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Friday, March 24,1978
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President Carter's Part
We would not be as strong in our language as the
New York rabbi who accuses President Carter of "indirect
responsibility" for the PLO terrorist attack on Israel last
weekend.
But it is incontrovertible that his growing pressure in
recent weeks on Israel to give up the Golan Heights, the
Gaza Strip and the West Bank as fundamental pre-
requisites to peace in the Middle East, plus his new
military package which lumps Israeli needs with Arab
needs at the same time that it welshes on commitments
made to Israel by previous administrations, have em-
boldened the PLO beyond anything it ever felt before.
The trouble with the President is that he says one
thing one day and another thing the very next. He speaks
and acts before the implications of his statements and
actions are clear even to himself. His most recent tur-
naround with respect to the necessity of the creation of a
Palestinian state on Israel's very frontiers must be
counted in the equation of terror that gripped the Jewish
State last weekend and caused the loss of so much life.
What is unfortunate about all of this is that Mr.
Carter really does not know very much of what he is
talking about. His pronouncements run the gamut from
human rights idealism to rank State Department
petrodiplomacy all couched in the vocabulary of Sunday
School do-goodism.
The result was the carnage a horrified world at
least that part of it that is still civilized witnessed last
weekend as the tragic aftermath of the attack played itself
out before the impersonal television cameras of the news
media that promptly proceeded to lecture Israel on the
need to give up being "intransigent."
Chastizing the Victims
Where will it all end? Our own hunch is that the
terrorist attack has brought things back closer to the
beginning, not the end. If Prime Minister Begin was
adamant about the territories before, he is likely to be
even more so now.
If the doves, previously flagellating their wings Abba
E ban style, now seem less frenzied, that "obdurate,
recalcitrant, intransigent" Begin waxes stronger in direct
proportion than he has been in a long time.
The cost in blood was awful, but real history, not the
kind President Sadat has been rewriting since his historic
trip to Jerusalem last November, has a way of justifying
things in the end.
It is a sine qua non of the news media these days,
which blabber in increasing proportion as their morality
costs them nothing, to see Israel as the heavy.
Reckoned in these terms, what occurred was that the
victims have been chastized and the perpetrators of
violence "explained," if not as heroes, then at least as
frustrated fighters for self-determination.
Emotional Shock Still Buries Israel
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Temple Honors Rabbi Malavsky
Temple Beth Shalom recently honored its spiritual leader of
the past 15 years with a testimonial dinner.
Rabbi Dr. Morton Malavsky led the temple from its modest
beginnings on Monroe Street to its present Hollywood Hills
location where membership has quadrupled. More than 1,000
children attend religious school there. He also helped establish
the day school which serves over 100 children today.
RABBI MALAVSKY has spent 25 years in the rabbinate
in boutn Honda and has served during that time in the Rab-
binical Association of Greater Miami as past secretary
executive vice president and president. He served as chairman of
Stdl, Small Voice television program and as originator and
chairman of Worship Hour.
He was chairman of interfaith programs in the mid-fifties,
president of the Broward Board of Rabbis, past president of the
South Broward Council of Rabbis, and chairman of Israel
Histadrut Foundation
He also served as chairman of the Jewish National Fund,
Broward County, past president of Clergy Fellowship of Holly-
wood, past vice president of Zionist district and past vice
president of B'nai B'rith.
Rabbi Malavsky is the author of a prayer book and a
volume on self-taught Hebrew.
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TEL AVIV Israel is
still digging itself out of the
emotional shock wrought
by the attack of Palestine
Liberation Organization
terrorists who breached her
security last weekend leav-
ing 37 Israelis dead and 85
wounded in the wake of a
PLO landing from the sea
just south of Haifa.
"We shall never forget," de-
clared Prime Minister Menachem
Begin in a grim-faced report to
others who participated in the at-
tack have been apprehended.
In Beirut early this week, the
Palestine Liberation Organiza-
tion took frank "credit" for the
attack. "Our heroic revolutionar-
ies proved that they are able to
penetrate all Zionist barriers and
reach their goal," the PLO news
agency, WAFA, said in a com-
munique, which added that the
attack was "our answer to Israeli
arrogance."
