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Vol. XLV
The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 19^* *
Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, August 28, 1970 Two Sections— 1* ™
Ho. 35
Jordan, Egypt and' Israel Begin Pe\ ;5«<*
J IN
Jarring Intermediary Role
Furnishes Strange Technique
UNITED NATIONS—The im
passible began hese this week
with Jordan, Egypt and Israel
in a stance of peace negotiations.
Observers hoped that even
this might provide the fade-
saving kind of diplomacy
through whioh the Arab coun
tries could live with the real
ities of the Middle East situa-
ion..
Foreign Minister Abba Eban
had been designated by Jsrael
as her representative, though he
had not yet appeared on the
scene. He is being represented
meanwhile by. Israel's Ambassa
dor Yosef Tekoah.
The negotiations began with
round-about techniques since the
Arabs have not come around so
far to being willing to sit ait the
same table as the Israelis.
Whait is taking place is that
each side is relaying to Chief
Negotiator Gunnar V. Jarring
what they wish to have' put to
the other side.
.Questioned on procedures for
the talk, Dr. Jarring replied that
he would see the negotiators
“one by one.” He added, “I don’t
think that in a problem like
this, text books are written on
how to behave . . . We have to
play it (by ear) to see which
way we will find in the fu
ture.”
Israel had wanted the talks
to be on the foreign ministers
level, to which the Arab coun
tries have not agreed. But it is
hoped that the negotiations will
be upgraded to this position of
importance.
Fulbright Favors
Enforced Settlement
WASHINGTON (JTA)—In a
sharply worded 37-page speech
to be delivered in the Senate,
Sen. J. W. Fulbright attacks
Arab and Israeli “myths" about
each other and favors United Na
tions imposition of a peace set
tlement “in the absence of a
voluntary settlement by the
parties.'” In connection with a
settlement guaranteed by the
UN, the Senator proposed, Is
rael must withdraw from all oc
cupied Arab territories and
provide.“a just settlement of the
refugee problem” and the United
States should—with force if nec
essary—“guarantee the territory
and independence of Israel
within the borders of (June 4)
1967.” Israel would have to agree
not to “violate those borders
herself.” Mr. Fulbright, who was
first elected to the Senate in 1944,
is the influential chairman of
the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee and a leading op
ponent of U. S. involvement in
Southeast .Asia. He has long been
considered by Israelis to be hos
tile to Zionismi and the Jewish
State, knd did not sign the let
ter from his 76 colleagues to
Secretary of State William P.
Rogers urging the sale to Israel
of the 125 jets she has been re
questing.
“Because the conflict is a
threat to the outside world, it
cannot be left solely to the
humors of the belligerents,” Mr.
Fulbright says in his speech,
JWV Convention Commentary
Delegates Disenchanted with Regency,
Choose Schlossberg in Spirited Election
by Adolph Rosenberg:
upon the thrust
and vitality of
Jubilee encampment of the Na
tional War Veterans in Atlanta
moved to a noisy conclusion as
delegates all but fought to de
termine who the next national
commander would be and were
moved to the point of agonizing
action over the role of imperiled
Israel and America’s multi
level ad, sometimes ambiguous
foreign policy.
The encompment came closer
to being a bivouac than many
of the war experienced delegates
ever thought they’d again en
counter. The overtouted Reg
ency Hotel, which has the justi
fiable status of being a national
architectural conversation piece,
became the conversation piece
for unacceptable service to con
ventioneers.
Delegates who were impressed
with the personal hospitality
and graciousneas of the Atlanta
JWV convention committtee left
the city with sotto voce com
ment about never wishing to re
turn to such a pioneer hotel
which supplied unsatisfactory
service where it counted most in
a so-called plush facility.
While the management had
the pat excuse of facilities
stretched by recent expansion
the unvarnished truth is that
such e magnitudinous facility
shbuld have been decommission
ed for such an interim and not
permitted by the Atlanta Con
vention Bureau or the Better
Business Bureau to continue to
receive visitors under such un
satisfactory conditions.
National convention delegates
have the right to expect the best
from such a high priced estab
lishment. Persons in Atlanta
who remember the high stand
ard the Regency preferred to
the General Assembly of the
Council of Jewish Federations
*nd Welfare Funds in 1968 tore
nstonished over the fantastic
drop of acceptibility or desira
bility.
But the importance of the host
hotel, so to speak, is fortunate
ly not the sole factor of a con
vention’* success. Ibis depends
tion and creativeness.
It did not take long for word
to pass that food service a* the
luncheons and dinners was not
good and some of these suffer
ed fan number at delegates in
attendance. But the quality of
the programs did not waver.
These reached a high in re
partee and wit at the luncheon
honoring Atlanta’s Mayor Sam
Massell and attended by a dozen
or more of the city’s Alderman-
ic Board. Mayor Massell, who
is a member of the JWV Post
in Atlanta, won the delegates
over completely with his “hay-
brilliant event. Auxiliary mem
bers had decided to cite espec-
the text of which was released.
/I have never fully understood
why some of our statesmen feel
that it would be a heinous crime
for external parties to ‘impose*
a solution. Under the United Na
tions Charter the Security
Council has full authority, pos
sibly even the obligation, to im
pose a settlement upon warring
parties who fail to make peace
on their own.”
