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TEXAS JEWISH POST THURSDAY, JANUARY 21,
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Love In May
By the end of April, Israel will have returned the
Sinai to Egypt and a new chapter between the two
countries will ensue. There is some trepidation in Israel
and in some sections of world Jewry that Egypt, having
recovered the area, will try to reingratiate itself with
the radical Arab states and become militantly critical of
Israel. Others, both in Israel and abroad, feel that
Egypt will be satisfied with the return of Sinai and will
busy itself building up the area.
Both views are largely speculative because the
Egyptians have given signs of swinging both ways. The
real question is: which way will prevail? Will Egypt love
Israel as much in May as it claimed it did in December?
Last month, President Hosni Mubarak personally
condemned Israel for extending its law to the Golan
Heights but at the same time affirmed that it would not
affect bilateral Egyptian-Israeli relations or the ongoing
peace process.
Egypt’s Foreign Minister Kamal Hassan Ali criticized
Syria for refusing to discuss any issue with Israel and
declared that “the Arab common defense treaty no
longer concerns us since the Arab countries chose to
form another Arab League which has excluded us. We
will certainly not become involved in a war” between
Syria and Israel as a result of the Golan move by Israel.
Hassan Ali furthermore pledged that his country will
pursue its peace process with Israel even if it takes
years.
But as 1981 came to a close, Boutros Ghali, Egypt’s
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, expressed the
view that only American pressure on Israel would
produce a comprehensive Middle East settlement.
Israel's Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir blasted this
statement and warned that pressure would only make
Israel more resolute and obdurate.
Egypt has nothing to gain by adopting a hard line
stance conditioning its future relations with Israel, once
Sinai is returned, on enticing the United States and the
West European nations to try to wrest further
concessions from Israel. Egypt should draw the obvious
lesson, namely, that its real and only friend in the
Middle East is Israel.
The basic interest of the U.S. in the Mideast is to
establish bases, albeit against Soviet penetration. But
this makes the Mideast a potential site for superpower
confrontation. The West Europeans, once the colonial
powers in the Mideast, are seeking to return to the area
to find profitable markets to shore up their flagging
economies. Neither the U.S. nor the West Europeans
are basically concerned with developing the economy
nor the culture of the Mideast.
Israel, on the other hand, is keen on developing
economic and cultural exchanges with Egypt, thereby
constructing a form of regional cooperation. Israel’s
approach and that of the late President Anwar Sadat
must prevail if there is to be peace in the Mideast. The
alternative is chaos.
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Fright Decade II
BY DAVID SILVERBERG
We are now in the second
year of “Fright Decade II,”
as author Claire Sterling
calls it. And the aptness of
the title is everywhere
apparent.
In Italy, Brig. General
James Dozier remains lost in
the clutches of the Red
Brigades. Earlier in the year
German terrorists attempt-
ed to assassinate the Su-
preme Commander of NATO
with a Soviet anti-tank
missile. A mysterious Lib-
yan “hit squad” was report-
edly sent to the United
States to kill President
Reagan. And in May, Turk-
ish terrorist Mehmet Ali
Agca attempted to kill the
Pope.
The Papal Incident
New evidence is coming to
light in the latter attempt,
some of which was discussed
on ABC’s Nightline program
on January 7.
Two experts on terrorism,
Robert Moss, co-author of
The Spike, and Claire
Sterling, author of The
Terror Network, noted some
interesting and largely
overlooked facts in the case
— Agca’s connections to
Bulgaria and Libya. Agca,
according to Moss, spent 50
days in Sofia, Bulgaria prior
to his attempt on the Pope,
which would seem to imply
Bulgarian and Soviet in-
volvement.
Agca, it now appears, had
accomplices, and it is possi-
ble that the same people
were part of the Libyan “hit
squad,” recently feared to be
in the United States. Syria
and the Palestinians may be
implicated as well, according
to Moss, since the Syrian
and Libyan secret services
collaborate in snuffing out
each other’s enemies and
Agca was identified as a
trainee in Palestinian camps.
Claire Sterling expressed
concern over the failure of
the Italian, Vatican, Turkish
and German authorities to
pursue the various leads in
the case.
“My own feeling,” she
said, “is that there is
something so hot at the very
end of this story that no
government is going to want
to talk about it. And there is
a great reluctance to ...
really press to follow every
lead, to really press home,
until whatever can be
ascertained can be ascer-
tained.”
The Lost Crusade
While the European fail-
ure of nerve may be
upsetting, equally upsetting
is the loss of momentum in
the American campaign
against international terror-
ism.
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When the Reagan Admin-
istration took office after the
long travail of the Iranian
hostage crisis, it proclaimed
anti-terrorism one of its top
priorities.
