Exposing the Fand Proposal as a Scheme to Liquidate State of Isradl THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review Commentary, Page 2 Copyright VOL. LXXX, No. 12 of Jewish Events .'sj The Jewish News Publishing Nobel Prize Winner Elias Canetti: An Authoritative Evaluation Feature Essay By Guy Stern, Page 72 co 17515.W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $15 Per Year: This Issue 35° November 20, 1981 Prejudice Links With 'Lobby' Charges Exposed in Survey Study Dissects Saudi Plan for M.E. Peace By DR. GEORGE a GRUEN Director. Middle East Affairs American Jewish Committee NEW YORK — The eight-point Saudi plan sets out a series of Arab demands which are to be imposed upon Israel by the United Nations. This is contrary to UN Security Council Resolution 338, unanimously adopted after the 1973 Yom Kippur War, in which the council decided that "negotiations (should immediately) start between the par- ties concerned" to achieve a just and durable peace in the Middle East, based on Security Council Resolution 242 of 1967. The Camp David Accords are explicitly based on these two resolutions and the historic Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty was achieved by the process of direct negotiations. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak reaffirmed to a delega- tion of American Jewish Committee officers in Cairo on Nov. 4 his view that any other approach "lacks reality" and expressed his hope that other Arab states would come to see the value of Egypt's example of pursuing direct negotia- tions. The Saudi "peace plan" undercuts this process by raising Arab hopes that they can achieve their objectives through international pressure on Israel. The Saudi plan does not explicitly state that Israel has the right to live in peace "within secure and rec- ognized boundaries" as called for in resolution 242. Nor is there any reference to normal relations be- tween Israel and its neighbors as is provided in Camp David. Much has been made of point seven of Crown Prince Fand ibn Abd al-Aziz's "peace" plan. As offi- cially presented to the United Nations on Oct. 5 by Prince Saud al-Faisal, the Saudi Foreign Minister, point seven reads: "confirmation of the right of the countries of the region to live in peace." To the American reader this obviously includes Israel. But does it to the Saudis? In the same speech the following sentence appears: "Ever since the forces of East and West (Continued on Page 13) NEW YORK (JTA) — Of the pro-AWACS mail received by U.S. Senators during the October debate, 7.1 percent was anti-Semitic and 32 percent was critical of Israel for alleged "interference" in the controversy, according to a survey made public by the Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith. The survey, conducted following reports that anti-Semitism had surfaced among some of the Senators' constituents during the AWACS debate, further revealed that the mail ran more than 2-1 against the sale. U.S. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger described the injec- tion of criticism of the "Jewish lobby" in the debate on the sale of AWACS reconnaissance aircraft and other sophisticated weaponry to Saudi Arabia as an "ugly tone" and at the same time reaffirmed President Reagan's commitment to Israel. Weinberger also said the United States would require any proposal for peace in the Mideast to contain "explicit recognition" of Israel, although he admitted that "bits and pieces" of any proposal by Israel's neighbors could be used to supplement the Camp David process. Speaking to the ADL this week, Weinberger said, "The only plan that CASPAR WEINBERGER meets this basic condition is the Camp David negotiating process." He said that the U.S. would not be "pressured" into accepting any other approach. "I think that is something everyone in the world should understand," he said. Weinberger's remarks on Middle East foreign policy were part of his address to 600 people at the Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith "Man of the Year Award" dinner in New York over the weekend. It was Weinberger's first address to a Jewish group since Senate approval last month of the $8.5 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia. Moderate WB Arabs Protest PLO Murder JERUSALEM (JTA) — Moderate Arab leaders in the West Bank condemned the attack Tuesday on Yussuf Al-Khatib, head of the village association in the Ramallah district. The leaders expressed sorrow at the death of Al-Khatib's son, Khazem. The attack took place Tuesday morning, when father and son were on their way from their home village to Ramallah. Al- Khatib was apparently attacked for his close ties with the Israeli authorities. The security forces have not detained any suspects in the attack. The statement was published Wednesday in the Israeli Arab language daily Al-Anba by another village associa- (Continued on Page 14) Weinberger spoke after the ADL's national director, Nathan Perlmutter, challenged "persons of high responsi- bility" to "categorically repudiate the injection of anti-Semitism and its crony, dual loyalty" into the Middle East debate. Perlmutter suggested this should be done just as former President Dwight Eisenhower pub- licly denounced "McCarthyism." Perlmutter said, "Let me say quickly but firmly: a vote against the AWACS enhancements was no less an expression of Americanism than a vote for the AWACS. And a vote for the AWACS enhancements (Continued on Page 10) Tenth of Pre-1948 Jewish Population Left in Islam NEW YORK — Of the nearly one million Jews who lived in the Muslim Arab world in 1945, less than one-tenth that number remain today, according to articles in the autumn 1981 issue of Present Tense magazine, published by the American Jewish Committee. Describing "Islam and the Jewish Experience," Lois Gottesman states that the establishment of Israel in 1948 resulted in "determined campaigns against the Jews. Many were expelled with hardly more than the clothes on their backs." - In the special issue of the quarterly magazine which is given over almost entirely to a discussion of "The Jewish-Muslim Connection," Ms. Gottesman and others analyze the factors leading to the decline of the Jewish presence in Muslim nations. Even before Israel was founded, Ms. Gottesman points out, the situation of the Jews in Islamic countries had become increasingly precarious: "In several Arab countries new anti-Jewish measures were taken from the moment Israel achieved independence. In the 1930s and 1940s, the spread of Nazi propaganda and the Axis occupations of Arab states, such as Libya and Tunisia, were accom- panied by anti-Jewish persecutions and even pogroms." Nevertheless, she believes, it is the Jews who lived under Islam, and were influenced by it politically, economically and culturally, who may one day serve as a bridge between Jew and Muslim in the Middle East today. A research analyst on Israel and the Middle East for the American Jewish Commit- tee, Ms. Gottesman notes that, like Christianity, Islam is based partly on Judaism and has much in common with Jewish practice. "Like Judaism," she says, "it is not only a faith but a way of life, an orientation to the world." In support of Ms. Gottesman's view, Daniel Pipes, an historian affiliated with the University of Chicago, writes in the same Present Tense issue that "Islam followed the Jewish approach to God by stressing works over faith ... Both are all-encompassing, touching on family relations, social behavior, personal habits, political attitudes." Pipes, like Ms. Gottesman, stresses the fact that the once-flourishing Jewish communities in Muslim countries have been decimated, "and it is easy to forget that most Jews once lived among Muslims." Nissim Rejwan, a writer and editor who was born in Iraq and moved to Israel after 1948, recalls in "Life Among the Muslims: A Memoir," that he and his relatives and friends in Baghdad in the mid-1940s lived in a general atmosphere of "tolerance." Even (Continued on Page 12) • 1 • Jewish Population in Muslim Countries Afghanistan Algeria Bahrein Egypt Iran Iraq Lebanon . Libya Morocco Sudan Syria Tunisia Turkey Yemen (including Aden) Approximate Totals pre-1948 5,000 130,000-140,000 400 75,000 90,000-100,000 125,000 5,000 38,000 265,000-300,000 400 30,000(1943) 105,000 80,000 55,000 1,003,000-1,060,000 1980 70 600 10 300 35,000-50,000 350 300-400 15 (?) 18,000 40 5,000 6,000 20,000-22,000 1,000-1,500 86,000-104,000