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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE, August 10, 1973
Israel Immersed In Watergate Hearings
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JTA Middle East Bureau Chief
JERUSALEM (JTA) — In this
weekend's Haaretz magazine, the
paper's cartoonist, "Zeev" devotes
an entire page to a reproduction to
the famous sculpture of ancient
Greece, the Laocoon group
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Zeev’s drawing is a harrassed
looking President Nixon, and the
two figures flanking him are — of
course — H R Haldeman and
John Ehrlichman. They are
struggling not with the coiling,
snaking, mythical serpent — but
with spools and spools of recording
tape
They are thoroughly enmeshed
in the tape, struggling to tear it
apart and break out. Sam Ervin Jr.
iv at bottom right, headphones on,
waiting to plug in and hear the
recordings. At bottom left is an
obviously worried Dr. Henry
Kissinger, holding a spool labelled
"international relations" and ap
parently wondering whether this
can get a good hearing.
The work is merely entitled
"I aoconixon". There is no cap
tion. for a caption is unnecessary.
All Israeli newspaper readers —
and most Israelis are avid
newspaper readers — are
thoroughly familiar with the twists
and turns of the Watergate affair.
Haaretz ventured into the field of
investigative reporting with a fine
series on organized crime in Israel.
After Watergate broke, the
paper's top political correspon
dent, Dan Margalit, teamed up
with one of its Knesset reporters,
Matti Golan, to embark on an
Evans-Novak or Jack Anderson-
ty pe column named, "The Govern
ment In Action".
Apart from the Aharonson
episode which Golan apparently
picked up in the Knesset lobbies,
and some vain efforts to discredit
the "Sapir Fund'', the two have
not yet had much to show for their
investigations. Nevertheless, this
style of snoopy journalism will
doubtless spread to other papers,
and will in time have its effect on
governmental behavior, which is
all to the good. These are in
teresting phenomena, but they do
not indicate a hard look on the
part of Israeli public opinion, in
the light of Watergate, at the
governmental system in this coun-
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It is rarely off the front pages, and
the new revelations daily lead off
the radio news bulletins.
Israel television has for some
reason — perhaps cost — been
sparing in its screening of
videotape of the actual hearings,
but Jordan TV has shown it plen
tifully and most Israelis can pick
up Jordan as well as Israel.
This deep and widespread con
sciousness of Watergate has
manifested itself in many ways.
That indefatigable Knesseter Uri
Avneri nowadays applies the terms
"Israel's Watergate" to any aspect
of the government's record he
happens to be criticizing. Thus the
allegation that a civil servant,
Abraham Aharonson, ran a
private detective agency and acted
as Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir's
political sleuth when he should
have been working for the Educa
tion Ministry was dubbed "Israel's
Watergate". And. nearer the mark
this time, the allegation that a
newspaper reporter's telephone
had been tapped by the Shin Bet
was another “Israeli Watergate"
for Avneri.
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The gradual but relentless ex
posure of Watergate by the
Washington Post has had a mark
ed influence on Israel's leading
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try. And the reasons are clear
enough
First, most Israelis believe that
since the country is in a virtual
state of war the government ought
to have large powers to act in the
interests of national security. Thus,
when the irate newsman whose
phone had been tapped wrote a
series of articles decrying the fact
there was no law to control official
tapping — he raised hardly a rip
ple.
Opposition Knesseters who took
up the issue elicited the laconic
agreement of the justice minister
that there ought to be a law, but
there was by no means the kind of
groundswell of public protest
Dr. Walton Fischel
Dead at 70 in Calif.
BERKELEY. Calif. (JTA) —
Dr Walter J. Fischel, whose life
work was to trace the history of
ancient Jewish communities of the
Middle East, Central Asia and In
dia. died Saturday, July 14, of a
heart attack at the age of 70.
He was professor emeritus of
Semitic languages and literature at
the University of California where
he had been chairman of the
department of Near Eastern
language for I0 years. He had been
teaching Jewish history at the un
iversity's Santa Cruz campus for
the last three years.
Dr. Fischel. who was born in
Frankfurt, Germany, was a
member of the School of Oriental
Studies of Hebrew University in
Jerusalem from 1926 until coming
to California in I945. Fluent in I2
languages, in I930 and I936 he
travelled widely in the Middle East
and particularly in the Kurdish
regions of Turkey, Iraq, Iran,
where he found surviving groups of
Jews unknown to the rest of Jewry
for centuries.
Dr Fischel was the author of
numerous books on the history,
role and contributions of Oriental
Jews to the socio-economic ac
tivities of their countries, a con
tributor to professional journals
and contributor to the En
cyclopedia Hebraica and Univer
sal Jewish Encyclopedia.
to legislate To the extent that
Watergate reflects the dangers of
too excessive executive power,
Israeli public opinion is not draw
ing a parallel.
Betrayal of Israel
Secondly, while the Knesset is
modelled on the British Parlia
ment rather than the U.S.
Congress, it is — because of the
facts of Israeli political life — only
a pale shadow of Westminister as
the public's watchdog of the ad
ministration. With one party hav
ing held power for 25 years and the
other 13 squabbling and jousting
but never uniting to topple the
government, the Knesset is
necessarily limited in its ability to
control the Cabinet
To the extent, then, that
Watergate represents a clash
between the President and
Congress and perhaps a realign
ment of their relative strengths,
again there is no real parallel in
Israel
All this does not mean, however,
that Israelis — government and
people — are not profoundly
worried by Watergate. They are.
First, on a very simplistic level,
they know that they have a proven
friend in Nixon and they would
hate to see him go. True enough.
Nixon has indicated that he would
accede to Israel's latest arms re
quest — and those requests would
cover supplies into 1977 and could
hardly be turned back by another
president — but there is political
support to think of as well as
military. Would another president
use the veto at the U.N. Security
Council as readily as Nixon at
Israel's behest?
And perhaps as dangerous as an
unfamiliar successor to an ousted
Nixon is a drastically weakened
Nixon remaining in office.
Battered by Watergate, he might
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Russians, or to the Arabs and their
oil threats, or to his own oil lobby
at home Or conversely, he might
seek to pull off some spectacular
Mideast peace settlement — at
position. These scenarios naturally
suggest themselves to Israeli think
ing as a result of Watergate. But to
see how they develop, Israel can
only wait and hope
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