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TEXAS JEWISH POST THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25. 1982 PAGE 2
Kirkpatrick Rejects Policy Rift
BY DAVID FRIEDMAN
WASHINGTON [JTA] -
Jeane Kirkpatrick, the U.S.
Ambassador to the United
Nations, rejected charges
that the reported differ-
ences between Secretary of
State Alexander Haig and
Defense Secretary Caspar
Weinberger over the Middle
East are harmful to the
Reagan Administration’s
foreign policy.
She told reporters at a
Newsmakers Breakfast at
the National Press Club that
while it is easy to “exagger-
ate” the desirability of an
“absolutely, unanimously
kind of stated foreign or
domestic policy,” such a
situation, if it occurred,
would result in a Cabinet of
“absolute clones.”
thought exactly the same
about everything all the
time?” Kirkpatrick asked in
response to questions. She
noted that Haig, Weinberg-
er and herself all have
different responsibilities, an-
swer to different demands
and thus have “differences
in emphasis” on particular
issues.
“What
would w
policy
ve all
Kirkpatrick said “there is
more danger of exagger-
ating the negative effects of
that cacophony” that comes
from differences of views in
the Administration than in
“living with it. Living with it
is the price of having strong
people, distinctive points of
views, examining our poli-
cies and trying to hammer
out policies that make sense.
It is the price of freedom,"
she said.
Basis For Mideast Peace
On the question of peace
in the Middle East, Kirkpat-
rick said everybody says
they want peace in the area
but on their “own terms.”
She said the difficulty is to
find peace “on terms that
are compatible with the
security of all nations in the
Middle East.”
She deplored what she
said was a tendency of the
Arab states to “de-empha-
size” UN Security Council
Resolutions 242 and 338. She
said those resolutions which
call for Israel’s withdrawal
from occupied territories,
secure borders for Israel and
negotiations, are still the
best basis for reaching peace
in the area. Kirkpatrick said
in the UN the purpose seems
to be the “isolation, humilia-
tion, delegitimation of Israel
and to a lesser extent ... of
the U.S.”
Moynihan Warns:
Anti-Semitism Is Increasing
UN Censure Jeopardizes Israel
BY DAVID FRIEDMAN
WASHINGTON [JTA] -
Rep. Benjamin Rosenthal
[D.NY] has warned United
Nations Secretary General
Javier Perez de Cuellar that
the recent censure of Israel
by the General Assembly
has “critically jeopardized”
American support for the
UN, particularly among
longtime supporters of the
world body.
The February 5 resolution
“and the broader atmos-
phere which produced it and
allowed it to pass, are
critically jeopardizing con-
tinued American support of
the United Nations — not
just among those who have
had doubts in the past, but
among your very best
friends,” he said in a letter
to Perez.
Rosenthal, a member of
the House Foreign Affairs
Committee, noted that he
has supported the UN
during his 20 years in the
House and served as a
member of the U.S. delega-
tion to the General Assem-
bly in 1979. He said he has
defended the UN “despite
periodic differences with
specific United Nations ac-
tions” because he believes
that “daily communication
among all nations is essen-
tial to world peace, what-
ever the frustrations.”
The American People Are
Furious’
But now, Rosenthal
stressed, “I am furious with
the substance and proce-
dures” of the resolution
censuring Israel. “My col-
leagues are furious,” he
added. “The American peo-
ple are furious. Sentiment to
cut off financial support is
growing significantly, even
among those who in the past
fought against such action.
You would be grievously
mistaken to dismiss this
reaction as simply a short-
term response to a single
event.
“For me, and for many
other long-standing Ameri-
can friends of the UN, this
event has brought about a
very considerable shift in
our feeling and thought. We
see it as the culmination of a
process which has long
distressed us. The United
Nations is becoming a body
of recrimination instead of
an institution of reconcilia-
tion.”
Rosenthal blamed this
deterioration on “a lack of
nerve among moderate and
independent members and
officials of the United
Nations. They allow resolu-
tions like this to pass and
dismiss them as rhetoric or
theater with no real bearing
on issues of substance. They
are wrong. And, in the end,
they are self-destructive.
For their own influence is
ultimately every bit as much
under attack as is the
existence of a single state.”
Senator Daniel Patrick
Moynihan of New York
warned of increasing anti-
Semitism throughout the
globe and called on Jewish
community leaders “to rea-
lize the intent of those who
would destroy us before it is
too late. Democratic leaders
were silent in the 1930s,” he
said, “and must not be silent
today under any circum-
stances.”
Speaking to more than 500
Jewish leaders at the UJA
Southwest Regional Confer-
ence in Houston, Moynihan
recalled the infamous U.N.
General Assembly resolu-
tion declaring Zionism to be
a form of racism. Reminding
the audience that some 70
votes had been mustered
against that 1975 resolution,
he stressed the fact that, in
the recent General Assem-
bly vote in favor of boycot-
ting Israel, only 21 nations
declared their opposition.
Moynihan also cited the
U.N. Resolution of March 1,
1980, holding Israel in
violation of the fourth
Geneva Convention. He em-
phasized the outrageousness
of that action by explaining
that the fourth Geneva
Convention makes Ausch-
witz a crime ... and only
Israel has ever been found
guilty of genocide under that
code.