Egypt, whose rescue attempt
of hostages taken to Cyprus sev-
eral weeks ago in the wake of the
Follow-Up
his nation of the event which
postponed his trip to Washington
for talks with President Carter in
which it was reported that he
would bring no new plan for
peace in the Middle East and
would not bend to the President's
frankly growing pressure on him
to yield to a U.S.-Egyptian-im-
posed peace settlement on the
Middle East
ISRAEL DEFENSE Minister
Ezer Weizman, in Washington
and New York at the time await-
ing Begins imminent arrival, in-
stead immediately returned to
Israel to discuss the terrorist
attack.
"Those who kill Jews in our
time cannot enjoy impunity,"
Prime Minister Begin told his
country on television. "We shall
eliminate this constant threat,"
which some interpreted as an
ominous warning of reprisals
against PLO installations in Le-
banon.
IN ALL, 46 persons were
killed. These included Gail Ru-
bin, an American photographer,
who was photographing birds on
the beach at the time of the ter-
rorist landing and attack. Rubin
is related to Sen. Abraham Ribi-
coff (D., Conn.). In addition, nine
terrorists were also killed. Two
PLO murder of an Egyptian news
editor was greeted by Prime Min-
ister Begin with a public state-
ment of sympathy and regret for
the murder of the newsman and
the deaths of Egyptian comman-
dos in the operation, did not re-
spond in kind.
BUTROS GHALI, Egypt's
minister of state, instead merely
declared that the PLO attack
"proves that security in Israel
will not be attained through set-
tlements of the addition of new
lands." Also, Ghali offered the
hope that the terrorist attack
would not hamper the ongoing
peace negotiations between Israel
and Egypt.
The PLO raid was commanded
by a 25-year-old Palestinian
woman, Dalai al Mughrabi, who
was killed in the operation. The
11 terrorists landed on the coast
35 miles north of Tel Aviv in two
French-made Zodiak rubber
boats. It was there that they
killed photographer Rubin, who
came to Israel seven years ago
from New York City.
The terrorists then attacked a
private car, a taxi, two buses and
fired on other private cars from
the bus and several cars in a 30-
mile journey of violence down the
coastal highway south of Haifa
toward Tel Aviv.
ALONG THE way. the terror
ists forced all the passengers into
a single bus, many of whom they
chained to their seats. The single
bus then ran two police road-
blocks, one north and one south
of Netanya. It was believed that
the terrorists hoped to get to Tel
Aviv and launch a shoot-out on
the streets of post-Shabbat
crowds late Saturday night.
At the second roadblock, near
the posh Tel Aviv Country Club,
the terrorists were forced into a
gunfight with police, which they
fought beside the bus.
The battle ended when the bus
exploded, and it is still not clear
what set it off.
DEAD, DYING and burned-
to-a-crisp wounded were trundled
to nearby hospitals.
Prime Minister Begin warned
in his TV appearance that "Our
fight will be victorious," sug-
gesting that his line on a Palesti-
nian state and Judea and Sama-,
ria will, if anything, be even
harder than before.
Weizman, on his return to Tel
Aviv, noted that "I'm holding re-
sponsible any country from
which such raids are launched."
He said that the attack "will cer-
tainly have an effect on the gen-
eral atmosphere" of the peace ne-
gotiations between Egypt and
Israel. "It reiterates again the
dangers of having an uncon-
trolled area in the close vicinity of
populated Israel."
THE FIRST of the burial rites
for the 37 victims of the attack
began Sunday with services for
five-year-old Na'ama Ha dam.
who was found with a toothbrush
still in her hand.
Begin, at his cabinet meeting
Sunday, declared that the PLO is
"the most despicable organiza-
tion since the Nazis," and he
urged members to stand "and
honor the memory of the vic-
tims of our people's war of sur-
vival who were wantonly mur-
dered."
At Home With the Carters
Friday, March 24,1978
Volume 8
15 ADAR 2-5738
Number 6
Amy was off in the corner with
a serious mien, signing her name
for autograph-hunters (I have
one). Karen came through the
crowd carrying the baby in her
arms, Chip probably trailing al-
though I wouldn't know him.
