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TEXAS JEWISH POST THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1981 PAGE 2
F-16-15 Embargo Lifted But $ For
Secretary of State
Alexander Haig, Jr. said
Monday, following con-
sultations with President
Reagan earlier, that the
White House ban against
shipping F-16’s and F-15’s
to Israel would be lifted
“at the earliest possible
moment. It usually takes
from six to 10 days to
orient flight crews and
prepare for delivery of
the planes which are
AWACS
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ago Sen. Paul Sarbanes
[D.Md.] said that Israel, by
its preventive actions
against the PLO in Lebanon
and the Iraqi nuclear reactor
protected its people. He said
that the AWACS sale to
Saudi Arabia “serves no real
purpose and endangers Is-
rael’s security.” He declar-
ed: “Keeping Israel strong
and viable — not only as a
strategic ally of the United
States in the Middle East,
but as a partner who shares
the same ideals and inter-
ests — is a cardinal principle
of U.S. foreign policy.
Therefore, those who refer
in a pejorative sense to a
‘Jewish’ or ‘Israel Lobby’
should know that this is an
American Lobby which in-
cludes Christians like my-
self, and it is based on what
is good for America!” Mayor
Edward Koch, who pro-
claimed August as “Hadas-
sah Month” in New York
City, told the gathering that
“We must not use ‘PLO’ and
‘Palestinians’ interchange-
ably. One is a terrorist
organization and the other
refers to a people who want
peace.”
normally flown in squad-
rons of four.
The decision to end the
embargo included planes
withheld for June, July
and August numbering
14 F-16’s built at Fort
Worth’s General Dy-
namic plant, two F-15’s
built by McDonnell Doug-
las Corp. of St. Louis. Six
of the F-16’s have been
held at Pease Air Force
Governor Hugh Carey
said he would do all he could
to promote the security,
prosperity and territorial
integrity of Israel. He then
announced that he and his
wife, Evengeline, would
“honeymoon” in Israel.
Mayor Teddy Kollek of
Jerusalem compared Israel
to a human body: “You can
amputate a limb and the
body survives. Israel gave
up for peace the Sinai, with
her only oil well, and she
survived. But remove the
heart and it dies. Jerusalem
is the heart and soul of
Israel.”
Hadassah Raised Over $37
Million This Year
Beatrice Feldman, nation-
al treasurer of Hadassah,
told the convention’s closing
session that Hadassah raised
over $37 million this year.
She reported that even
though the members respon-
sible for fundraising achiev-
ed a remarkable feat, they
must anticipate even higher
quotas for 1981-82, because
they will have to make up
for higher costs and fewer
grants from government and
from the large foundations
which are besieged by
applications as federal funds
are being slashed.
Base in New Hampshire
with the remaining eight
housed in Fort Worth.
Israel will be charged
an estimated $150,000 for
“storage” of the aircraft
during the embargo.
“This is adding insult to
injury,” said Israeli Am-
bassador Ephraim Evron
when he learned of the
charges of $13,500 per
day,_
Frieda Lewis, national
president of Hadassah, an-
nounced that the conven-
tion, also, voted to provide
10,000 trees for the areas of
Kiryat Shemona, whose
forests have been devastat-
ed by PLO rockets, and to
give the municipality $15,-
000 for programs for chil-
dren.
Mrs. Lewis also announc-
ed that the building housing
the new computer center at
the Hadassah-Hebrew Uni-
versity Medical Center in
Jerusalem will be named for
Dr. Kalman Mann, who
officially took leave as
director-general of the Ha-
dassah Medical Organization
at this convention. Mann, a
specialist in the delivery of
health services, headed the
organization for 30 years.
Mrs. Lewis also announc-
ed that the building housing
the new computer center at
the Hadassah-Hebrew Uni-
versity Medical Center in
Jerusalem will be named for
Dr. Kalman Mann, who
officially took leave as
director-general of the Ha-
dassah Medical Organization
at this convention. Mann, a
specialist in the delivery of
health services, headed the
organization for 30 years.
Capucci
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tered official protests that
Capucci’s activities violated
terms of the agreement for
his release.
For the Vatican, Capucci has
been both an asset and an
embarrassment. As a special
emissary, he has helped the
Church protect its interests
in the Moslem world. On the
other hand, he has generat-
ed protests cot only in
Israel, but within the Mel-
kite Church. News that he
would be sent to Brazil as
Assistant Bishop caused a
storm of protest. Msgr. Elias
Shuqueri, head of the
Brazilian Melkite Church
said, “We do not like priests
of this kind. What our people
need is education, not
politics. What will this
Capucci be doing here?”
On December 19,1977,
Cardinal Paul Phillippe an-
nounced that Capucci had
been appointed, by the
Sacred Congregation for
Churches of the Eastern
Rite, as Visitor of the
Faithful of the Melkite
-Byzantine Rite in Venezuela,
Colombia, Mexico and Ar-
gentina, where some 50,000
adherents of the Melkite
Church live. Capucci declar-
ed that he would visit those
countries as a representa-
tive of Pope Paul VI, with
Venezuela the first country
on his Latin American tour.
In January. 1978, the
Caracas daily, “El Univer-
sal,” reported that his
purposes would be “strictly
religious and spiritual,” but
at a press conference in
Caracas two days later,
Capucci announced that part
of his mission was to
persuade the President of
Venezuela to permit the
opening of a PLO office.
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In April, Capucci went to
Argentina where the press
reported that his visit “has
divided the wealthy and
numerous Arab community
in Argentina, bringing to
light differences between
Christians and Moslems.”
