Jewish Leaders Express Outrage

American Jewish leaders expressed horror and outrage today over last night’s terrorist assault on Tel Aviv. All agreed that the attack was a calculated effort to thwart the latest peace moves about to be initiated in the Middle East by Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger and that it branded the Palestine Liberation Organization as nothing more than a gang of killers deserving not recognition but the opprobrium of the world, They also stated that the attack, once again proved that Yasir Arafat could not be described as “relatively moderate.”

Statements to that effect were issued by Mrs. Faye Schenk, president of the American Zionist Federation; Rabbi Israel Miller, chairman, Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations; Elmer Winter, president of the American Jewish Committee; Dr. Judah J. Shapiro, president of the Labor Zionist Alliance; Dr. Joseph P. Sternstein, president of the Zionist Organization of America; David M. Blumberg, B’nai B’rith president; Mrs. Charlotte Stein, president of Pioneer Women; and Herman Rosenbaum, president of the National Council of Young Israel,

Maynard I. Wishner, chairman of the Public Affairs Committee of the Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago, the organization which earlier condemned Sen. Charles H, Percy for characterizing Arafat as “relatively moderate,” declared that the attack “cannot be categorized as a senseless act of terror as the world has described so many previous massacres, It was a planned, carefully engineered act designed not only to terrorize the Israeli people but also to upset any peaceful talks resolving political problems.”