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TEXAS JEWISH POST THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1976 POSTORIAL PAGE 4
POSTORIAL
Zionism vs. Racism
The debate at the United Nations Economic and Social
Council has provided further proof - if any was needed -
that the Arabs are willing to subvert every legitimate
purpose of the UN in order to win propaganda points
against Israel.
The United States and Israel correctly pointed out that
they will not participate in the Decade for Action to
Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination as long as it is
linked in any way to anti-Zionism. Israeli Ambassador
Chaim Herzog stressed that while Israel supports “all
moves to eliminate racism in the world” the introduction of
anti-Zionism resolution “obliges us, regretfully, to speak
out against the program as long as that obscene act is in
any way, however remotely, associated with this
program.”
William Scranton, the American Ambassador, may have
redeemed himself with the Jewish community by his
declaration that the U.S. “will never accept” the General
Assembly resolution equating Zionism with racism. He
also made a sound defense of Zionism “as a justifiable and
understandable manifestation of nationalism on the part of
a people entitled to a homeland.”
Scranton earlier this year incurred the displeasure of
many in the Jewish community when in his UN debut he
criticized Israel's policies in East Jerusalem and the
administered territories. It should be remembered that in
both cases, Scranton was the ennunciator not the
instigator of American policy.
The Arab attempts to include anti-Zionism in the Decade
should be proof once again to the Black African countries
that the Arabs do not have their interests at heart. The
Arabs have been willing to destroy every UN agency in
order to attack Israel.
Representatives of Black African countries have voiced
concern privately that the Arab attempts to include
Zionism as racist will hurt the efforts aimed against South
Africa and Rhodesia. This is exactly what is happening. It
is time for the Black African countries to tell the Arabs to
stop - enough damage has been done.
President
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the $1.8 billion he is
proposing for fiscal 1977.
Earlier White House sources
had also said that the
President has not changed
his mind over the transi-
tional funding. This came
after Sen. Clifford Case (R.
NJ), the ranking Republican
on the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, said
Ford was amenable to a
compromise under which
Israel would receive $375
million to meet its defense
needs but no other country
would receive supplemental
funds. Case revealed the
compromise after meeting
privately with Ford.
Meanwhile, Ford indicated
he might veto the entire
foreign aid bill during a
meeting with the Republican
Congressional leadership.
Rep. Robert Michel (R. HI.)
told reporters that the
President had “grave con-
cerns” about the authoriza-
tion bill. He said the
President believes the bill
limits the President’s au-
thority on matters which he
feels are his prerogative, not
that of Congress. Ford
reportedly objected to the
Congressional veto of mili-
tary sales to foreign coun-
tries that exceed $25 million;
Congressional veto of trans-
fer of American weapons by
a foreign power to a third
country; and the anti-
discrimination provisions
that would cut off U.S. aid to
a country that discriminates
against Americans on the
basis of race, religion, sex or
national origin or that
harbors terrorists.
Houston Deputy Chief
Studies Israeli Tactics DGCUdG
HOUSTON, Tex., (JTA)
— Deputy Chief Harry
Caldwell, commander of the
recruitment and training
division of the Houston pol-
ice department, recently left
for Israel to study recruit-
ment and training of police
in Israel and report on new
concepts in recruitment and
training used by the Hous-
ton police department.
Caldwell was invited to
visit Israel by Shaul Rosolio,
police inspector-general.
Rosolio and Caldwell met
last year when Rosolio, dur-
, ir\g a visit to the United
IStates, came to Houston at
the invitation of the Hous-
ton Jewish Community
Council.
Memo — from the desk of
Erwin Waldman &
ERWIN
Steve Waldman
Congratulations to
the State of Israel
in its celebration of
28 years of Inde-
pendence.
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committee sugested that the
return should be carried out
in two stages, the first for
Palestinians displaced as a
result of the 1967 Six-Day
War and the second for
those displaced between
1948 and 1967. The commit-
tee also recommended that
the Security Council publish
by June 1, 1977 a timetable
for complete Israeli with-
drawal. Israel has boycotted
the 20-nation Palestinian
Rights Committee, which
was created by the General
Assembly last year, and has
said it will not abide by its
decisions. The Committee is
chiefly made up of Third
World countries which have
no diplomatic relations with
Israel.
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700 Honor Holocaust Victims
Over 700 people came
together to remember the
victims of the Holocaust and
heroes of the Warsaw
Ghetto Uprising in the
recent annual memorial pro-
gram held in Dallas.
Cantor Max Wider, carry-
ing the Vysoka Synagogue
Torah, led the memorial
processional of survivors of
the camps. Mike Jacobs, a
survivor, led the candlelight
procession.
“It was very impressive,”
said Paul Lewis, honorary
chairman and speaker for
the occasion. “They carried
the candles and placed them
on a table in the Synagogue
for the relatives lost to the
Holocaust.”
