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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry - Established 1925
Vol. XLVII Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, June 23, T972 Two Sections—12 Pages No. 25
ADL. Replies to Dacey: Israeli Justice Minister Resigns;
Times Ad "Libels''Jews Golda Takes Over Portfolio
NEW YORK (JTA) — Nor
man F. Dacey’s “defamatory
advertisement” in the June 16
New York Times “libels Amer
ican Jewish citizens, goes be
yond the bounds of good taste in
smearing American government
officials—including the Presi
dent—with innuendo, and pres
ents half-truths outright inac
curacies and undocumented
hearsay as facts,” the Anti-Def
amation League of B’nai B’rith
charged in an ad in the June 16
Times.
Like Dacey’s ad a full-pager,
the ADL ad—signed by national
chairman Seymour Graubard—
called the publicist-broadcaster
“an active pro-Arabist” who
uses “the kind of anti-Semitism
not heard in many years.”
The ADL made the iollowing
rebuttals to charges by Dacey,
author of the best seller “How
to Avoid Probate”:
- Israel did not expel Arab
residents but offered them “full
citizenship,” whereas the Arab
governments “denied the Pales
tinians a voice” on the 1948-49
armistice, and their internment
in refugee camps results from
Arab “failure" to absorb the
victims of their own aggression”;
The allegation of “torture” of
Arab prisoners is an “Arab
propaganda claim never docu
mented,” and the State Depart
ment has advised that there is
“no basis in fact” to claims of
Israeli repression of Americans;
The prominent Israeli lawyer
used by Dacey as a source is
Fred Langer, “a member of the
pro-Russian Israel Communist
Party”;
News reports in the Times
have “put the lie” to Dacey’s
charge of Israeli censorship of
foreign newsmen;
Premier Golda Meir was “in
vited” to the United States, and
it is an “insult” to say she came
to “sweet-talk” Washington into
granting its “every wish” mili
tarily;
President Nixon “responded
to a bipartisan call” for arms
to Israel, which is not “blind
support” of Israel but a “quite
discerning” approach, consider
ing “Soviet expansion in the
Middle East”;
US aid to Israel has constitu
ted one-half of one percent of
foreign aid outlays over the
years, and the US “sells” to
Israel while it “gives” to the
Arabs;
Dacey’s charge of “dual loyal
ty” by American Jews derives
from the “arsenal of old-time
professional bigots,” and his use
of the word “shekel” is “gutter
anti-Semitism”;
While Uganda may have
charged “subversion” in expell
ing the Israeli presence there,
actually Uganda “turned
greedy” and preferred Arab
ties:
Dacey’s blast at “theatrical
hand-wringing over the alleged
persecution of Jews in Russia”
is “reminiscent of those who
talked about ‘the alleged perse
cution’ of Jews in Nazi Ger
many.”
“We are confident,” Graubard
concluded, “that Americans will
reject Norman F. Dacey’s cam
paign to discredit Israel and
American Jews.”
McGovern Lashes Hack
By Trude B. Feldman
White House Correspondent
Sen. George McGovern angri
ly lashed out last week at sup
porters of his rival for the De
mocratic Presidential . nomina
tion— Hubert Humphrey —for
“distorting” his record on Is
rael.
At a news conference, Sen.
McGovern, Democrat of South
Dakota—declared that he had
been a strong supporter of Is
rael since 1957 when he enter
ed the U.S. Congress.
He made the following state
ments as to his position on the
Mideast:
On U.S. Military Aid: “At a
time of massive Soviet arms
shipments to other states, we
have an obligation to furnish
Israel the advanced aircraft and
other equipment necessary to
prevent attack. Our sale of these
weapons should not be made
contingent upon Israeli agree
ment to American diplomatic
demands”
On Jerusalem: “The U. S.
should recognize Jerusalem as
the capital of Israel and move
its embassy there. The city
should remain unified under Is
raeli administration, provided
only that full and free access to
the holy places of all faiths be
continued."
On A ra b - Israel borders:
“There can be no peace in the
Mideast until the Arab states
agree to new and recognized
boundary lines capable of de
terring any future aggression.”
