The Canadian Jewish News, Friday, August 29, 1975 - Pag0 9
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By RICHARD VAFFE
NEW YORKIJCNSl —
Mrs. Bella Abzug, a member of the House of Representatives from New York City, believes the underlying trouble~T^with the International Women's Year Conference in Mexico City and its anti-Zionist resolution was that it was organized by the men of the United Nations and therefore had all the faults and the prejudices of the UN. The declaration, she said, was not an independent statement of the women, but , written by men and dutifully adopted by women.
Rep. Abzug. who attended the last three days of the conference as a Congressional advisor to the American delegation, said that many of the women at the conference, whose own delegations voted to include Zionism among the evils facing the world, including heo-colo-nialism, racism and apartheid, "were upset." They felt that a "thing like that should not have been projected into the proceedings." But they felt powerless, and this proved once again that the women are indeed powerless. That, says Mrs. Abzug, should be a jesson of Mexico City.
' 'They came together in an international conference for the first time" she went on. "They had high hopes. But they came away knowing that they had been manipulated by politics as usual. They saw how little power women really have." she added.
Into what Mrs. Abzug called an otherwise good declaration of the hopes and aspirations of a world tired of war, hunger and economic crisis was injected a "totally irrelevant word" — Zionism. Only three countries voted against the Declaration because of that word — Israel, the U.S. arid Denmark, But even Denmark's representative had to go to the conference officer later to ask that the record show that Denmark abstained. not voted "No." Why that was, is still not clear.
Mrs. AbzUg'5 main New York Office is on Seventh Avenue at 25th Street. She has two other offices in her far-flung Manhattan bailiwick, manned mostly by volunteer workers because, as she says, she cannot afford a paid staff
for all the people she needs to tend to consti-tuentsV problems. As it is she spends soihe $20,000 a year out of her own pocket because the Congress does not allow enough expense money for its members to do-a proper job.
She gave up a good law practice when she was elected to the House, so that source is gone. Another good source was. the lecture circuit on which Mrs. Abzug was one of the leading attractions, but Congress recently set a $15,000 annual top on ■ earnings from public speaking.
The lure of a larger staff and more expense money House members are allowed 16 people while senators get 50 — and the considerably greater prestige of being a senator has convinced her that she should try for the Democratic nomination in the autumn, to stand against the Republican incumbent who will seek re-election.
Mrs. Abzug believes that one of the shortcomings of the Mexico Conference was that the
women from all parts of the world really did not get a chance to get to know each other because they got bogged down quickly in the fight over the declaration. A great deal has~to be done to turn the situation around before the next international, meeting five years hence. She says some progress has been made: "First they gave us Women's Day. then Women's Year, and now we haye the Women's Decade!" One of the things she will do to Xry to"turn it around" i§ to "try- to bring together groups of women in different places where they can talk informally."
The groups could be composed of women in similar professions, or of parliamentarians, or housewives, or whatever, she suggests. She noted that she has a bill in Congress now for such a conference to be held in the U.S.. and hopes that she will be able to get Israeli and Egyptian women together informally. "That's not going to be easy, but I'll tr>'."
It couldn't be done in Mexico City. Mrs. Abzug
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admitted, because some of the leading women were there not because they were leaders but because they were wives of leaders — of prime ministers, of presidents, of other officials. She revealed that when the attempt was first made, in committee, to insert the anti-Zionist reference into the declaration, the American delegation's fjfet impulse was to abstain*, not vote against it. She got busy and the abstention became a "No". Her own inter\'en-tion at the conference contained a plea to women to get away from the thinking and actions of thie
past. "I would hope." she said, "that women would surmount national differences and long-standing hostilities to speak directly to each other, and seek to develop new initiatives for peace.
"Unfortunately, such opportunities have already been ignored at this conference. It is not too late to change that. It is not too late for women leaders to meet face to face, for women of different nations to speak frankly and compassionately with each other. If we cannot bring ourselves to do that, then why are we here? Women must be
prepared to dare everything for peace, because never in the history of civilization have we been closer'to the possibility of world destruction."^ she says pessimistically.
Mrs. Abzug. who has a good Zionist, and Jewish background :— was a member of the Hashomer Hatzair Zionist youth movement as a young girl. and studied at the Teachers' Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and taught Hebrew — was particularly vehement in her denunciation of the anti-Zionism in the declaration.
She recounted an inci-
dent when the taken. When announced that ment had been pyerwhelmingly aqi delegation, the men on it there were men the delegations
vote was arid cheered wildly.
it was What they cheered for,
the state- Mrs. Abzug said, was not
accepted for an end to Zionism.
. the Ir- That was merely an
including euphemism for Israel.
—T "yes. What they had in mind,
in some of was the end of the Jewish
■ — stood State.
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