THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
MOVING?
`Israel, White House Tension to Continue Under Reagan'
LONDON (JTA) — A
senior American Jewish
leader said here that Is-
raelis were "having pipe
dreams" if they thought
that the Reagan Adminis-
tration was going to base its
Middle East policy solely on
a close security with Israel.
Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg,
vice president of the World
Jewish Congress, told the
Board of Deputies of British
Jews that although
President-elect Reagan had
"tremendous goodwill" for
Israel and the Palestine
Liberation Organization
Tould be a "non-starter"
zice he was in office, it
would be wrong to presume
that there would be no more
problems between the
Jewish state and the White
House.
Hertzberg, who stopped
here en route to next week's
World Jewish Congress as-
sembly in Jerusalem,
ridiculed Israeli commen-
tators who had deduced
from Reagan's election
statements that Israel
would now be regarded as a
"first class strategic asset"
by America's military
thinkers.
Noting that Reagan
had been given a man-
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Russians, Hertzberg said added.
In the meantime, Israel's
Reagan was probably the
only American President friends in the United States
who could go to Moscow would find that it would be
to make a global agree- "business as usual" with the
ment with the Soviet incoming Administration
and that they would have to
leadership. "At that mo-
ment I would worry "fight out the problem one
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up a "Jewish desk" in the
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Israel-Spain Ties Supported
JERUSALEM (JNI) — both receive no cooperation
Spanish Conservative from their neighbors in
leader Manuel Fraga fighting them.
Iribane declared on Israel
Israel's Arab neighbors
Radio last week that "for have advanced "great objec-
cultural, historical and con- tions" to ties between Spain
temporary reasons, my and Israel, the current head
country should initiate full of Spain's fourth laigest
relations with Israel in all party said. "But Spain
spheres."
should not let other coun-
When Spain soon enters tries interfere in our foreign
the European Economic relations," he continued.
Community, it will be the
His visit was the first by a
only member nation that
head of a Spanish political
does not maintain diploma- party and Iribane met with
tic relations with Israel.
Prime Minister Menahem
Drawing parallels be- Begin and leaders of the op-
tween Palestinian warfare position Labor Party.
against Israel and Basque
actions against Spain, the
former minister of informa- Terrorism Drops
tion under Gen. Francisco
HAIFA (JNI) — Year-end
Franco called PLO chair- statistics indicate that the
man Yasir Arafat's visit to number of terrorist inci-
Franco "a great mistake via dents along the Lebanese
Washington." He ex- border fell by 53 percent in
plained, "We have enough 1980.
The decrease in northern
terrorists in our country."
A vocal opponent of the terrorism, credited by the
Spanish regime, Iribane Israel Defense Forces to its
also "confirmed" that pre-emptive strikes against
government's approval PLO bases in Lebanon, was
of ties between the accompanied by a 50 per-
"ETA" force for the inde- cent drop in the number of
pendence of Spain's Bas- Israelis wounded and a 20
que region and "terrorist, percent decline in those kil-
anti-Israel organizations led in 1980 terrorism.
The number of terrorist
of Lebanon."
Both Spain and Israel are incidents inside Israel pro-
fighting terrorists infiltrat- per declined by almost half,
ing from neighboring coun- with the total - number down
tries, Iribane observed, and by eight percent.
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