On economic aid: “Israel needs
substantial assistance to meet its
defense needs and receive new
immigrants. Our government
can do more than it has. In this
connection, I have proposed an
$85 million program to help de
fray the casts of settling new
immigrants from the USSR to
Israel.”
On the United Nations: “Israel
needs our diplomatic support in
the arenas of diplomacy in
cluding the UN.”
On the Soviet Mideast pres
ence: “Soviet weapons and the
stationing of their personnel
present a difficult obstacle to
negotiations. American aircraft
carriers can be used to illustrate
deep U.S. concern and commit
ment plus the capacity for
speedy intervention in a tense
situation.”
Sen. McGovern’s position on
the above issues have won him
wide support from numerous
Jewish leaders, including Dr.
Joachim Prinz of the World
Jewish Congress, Rabbi Abra
ham Joshua Heschel of the Jew
ish Theological Seminary, Rabbi
Arthur J Lelyveld of the Amer
ican Jewish Congress, enter
tainer Theodore Bikel, and au-
tor Elie Wiesel.
A leading Orthodox spokes
man, Rabbi Samuel Walkin,
vice president of the Union of
Orthodox Rabbis of the U. S.
and Canada, also issued a state
ment of support for Sen.
McGovern, as did Rabbi Balfour
JERUSALEM (JTA) — pre
mier Golda Meir took over?the
Justice Ministry portfolio June
14 as her Labor Alignment
pondered the choice of a re
placement for Minister Yaacov
Shimshon Shapiro, who resign
ed June 12. According to Israeli
law, the Premier takes over
Cabinet posts made vacant by
designations.
Sources close to Mrs. Meir
told the JTA she favored Haim
Zadok, chairman of the Knes
set’s Foreign Affairs and Secur
ity Committe, for the post. They
indicated, however, that Mrs.
Meir might not name a new
minister at least until after her
return from the Socialist Inter
national meeting in Vienna next
month. According to sources
here the delay is intentional—
to allow the public furor over
Shapiro’s resignation to subside
and to give the Party lea^firship
time to select a new rae^H
with the proper judicial and po^
litical credentials.
Zadok, 55, is one of the coun
try’s top lawyers. He served
briefly in the Cabinet as Min
ister of Commerce and Indus
try, 1965-66, but resigned over
differences with Finance Min
ister F’inhas Sapir. Some circles
expressed doubt he would give
up his thriving practice to enter
the government. He was Deputy
Attorney General 1949-52.
Shapiro, who had become a
controversial figure as a result
of the Netivei Neft hearings,
told the Knesset he resigned be
cause of “an incessant and un
bearable stream of personal
denigration and suspicions.” Po-
At Critics
Brickner of the Union of Amer
ican Hebrew Congregations and
Rabbi Joseph Glaser of the Cen
tral Conference of American
Rabbis.
Perhaps Sen. McGovern’s big
gest booster in the Jewish com
munity is Sen. Abraham A. Rib-
ieoff (Dem. Conn ), who is ac
tively campaigning for his col
league and describes George
McGovern as “one of Israel’s
best friends in the Senate.”
“In fact, I’m confident,” Sen.
Ribicoff said, “that the U. S.,
Israel, and the whole world will
move closer to peace with
George McGovern ...”
litical sources said the govern
ment could name an interim
Justice Minister to serve until
the national elections next year
or could fill Shapiro’s seat by
reshuffling the Cabinet. They
recalled that when Justice Min
ister Pinhas Rosen resigned in
1961, the Cabinet appointed
then-Attorney General Haim
Cohen to serve until elections,
after which he returned to his
former post. Such a course is
ruled out at the present time
because the incumbent Attorney
General, Meir Shamgar, is
known to have leanings toward
the Herut opposition party, al
though his professional qualifi
cations are not questioned.
Another possible candidate men
tioned is Gideon Hausner, of the
Independent Liberal party, a
coalition partner. Hausner is
the former Attorney General
who prosecuted Adolf Eich-
mann.
In his Knesset statement,
Shapiro said an "increasing
feeling” of being alone was a
factor in his decision. He also
mentioned the “growing es
trangement” of the Labor Party
from religious labor elements in
Israel and “the undermining of
the judiciary’s prestige.” Mrs.
