cairo as saying that more countries should
GISCARD
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