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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Nixon-Shnh Talks May Affect
U.S.-Soviet Mideast Stands
By Philip Slomovitz
Editor’s Note: Mr. Slomovitz is editor and publisher of the
Jewish News of Detroit and Vice-President of the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency.
safe under him, even if Zion
ism is considered anathema.
But rejection of Zionism is an
apeasement for the Moslem
haters. Therefore a Nixon-Shah
talk is more valuable for Israel,
Jewry, the United States and
posterity than was the damag
ing Franklin Delano Roosevelt-
Saud talk in 1945.
Perhaps Teheran offe red
greater assurance of an even
tual good will motivation for
Israel and the Middle East than
Friday, July 28, 1972
the Kremlin. Perhaps the Shah
is more important than Brezh
nev. When the facts are made
known we may learn about a
positive chapter in current
world history.
Copyright 1972, JTA
TEHERAN, Iran (JTA)—Se
cret diplomacy will either
plague or bless mankind—de
pending on the degree of honor
that is imbedded in diplomatic
manipulations. Events that
marked the Roosevelt era and
the attitudes that are now re
vealed in documents made pub
lic 25 years after the Nazi per
iod at last become unveiled for
public knowledge. The genera
tion that will read the secret
records now being hidden in
archives in the United States
and Russia will be better in
formed than we are about the
Nixon-Brezhnev talks and their
agreements on the Middle East
and Vietnam. It will be in the
1990s that the true facts re
garding the Nixon approach to
the Jewish problem in the USSR
will become public knowledge.
A month aftdn the summit
meetings in the Kremlin, we
hear speculations: the Russian
leaders deny that the American
President had broached either
the Middle East or the internal
Jewish issue with any pressure.
They insist that the internal
matters are not to be broached
by “an outsider,” and they de
clare strict adherence to a
policy of pro-Arabism.
It is possible that much of
what had occurred in the Krem
lin may have echoed here, in
the capital of ancient Persia, as
much as in Moscow. President
Nixon conferred here with the
Shah. It was a friendly meet
ing and much of what had oc
curred may be resting in the
secrecy of the Nixon mind and
the Henry Kissinger diplomatic
archieves.
Yet there is the element of the
hint, the message that comes
from a third party, that may be
more revealing than anything
that may be given to an unsus
pecting public by the chiefs of
state of the U. S. and the USSR.
Perhaps there is more in what
an Iranian senator had said than
in the releases that came
through the news media until
now. Senator Shokrollah Safavi
was a spokesman for the group
that hailed President Nixon’s
visit here as a great occasion.
The reception the Nixons re
ceived in Teheran was acclaim
ed as a source of pride and the
tribute to Mr. Nixon by His
Imperial Majesty the Shahan
shah was described as a mark
of friendship between the two
nations. There was one very
important factor in Senator Sa-
favi’s statement: he tolh the
Iranian Senate that President
Nixon considered the counsel
the Shah gave him on Middle
Eastern affairs of great value.
It is in this brief comment
that may be imbedded some
very serious developments. Here
is the situation: Iran is on
friendly terms with Israel.
There is an Israel Mission in
Teheran. Israeli experts are
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tion efforts. Yet, it is danger
ous to utter the word “Zionism”
here, and to be a Zionist is
tantamount to treachery. Why
the inconsistency? Because this
is a Moslem country and while
Iran is friendly with Israel,
El A1 travels to Israel, there is
trade between the two countries,
Israel is an acknowledged fact
here. But the Moslem fanaticism
exists and persists.
When Israel was acclaimed
into statehood, Iranian Jews
from small communities fled to
Israel. Their lives were en
dangered. To this day, Iranian
Jews are to be found only in
the large cities. Among the
Moslem fanatics in the small
cities there is danger! Yet life
goes on here and Jews keep
blessing the Shah. Talk to the
director of Joint Distribution
Committee activities here—Mor
ris Rombro—and he’ll tell you:
the Shah is a saint in his deal
ings with Jews!
That’s the situation: as long
as there is the present Shah,
Jews are secure here and there
will be Iran-Israel friendship.
Heaven knows, say the 90,000
Jews in Iran, if something
should happen to this protector.
It is out of such an atmos
phere that one must anticipate
something very unusual from
the Shah-Nixon series of con
ferences. Such meetings must
discuss Israel’s position from
the point of view of an estab
lished nation under threat from
the Shah’s coreligionists. Yet
Israel is protected and Jews are
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