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SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
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A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry
Established 1925 ® NeRAp
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VOL L
Section, 12 Pages
Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, January 17, 1975
25c A Copy
NO. 3
Allon: War Possible
But Not Inevitable
The delayed talks between Israel’s Deputy Premier and
Foreign Minister Yigal Allon and United States Secretary of
State Flenry Kissinger were taking place in Washington
Wednesday and Thursday.
Meanwhile, Allon, who arrived in the U.S. last week for a
series of fund-raising appearances, said Israel "would willingly
accept U.S. mediation and we are ready to compromise
territorially, but not on our defense or security.”
The Foreign Minister told United Jewish Appeal leaders in
California, “We must move from the peace-keeping to the
peace-making process. War is possible but not inevitable and
we shall leave no stone unturned in our search for peace.”
Three-Year Mideast Armistice
Proposed by Likud’s Beigin
JERUSALEM, (JT A) —
Menachem Beigin opened the 12th
national convention of Flerut at
Kiryat Arba Monday night with
proposals for a three-year ar
mistice in the Middle East during
which Israel would try to negotiate
peace treaties with its Arab
neighbors and for the creation of a
“joint council of the Jewish
people” that would involve Israeli
and diaspora Jewry in a common
Pope Restates Church’s Rejection
Of 'Every Form of Anti-Semitism’
Rome, (JTA) — Pope Paul VI
received on Friday the Inter
national Catholic-Jewish Liaison
Committee and restated the rejec
tion of the church of “every form
of anti-Semitism.”
He also called for the establish
ment of "a true dialogue between
Judaism and Christianity," at the
same time acknowledging ‘the
difficulties and confrontations,
with all the regrettable elements
involved, which have marked
relations between Christians and
Jews over the past 2000 years."
Referring to the document
published last week by the Vatican
Commission, the Pope said
Catholics had been invited to learn
more about the Jewish faith and it
was hoped this would provide the
necessary conditions for a
beneficial development of mutual
relations. The Pope received the
delegation in the presence of Car
dinal Jan Willebrands, president of
the Commission for Religious
Relations with Judaism.
The International Catholic-
Jewish Liaison Committee releas
ed the following statement to the
press after conferring with the
Pope:
“The fourth annual meeting of
the Liaison Committee took place
in Rome from January 7 to
January 10. The meeting was
presided over by Rabbi Joseph
Lookstein, chairman of the Inter
national Jewish Committee for
Inter-Religious Consultations and
vice-president of the Synagogue
Council of America, by Rabbi
Henry Siegman, executive vice-
president of the Synagogue Coun
cil of America, and by the
Reverend Edward Flannery,
secretary of the Secretariat for
Jewish-Catholic Relations in the
National Conference of Catholic
Bishops in the United States, and
Father Bernard Dupuy, secretary
of the Commission for the
Relations with Judaism in France.
Recent developments in the field
of Catholic-Jewish relations were
discussed. The establishment of a
Committee for Religious
Relations with the Jews, and the
problem of the guidelines and
suggestions for the implementa
tion of Nostra Aetate 4, they con
sidered as encouraging steps for
the practical application of the
Conciliar Declaration on the
Relations between the Catholic
Church and the Jews in different
essential areas.
“The document establishes a
framework for the development of
Catholic-Jewish relations in a
spirit of mutual respect, with due
recognition of basic differences. It
opens new avenues for further
clarifications of important and
sometimes controversial issues.
“The Jewish delegation express
ed appreciation for several aspects
of the guidelines, particularly the
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Curtains for Cantor' Tucker
by Trude B. Feldman
White House Correspondent
Brooklyn-born Richard Tucker,
who grew up to be an inter
nationally famous Metropolitan
Opera singer, died last Wednesday
at age 60.
Sparkman Favors Palestine -
Not PLO - State
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Sen. John Sparkman (D.AIa.) the new chair
man of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Jan. 8 he favors
the creation of a state on the West Bank for displaced Palestinians, but
not one run by the Palestine Liberation Organization.
“I have felt that it ought to be possible to work out an agreement
among those nations affected to permit the displaced Palestinians — and
I’m not talking about the PLO revolutionaries, but the displaced
Palestinians — to organize themselves into an orderly society,"
Sparkman said in an interview on CBS Radio’s “Capitol Cloakroom"
program.
Sparkman said since both Israel and Jordan claim the West Bank, the
Palestinian state “would require negotiation involving both those coun
tries.”
The veteran Alabama Senator replaced Sen. J. William Fulbright as
chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee after Fulbright failed to
win re-election to the Senate.
Tucker was not only widely
known as the world’s best tenor,
but also for his support and'con
cern for humanitarian and
charitable causes all over the
world.
