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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Reagan's Middle East proposals
Soviets are laughing and the Arabs gloating
remarks of IVAN J. NOVICK, national President, Zionist
Organization of America, made to the ZOA National
Leadership Conference on October 5, 1982
Ivan J. Novick, ZOA president, charged that President Ronald Reagan's "good
intentions" regarding the Middle East were not being matched by "good decisions" and
that the President was being influenced by those in public life who have attempted in
previous years to sway American support from Israel toward the Arab states. The
President's recent proposals on the Middle East, had brought about the situation where
"America's best friend in the Middle East, Israel, feels compromised; that the Jewish
community is resentful of the extraordinary efforts made to divide us and that the Arabs
who President Reagan considered to be moderate have responded with platitudes but no
action."
"What has transpired is not good for America or the State of Israel. The Soviets are
laughing; the Arabs are gloating; the PLO is celebrating; while the U.S. and Israel, two of
the few remaining democracies left in the world, are engaged in bitter acrimony," said Mr.
Novick.
Mr. Novick said that the ZOA is troubled by the reaction of what he called "certain
friends of Israel, especially in the Jewish community, who are carried away by what
appears to them as a -reasonable proposal by the Reagan Administration and an
unreasonable reaction from the Prime Minister of the State of Israel."
"Why were they so gullible, so anxious, so willing to believe the worst about
Israel, without carefully' considering that a proposal presented to the Arabs in
advance may not have been in Israel's interests? Surely, we can expect better from
those who have followed the history of American-Israel relations, and who are
conizant of long-standing State Department policy for the past 34 years. They were
well aware of the tactics used to undermine the Jewish community's unified
support for Israel through these years. I would have hoped that rational thinking
would have prevailed and that they would not have reacted so quickly and,
perhaps, even irresponsibly," said ZOA President Novick.
Noting that there were some dissenters who contratulate themselves on their
so-called courage to speak out against Israel, Mr. Novick declared, "sadly, while
professing courage, the fact is that in today's world, it takes more courage to
defend Israel than to attack it."
Mr. Novick also stated that "neither the Jewish state nor the Jewish leaders lost their
souls. Rather it is the soul of the world that is mutilated when it continues to encourage the
PLO to believe it has a future. Friends." he continued, "It is not Israel's soul that is in
question. Israel has not lost its soul. Some Jews have lost their nerve."
The ZOA President warned that there are difficult days facing the American-
Jewish community and American-Israel relations. "No matter how right may be
Israel's cause, it is not easy to balance the avalanche of adverse reaction when it is
orchestrated by the total machinery of the Administration and given unfair, yes,
even unethical journalistic support in the media," he added.
Mr. Novick said that in meetings and correspondence with Secretary of State George
Shultz, the ZOA President has explained that "the core problem of the Arab-Israeli
dispute is the failure of the Arab nations to come to terms with the existence and
permanence of the Jewish state." Mr. Novick said that "if the Arab nations had their way
and if Israel were obligated to base its policies on the opinion of the world, especially as
enunciated by the anti-Israel votes at the United Nations, there would be no Jewish state
today."
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Collection of Pre-Holocaust
Photos Due from Publisher
NEW YORK — "A Van- in the 1930's when I began
ished World," a collection of to take the pictures that it
photographs portraying was too dangerous," he re-
Jewish life in Germany and called.
Eastern Europe at the onset
Dr. Vishniac said that
of the Holocaust, will be of the 16,000 pictures he
published next year by Far- took in Eastern Europe
rar, Straus and Giroux.
and Germany, 2,000 sur-
The pictures were taken vive. He did most of the
secretly by Dr. Roman Vis- work with a Rolleflex and
hniac, a physician and a Leica, using available
biologist born in Czarist light to avoid attention
Russia, who has since and preserve reality.
gained fame as an interna-
To buy film and supplies
tional photographer. Dr. in Berlin, which were for-
Vishniac hid the negatives bidden to Jews, Dr. Vis-
in France before bringing hniac sometimes gave the
them to the United States in Nazi salute. Of his many
1947.
previously published
"Ashes in Jerusalem photographs, one that had
don't tell the story of the worldwide impact showed
death of a way of life," Dr. stormtroopers burning
Vishniac said. "I was told by books in front of the
friends and photographers Reichstag.
Study Probes Arab Grants
LONDON — Arab grants
given with strings attached
and the threat they present
to academic freedom in
American universities is
the subject of the latest re-
port published by the Insti-
tute of Jewish Affairs (IJA),
the research arm of the
world Jewish Congress.
The flow of petrodollars
into the U.S. following the
1973 oil embargo led
"American colleges and
universities strapped for
funds and facing declining
student enrollments (to
engage) in a scramble for
Arab dollars," according to
the IJA study. Co-operative
arrangements between
Arab and American univer-
sities for training Arab fa-
culty and the endowment of
chairs for various types of
Arab studies gave rise to
fears that Arab grants were
endangering academic
freedom and indeed distort-
ing the educational process,
the study claims.
The report says that Arab
influence in American uni-
versities is an aspect of the
WC Urges
Begin Ouster
NEW YORK — The
Workmen's Circle has
called for the "dissolution"
of the Begin government
and "the earliest possible
elections in Israel," in the
wake of last month's mas-
sacre of Palestinian civi-
lians at the Shatila and
Sabra refugee camps in
Lebanon.
\The organization ex-
pressed its "shock, revul-
sion and outrage" at' the
massacre in a statement is-
sued last week by Dr. Israel
Kugler, Workmen's Circle
president.
The statement also called
for the prosecution of Chris-
tian militia members who
took part in the killings and
a "full, fair and impartial
investigation of (the) tragic
events."
The doubts of an honest
man contain more moral
truth than the profession of
faith of people under a
worldly yoke.
—Doudan
larger problem of Arab
influence in the U.S. gener-
ally. "To counteract the
influence will require the
organizational resources of
the entire Jewish commu-
nity, a task it is slowly be-
ginning to undertake," the
report concludes.
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