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rEXAS JEWISH POST THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1979 PAGE 2
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HELLO FRIENDSHIP!
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Debate Over Settlements
BY I. L. KENEN
The Israeli Cabinet’s con-
troversial 8-to-5 decision to
build a new military settle-
ment at Elon Moreh near
Nablue, where Abraham
first entered the land thous-
ands of years ago and where
Israel later crowned Jerobo-
an as its king, has again
triggered a shrill debate
over the legality of such
settlements.
Public relations consider-
ations might have argued for
restraint, but sovereign
states cannot be expected to
barter away legal rights for
approving pats on the head.
Nevertheless, journalistic
tirades against Israel ignore
her motivations, which she
holds are justified, not only
in law but also by the
instinct for the preservation
of life.
incendiary base, ignore the
apprehensions of a people
long besieged.
The Carter administration
holds that the settlements
violate international law.
Israeli experts, reinforced
by American scholars and
informed by recent as well
as ancient history, dispute
that view. There are those in
Israel who oppose settle-
ments in the West Bank but
they do so on grounds of
political judgment, not inter-
national law.
It is bewildering to read
the partisan and passionate
Anthony Lewis column in
The New York Times (June
7) in which he indicts Israel
for “contempt” of President
Sadat, whose nose Israel has
“tweaked,” and for Carter,
who can be “mocked.”
Lewis’ references to the
meaning of Security Council
Resolution 242 and the
closing of Bir Zeit Univer-
sity, which has been an
He soars in denunciation
when he writes about “the
Crisis of Zionism” and calls
on all the “friends of Israel”
to be “meeting and talking
and thinking to themselves
about what is happening to
the dream.” Dream? Pro-
viding they can stop think-
ing about the nightmare of
innocent civilians who are
slaughtered by terrorists in
their unremitting war
against Zionism.
rule and who now must
Cautiously silent lest th
incur PLO punishment
alleged “collaboration.”
fi
Time?
The New York
editorially declared on June
10 that Begin had promised
he never would build nem
settlements. Just when aifl
under what circumstance®
One might infer from the
Lewis column that Israelis
have no concern for the
health and welfare of the
Palestinians. In fact, Israeli
institutions have helped the
Arabs of Nablus, while the
tiny settlement is no threat
to their security.
In Brief:
CBS was criticized by
viewers when its broadcast
on Pope John Paul’s visit to
Auschwitz failed to include
his moving reference to tf
Jewish victims of the Holl
caust but mentioned oni
the people,” who died there,
an unfortunate generality
reminiscent of the war years
when eyes and ears were
averted.
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First Autonomy Talks Yield No Progress
But Agreements Reached On Some Matters
BY GIL SEDAN
JERUSALEM [JTA] -
Israel’s six-man delegation
returned from Alexandria
after an initial round of
talks with the Egyptian and
American teams in the
negotiations over autonomy
for the West Rank and Gaza
Strip. The two-dav session,
the first working meeting
since the autonomy talks
were formally opened in
.Beersheba May 26, produced
no progress on substantive
matters nor, apparently,
was any expected. But
certain procedural matters
were settled and Israel and
Egypt agreed to refrain as
and Egyptians agreed that
there would be no chairman
at that and future meetings
— only “hosts.” Egyptian
Prime Minister Mustapha
Khalil had said earlier that
he would boycott the next
meeting if Burg insisted on
acting as chairman. But he
will attend the next round of
negotiations in Herzliva.
It was also agreed that no
minutes would be kept, at
certain sessions so that the
participants can feel free to
“express themselves unin-
hibited.” An Egyptian offi-
cial, his identity not im-
mediately disclosed, will
come to Israel to diseuss the
much as possible from public
statements on controversial
issues so as not to further
complicate the extremely
delicate negotiating process.
Interior Minister Yosef
Burg, head of the Israeli
delegation, was received by
President Sadat at the
latter’s Maamura residence
in Alexandria shortly before
the Israelis departed. The
Israeli minister told report-
ers at Ben Gurion Airport
that “Sadat raised the issue”
of Israeli settlements on the
West Bank on which there is
a vast gap between the
Israeli and Egyptian posi-
tions. However, according to
Burg, Sadat indicated that
he did not want this to
hinder the talks, saying “I
will take up all problems
with Mr. Begin when he
comes here.” Premier Men-
ahem Begin will meet with
Sadat in Alexandria early
next month — possibly on
July 5 — for their second
summit meeting since they
declared open borders be-
tween their countries on
May 28.
timetable for the Herzliya
talks.
Some differences appear
to have arisen at Alexandria
between Israel and the U. S.
over the latter’s role in the
autonomy negotiations. For-
eign Minister Moshe Dayan
said in a television interview
that Israel wants the Ameri-
cans to be “full partners”
rather than “full partici-
pants.” Dayan went so far as
to say that if Israel does not
receive a satisfactory reply
on the American status it
might “reconsider” its posi-
tion vis-a-vis the Camp
David accords. He did not
elaborate but it is under-
stood here that Israel
prefers the U. S. to maintain
a low profile in the actual
negotiations and allow the
Israelis and Egyptians to
settle the issues between
themselves.
to the Middle East early
next month. Leonard report-
edly asked the Israelis if
they wanted the Americans
completely out of the nego-
tiations. The Israelis politely
clarified their position on the
issue. An exact definition of
the American role is expect-
ed to be worked out in the
course of diplomatic con-
tacts.
Burg said that he hoped
the points separating Israel
and Egypt would be resolv-
ed but did not say Israel was
prepared to make any
compromise on the settle-
ments issue. He was very
complimentary in his re-
marks about his Egyptian
hosts. The Interior Minister
told the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency that President Sa-
dat is a “world statesman.”
