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U.S. support means giving
helping (not guiding) hand
TORONTO (JTA) —Israel’s
need for U.S. support does not give
Washington a “warrant” for
determining what is necessary for
Israel’s survival, former UN.
Ambassador Arthur Goldberg
warned last week in an address to
the 55th biennial convention of the
Union of American Hebrew
Congregations here.
“Help for Israel by our
government is justly owing to this
democratic country friendly to the
United States,” he said “It is not a
warrant for seeking to assume the
paramount role in determining
what is essential to the nation’s
survival." Goldberg spoke after
receiving the UAHC’s Maurice
Eiscndrath Award “for service to
the Jewish community." The
award is named for the former
president of the UAHC, who had
been the rabbi of Holy Blossom
Temple here.
Goldberg told nearly 4.000
delegates from Reform syna
gogues in the U.S. and Canada at
the closing session of their five-day
meeting here that “American Jews
should remember the ancient
teaching that Jews should not put
their trust in princes. As American
citizens we should support our
government if we conceive it to be
right. We should oppose it if we
deem it to be in the wrong.
The former Ambassador, who
served as Secretary of Labor under
President Kennedy and was
appointed to the U.S. Supreme
Court by President Johnson,
cautioned against any “confronta
tion” between Israel and the
United States.
“There may be and there are
differences, inevitable in matters of
foreign policy where no one can be
sure of the correct answers," he
said. “But there must never be a
severance of the special
relationship that exists between
Israel and the United States.”
Goldberg said that “avoidance
of such a severance requires
sensitivity and restraint both on
the part of our government and the
government of Israel. Israel must
recognize that the United States
has global interests and concerns,”
he said. “The United States must
be sensitive to the fact that Israel is
a sovereign country with
democratic institutions which
chart the nation’s course."
American Jews must also "accept
this reality,” Goldberg said
He added: “It is academic to
argue whether American Jews
should speak publicly about their
differences with the decisions of
Israel’s democratically elected
government. American Jews, like
all Americans, are accustomed to
the right of free speech and, rightly
or wrongly, will exercise it. But in
the final analysis, Israel's
leadership—elected by its
democratic processes—must make
the final determination on the
peace issue and all others affecting
its sovereignty.”
On the identification of
American Jews with Israel,
Goldberg said: “Israel is central to
Jewish life in Afherica and
wherever Jews exist. There is no
need either to deny this or
apologize for what is an
indisputable fact. The concept of
dual loyalty is not even worthwhile
discussing, except to say that it
must and should be rejected out of
hand.”
‘Righteous gentiles’
NF.W YORK (JTA) —Mrs. Danuta Trybus and Dr. Marta
Spiewak of Poland were presented here with the "Righteous
Gentile" medal on behalf of Yad Vashem in Jerusalem by Paul
Kedar, Israel’s Consul General in New York. The two had saved
the lives of Dr. Sabina Zimering and her family during World War
II. Zimering is the only surviving member of her family and is now
living in Chicago.
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P«ge It THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE December 28. 1979