The Moslem Arabs hailed
Capucci as a defender of
Palestinian interests, but
Christian Arabs, through
the Eastern Catholic Asso-
ciaton, publicly criticized his
visit as “fomenting subver-
sion and distributing the
peace ... a slap in the face to
the spiritual values and
morals of the Argentine
people.” The Association
caustically observed that
“the Papal Nuncio keeps a
prudent silence.”
Capucci was scheduled to
fly from Argentina to
Mexico, but Christian Arabs
in Mexico blocked his entry.
The Melkite Council, in a
letter to the Minister of
Interior, charged that Ca-
pucci is carrying out his trip
“with the objective of
publicizing and defending
the violence of the Palestin-
ians in Lebanon and the
world, to foment division
among Christians and to sow
the seed of hatred between
Jewish and Arab communi-
ties who live in Latin
America.” When the govern-
ment acceded to the Coun-
cil’s request that he be
denied a visa, Capucci
blamed it upon “Zionist
pressure.”
Many adherents of the
Melkite Church in Latin
America agree that there is
a need to curb the activities
of Archbishop Capucci who
is sometimes referred to as
“The Archbishop of Terror-
ism.” They also agree with
Archbishop Joseph Raya,
the spiritual head of the
Melkit Church in Israel at
the time of Capucci’s convic-
tion, who said, “It is the duty
of every clergyman to bring
peace to his own community
and to the world as a whole.
If there are those that hide
behind their cloth to aid
murderers, their place is not
in the Christian Church.”
Pakistan May Have Nuclear Bomb By Year's End
LONDON [JTA] - A
NBC television program
which 14 months ago pre-
dicted that Israel would
bomb Iraq’s nuclear installa-
tion has now forecast that
before the end of 1981,
Pakistan will have enough
plutonium to make its own
nuclear bomb.
In a program entitled
“The Islamic Bomb,” BBC-I’s
“Panorama” detailed the
efforts being made by
Pakistan to produce its own
bomb and the huge financial
backing which it is receiving
from Libya’s leader Muam-
mar Qaddafi. Several com-
panies in Western Europe
including Britain, Holland,
Italy and West Germany,
are helping, either knowing-
ly or unknowingly.
According to the Panor-
ama team, Pakistan has
“almost total access to
Western technology and
JERUSALEM [JTA] -
Premier Menachem Begin
will meet with President
Anwar Sadat of Egypt on
Aug. 24 or 25. An official
announcement of the forth-
coming visit was expected in
Alexandria where the two
leaders are to meet.
Begin may be accompan-
ied by Foreign Minister
Yitzhak Shamir and Defense
Minister Ariel Sharon. If
Sharon actually does accom-
pany Begin, he will cancel
his own 10-day official visit
which was to have begin
Aug. 19. Begin wants to
Western companies are hap-
py to accept Pakistani
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meet with Sadat before he
meets with President Rea-
gan in Washington early
next month.
The three Israeli officials
will, in their meeting with
Sadat, seek to reach a
breakthrough in the auton-
omy talks which have been
stalled for more than a year.
The Israeli ministerial com-
mittee on the autonomy
talks, headed by Interior
Minister Yosef Burg, will
meet to prepare the Israeli
position on the talks at the
meetings with Sadat and
Reagan.
Begin-Sadat To Meet
jess jawin Menachem Begin's Duty
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In this context, the definition of aggression as proposed time and
again by the Soviet Union in the United Nations is of great interest ... In
the Soviet document it is written:
“The use by a state of armed force by sending armed bands,
mercenaries, terrorists or saboteurs to the territory of anoth-
er state ... shall be considered as acts of indirect aggression.”
And clearly, indirect aggression is aggression.
Whatever the definitions be, and whatever the interpretations, it is
clear to every man of good will that the Israeli Air Force, in going forth to
destroy the atomic reactor in Baghdad — which was constructed to
produce atomic bombs as attested to by the most authoritative and
reliable information reaching us — by that deed our country acted in the
name of legitimate national seif-defense in the highest sense of the term.
We have at our command the means to document the proof that the Iraqi
tyrant, Saddam Hussein, erected the 70 kilowatt atomic reactor for one
decisive purpose — the production of nuclear weapons intended against
the State of Israel. The mission of our ^Air Force was in the fullest sense
of the term an act of rescue of hundreds of thousands of Israeli citizens,
amongst them tens of thousands of Israeli children. Let us pay tribute
here before the Knesset, to the heroism of our sons who so bravely
defended their people.
The very same applies to the operations of all branches of the Israeli
Defense Forces against the terrorist organizations in Lebanon which
receive their weapons in massive quantities — including Katyusha
missiles, tanks and long range artillery — from the Soviet Union, North
Korea, Bulgaria, Syria, Libya and also, as we discovered with absolute
certainty a few days ago, from Saudi Arabia.
There are among allies and non-allies alike those who distort truth by
saying that our Air Force set out to bomb Beirut by the decision of the
Government. Not so. It was the Syrians and the terrorists who shelled and
bombed Beirut, sowing the death of thousands of civilians by turning
their weapons directly and intentionally against the civilian population
and transforming the once beautiful city into a ghost town. Our Air Force
was on a mission to attack the terrorist headquarters in Beirut and
elsewhere, those same headquarters from which the orders were issued
to shell, brutally and incessantly, Kiryat Shmonah and Nahariya, Misgav
Am and Metullah — townships, moshav villages, kibbutzim, all with the
sole premeditated purpose of striking at the civilian population. In this
defensive operation civilians too were hurt, and we deeply regret it.
However we could not grant the headquarters of these murderers im-
munity forever.
I shall say but one more brief word on this matter. He who, whether in
Israel or abroad, would throw the first stone at us, let him please turn the
pages of his own history which is completely familiar to us — he will
then know, and let him ponder.
During these days, with the exception of certain violations on the part
of the terrorists, a cessation of violent acts is being maintained along
both sides of the northern border. We want the situation in which there
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