Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 18, 1978 Page: 2 of 20
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TEXAS JEWISH POST THURSDAY, MAY 18,1978 FORT WORTH PAGE 2
Weicker Denounced For His Stotement
BY JOSEPH POLAKOFF
WASHINGTON [JTA] -
Three Senators and various
Administration officials
forcefully denounced a
speech by Sen. Lowell
Weicker [D. Gonn.) in which
he accused the Carter
Administration of following
“a policy of confrontation
with Israel” and “appease-
ment” of the Arabs and
alleged that the President’s
National Security Advisor,
Zbigniew Brzezinski was
urging that the U.S. “disen-
gage from its historic al-
liance with Israel.”
call to the Jewish Telegrap-
hic Agency quoted Brezezin-
ski as having said that “the
U.S. commitment to Israel is
unshakeable. It is deeply
ingrained in the fabric of our
own society . . . They are
deeply binding moral
found it convenient to blame
their problems on the Jews
and we know the results.” A
spokesperson for Weicker
said that the Senator
stood by his speech.
ties .
Terms Statement
Absolute Outrage
Weicker attacked the Ad-
ministration’s Middle East
policy in a speech to the 19th
annual policy conference of
the American-Israel Public
Affairs Committee [AIPAC],
which was interrupted 26
times by appaluse from the
1000 pro-Israel delegates.
Weicker drew the heavi-
est fire for his implied
charge that Brzezinski, who
is chairman of the National
Security Council, was acting
out of anti-Israel and anti-
Semitic motivations. The
White House, in a telephone
He implied that the
Administration was trying
to make Jews the scape-
goats for its foreign policy
difficulties and noted that
“time and time again” in
history “when national lead-
ers run into difficulties they
Comment
s Trust
MEMBER FDIC
Vance and Mondale for the
last 17 months and “these
three men have been contin-
uously concerned with the
survival, strength and inde-
pendence of the State of
Israel.”
But Weicker’s Democratic
colleague from Connecticut,
Sen. Abraham Ribicoff, said
today: “I think it is an
absolute outrage for anyone,
Jew or non-Jew alike, to
infer that there is anything
in President Carter or
Secretary of State Vance or
Vice President Mondale that
is antipathetic to the State
of Israel or to people who
are Jewish.”
Ribicoff said he had not
read Weicker’s speech but
noted that he has talked
regularly with Carter,
Ribicoff said that while he
did not know Brzezinski as
well as he knew the others,
“I think Brezezinski is a
dedicated man who is
working for the President of
the United States ... I think
it is outrageous to infer that
a person is anti-Semitic
when there is absolutely no
proof to that. I think it is a
very dangerous policy for
any individual to throw
around and try to besmirch
anyone with the epithet that
he is anti-Semitic.”
Sen. Jacob K. Javits
(R.NY), himself a frequent
critic of the Administration’s
Israel
To Withdraw
From Lebanon
BY GIL SEDAN
JERUSALEM [JTA] -
Israel will eventually with-
draw its forces completely
from Lebanon, Chief of Staff
Gen. Rafael Eitan told the
Knesset’s Foreign Affairs
and Security Committee.
But no date has been set for
the final withdrawal, he
said.
In his first appearance
11 before the committee since
he took office last month,
Eitan said that cooperation
between Israeli forces and
the United Nations Interim
Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL)
has been satisfactory to
date. He said UNIFIL has
succeeded in preventing
terrorist infiltration into
south Lebanon in some cases
but failed in others. There
are “problems which have
not been solved,” Eitan said,
and he will be meeting
shortly with Gen. Ensio
Siilasvuo, supreme com-
mander of UN forces in the
Middle East to discuss the
situation.
Eitan said the Israel army
presence in south Lebanon is
necessary until UNIFIL can
deploy its troops effectively
over the entire area and is
capable of preventing the
return of terrorists to the
[region.
He indicated that this will
not be possible until UNIFIL
receives the 2000 additional
soldiers approved by the UN
Security Council last week
which will bring its forces up
to 6000 men. Until then,
Israel will continue to hold a
10-kilometer-deep security
belt running the entire
length of the Lebanese
border.
A college degree and edu-
cation are not synonymous.
Possibly they never will be,
but a good deal could be
done to bring them into
closer harmony.
Middle East policies, said
the Administration was “tilt-
ing too far in favor of the
Arabs” but “I cannot sub-
scribe to the notion that
there is some animus against
Israel in this situation. I
don’t think it is in the hearts
or minds of the American
people either.”.
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Sen. Charles Percy [R.I11.]
said, “I have seen no
evidence whatsoever to sus-
tain the allegation made by
Weicker.” Jerold Schecter,
spokesman for the National
Security Council, said
Weicker’s charges were
“false, inflammatory state-
ments.” He said Brzezinski
“has repeatedly made it
clear that the U.S. commit-
ment to Israel is unshake-
able because it is derived
from the strongest moral
imperatives.”
The State Department’s
chief spokesman, Hodding ™
Carter, asked to com-
ment on Weicker’s
speech, said, “I think what
he said was reprehensible, a
gross misstatement of fact,
demagoguery.” He said he
thought Weicker has been
“answered adequately by
Javits, Ribicoff, Moynihan
and Lipshutz.” He was
referring to White House
Counsel Robert Lipshutz ■,
and Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan 1
(D.NY) who were at the
AIPAC conference and
spoke up immediately after
Weicker’s remarks.
Weicker’s press secre-
tary, Rebecca Lett, said
today that “those people
who have read the entire
speech, by and large, have
had a different impression of _
what he was saying than flffi H
those who have read only «H 5
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news accounts of it.
jAppeal For Soviet Jewi
BALTIMORE [JTA] -
/Grigori Svirski, a profes-
sor of Russian language
land literature at the
University of Maryland,
jhas appealed to people of
[good will to help his
1 cousin, Lev Rozenberg,
[emigrate from the Soviet
) Union along with his wife
. and mother-in-law to live
Iwith relatives in Israel.
long ago expired. More
than five years have
passed since he changed
his ‘secret’ job for a
‘non-secret’ one.” The
family, Svirski added,
re-applied eight times
since the first refusal and
four times was turned
down without any ex-
planation; four other
letters of visa requests
remained unanswered.
According to Svirski, a
[former Moscow activist
land author, Rosenberg,
l50, his wife, Valentina,
/49, and his mother-in-law,
.Shifra Snarf, 33, first
/applied for an exit visa in
,1975. The visa application
/was rejected because
.Soviet officials claimed
Jthat Rozenberg’s former
[job as an engineer at the
/Toupolev airplane plant
, was classified as “secret.”
Svirski said that “the
| term within which sec-
, recv must Tie
“Mr. Rozenberg has|
been writing letters to
[Soviet President Leo-
nid] Brezhnev. [Supreme
Soviet chairman Nikolai]
Podgorny, and other au-
thorities demanding a
formal written explana-
tion of the refusals,
reasons, and the exact
time they would have to
wait. He never received
an anwer,” Svirski said.
“The point of the matter
is blatant lawlessness,
even from the standpoint
of ‘Soviet law.’
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