Cantor Sol Sanders present-
ed ghetto songs. Rabbi Jack
Bemporad brought a me-
morial message, and Rabbi
Saul Besser delivered the
bicentennial message.
A choral group of Dallas
youth read poems of the
children of Terezin in a
presentation entitled, “I
Never Saw Another Butter-
fly.” Rabbi Gerald Klein led
in the benediction.
In his remembrance speech
Lewis noted that, “Just four
decades ago... a cultured and
scientific people were order-
ed to turn their talent,
knowledge and skill to the
sadistic torment and the
murderous destruction of
our Jewish people.
"Where was the Europi n
Christian world? One wf «-
per from them could have
saved part of our martyr-
dom... So are we Jews in
America guilty of neglect
and errors. Had we...
marched upon Washington
and not left the city tijp“*a
promise of help followed! y
facts would be given • Uy
Congress...many of the vic-
tims could have been saved
and among us today.
“We who did not witness
this catastrophe and those
who witnessed and somehow
survived, each of us hitfa
commitment to these saftd
dead. We must remember!
“Man must never again
shut his eyes to the misery
of any people.”
Lewis, who said the crowd
was the largest yet to
attend, initiated the com-
munity-wide observance in
1970.
Rabbi Nissim Wernick led
the opening prayer, and
“I refuse to believe that all
the people in Germany did
sanction those vicious acts,”
he said. “But if mouths were
closed and hands were
chained, where were the
clergy... the high priests of
conscience?
The annual memorialg^b-
servance is coordinate® )y
the Jewish Community 1 Ti-
ter and the Rabbinical
Association of Dallas. Coor-
dinators for this year’s
program were Jeffrey Aiz-
enberg and Naomi Goodell.
jess jawin The Jewish Vote
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of the candidates actually seemed surprised that Jews care about such issues
as well.
We have almost reached the point in the degradation of our political process
when a candidate presumes that if he recites ritualistic mumbo jumbo on
issues of Jewish visceral significance he can turn a Jewish audience
salivating, pavlovian voters.
“One lesson is that Jews should be in no person’s or no party’s pocket and
that we vote as rugged, skeptical, and knowledgeable individuals, hopefully
informed by the unique Jewish value system which has coexisted with all of
civilized history.”
Americans Find Hope;
Alive in Middle East
BY INGE LEDERER
GIBEL
(Copyright 1976, JTA, Inc.)
On January 5 a group of 24
Roman Catholic, Protestant
and Jewish women lay and
professional leaders left for
a 17-day study tour of the
Middle East. We went to
meet women, to express our
strong commitment to peace
and justice for all the people
of the area, the survival and
security of the State of
Israel, and the right of the
Palestinian people to self-
determination. We wanted
to learn more about the
women of these countries, to
hear their hopes and aspira-
tions, and exchange views
about the role that women
can play in bringing about
our shared goals.
The tour was co-sponsored
by the Leadership Confer-
ence of Women Religious
(Roman Catholic), United
Presbyterian Women and
the American Jewish Com-
mittee, in cooperation with
the Division of Overseas
Ministries of the National
Council of Churches. Its
co-leaders were Ms. Sarah
Cunningham, editor of “Con-
cern,” a Presbyterian wo-
men’s journal; Sister Ann
Patrick Ware, associate di-
rector of the Commission on
Faith and Order of the
National Council of Chur-
ches, and this writer.
Participants were drawn
from a New York-based
dialogue group on the
Middle East reflecting a
wide diversity not only of
religious backgrounds but of
political and social orien-
tation as well. Tour partici-
pants from other parts of the
United States and Canada
reflected the same diversity.
Egypt and its people had a
strong and highly positive
impact on the group. In
meetings with women active
in that nation’s political life,
including Aisha Rateb, the
only woman in the Egyptian
Cabinet, we were impressed
with programs being con-
ducted in family planning,
community development,
combatting illiteracy and
other areas of health, educa-
tion and welfare. Man^ of
these women, and| Dr.
Tahseen Beshir, c§ cial
spokesman for President
Anwar Sadat, expressed to
the Christian and Jewish
tour participants their sin-
cere desire for peace, if not
yet friendship with Israel.
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A journey to the c» of
Suez, being rebuilt l.z a
fantastic rate, with hun- {_
dreds of new housing units r-
completed each day, under-
scored that conviction.
Everywhere we went, and
everyone we talked with,
repeated to us a versfni of
Dr. Beshirs comment Ip] hat
Egypt desperately wants to
use her resources for nation-
building and not war, and an
underlying commitment that
if Israel would withdraw to
the pre-1967 borders and
accept a Palestinian state on
the West Bank and in
peace, and even onef^Jay,
normal relations, would be a
reality.
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