TUESDAY 6 NOVEMBER, 1973

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Open Letter To Kissinger
From Peoples Assembly Member Leila Takla

Dear Mr. Kissinger,

Welcome to our country, which has always opened its
arms wide to people from all nations, races and religions.

I am not writing to you for the sake of Palestine,
because the Palestinian people have been measured by their
determination and tenacity, nor for the sake of Arab Nations
and armies, because these have transcended their crisis and
entered a new stage in their life demonstrating their
strength, courage and nobility.

I am writing to you for the sake of hundreds of
thousands of American citizens who are paying, from their
blood and sweat, the price for Israeli aggression and
Nazist Zionism.

The period I have lived among them convinced me
completely that the first victims for this tragedy, which
you call "The Middle East Crisis", are primarily and
strangely those who are financing it --the kind-hearted
American people ... the simple struggling American of
average income who is being deprived and humiliated more
and more by American policy.

One of your Zionist senators lately stated that the
American people have to "tighten their belts" to curtail
the energy crisis and are ready to deprive themselves in
order to face the problem.

I can understand that the Americans -- like any other
citizens -- have a sacred duty to tighten belts and accept
deprivation of this is for the interests of his country
and sons, or if this is for the sake of prosperity, peace
and upholding justice. But the same is incomprehensible
if this is done in order to enable an Israeli soldier to
retain lands he occupied by force.

NM/EGF

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Why should the kind-hearted American sacrifice so that the Israeli soldier may remain in Sinai and the Golan? Why should he deprive himself so that the Israeli government may continue in her excesses, defiance of world public opinion and destruction of the United Nations-- the same organisation for which he is paying plenty from his budget?

Scientific logic was among the subjects I studied in your country, but what I see from America is in complete contradiction with what I have learnt in your universities. I was taught in your country that the United States is a sovereign state, so how could you allow another state to draft the laws which are being applied on your citizens? I was also taught in your country that the U.S. system is democratic-- both minorities and majorities enjoying equal rights -- so how could you allow a single minority to dictate their will on all other groups within the American society? I read in your constitution that all citizens are equal before the law, but you have made the American Zionist above the law, and the Zionist minority is dominating the rest of Americans.

My studies in your country make me aware of the fact that Judaism is an ancient and noble religion, but Zionism is a form of Neonazism believing in the superior Race, justifying illegitimate means for the sake of bloody ends, and inflicting on the American society a punishment surpassing all the crimes of the Mafia. In my country we differentiate between religion and right on the one hand and contrived misdeeds on the other, so how could you allow confusion between the two for the sake of extorting money from your subjects through threats and dual allegiance?

NM/EGF

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I have learnt in my country that freedom and truth
are twins that can exist only in combination, so how could
you allow your citizens to be denied the truth and facts
when you know, even better than I do, what has become or
everybody who tried to inform the American citizens of the
facts. You know what happened to Lillenthal, Hutchison,
Dorothy Thomson and scores of others. You know what happened
to them and why.

The record of America in the Middle East is pitch
black, beginning from 1948. I shall not recount history
to you, because you are a professor and know the full
dimensions of what happened.

If you do know, then your responsibility today is
To strive for saving the reputation of your country -- now
at rock bottom -- and salvage the reputation of the kind-
hearted and helpless American people; To protect their
dignity trampled night and day under Zionist feet and to
uphold principles which your people think they are fighting
for.

Why should you deny your people the truth? Why
should you deprive them from their money without justification,
especially after it has become clear that Israel is not
the strong country which will safeguard your interests in
the region?

Denying your people warmth of fuel is nothing
compared to denying them warmth generated by free and
dignified existence. And if the senators of Israel want
to deprive the American people of warmth for the sake
of Israel, would you accept also that they be deprived of
everything else for the sake of Israel?

Dr. Leila Takla
Al Akhbar P. 5

NM/EGF

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KISSINGER in Cairo ....

The Third "American Peace" Messenger ....