Jimmy and Rosalynn were in the
Red Room greeting the several
hundred Floridians they had in-
vited.
The Carter family was enter-
taining at home, and hundreds of
people to the contrary, it was a
warm, personal atmosphere that
pervaded the social rooms of the
White House.
FOR THE several hours we
spent drinking wine (or orange
juice, of course), eating the mod-
est buffet (roast beef, quiche, raw
vegetable dip, pickled mush-
rooms, tiny chicken legs) and
moving from fireplace to fireplace
in each of the portrait-filled
rooms, forgotten were the head-
lines in the Post and the Star
dealing with the Middle East and
the White House political crisis
which has resulted.
For nearly all of us the fat
cats and the precinct workers
who had played important roles
in the Carter campaign for Pres-
ident this was a rare exper-
ience. One stood on the lighted
balcony, looking across the snow-
covered landscape at the Wash-
ington and Jefferson monuments,
and was bathed in the history
that went with this home of our
national leaders.
LAST JUNE, I was in the
Oval Office on political business,
and again last October. There was
a great difference in emphasis,
however. In going through the
receiving line, I heard the Pres-
ident of the United States re-
spond to the side's introduction
of "Mr. Ed Cohen" with a broad
smile and the comment, "I know
him well; he's an old friend."
To underscore that, as my wife,
Irene, moved up (protocol has the
wife following), and I moved out
hoping to catch the handshake on
my Instamatic, he gently took
her shoulder and moved her be-
tween himself and Rosalynn and
posed for me to take the picture.
I don't know whether the fact
that I had used the last flash un-
knowingly so that the historic
photo does not exist makes for a
better anecdote than having the
actual proof, but it is now part of
the Cohen family folklore and
bound to get sadder and riper
with age. If you've heard it be-
fore, please don't hesitate to tell
us.
IN NO special order, among
the local Jewish folk I identified
during the evening were Dr. Ber-
nardo Benes, Elaine and Richard
Wolf son, Carolyn and Judge
Steve Robinson, Dave Fleeman
and his son, Greg; Grace and BB
Goldstein, Anti and Sylvan Mey-
er, Marwin Cassel, Annie Acker-
man, Joe Fleming, Dorie and Elie
Lurie, Nicholas Morley, Mike
Gold and Phyllis Kravitz. Dick
Pettigrew was there. Sens. Dick
Stone and Lawton Chiles mixed
around, as did Adele Mann. And
one of the Army honor guards in-
troduced himself to me as Marvin
*& the *>n of Herschel Har-
ris, who used to have a small rro-
eery store in Miami Shored ^
While Congressman Bill Leh-
man was off in Los Angeles con-
ducting hearings, the President
warmly greeted Congressman
Dante Fascell, who was celebrat-
ing his birthday on Mar. 9, the
evening of the Florida reception.
THE FACT that the next day
Rep. Fascell was one of the mem-
bers of the House International
Affairs Committee who sent a
letter requesting the President to
cancel the arms sale deal to
Egypt and Saudi Arabia had
nothing to do with the genuine
friendliness of the birthday
greeting.
Carter is, of course, having his
problems with the American
Jewish establishment. For those
of us who go beyond the Jewish
political concerns, the departures
of Mark Siegel from the White
House staff is hardly a sad occa-
sion. The mystery of how this ar-
rogant young man became the
White House Jewish liaison per-
son can only be explained by the
ineptness of the Georgia boys
who surround the President.
As Robert Strauss' man, he
has alienated the politicians na-
tionally by his hatchet job on the
Democratic National Committee
(which he served as executive di-
rector under the Strauss regime).
No matter what one thinks of
Richard Nixon, he provided
someone of the stature of Leo-
nard Garment to that sensitive
position.
BUT SOME of these Jewish
problems are for a different col-
umn. I did not convey to the
President all the messages given
to me by those who knew we were
going to visit with him.
Last Thursday evening was a
social occasion, and the President
and his family made us feel very
much at home.