12 Friday, January 15, 1982
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Sharon's Hard-Nosed Style Not Winning
Friends Among Defense Ministry Staff
By HUGH ORGEL
friends and foes alike, has
TEL AVIV (JTA) — De- been likened to a bulldozer,
fense Minister Ariel Sha- pushing everything aside to
ron, known as "Arik" to get where it wants to go.
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The Defense Ministry
and Army Staff reorgan-
ization plans drawn up
by Sharon were an-
nounced by the Defense
Ministry spokesman as
covering three main
fields. These involved the
consolidation of the Ar-
my's quartermaster
branch and the Defense
Ministry's purchasing
and procurement direc-
torate; integration of the
two units' research and
development facilities;
and a joint project ad-
ministration for produc-
tion of the Lavie jet-
fighter aircraft.
In addition, the Defense
Ministry's European pur-
chasing mission, based in
Paris, would be combined
with the Army's purchasing
mission and placed under
command of the military at-
tache at the Embassy in
Paris. A similar consolida-
tion is also planned in North
America.
Most of these consolida-
tion moves put the civilian
installations under the
command of army officers —
a reversal of the customary
subordination of the mili-
tary to overall civilian con-
trol Shaon's opponents
charge.
Sharon himself tried his
very best to explain that the
opposite was the case, that
he was only trying to
tighten up civilian control
by concentrating power in
his own hands as Minister
responsible for the civilian
ministry and with par-
liamentary responsibility
for Army General Head-
quarters.
The next few months
will be a major testing
time for Sharon, both as
regards his relations with
his civilian staff and his
political future and gen-
eral popularity. The first
test will come next April
for it is Sharon, as Minis-
ter of Defense, who will
be responsible for im-
plementing the final
withdrawal from Sinai.
It will be Sharon who will
order — or refrain from or-
dering — the Chief of Staff
to use force to evacuate
settlers from Yamit, if they
refuse to move of their own
accord. Until now, Sharon
has repeatedly appealed to
his Cabinet colleagues to
show restraint, not to force
the issue now but to wait
until April before deciding
whether to move the Yamit
residents and the squatters,
who have joined them.
Although Sharon's popu-
larity in public opinion polls
is- among the highest at the
moment, his high standing
might not survive an order
for Jewish soldiers to move
Jewish settlers by force if
necessary. A decline in
popularity would hinder
Sharon's chances of becom-
ing Prime Minister if Begin
steps down for any reason
and Sharon still most defi-
nitely has his eye on the
Premiership.
New Zionist Agency
Center of Debate
By BEN GALLOB
NEW YORK (JTA) — A
power struggle is underway
within American Conserva-
tive Judaism over the best
way to create a large Con-
servative Zionist organiza-
tion qualified for member-
ship in the American
Zionist Federation (AZF).
The goal is to give Ameri-
can Conservative Jews a
strong voice in the World
Zionist Organization and to
strengthen the Conserva-
tive movement's fight for
recognition in Israel, denied
to it by the dominant Or-
thodox rabbinate there, ac-
cording to information pro-
vided by qualified sources to
the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency.
The protagonists in the
conflict are Mercaz, the
three-year-old "Movement
for the Reaffirmation of
Conservative Zionism" and
the United Synagogue of
America, the association of
Conservative congrega-
tions. Rabbi Stanley
Rabinowitz of Washington,
president of Mercaz, lists
Mercaz membership at
10,000. The United
Synagogue claims a total
membership of 1.5 million
in its affiliated congrega-
tions.
Both Mercaz and
United Synagogue lead-
ers agree there should be
one big Conservative
Zionist organization, but
Mercaz leaders point to
the fact that Mercaz has
been accepted for mem-
bership in the AZF, the
coordinating agency for
all American Zionist
organizations; and that,
accordingly Mercaz,
structurally reorganized
to handle a mass mem-
bership, should be the big
Conservative Zionist
organization.
Last Nov. 22, Rabinowitz
and Rabbi Wolfe Kelman,
executive vice president of
the Rabbinical Aseembly,
the association of Conserva-
tive rabbis, were formally
voted in as AZF board
members, representing
Mercaz.
Some "elements in the
United Synagogue feel that
Mercaz cannot build a mass
membership and have pro-
posed an admittedly novel
concept of applying to the
AZF for mass membership
of a United Synagogue-
sponsored Conservative
Zionist group.
In a message to Mercaz
members on Dec. 4,
Rabinowitz wrote that it
was his understanding that
the United Synagogue
planned "to create a sepa-
rate instrumentality to
enter the (American)
Zionist Federation. This
procedure, if effective,
would create two Conserva-
tive Zionist organizations,
which would hardly benefit
either Zionism or the Con-
servative movement."
United Synagogue
President Marshall
Wolke was authorized by
a 1981 United Synagogue
convention resolution to
name the negotiating
committee, which man-
dated him to "develop
and implement the means
by which the force and
influence of the Conser-
vative movement in
America can be effec-
tively carried to the
World Zionist Organiza-
tion and Israel."
The 1981 convention also
issued a news release, de-
scribed by Rabinowitz(
"misleading," which
Glared that the delegateS
had acted to involve Ameri-
can Conservative
synagogues in the Zionist
movement through a
United Synagogue-
affiliated Zionist organiza-
tion which would belong to
the AZF.
The JTA was told that Re-
form leaders are watching
with great interest the
struggle within American
Conservative Judaism be-
cause Reform Judaism is
also rejected by the Israeli
Orthodox rabbinate. In re-
cent years, the refusal of
that rabbinate to recognize
the legitimacy of both Con-
servative and Reform
Judaism and their rabbis,
congregations and institu-
tions has created a growing
rift between Israel and
Diaspora communities, par-
ticularly American Jews.
Sadat Diplomacy
Chair at'NYU
.6;
ANWAR SADAT
NEW YORK — New
York University will estab-
lish an Anwer Sadat Chair
in Diplomacy, according to
Dr. John Brademas,
president of the university.
The chair will be occupied
byldholars who will teach
in this country and in Egypt
and Israel.
Troubled Victory
TEL AVIV (ZINS) — Ac-
cording to a feature series
by the newspaper Haaretz,
Arabs in the administered
territories are highly sym-
pathetic to the Palestine
Liberation Organization,
but concerned about the ef-
fect of a PLO victory over
Israel.
Arabs told Haaretz
porters that they expected
"PLO fighting men to
march in military forma-
tion into our newly pro-
claimed state."
When asked how such a
state would absorb hun-
dreds of thousands of Arabs
"streaming back to Pales-
tine" the Arabs said their
cities and towns individu-
ally could only absorb a few
of the refugees."