By: Hussein Abdul Razek and
Mohamed Abu Hadid.

No foreign minister of a world country even though
such a country be one of the two super powers, has stirred
as much concern and uproar as Henry (Heinz) Alfred Kissinger,
the U.S. Secretary of State, and President Nixon's Adviser
on National Security.

The picture drawn of Kissinger gives of him the
impression of a mediaeval knight, who is capable of doing
the impossible, and of defeating the ghosts that cross his
road. This impression might have been inspired by Kissinger's
role in achieving peace in Vietnam, establishing new relations
with China, and relieving the acute international tension
with the Soviet Union, a move which the American information
media call "the detente".

Kissinger's personality is linked up on the other
hand, with American propaganda organs which are skilful in
making legendary heroes for fiction, the cinema and politics...

Will Kissinger Succeed where Foster Dulles and Rogers failed?

Kissinger says he likes working alone in diplomacy.
The American, he points out, like the solitary horseman,
the cowboy, whose romantic personality perfectly suits him
because of the solicitude which had always formed part of
his way of living.

The Times, describing Kissinger, said that despite
his playboy appearance, Kissinger is a solitary man but he
often shares in social life if there be some question of
interest to him.

The 50-year old Kissinger is of German origin, and
speaks English with a foreign accent.

He is a professor at Harvard University, is of out-
standing intelligence, and good mannered. His real ambition
turns on building up his reputation as an international
personality.

In his diplomatic practice, Kissinger tends to adopt
18th Century techniques and avoids being self-committal.
He is also versed in press manoeuvres, and despite his not
being a personal friend of Nixon, managed to create success-
ful bilateral relations with the U.S. President.

AH/GFH.

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Despite tough resistance and opposition, Kissinger continued his successful career, and was able to remove Rogers, Nixon's personal friend from his way. His trump card was his realistic policy based on interests which in his view, are permanent and "not the allies."

Difficult Choice

Kissinger today faces a difficult choice. For the brilliant military operation of the Egyptian armed forces on October 6 imposed on him and the entire world with him, the necessity of coping with the situation arising from the Arab-Israeli conflict, and of searching for a way out.

During the last few days, Kissinger had to fly to Moscow and Tel-Aviv, and to meet in Washington, with Egyptian envoy Ismail Fahmy, and Israel's Prime Minister, Golda Meir.

He arrives in Cairo tonight on the first leg of a tour of Arab capitals, to become the third U.S. Secretary of State to visit Cairo since the institution of the July 23rd Revolution regime in Egypt.

The first Secretary was John Foster Dulles who came here in the summer of 1953 and met Gamal Abdul Nasser at a time when the Nasserite experiment was still at its beginnings searching for a solution to Egypt's problems and entertaining some hope in the United States.

Dulles could not understand the Egyptian people or the new regime, and a long drawn-out struggle ensued between Egypt and the U.S. government as a result of his misunderstanding.

Egypt fought Dulles policy of imposing the Baghdad Pact on the area, defied the Western arms monopoly, exposed the American conspiracy against Syria, and nationalised the Suez Canal Company in retaliation for the withdrawal of the U.S. offer to finance the High Dam.

On its part, the United States blocked Egyptian balances held by American banks, and launched a war of starvation against the Egyptian people following the failure of the tripartite aggression. The Eisenhower plan designed to obviate Arab nationalisations of American petroleum concessions, was applied with the landing of American forces in Lebanon and Jordan after the Iraqi revolution was launched. The U.S. anti-Arab policy continued after Dulles and Eisenhower.

The picture was much the same under President Kennedy's "new horizon" policy, but American hostility rose to its peak with the 1967 aggression when the U.S. and the Israeli policies joined hands to confirm the Israeli occupation of Arab territory and to inflict defeat and surrender on the Arabs as a necessary prelude to the Israeli-U.S. strategy aimed at imposing capitalist and imperialist domination on the area.

AH/GFH.

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