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Recollections
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`Nordau Redivivus'
to Stephen Wise

THE JEWISH NEWS

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Compromise Trends Emerge,
Test U.S.-Israeli Peace Aims

Begin Responds to
Reagan's Initiative

(Editor's note: The following response by Prime
Minister Menahem Begin of Israel was sent to U.S.
President Ronald Reagan following Reagan's latest
Middle East peace initiative.)
Dear Ron,
I thank you for your letter of Aug. 31, 1982, which
Ambassador Lewis was kind enough; upon instruction from
his government, to bring to me in Nahariya, now free of
rockets and shells. I enclose, herewith, the resolution of the
Cabinet, Sept. 2, 1982, adopted unanimously.
As each of the paragraphs is elaborated I have little to
add except to state — taking, if I
may, a leaf from your book —
that the government of Israel
will stand by its decision with
total dedication.
I have also read your speech
which preceded by 24 hours the
Cabinet consultation with my
colleagues. It serves as an addi-
tional testimony to your opinion,
or resolve. Indeed, my friend,
great events did take place since
we last met in Washington in
June. May I, however, give you a
somewhat different description
MENAHEM BEGIN
of those events.
On June 6, 1982, the Israel Defense Forces entered
Lebanon in order not to conquer territory, but to fight
and smash the armed bands operating from that
country against our land and its citizens. This, the IDF
did.
You will recall that we could not, regrettably, accept
your suggestion that we proclaim a cease-fire on Thursday,
June 10 at 6:00 hours because at that time the enemy was
still 18 kilometers from Metulla on our northern border.
However, 24 hours later, we pushed the enemy further
northwards; and on Friday, June 11, at 12 noon, we pro-
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Adhering to the rejections of claims that American Jewry is divided on the
issues affecting Israel's current defensive policies, the collective declarations on
the Reagan-Begin differences of views on the autonomy proposals for the Pales-
tinians point to trends aiming at compromise to reduce the U.S.-Israel tensions.
Scores of statements commenting on the latest confrontation indicate an
element of support for President Reagan's proposals, although in the main,
Prime Minister Begin is applauded for his determination not to sacrifice Israel's
security under any circumstance.
With the reservation that the Reagan position on Jerusalem and the avenue
his proposal opens for PLO influence in a role proposed for Jordan, deliberation
and negotiation on the plan rejected by the Israel Cabinet is advocated in many
quarters. .
Meanwhile, the 50-40 vote in the Knesset on Wednesday defeating a
JULIUS BERMAN
no-confidence motion strengthens the Begin position.
The views of Thomas Dine of the America Israel Public Affairs Committee
and Julius Berman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish
Organizations highlight the discussions and difficulties.
Berman said in a letter to President Reagan that it was the consensus of the
36 national Jewish groups comprising the Conference of Presidents that
Reagan's Middle East peace proposal "does violence to the spirit of Camp David
because it substitutes a specific American plan for the free give-and-take that is
essential if the parties to
the dispute are to resolve
their differences. In our
judgement, this is the
wrong step, at the wrong
time and for the wrong
ATLANTA — Ku Klux Klan factions from six
reasons."
states, including Michigan, have formed a confedera-
RONALD REAGAN
But the letter to Re-
tion and are planning a march and rally in Washing-
agan,
which
was
sent
Tuesday,
also pointed out that
ton, D.C. on Nov. 6. If it takes place, it will be the first
the Presidents' Conference found several positive
KKK rally in Washington in more than 50 years.
points in the' Administration's proposals. The group,
The Klan held a weekend rally in Stone
Berman said, welcomed Reagan's efforts to achieve
Mountain, Ga. and announced the confedera-
renewed Israeli-Arab negotiations; his call on Arab
tion of Klan factions totaling 6,000 members
from Michigan, Alabama, Georgia, North
states to "accept the reality of Israel as a necessary
and South Carolina, Texas, Ohio, Illinois and
pre-condition for progress toward peace"; his declara-
Canada.
tion that there must be no Palestinian state on the
The groups spent the weekend burning crosses
West Bank; and that Israel must not be required to
and making speeches against blacks and Jews.
return to its pre-1967 borders.
Don Black was elected "grand wizard" and said
"The4e statements give weight and sub-
the Nov. 6 rally's purpose was "to stand up for white

KKK Units Merge,
Plan D.C. Rally

interests."

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3rd World Conference on Soviet Jewry
In October Will Pressure for Emigration

JDC Leaders Check
on Lebanese Relief

PARIS (JTA) — The World Conference on Soviet Jewry, the third since 1971, will convene at Versailles Oct. 24-26
with the participation of 1,000 representatives of world-wide Jewish communities, ranking Israeli leaders, U.S.
Congressmen, and members of Britain's Parliament, the French National Assembly and of a dozen other national
legislative bodies
The Conference Steering Committee announced after a two-day meeting that Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy of
France will formally open the proceedings and Premier Menahem Begin of Israel will deliver the closing address.
Shimon Peres, chairman of Israel's Labor Party, will also speak. The conference will be chaired by Leon Dulzin,
chairman of the World Zionist Organization and Jewish Agency Executives.
A spokesman noted that the conference will convene at a time of mounting pressure against Jews in the
USSR and sharply declining emigration figures. Only 1, 723 Jews were permitted to leave the Soviet Union
during the first seven months of 1982 compared to 7,386 during the same period last year. Only 238 left in
August.
But conference organizers pointed out that the first two world gatherings for Soviet Jews in 1971 and 1976 had
had a positive effect on the rate of Jewish emigration and that the first meeting in 1971 marked the start of the Jewish
activist movement inside the USSR.
Begin is scheduled to meet with President Francois Mitterrand while in Paris and with other members of the
French government. The meetings are significant because Franco-Israeli relations reached a new low after the
terrorist attack on a Jewish restaurant on the Rue des Rosiers in Paris last month. Israel charged that France's Middle
East policy had created the climate "which enabled the terrorists to operate." Mitterrand strongly denied the charges.
Franco-Israeli relations were further aggravated by the participation of a French unit in supervising the
evacuation of the Palestine Liberation Organization from west Beirut and the insistance by the French government
that their departure should be carried out under "honorable" and "dignified" conditions.

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
chairman Donald Robinson, left, and Herbert Schiff
met with Bishop George Haddad in Tyre, Lebanon
while reviewing JDC relief efforts. The JDC has
helped innoculate 60,000 southern Lebanese children
against polio, distributed bedding and cooking
supplies, and helped clear 32 sites in Tyre for recon-
struction of housing, water and sewer systems.

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