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The Southern Zsraelitc
The Weekly Newspaper For Southern Jewry
Our 57th Year
Vol. LV1I
nationally an April 5. .The
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by Joseph PolakofT
WASHINGTON (JTA)— The
United States has warned the
“non-aligned movement" that if it
tries to expel Israel from the
United Nations General Assembly
“the gravest consequences" would
follow for the “future of the United
Nations itself."
The American position was
pronounced by the State
Department Tuesday in view of the
communique issued Friday, Feb.
13, in New Delhi by the “non-
aligned movement," whose
position was similar to that
adopted last month by the
Islamic Conference in Saudi
Arabia. Most of the members of
the Islamic Conference are also
members of the non-aligned
movement.
The New Delhi statement urged
its members to vote against
accepting the credentials of the
Israeli delegation at the next
meeting of the United Nations and
its special agencies. Since the non-
aligned members form a majority
in the General Assembly, they
could deprive Israel of its vote in
the U N.
Responding to a request for the
United States position towards the
communique. State Department
spokesman William Dyess said, "It
by Vida Goidgar
Former United States Senator
Frank Church warned last week in
Atlanta that Israel “is going to be
subjected to increasing pressure on
account of underlying concern
about oil," and that a Palestinian
state on the West Bank “could
easily become the flashpoint for
another war against Israel."
Church, addressing the advance
gifts dinner of the 1981 Atlanta
Jewish Federation Campaign, told
of his recent trip to Israel where he
traveled from “the Lebanon...as
far south as Sharm el Sheik." He
praised Israel, which “has
succeeded in building a state whose
people nurture the values of
liberty and law. That it has
endured four wars against
impossible odds and still preserved
a democratic government is no
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East.
The European Initiative,
supported by the EEC (European
Economic Community or
Common Market), calls for the
withdrawal of Israeli forces from
all occupied territories, the
internationalization or redivision
of Jerusalem, the likely creation of
an independent Palestinian state,
and recognition of the PLO as the
legitimate representative of the
Palestinian people.
Saying that these positions
cannot '‘seriously be considered a
true path to peace," Church called
the plan “far more attuned to
safeguarding European access to
Arab oil in the future than
advancing the cause of peace
between Israel and her Arab
neighbors." The true path to peace,
he insisted, “must rest, as did the
weapon" is at work in the United
States, Church warned that “the
tendency to blame Israel for our
energy problems and for the
current wave of turmoil in the
Middle East it gaining
momentum.”
Despite President Reagan's
stated pro-Israel position, Church
cited special interest groups,
prominent financial supporters
and congressional spokesmen, “all
of whom seem inclined to believe
that a settlement of the Israeli-
Arab dispute would somehow
furnish u$ with a solution to our
energy problems.”
This impression must not gain
momentum, he said, and described
a study of the OPEC cartel which
was carried out under his direction
which “established without any
question that the OPEC cartel it an
State Dept, nixes
anti-Israel move
is our view that the Middle East
part of the communique contains a
number of absurd formulations. 1
will not take them up point by
point, but I will note, so there will
be no misunderstanding on the
part of anyone, that any challenge
to Israel's credentials in the United
Nations General Assembly would
be illegal and a violation of the
U.N. charter.
“As you know,” Dyess
continued, “membership questions
are dealt with not by the General
Assembly, but by the Security
Council. The United States would
oppose any such challenge in the
firmest and most vigorous way.
Such action, if it is presented,
would have the gravest
consequences for the United States
participation in the General
Assembly and for the future of the
United Nations itself.
“Our strong hope is that reason
will prevail," Dyess said, adding,
“If not, those who support the
course will have to live with the
consequences of their actions. In
other words, we will oppose any
move from any quarter to expel
Israel from any international
forum and most explicitly from the
United Nations."
Dyess declined to go beyond the
statement when he was asked to
define “gravest consequences."
Much of the cause of this
resentment, Church said, is
because of “a relentless campaign"
being waged by the Arab world
“with its newfound oil weapon" in
order to “forge a universal
consensus against Israel." He
cautioned that increasing Arab
pressure must be anticipated and
cited the “so-called European
Initiative to advance the
prospects for peace in the Middle
such a state
“would be inherently unstable,
unviable and subject to enormous
external pressures, and those
pressures, even if the state were
first to be controlled by moderate
leadership, would lead to difficulty
that would turn that state upon its
Jewish neighbor...a kind of
hapless, dependent mini-state that
could easily become the flashpoint
for another war against Israel.”
Cautioning that the “oil
to
prevent the restoration of a free
market."
The study proved, he said, that
“it wouldn't matter if the Itracl-
Arab dispute were settled
tomorrow on terms most
favorable to the Arabs. It would
not have any impact at all on the
method and manner by which the
OPEC cartel operates...it would
not give us an additional barrel of
oil (nor) moderate the upward
See Sen. Church,
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Baron's account of spending Uanuka with Jews of Romania starts on page 14.
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