THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Kalb Reviews New Washington
Attitude Toward State of Israel
Minutes before President
Reagan was to deliver a na-
tionally televised Middle
East policy statement, TV
correspondent Marvin Kalb
was warning a Detroit Al-
lied Jewish Campaign
audience of the ominous
signs to be revealed in that
administration statement.
"I'm not saying that
(Washington) is anti-
Israel," he told the Sept. 1
gathering at Adat Shalom
Synagogue, "but it is no
longer automatically pro-
Israel."
Kalb, who also addressed
a major gifts meeting of
women that afternoon at
the home of Helen Zucker-
man, drew more than 200
persons to the evening
gathering. It was an-
nounced that the two meet-
ings, coupled with earlier
fund-raisings, have yielded
a 1983 Campaign total to
date of $6,284,000 plus
$3,176,000 for the Israel
Emergency Fund.
Kalb
described
President Reagan as hav-
ing been "instinctively"
pro-Israel before his elec-
tion. Now, along with a
changing mood on
Capitol Hill, Reagan and
his closest advisers are
doing more "thinking"
and less "operating by
instinct," the journalist
said.
With Israel in a strong
military position following
the war in Lebanon,
"America's position in the
Middle East has never been
stronger," said Kalb. "But
when you have one friend
(the U.S.) in the world, and
when that friend manifests
obvious exasperation with
its ally in the Middle East,
that ally is more vulnerable
and alone than ever before."
Mentioning Reagan's ad-
visers by name, Kalb said
that the Secretary of State,
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National Security Adviser is being asked to give up its
and Secretary of Defense highest form of security,
"all have taken a line land, in exchange for Arab
clearly more 'even-handed' intangibles: promises. "In
than that taken by any the nature of negotiation,"
previous Administration." he said, "there is something
They are "clearly impatient inherently unfair."
To the U.S., said Kalb,
with Israel's definition of
autonomy for the Palesti- "the Middle East is only
nian people." He predicted one part of the world, and
tougher confrontations for Israel is only one part of
Israel with the U.S.
that part." To Israel, "the
"Whether the Palestinian Middle East is the world,
problem is the core issue in the only part in which she
the Middle East, or whether has a vital interest."
the core issue is the Arab
Israel's friends in the U.S.
acceptance of Israel, is moot "face their greatest test of
— because the world sees character, courage,
Palestine as the core issue," generosity and steadfast-
Kalb said.
ness," Kalb concluded. "At
In analyzing the nature issue is the survival of Is-
of Israel's growing isola- rael, the one democracy in
tion, Kalb said the "criti- the Middle East, the one
cal time" began in No- solid ally of the U.S. in the
vember 1973 in the wake Middle East and the repos-
of the Yom Kippur War. itory of Jewish values and
The use of oil as a politi- Jewish ethics."
cal weapon suddenly
made America vulnera- AJCommittee
ble, "hostage to the fam- Study Criticizes
ily in power on the des-
School Prayer
erts of Arabia."
With President Reagan
NEW YORK — The cur-
absorbed in economic re- rent effort to inject religion
covery, and with the mili- into public schools through
tary operation in Lebanon the proposed constitutional
having changed the popular ammendment for voluntary
image of rsrael from a David prayer poses a very serious
to a Goliath, Kalb said,•rela- danger to freedom of reli-
tions between the U.S. and gion, the Bill of Rights, and
Israel are bound to be se
the balance of powers be-
verely strained.
tween the three branches of
Recalling a conversation government, according to a
he had with Henry Kis- recent report by the Ameri-
singer during his shuttle can Jewish Committee.
diplomacy in May 1974,
Written by Samuel
Kalb quoted the then- Rabinove, director of the
Secretary of State as saying discrimination division of
negotiations were particu- the AJCommittee's domes-
larly painful for an Israeli tic affairs department, the
leader: one critical mistake study is part of a series.
could lead to the dissolution
of the state of Israel. "For
the United States, or Egypt,
or Syria, one mistake is im-
portant, but there is no such
fear that the state will cease
to exist."
And yet, Kalb said, Israel
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on behalf of
Jewish Federation Apartments and Jewish Home for Aged
would like you to join them
at the
Ground-Breaking Ceremony
for the new
Edward I. and Freda Fleischman Residence
Samuel and Lillian Hechtman Federation Apartments
Louis C. and Edith B. Blumberg Plaza
Sunday, September 12, 1982
2:00 p.m.
Parking lot west of Jewish Community Center
In the top photograph, with Marvin Kalb, second
from left, are Campaign Chairman Joel Tauber, and
Jack Robinson and I. William Sherr. Women who
planned an earlier meeting for Kalb included, middle
photograph, seated, Bess Orecklin, Margot Halperin
and Janet Levine. Standing are Joan Goldrath, Nancy
Jacobson and Sandra Nathanson. In the bottom
photograph, a spontaneous donation of $5,000 from
Mr. and Mrs. Isadore Kolodney is accepted by Robert
Naftaly after the Kalb meeting.
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