As further evidence of
this “Orwellian inversion of
meaning,” he noted that
“Arab League Ambassador
Clovis Maksoud has charged
Israel with ‘trying to para-
lyze the United Nations like
the League of Nations was
paralyzed by Nazi Ger-
many’s ... annexation and
Australia Announces It Will
Participate In The Sinai Force
BY SAM LIPSKI
MELBOURNE (JTA) -
Australia has announced
that is contribution to the
multi-national Sinai peace-
keeping force will consist of
about 120 men, eight heli-
copters, and support equip-
ment.
In his first official com-
ment on Australian partici-
pation since talks between
the Australian government
and American officials earl-
ier this year, the Minister
for Foreign Affairs, Tony
Street, said the Australian
contingent would be estab-
lished at El Gorah in the
northern Sinai by March 20.
The peacekeeping force
takes up duty on April 25
when Israel is scheduled to
complete its withdrawal
from the peninsula. The
Australian commitment to
the force was for two years.
Street said the Australian
contingent would perform
air traffic control functions
for the peacekeeping force.
In addition, Australia would
supply some 10 staff officers
for the force commander’s
headquarters and some
members of the force's
military police unit.
The details given by
Street are in line with the
Australian government’s
decision in principle first
announced last October to
participate in the peacekeep-
ing force. At the time, Prime
Minister Malcolm Fraser
said that because of its
support for the Camp David
accords, Australia was pre-
pared to participate provid-
ed there would be represen-
tatives from Britain, Canada
or Western Europe.
The Australian decision
aroused strong protest from
the Labor Party which
opposed any Australian in-
volvement in the peacekeep-
ing operations not under the
supervision of the United
Nations.
Objections
Labor MPs
From Some
During a heated debate in
Parliament, the leader of the
Labor opposition, Bill Hay-
den, said that participation
in the peace-keeping force
rewards Israel’s “intransi-
gence,” and he described
Israeli Premier Menachem
Begin as “the greatest
threat to world peace."
Some pro-Israel Labor
MPs dissociated themselves
from Hayden’s views. But a
number of the leftwing
spokesmen for the Labor
Party attacked Camp David
as a failure. They warned of
the danger of retaliation by
Arab governments who
trade with Australia and
who would be displeased by
Canberra’s support for
American policies in the
Middle East.
Despite the lack of biparti-
san support, opinion polls
which showed public opposi-
tion to the move, and serious
doubts within his own
government, Prime Minister
Fraser has consistently sup-
ported the need for Austra-
lian participation in trying to
ensure the success of the
Camp David accords.
expansionist policies.’ ” In
the face of this, he asked
how the democracies of the
world could be so silent in
1982.
Moynihan was the key-
note speaker at the three-
day conference which drew
Jewish leaders from
Arkansas, Louisiana, Okla-
homa, Texas and Wichita,
Kansas to examine major
issues faced by the world-
wide Jewish community and
to stimulate the 1982
UJA/federation fundraising
campaign.
Other speakers at the
conference were former
Israeli Ambassador Simcha
Dinitz who analyzed Middle
Eastern events as seen from
Jerusalem and Congressman
Tom Lantos of California,
the only survivor of the
Holocaust ever elected to
the United States Congress.
Dinitz, an active partici-
pant in the Camp David
meetings, emphasized that
“Israel’s sacrifices in the
course of peace were unpar-
alleled in history.” He
mentioned the return of
Sinai and its oil fields to
Egypt as examples of
Israel’s strong desire for
peace. Citing recent evi-
dence of equivocation in U.S.
Middle East policy, includ-
ing indications of “positive”
values in the Fahd Plan, he
called for a forthright and
definitive Reagan Adminis-
tration statement of support
for the peace process clearly
set forth in the Camp David
Accord.
Lantos warned of the
dangers of appeasement and
saw a terrifying parallel
between the 1930s and
today. Citing recent UN
actions against Israel, he
said that he would introduce
a joint resolution calling for
United States withdrawal
from the United Nations if
any democratic state is
ejected.
Discussing the bombing of
a Jewish restaurant in
Berlin, the dangers facing
the Falashas in Ethiopia,
and the anti-Semitism sur-
facing in Poland, Lantos
asked the audience “to speak
out strongly and persistent-
ly because a policy of silence
does not work.”
UJA National Chairmar
Herschel W. Blumberg anc
National Chairman-desig-
nate Robert E. Loup, adj
dressed major sessions ofl
the conference and stressed^
the need for substantially
increased campaign giving
in the years ahead to meet
the growing challenges fac-
ing the Jewish people the
world over.
Plaques were presented
to the regional 1982 Com-
munity Campaign Chairmen
in recognition of their
leadership efforts by UJA
National Vice Chairman
Julius L. Levy, Jr., the
Chairman of the Southwes
Region Campaign Cabinet.
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A special session of the
conference was devoted to
the acceptance and signing
of a covenant — a proclama-
tion of “One People Indi-
visble” — by those present,
pledging the American Jew
ish community “to expres
an ongoing commitment to'
the unity, strength and
continuity of the Jewish
people.”
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Conference presentations
ranged over current issues
of Jewish concern, includin
the progress of Projec
Renewal and the future
imperatives and priorities of
the American Jewish com-
munity.
Basic elements of cam-
paigning were explored i»
seminars and workshops®
including sessions on Wo™
men’s Division and Young
Leadership Cabinet activi-
ties, solicitation techniques,
campaign planning, worker
and leadership training, and
small city campaigning.
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Highlights of the confer-
ence included a dramatic
presentation by Israeli ac-
tress Aviva Marks and a
musical performance by
Jewish musicians recently
arrived in the United States
from the Soviet Union.
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UJA National Vice Chair-
man Sandra Weiner of
Houston was the Conference
Chairman.
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