:11 1 12 Friday, October 22, 1982 f3 1 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." ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA I METROPOLITAN DETROIT DISTRICT IRVING LAKER President 18451 WEST 10 MILE ROAD SOUTHFIELD, MICHIGAN 48075 569-1515 SIDNEY SILVERMAN Chairman, Executive Committee 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." 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