CfllVIIVIITTEO TO ISRAEL"
BY WOLF BLITZER
WASHINGTON- President Jimmy Carter has given categorical assurances to Jewish leaders that under his Administration Israel will never be threatened, that United States aid to Israel would continue, and that he ""is committed to Israel.** -
Both Philip Klutznick, the Secretary of Commerce, who took leave last year as president of World Jewish Congress on his Cabinet appointment, and Alfred Moses, a White House adviser on liaison with the Jewish community, emphasized that IsraeFs friends need iiot be concerned about how a second-term Carter Administi^tion would respond to IsraeKs needs.
Some fears have been expressed among American Jews that President Carter might exert strong pressure on Israel to make additional concessions once he no longer ha$ to worry about reelection.
Klutznick and Moses promised Jewish leaders that if reelected President Carter would remain firmly supportive of Israel and her economic, military and diplomatic requirements.
(Contmued on Page 7 — See: CARTER)
DANIEL MOYNIHAN ... move U.S. embassy
PHILIP KLUTZNICK .. remove mlsiuiderstanding
SHABBAT SHALOM — THURSDAY; AUGUST 28.1980 ^ ELUL 16.5740 — VOL. XLVII. No. 33
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UNITED NATIONS
y.N. i 5«;retary-Gcneral Kurt Wakilieiin c^ie<r(or <^tablish-hient of an inidependent ^iestitiian state When si>eak-iiig at a dinher given by the Arab League, guests at the event reported. One gufest said that the Arab League representative at the U.N., Olovis Maksoud, was so pleased by Waldheim's strong pro-Arab position that he planned to distribute a transcript of the statement verbatim. There was no immediate reaction by U.N. officials to the account of Waldheim*s remarks.
(Jerusalem Post).
TURKEY REVIEW
JERUSALEM ^Turkeyrecalled its chargis d'affaires from Israel **for consultation" and announced that a decision on; whethier it would break diplomatic relations with the Jewish State would be made only after a thorough review of the situation.
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UNITED NATIONS - The
United States ^ delegation^ to the Uiiited Nations, headed by Secretary of State Edmund Muskie, abstained from the recent Arab-sponsored Security council votie on a resolution condemning Israel's reaffirmation of Jerusalem as its eternal capital.
This occurred despite every effort by Israel and her American supporters to get the U.S. to veto the declaration. ^
In addition, the Security Council called on the 12 states with embassies in Jerusalem to withdraw them.
Previously in Washington a pro-
GULAG RECORD
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WHAT CAN YOU DO?
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Israeli contingent^had' warned^ Carter's top politicataides that the U.S; position would be viewed as a **test case** of the Carter administration's attitude toward Israel ■
During the 48 hours, before the y.N. vote, \yest European and moderate Arab s^tes had moved to delete a specific call in the draft resolution for economic sanctions against Israel because of the Knesset's enactment of the Jerusalem Law.
State Department officials made it clear that a resolution including sanctions would be vetoed, but more restrained language would lead to a U.S. abstention.
U.S. officials said that the final decision would be made only after Council members reached final agreement on the proposed language.
It was noted that Israel Ambassador Ephraim Evron had expressed Israel's deep concerns directly to Vice-President Walter Mondale, Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher, Assistant Secretary Harold Saunders and other high-ranking White House and State Department officials.
The ''moderate" resolution, while not calling for sanctions, still insisted that those countries maintaining embassies in Jerusalem — the Netherlands and 11 Latin American states — remove them.
The resolution "strongly censures" Israel for changing Jerusalem's status.
It followed the June 30 Security
EXPRESS CONCERN
JERUSALEM — Israeli military circles expressed serious concern over Saudi Arabia's huge purchases of advanced weaponry from United States.
Council Resolution, approved ! 4-to-0 with the tJ.S. abstaining, warning Israel not to approve the then-pending Knesset legislation. Israel's defiance of that resolution led to the session.
After the June vote, U.S. officials said^the administration might have vetoed that resolution if Prime Minister Menachem Begin had not threatened to move his office to East Jerusalem only a few days earlier.
The PLO's demand to retaih^he call for sanctions in the resolution puzzled mo$t U.N. observers, who had earlier concluded that such language would not even capture the required nine affirmative votes among the IS-member Council.
(Continued on Page 4) See: U.S. ABSTAINS
•tadSrut* reacting to latest wave ofpriiwrisw, lias firmly rejected any package deal with goveriiment and private employers that would freeze wages, taxes and prices.
LANSKY PLEA
JERUSALEM — Israel Supreme Court has ordered Interior Minister Dr. Ypsef Burg to show cause . why he should not allow a visit to the country by Meir Laiisky, alleged former American underworld leader who was refused Israeli citizenship in 1972.
POLISH VISIT
JERUSALEM * Polish Minister for Religious Affairs, Jerzy Kuber-ski, a member of Central Committee of Communist Party of Poland, will visit Israel in October, government spokesmen here stated.
IN THE LARGEST-SCALE action taken against terrorists since the 1978 Litani operation, the IDF attacked about 18 terrorist targets in South Lebanon early lasi week — killing an estimated 50 to 60 terrorists and destroying weapons, buildings an).' equipment. Three Israeli soldiers, two of them officers, were killed in the operation, and 12 others were wounded. The area attacked is up to 30 kilometres from the Israeli border and the two outlying targets were 15 kilometres apart.