Page 2 - The Canadian Jewish News, Friday, Januaiy 28,1977
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NEW YORK IJTA]—
Outgoing Secretary of State Henry Kissinger told a gathering of American Jewish leaders that he has never, forgotten his Jewishness during his term and his deep involvement in efforts to bring progress in the Middle East.
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JERUSALEM IJTA] —
Addressing an international conference of Jewish editors. Murray Zuck-off. editor of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, sharply criticized the Jewish press in America for its tendencj' to give in to the pressure of local "mach-ers".
In one of the major addresses of the conference. Zuckoff said the tendency was to try to divert the legitimate news-gathering by the Jewish press.
"In trj-ing to enforce and limit the kind of news it appears that the Jewish press is working according to certain commandments given by Jewish organizations," said Zuckoff. Such commandments might say, "thou shalt print everything we say — if it is hews or not news" or "thou shalt hallow and glorify our name," Zuckoff said.
He stressed that Jewish weeklies in America were not The New York .Times or The Washington Post and could not compete with their news.
But the Jewish press has one priority over the general press, he said, and that is that it could focus totally on Jewish afiRairs. Jewish life and problems everywhere.
He said that not only Jewish "machers" in the U.S. liked to see their names in The New York Times rather than speak to Jewish weeklies, but the Israeli press is also far more interested in other newspapers than in the news given by the Jewish press.
With his voice trembling with emotion. Kissinger, addressing a farewell luncheon on his behalf given by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations at the Pierre Hotel here, said: "I have never forgotten that 13 members_of my family died in a concentration camp."
But, Kissinger said, he believed that United States support of Israel should not be a result of personal relationships "but the preference of a national interest" on the part of the American government.
"The relations of the U.S. and Israel transcend personal relationship." Kissinger said, adding that the support for a free democratic Israel in the Mideast is a moral obligation of any Administration.
"The basic policy of the U.S.," Kissinger told the more than 150. Jewish leaders from all over the country, is that "Israel be strong enough that her decisions would be made out of firee choice. It must be a principle of American policy that Israel is strong enough to defend itself."
Noting that his relations with American Jewrj' and Israel have been "complicated," Kissinger said that "no criticism had hurt me more than when it came from this community" (American Jewr>). He said he hoped the Jewish saying "next year in Jerusalem" will have a new meaning in the future.
"Next year in an Israel that is accepted (by its neiglibors). secure and at peace.
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Journalists to receive Dutch money award
AMSTERDAM [JTA] —
Two journalists whose information led to the arrest of alleged Nazi war criminal Pieter Menten near Zurich last month will each receive a reward from The Netherlands government of 15.000 guilders (the equivalent of about S6.000). Justice Minister Andries Van Agt announced.
The recipients are Dutch Jewish- journalist Hans Koop. editor of the
weekly. Accent, which first published information leading to a warrant for Menten's arrest, and Martin Walzer, a Swiss newspaperman who spotted Menten in the Zurich suburb of Uster where the multi-millionaire art dealer had fled to avoid trial in Holland. Koop alened Dutch police to Menten's whereabouts after being tipped off by Walzer. He reportedly paid Walzer a considerable sum of money for the information.
Koop said that he would donate his share of the reward to charitable organizations which he will name later. Menten is accused of complicity in the deaths of hundreds of Jews and Poles while serving in a Nazi SS unh near Lemberg. Poland during Worid War II. The reward authorized by Van Agt is three times higher than any previously paid by the Dutch government for information leading to the arrest of a fugitive.
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Sadat to meet leaders
TEL AVIV IJTA]—
Philip Klutznick, chairman of the Board of Gov-ernors of the World Jewish Congress, has confirmed here that he would
head a delegation of top Jewish leaders to Egypt shortly to meet with President Anwar Sadat at the latter's invitation. He said that all that
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JERUSALEM [JTA] —
The World Zionist Organization executive voted 9-1 to hold the next World Zionist Congress during the last week of February, 1978.
Yitzhak Navon. chairman of the Zionist General Council, said he would convene the Council's presidium in two weeks to discuss the recommendation.
The 29th World Zionist Congress was to have opened here Jan. 17. But a ruling by the Congress Court last year that elections must be held for delegates forced a postponement.
Joseph Klarman. head of the WZO's aliyah department, who cast the only negative vote, had submitted a proposal of his ow-n to schedule the Congress for August, 1977. He claimed there was no reason why it could not be held three months after Israel's genera] elections on May 17.
Klarman's motion was defeated 8-1. WZO and Jewish Agency Treasurer Leon Dulzin abstained. Yosef Almogi, chairman of the WZO and Jewish Agency executives, was absent from the meeting because of illness.
It was also announced that the Zionist General Council would meet next summer, a few days before the annual conference of the Jewish Agency General Assembly.
remained was for the date to be set and an agenda agreed upon. He said a reply on these matters was expected from the Egyptian ambassador in Washington. Ashraf Ghorbal.
Addressing the Israeli executive of the WJC. Klutznick_conceded that there was a risk but on the other hand, there were prospects for a breakthrough and. therefore, Sadat's invitation should not be rejected. He stressed that the delegation, whifh will include Lord Fisher of Camden, president of the Board of Deputies of the British Jews; Baron Guy de Rothschild of France, president of the United Jewish Philanthropic Fund; and Rabbi Alexander M. Schind-ler, chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, would not represent Israel and would not presume to negotiate on its behalf.
"I believe negotiations for a settlement in the region must be held directly between the parties concerned." he said. Klutznick acknowledged
that there has been strong criticism in Israel of the proposed visit. But he emphasized that no move was taken without the prior knowledge of the Israeli government. He said that at least three direct contacts were made by WJC president  Dr. Nahum
Goldmann with the Prime Minister's Office and the Foreign Ministr>-.
He said the composition of the delegation would demonstrate to the Egyptians that world Jewrj- is firmly united behind Israel.
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