Born Reuben Ticker to poor
Bessarabian immigrant parents,
Richard Tucker did his first sing
ing at the age of six as a boy alto in
the Allen Street Synagogue on
New York's lower Ea$t Side. He
began his career as a cantor at the
Brooklyn Jewish Center.
While singing at a party in a
lower East Side catering establish
ment some 40 years ago, he met
the former Sara Perelmuth (sister
to Jan Peerce) and proposed to her
on a BMT subway platform. The
Tuckers and their three sons —
Barry, David and Henry — are a
close-knit family, even the license
plate on the Tucker auto reads:
“RST-3”, standing for “Richard
and Sara Tucker and three sons”.
As an American-born and en-
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effort “to defend the Jewish people
and the Jewish State."
The militant Herut leader who,
as a member of the Likud opposi
tion, is one of the harshest critics
of the government’s foreign and
domestic policies, delivered the
opening address before an
overflow crowd of 2500 in a large
hall designated for an industrial
project at Kiryat Arba. His
remarks added little to Herut’s
already well known views on
Israel’s approach to peace.
The most controversial aspect of
the Herut convention was its
choice of its site which was con
sidered deliberately provocative by
leftist and doveish elements.
Kiryat Arba is the Jewish settle
ment established about five years
ago adjacent to the large Arab
town of Hebron on the West Bank.
Local Arab leaders, headed by
Hebron Mayor Mohammed Ali A1
Jaabari had raised strong objec-
tions. Twenty left-wing
demonstrators associated with the
Moked faction, were arrested by
Jerusalem police when they
attempted to stop cars and buses
carrying delegates to Kiryat Arba.
Demonstrators also assembled
outside the residence of President
Ephraim Katzir in Rehavia to
protest his attendance at the con
vention.
The President and other
national leaders of all factions
traditionally attend the opening of
' major party conventions as a
matter of courtesy. Katzir replied
in effect to the protestors when he
said in Kiryat Arba Mon. night
that it felt good for a Jew to return
to a part of his country from which
he had been expelled by force of
arms. He was referring to the cap
ture of Hebron by Jordan in 1948.
This morning the convention mov
ed to Tel Aviv to continue its
deliberations.
Beigin agreed that Israel should
take the initiative for peace with its
neighbors and stressed that
negotiations must be conducted
“on the premise of mutal recogni
tion of the independence and
sovereignty of the negotiating
partners." He said peace talks
could be held in Jerusalem, in any
Arab capital or in a neutral coun
try and that each side was entitled
to bring its proposals to the
negotiating table.
Beigin did not mention Herut’s
familiar stand that "not an inch”
of the territory captured by Israel
in the Six-Day War should be
returned to the Arabs. But he link
ed a settlement of the Palestinian
refugee problem with compensa
tion for Jewish refugees from Arab
countries.
U.S. Arms to Jordan, Saudi
by JOSEPH POLAKOFF
WASHINGTON-. (JIAj-
The State Department confirmed
Jan. 8 that the United States had
approved Iran’s transfer of 24
American-built F-5 interceptor-
fighters to the Jordanian Air
Force.
Department spokesman Robert
Anderson said the transfer was
allowed because “both countries
are close friends of the United
States” and “Jordan has a
legitimate need for them.”
He added, “Our policy is to sup
port regional cooperation and
strengthen the defenses of our
friends." Iran, which has an ongo
ing multi-billion dollar arms
arrangement with the U.S., in
cluding the latest, most powerful
and most sophisticated jets, no
longer needed the F-5s which are
old models, Anderson said.
The F-5 has been described as a
defense aircraft useful against
small units and no threat to Israel.
Asked why Iran made the
transfer, Anderson said, “Anyone
following events over the past few
years will understand Jordan's
needs."
He refused to say whether he
was referring to Jordan’s need to
fight Palestinian terrorists, as the
Hussein regime did four years ago,
or a statement from Amman that
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- WAN+HNGTON, CTTA)' - —
The United States will supply
Saudi Arabia with an unspecified
number of the latest type fighter-
interceptor warplanes and will
train Saudian pilots and
technicians in their use, the State
Department confirmed Jan. 9 but
denied that the U. S. was con
tributing to an arms race in the
Middle East.
State Department spokesman
Robert Anderson would not dis
cuss the number of planes involved
or the share of the funding to be
expended on training under a $756
million agreement signed in
Riayadh, Saudi Arabia Jan. 4.
However, there were indications
that as many as 250 F-5E aircraft
costing $2.75 million each may be
sold.
Anderson said that deliveries
will not be made until next year
and that no Phantom jets are in
volved in this deal. He declared
that Saudi Arabia has ”a
legitimate self-defense need" for
the warplanes and that Secretary
of State Henry A. Kissinger
“believes the sales will contribute
to stability in the area."
The State Department con
firmed the deal only after Riayadh
radio announced that the agree
ment had been signed by the Sau-
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