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TEXAS JEWISH POST HANUKA ISSUE THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1976 POSTORIAL PAGE 4
POSTORIAL
Arab Duplicity
Israel in effect told the Arabs to “put up or shut up” when
it introduced a resolution in the United Nations General
Assembly calling for a reconvening of the Geneva peace
conference on the Middle East “without delay.” The
resolution was withdrawn when, as expected, the Arabs
sought to have it amended to include the Palestine
Liberation Organization as one of the participants at the
conference.
But the Israeli move was successful because it
demonstrated that the Arabs, who have been declaring
that they want peace to every visiting American official
or newsman, do not mean a negotiated peace but one
dictated on their terms.
“We gave you a chance,” Israeli Ambassador Chaim
Herzog told the General Assembly when he withdrew the
resolution, the first Israel had ever introduced in the
General Assembly. “You could have seized upon it. Had
you done so, we might have been on the eve of the
reconvening of the Geneva conference. But no. This
would have not been in accordance with the true policy of
the Arab states. This would have meant negotiations.”
Herzog’s point was proved when the Assembly went on
to adopt two Arab-inspired resolutions which demanded
resumption of the peace conference on Arab terms and
with the PLO represented. As U.S. Ambassador William
Scranton said “one side cannot be expected to give
everything and gain nothing.”
The Israeli move in the UN was not merely a
propaganda move: it effectively exposed Arab duplicity
which goes under the term “peace offensive.”
President-elect Jimmy Carter, Secretary of State-desig-
nate Cyrus Vance and other not-yet-named officials
should be able to detect the one-sided aproach of the
Arab moves. Supporters of Israel expect tha the new
Administration, as the old, will insist that the Geneva
conference convene on the same basis as it was originally
called for — without the PLO.
Hanuka Spirit
In Georgia
BY ROBERT E. SEGAL
When Jimmy Carter and
119 of his fellow congre-
gants of the Plains Baptist
Church voted a month ago
to open services to all
regardless of race, the
victory they recorded for
religious freedom could
readily be accepted as a
welcome prelude to the
Hanuka season.
To be sure, there was no
cruse of oil to last eight
days, or even one day, in
.the Baptist sanctuary. And
no need for one. Yet this
vote on the side of
righteousness offers re-
assurance to all who abhor
religious and racial bigotry..
Along the way, the incident
had about it the odor of
political chicanery. And
those who dipped then-
hands in that pool of dirty
tricks went down to defeat1
also.
Now President-elect
Carter is not yet a Macca-
bee, but his behavior in the
Plains political-religious
episode was in the good
tradition of those who have
long fought for the right to
worship as the heart dic-
tates. When Mattathias 21
centuries ago led the
historic Jewish battle
against Antiochus Epi-
manes, he was fighting on
his own turf. Jimmy Carter,
in 1976, knew his terrain by
heart also. And when, at
the close of the incident, he
said it was a victory for
“God’s church,” he proved
himself enrolled in the
ranks of those who answer
a higher call as did Judah
when he rallied the Macca-
bees with the cry, “Who-
ever is for the Lord, follow
me.
There were, of course, a
few dark shadows over the
Plains Baptist Church
affair. First, Carter’s politi-
cal opponents were hope-
lessly misguided when they
clucked with glee over the
Carter camp’s embarrass
ment flowing from the
appearance at the Plains
church door by the black
minister-politician, Rev.
Clennon King of Albany,
Ga., the Sunday before
Election Day. The reported
dispatch of telegrams by
the Ford Committee to
black ministers in many
parts of the country fortu-
nately backfired. The
politico who signed the
malicious telegrams
apparently intended to
prove to the nation that
Carter could not very well
influence Congress if he
couldn’t influence the
outcome of the church
squabble. Carter proved his
adversary dead wrong.
Again, certain efforts to
' portray the Democratic
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candidate as a bigot or at
least one who gave only lip
service to civil rights
proved disastrous for Ford
cohorts. Commenting on
the original exclusion of the
Albany visitor and three of
his associates from the
church, one Peter Teeley,
deputy press secretary for
the President Ford Com-
mittee, asserted, “If
nothing else, it shows uf
some of the inconsistencies
in Mr. Carter’s beliefs oi
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II I
ADL Says:
US Constitution Violated In
Equal Employment Practices
LOS ANGELES, CA. —
The major ~ problem with
federal employment oppor-
tunity programs is “failure
to adhere to the basic
constitutional mandate of
equal protection under the
law,” according to the
Anti-Defamation League of
B’nai B’rith.
Testifying at a hearing
Monday of the U.S. Labor
Department’s Office of
Federal Contract Compli-
ance Programs, Harry J.
Keaton, chairman of ADL’s
national discriminations
committee and president of
its Los Angeles regional
board, said fundamental
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violations of the U.S. Con-
stitution are “common-
place” everywhere in the
United States in the daily
operations of federal pro-
grams created more than
15 years ago to uphold
equal employment oppor-
tunity.
The hearing on proposed
changes in equal employ-
ment opportunity regula-
tions for federal contrac-
tors, was held at Los
Angeles City Hall.
Keaton called for the
following changes in the
regulations: Elimination of
racial, ethnic and' sex
j quotas and preferential
treatment; elimination of
the Labor Department’s
arbitrary classifications and
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definitions for the term
“minority groups;” con-
forming the regulations’
ban on employment discrim-
ination by American con-
tractors hiring for overseas
projects to the stricter
Presidential directive; and
inclusion of a clear state-
ment of protection against
discrimination for employ-
ees and job applicants who
observe religious holidays
• and the Sabbath.
Pointing out that ADL
had helped promulgate the
concept of “affirmative
action” to remove barriers
to equal opportunity, Mr.
Keaton said that the con-
cept suffers today from
“widespread perversion
and distortion.”
“What the regulations
naively describe as ‘goals’,”
he declared, “become
quotas achieved through
preferential treatment —
which is oeverse discrimin-
ation and a denial of equal
opportunity.”
He said that the govern-
ment’s four-category defin-
ition of “minority group” —
black, Hispanic, Asian or
Pacific Islander, American
Indian or Alaskan native —
and the descriptions of each
category, are confusing and
Mbit
BBYO HONORS FOR: left to right, Jerry Schwartz, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Mike Schwartz, beau of Jennie Zesmer
B.B.G.; Andra Silverberg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bud
Silverberg, Sweetheart of Henry Monsky A.Z.A. and
Matt Gabay, son of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Gabay, Beau oj
Jennie Schepps B.B.G. The trio were named when tht
three BBYO chapters held their annual Sweetheart-Beat*
Dance on Nov. 27 at the Registry Hotel. Dance chairmen
were Shari Brenner and Holly Young of Zesmer BBG;
Bruce Eisenberg and Craig Litman, Henry Monsky AZAl
and Shelli Samel and Sheryl Pollock, Schepps BBGl
Presidents of the groups are Jan Rosen, Zesmer BBGr
Bradley Hacker, Monsky AZA and Sherry Romick,
Schepps BBG.
devoid of any merit. More-
over, he continued, the
term “minority group” as
used in the proposed regu-
lations “is inaccurate when
applied to the work forces
of Washington, DC, New-
ark, NJ, Hawaii, Puerto
Rico and many other locali-
ties within federal juris-
diction.”
The League is committed
to “affirmative action”
programs based on merit
and advocates special
educational and job training
to assist the culturally
deprived in achieving fuj|
potential. It has foughB
discrimination against JewlL
and any other body of
citizens through litigation
and other means.
Keaton said that for
“affirmative action” to get
back on the right traclM
“every person must bfl
accorded the same right to
be free from discrimination
as is every other person.”
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