“International terrorism
will take the place of human
rights in our concern be-
cause it is the ultimate of
abuse of human rights,”
declared Secretary of State
Alexander Haig in his first
news conference since tak-
ing office. “And it’s time that
it be addressed with better
clarity and greater effective-
ness by Western nations and
the United States as well.”
That statement, along
with strong anti-Soviet rhet-
oric seemed to presage a
new American determina-
tion in dealing with interna-
tional terrorism. At the
same time, international
terrorist incidents began an
upward curve, as though
probing the reality behind
the rhetoric.
The trumpets in the fight
against terrorism have since
fallen silent. American prop-
erty and personnel are
coming under increasing
attack in Europe and around
the world.
While quiet investigations
may be going on, and
American investigators are
probably cooperating with
their foreign colleagues,
there is none of the vigor
and outrage one would
expect from an Administra-
tion which had made the
defeat of international ter-
rorism one of its top
priorities.
This is sad to see,
particularly in light of the
parallel interests of the
United States and Israel in
combatting terrorism. The
Israeli effort goes on be-
cause it must, it is a matter
of national survival. But the
American effort appears to
have have flagged. It is a
lost crusade, not because it
is defeated, but because it
appears forgotten and dis-
carded — at a time when it is
most needed.
between
you and me
BY BORIS SMOLAR
[Editor-in-chief emeritus, J.T.A.]
[Copyright 1982, Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, Inc.]
ORT-JDC PARTNERSHIP: The annual
three-day national conference of the
American ORT Federation, which opens
Friday [January 22] in New York,
attended by about 700 delegates from all
parts of the country, will mark 35 years of
close cooperation between ORT and the
Joint Distribution Committee — the two
gigantic organizations which became
deeply rooted in Jewish contemporary
history by assisting Jewish communities
in about 30 countries to meet their needs.
The JDC program embraces various
forms of aid, the ORT program consists of
vocation training of youths and adults,
which enables tens of thousands of Jews
every year to secure their economic life as
highly skilled technicians and artisans.
ORT maintains courses in more than 100
fields of specialized vocations.
ORT has been in existence 100 years; it
now starts its second century of existence.
The JDC was formed 68 years ago, when
World War I broke out and millions of
Jews in the war countries were uprooted
and in great need of relief. ORT is a
product of the Jewish community in
Czarist Russia where the Jews lived
under persecution and in miserable
economic conditions. JDC is a product of
American Jewry. Both organizations are
products of strong humanitarian feeling
which is traditional with Jews.
The founders of the organizations in
each of the two countries were
outstanding philanthropists. They were
not close to the masses, but they felt it
their primary obligation to come to the aid
of the masses of Jews in need. The JDC
founders were Jacob Schiff, Felix
Warburg and other known Jewish
financiers. The founders of the ORT were
Samuel Poliakov, the great railroad
builder in Czarist Russia; Baron Horace
Guinzburg, and other prominent Jews
who were granted the right to reside in
St. Petersburg, where residence to Jews
was highly restricted. It was from this
Czarist capital, remote from the millions
of Jews who were forced to live in
abnormal conditions in designated areas
— in the Ukraine, the Baltic zone, and in
Poland which was then a part of Russia —
that the Jewish personalities in St.
Petersburg took an active interest in
ameliorating the living conditions of the
Jewish masses wrho were characterized as
“luft-menshen” — “people who live from
the air,” without any definite income and
not knowing where their living would
come from the next day.
* * * *
THE “ORT” SAGA: During the first
decades of its existence, ORT did not turn
to American Jewry for assistance. It
raised its funds among Jews in Russia —
mostly among middle-class elements —
through appeals similar to the United
Jewish Appeal now in the United States.
The first letter of appeal sent out by the
ORT founders to 10,000 Jews in 400
communities throughout Russia brought
an exceptional response. A quarter of a
million rubles — a huge sum of money at
that time — was raised in small and larger
donations during the first year of ORT’s
existence. Mr. Poliakov and Baron
Guinzburg contributed 25,000 rubles each
to the first appeal. This was no small
amount; no non-Jewish magnate in Russia
made contributions of such magnitude to
humanitarian or religious causes, not even
to the Red Cross.
World War II, and the Communist
revolution that followed, completely
ruined the wealthier and middle class
Jews in Russia. The ORT leaders had to
leave the Soviet Union. The Kremlin had
recognized the importance of ORT in
retraining helpless Jews to productive
vocations and permitted the ORT to
function, but under Communist leader-
ship.
The former ORT leaders emigrated to
Berlin. Among them were Dr. Leon
Bramson, noted jurist and former member
of the Duma — the first parliament under
the Czarist regime which was later
dissolved. Dr. David Lvovitch, noted
industrialist who was deeply devoted, in
money and time, to ORT; and Dr. Arom
Syngalowski, an extremely able person-
ality, a thinker, an energetic organizer
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