He said “Sadat stressed that
he has a strong desire for
peace, that he will not be
deterred or frightened by
threats and that he regards
Premier Begin as a coura-
geous man who will advance
the cause of peace in the
area.” Burg described Khalil
as “a cultured man” and said
he developed a good rela-
tionship with him. He
depicted Egyptian Foreign
Minister Butros Ghali as a
“scholar” and said Defense
Minister Kamal Hassan Ali
was “very friendly.”
Thus, it is a refreshing
change of air to read a May
28 editorial in the Kansas
City Times, which records
that “Israel had established
four new rural clinics in the
West Bank for Palestinian
residents” and “built and
staffed a new hospital in
Nablus,” practically elimin-
ating cholera and other
infectious diseases, tripling
the number of physicians,
nurses and paramedics avail-
able to treat Palestinians,
and establishing central
sewage systems in most
West Bank and Gaza vil-
lages.
The Washington St-
editorially labels Amb. A
drew Young’s concern lest
I
we lose Nigerian oil if we
recognize the Muzorewa
regime in Zimbabwe-Rho-
desia as “realeconomik.”
And Kevin Phillips joins the
appeasement front over C
as he warned that we m
lose our oil, as well as o
shirts, if we ignore Arab
opinion in the Middle East.”
I
nit;
i
The media invariably ac-
centuates the negative and
ignores the positive, and
littie is written about Isra-
el’s humanitarian solicitude
for Arabs who have pros-
pered in health and econ-
omic circumstance under her
Stephen Chapman
sharply criticizes the Quaker
movement’s alignment wit
the PLO in the June 9 n
Republic (which should s
rise no one, for a Quaker
spokesman questioned U. S.
aid to Israel on Capitol Hill
when it was first requested
in 1951).
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The Miami Herald
June 4 commends Secreta
of State Vance for canceli
the sale of three Boeing 747
jets to terrorist-linked Lib-
ya.
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Quebec Rejects Jordanian Claim ■
That Province Is Anti-Zionist
BY MICHAEL SOLOMON ment.
therefore free to assail it.’
MONTREAL [JTA] -
Quebec political spokesmen
have criticized an editorial in
an Amman newspaper which
proposed that “the Arab
community of nations”
should support the Quebec
government of Premier
Rene Levesque “in its
demands for political sov-
ereignty because Quebec
has a strong anti-Zionist
following.” Levesque seeks
to achieve independence
from Canada for the
French-speaking province.
Quebec Faces Dilemma
The next session in the
autonomy negotiations will
be held at the Israeli' seaside
resort town of Herzliya,
north of Tel Aviv, at the end
of this month. The Israelis
Shortly before the Israelis
left, Sadat said “The Ameri-
cans are full partners and
they will continue to be full
partners and this is quite
sufficient.” Similar state-
ments were made by the
Israeli ministers and by
James Leonard, the deputy
of Ambassador Robert
Strauss who President Car-
ter named to head the
American delegation.
Strauss is expected to come
Excerpts from the editor-
ial in the Jordanian news-
paper were published in
Quebec newspapers and
broadcast on Quebec radio
stations. The critical com-
ments were made to the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
by Harry Blank, a member
of the National Assembly,
the provincial parliament in
Quebec, and by Claude
Morin, vice premier of the
Quebec provincial govern-
Blank told the JTA that
he interpreted the com-
ments in A1 Destour as
implying that the Arab
countries should resist plans
by Canada’s new Prime
Minister, Joe Clark, to
implement a campaign
pledge to move the Canadian
embassy from Tel Aviv to
Jerusalem. Under sharp
criticism from Arab diplo-
mats, Clark’s government
has publicly watered down
the pledge, though it has not
withdrawn it. Blank added
that “the Quebecers are not
anti-Jewish but they do face
a dilemma. On the one hand,
they look upon Israel as a
small country which won its
independence and is doing
well, and on the other hand,
the Quebec government has
to deal with small but noisy
trade union groups led
mostly by leftists who
consider Zionism a form of
He recalled that Levesque
commented on the issue
when Ici Quebec, a French-
language publication, con-
demned Israel and Zionism.
The Premier remarked on
that occasion that while his
government “did not sup-
port the line of thought”
expressed in Ici Quebec,
“Zionism is a political phil-
osophy and people feel free
to criticize it.” Blank also
said that the Arabs have the
impression of “popular sup-
port in Quebec but that
support is minimal.” He
added that the Quebec
government could not come
out too strongly against
leftists supporting the an
Zionist view because t
trade unions were an impoP
tant part of the Levesque
electoral base.
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Morin said he considered
the A1 Destour editorial a
warning to the Clark goi,
ernment, but “not addresi
ed” to the Quebec gover
ment. He dismissed the
Amman newspaper stand as
an editorialist viewpoint
“and nothing more.” He
added that the residents of
Quebec are neither anti-
Jewish nor anti-Israel
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Magazine Refuses ADL Peace Ad I
racism and that they are
NEW YORK [WNS] -
The Anti-Defamation
League of B’nai B’rith has
charged that Forbes maga-
zine, a business weekly,
refused to take an ADL
“peace ad” for its fifth
annual Arabic edition. “We
are disappointed that the ad,
in English, Arabic and
Hebrew, which salutes the
peoples of Egypt and Israel
for their courageous, crea-
tive commitment to wage
peace, is rejected because
Forbes magazine considers
peace to be ‘political,’ ” th<g
ADL said. It said it tried t<fl
reach Malcolm Forbes, thd
magazine’s publisher, per-
sonally but could not.
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