Meir, announcing the resigna
tion, praised Shapiro for his
“wide general knowledge and
wisdom,’ ’which she said extend
ed far beyond the confines of
his Ministry. She gave him spec
ial praise for the work of the
Ministerial Committee on Jer
usalem, which he headed. Sha
piro, a 70-year-old lawyer, was
named Justice Minister in 1965.
Bom in Russia, he was educated
at Kharkov University’s Med
ical School, and after settling in
Palestine in 1924 attended Jer
usalem’s Law School. A co
founder of Kibbutz Giat Hash-
losha, he was also Israel’s first
Attorney General.
Reform Rabbis Postpone
Mixed Marriage Issue '
GROSSINGER, N. Y. (JTA)—•
The Central Conference of
American Rabbis, the Reform
rabbinical body, has apparent
ly put off for another year the
question of issuing a ban on
mixed marriages. Rabbi Herman
Schaalman of Chicago, chairman
of the CCAR’s Mixed Marriage
Committee, recommended that
the present position of the or
ganization—that mixed marri
ages should be discouraged —
be maintained for the time
being to enable additional re
search and analysis.
Rabbi Schaalman told dele
gates attending the 83rd annual
convention here that further
study was required into the
Jewishness of both the uncon
verted partner and the children
of mixed marriages, their syna
gogue participation and the
Jewish manner in which they
raise a family before a decision
is made on a ban, a move that
has been advocated by many
CCAR members over the years.
The results of a statistical
survey made for the CCAR dis
closed that 41 percent of its
members—a larger number than
originally estimated— officiated
at mixed marriages where the
non-Jewish spouses had not
undergone prior conversion. The
survey, part of an extensive
study of the Reform rabbinate
conducted by Dr. Theodore I.
Lenn and Associates, reported
that 21 percent of the CCAR’s
1000 members officiated at
mixed marriages if certain con
ditions were met but 20 percent
would do so at the request of
the couple. According to a
CCAR spokesman, the condi
tions were an undertaking by
the couple to give their chil
dren a Jewish upbringing and
to live a Jewish family life.
According to previous esti- ,
mates, only between 10 percent
and one-third of the CCAR’s
membership officiated at mixed
marriages, with or without con
ditions. Dr. Lenn reported that
the overwhelming number of
Jews in the 710 Reform syn
agogues in the US and Canada
are the children of Jewish par
ents. Only 4 percent are the
offspring of mixed marriages,
1 percent converts from non-
Jewish hom^s and 1 percent
self-identified as non-Jewish.
In another convention de
velopment, the delegates voted
unanimously to have the CCAR
join the American Jewish Con
gress.
From The Four Corners
PARIS (JTA) — A public
works project in Oran Algeria,
is threatening a Jewish ceme
tery there with partial destruc
tion. The Jewish consistory in
Oran reported that about 2000
graves will be unearthed to
make way for the project on a
strip of land recently exprop
riated by the authorities. The
rest of the cemetery will not
bo affected. The consistory said
it notified the families whose
kins’ graves will be destroyed.
COPENHAGEN (JTA)— For
eign Minister Abba Eban of Is
rael called on Lebanese author-
ties to eject Palestinian guer
rillas from their territory and
said that international aviation
communities should take “preven
tive action” against a possible rep
etition of the May 30 Lydda
Airport massacre. But the visit
ing Israeli diplomat hinted that
his country did not plan retali
atory action . “It is not the dog
matic policy of Israel to carry
out punitive expeditions for
each atrocity,” he said.
TORONTO (JTA) — Gordon
Brown, of Montreal, was re
elected national president of the
United Israel Appeal of Canada
at its annual meeting here. He
has held the position since 1970.
Brown disclosed that the UIA
has just borrowed 8 million
from Canadian banks to meet
critical social welfare needs in
Israel
NEW YORK (JTA) — A
spokesman for the Jewish De
fense League said that some
money and pledges had been re
ceived in a JDL effort to raise
$105,000 in bail money for three
JDL members who were arrested
in the January 26 firebombings of
two Manhattan booking agencies
which handle Soviet artists.