Sen. Fulbright also recom
mends Palestinian self-determ-
wholly Israeli territory, the in-
ination without infringement on
temationalization of Jerusalem,
and UN -guaranteed free passage
through the Suez Canal and the
Gulf of Aqaba. “In due course,”
he says, ‘toe Palestinian Arabs
will find it necessary to accept
the existence of the State of
Israel and to recognize that
further, futile efforts to destroy
the Jewish State will only com
pound their own suffering.” Dis
cussing his Middle East proposal
on NBC-TYs “Meet the Pram,”
Sea. Fulbright said that now
was the best tkne since Worid
War n to effect a 3 — 3 : '
ment with the I
create tjghlte
force capable of enforcing a
Mideast peace. Until rnlfch a de
velopment occurs, he said, his
proposal for unilateral American
guarantees of JsraeT* security is
necessary because “Israel has
greet doubts” about the United
Nations. Sen. Fulbright also said
in the interview:: “If the Ger-
ELLIOTT GOLDBERG, At
lanta, elected commender,
orth JWV Region. (Story
page 12,) • j
mishee” or folksy frankness.
The Auxiliary luncheon hon
oring retiring president Mrs.
Freda Alexander was an equally
Jewish state merited comparisons
with the Biblical Deborah and
Miriam.
At the banquet honoring Com
mander Bernard Direnfieid, Sen
ator Alan Cranston of Cali
fornia displayed remarkable
savvy in his message about the
striking need for updating the
hospitals and general services
at the beck and call of the young
men who are risking life and
limb in Vietnam. His words
struck home to this group whose
ongoing dedication is to the
thousands of wounded veterans
still in hospitals and rehabilita-
Continned on page 4
JDL Rally Begun to Protest Red
Bias for Jews, Ends on Mideast Note
WASHINGTON (JTA)--About
4400 members of the Jewish De
fense League from some dozen
major cities in the United
States and Canada concluded
their week-long march from
Philadelphia to Washington on
behalf of Soviet Jewry with a
peaceful rally at Lafayette
Park.
Many of the youthful male
marchers, wearing fatigues, com
bat boots and yarmulkas, led by
JDL national chairman Rabbi
Men: Kahane, ended the rally
by .delivering a letter to toe
White House addressed to Pres
ident Nixon urging him to
“stand tall and firm in the Mid
dle East as you have done else
where.” The letter, signed by
Rabbi Kahane, called upon the
President to “quietly drop the
Rogers Plan that would destroy
Israel," and to support Israel
“with ay toe weapons needed
and tell the Soviets that their
intervention will not be tolerat
ed.”
The letter deplored what it
termed United States acquies
cence to tbe Soviet plan which,
under the “guise of diplom
acy . . . would emasculate Israel
and force it to return to the im
possible borders that guarantee
another war.” It also urged
President-Nixon not to let it be
said “to your dishonor that toe
United States presided over the
death of the natiqn it helped
come into existence.”
The marchers, who began their
trek last Sunday in protest
against Soviet aggression in the
Middle East and oppression of
Jews in the Soviet Union, ar
rived* in Washington on Friday
and headed for the Soviet Em
bassy where they attempted to
deliver a letter warning that
‘“world Jewry cannot sit kUy
by while your armed forces
emulate the Hitlerite fascists.”
When an Hmbesssy aide re
fused to accept the letter, Rabbi
Kahane read aloud the contents
of the letter which hinted that
the JDL would increase their
actions agains Soviet missions to
the U, S. mid commercial firms
unless their protest was heeded.
“We wish to advise you that our
patience is growing thin,” Rabbi
Kahane read from the latter. “It
is obvious that more plagues
must be visited upon you.”
Citing suoh events as toe JDL
seizure In New York of Teas,
the Soviet news agency, Anrtorg,
the Soviet commercial firm, In
tourist, toe Soviet tourist agency,
and a three-day protest in front
of the Soviet embasasy, Rabbi
Kahane declared: “The forces of
justice of freedom are too much
for the gusanos of oppression
and the pigs of tyranny. Let the
Jews of the prison known a*
the USSR go.”
The fogier of toe JDL had
complained before the march
began and during the course of
the march, that his call to Jew
ish organizations to aid the
marchers by providing hni«fa»y
and other facilities had met with
little response. Seymour D. Wolf,
president of the Jewish Com
munity Council of Greater
Washington, told the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency that the
JDU had asked for no such aid
from the Council, just to
operate in the rally.
make up with tbe Jews?,”
ing e flew minutes later: “We
have greet interest in toe Arabs,
too.” • K
In h is prepared Senate speech,
Sen. Fulbright observes that “the
ultimate danger is that the Arab-
j Israeli conflict, could drew the
superpowers sand the world into
a nuclear war—and that certain
ly ia a matter of vital interest”
The Arkansas Democrat says in
his text that “The myths that
shape events in the Middle Bast
are the oldest myths of all”
Egypt Building
More Missile Sites
TEL A^TV (JTA) — Israel’s
last two complaints about Xgyp-
tian missile construction during
the standstill cease-fire — her
fourth and fifth — dealt with
work on six to 15 new missile
sites, according to reliable
sources. Those are in addition
to the six to 15 missile-equipped
sites reported by Israel on Aug.
19. The newly reported bases are
net yet equipped with mtnrilas,
but their installation is a matter
of only hours. This means that
since the early part of last week
Egypt has doubled or more than
doubled her positions along the
Suez Cam* and thorn positions
are effective more than 20 kilo
meters (12% miles into the Is
raeli half of the cease-fire zone,
which is 50 kilometers (SI miles)
wide. Israel 1 * fifth complaint
was registered with toe United
Nations Trace Supervision Orga
nization (UNTSO). Its fourth
complaint was registered on
Friday.
Meanwhile, the Jewish Tele
graphic Agency learned from re
liable sources in Jerusalem that
the United Skates bin in fact ac
cepted the main points of the
Israeli charges, but it is not yet
clear whether Washington will
publicly admit it, having gone
on record as saying toe charges
co- were “very difficult to
or disprove.”
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