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VOLUME 49 NO. 43
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1995 2 CHESHVAN 5756
28 PAGES $.75 PER ISSUE
I JESS JA WIN: The Dichotomy
There is a national dichotomy progressing
which can boggle one’s mind.
We are engulfed in a bitter political battle
over health care, welfare reform, taxes, educa-
; tion, the deficit and national debt. The infight-
<5^ I ing, though expected, does not lead to smooth
^ j solutions. The problems are connected. Health
care should be faced with realistic decisions.
We have to use the best of Medicare and Medicaid, enlist the
aid and advice of doctors, hospitals and other experts to
achieve viable solutions. Right now, it appears that the Repub-
lican majority is willing to turn much of the administration of
these programs to the cherry-picking insurance companies.
This will only decrease the personal rapport between doctors
and their patients and escalate costs. Insurance companies
have made multi-billion fortunes yearly by milking Medicare,
Medicaid and by dropping coverage of policy-holders who get
see JESS JAWIN p. 26
Jews in Quebec Campaign
Against Split from Canada
MONTREAL — Asa referen-
dum that will determine the po-
litical future of Quebec ap-
proaches, the Jewish community
here is almost unanimous in its
rejection of separating the prov-
ince from the rest of Canada.
“The No’ side represents the
overwhelming majority of our
community, with few exceptions,”
said Jack Jedwab. executive di-
rector of the Canadian Jewish
Congress, Quebec region.
“Our traditional position, made
clear over the past ten years, is
that Quebec must remain within
Canada,” he said, echoing the view
of most of the region’s 101,000
predominantly English-speaking
Jews.
“Canada has been very gener-
ous towards its immigrant com-
munities, and it’s something that
we value," Jedwab added. “We
don't see any persuasive reasons
for its breakup.”
For Robert Libman. director of
see QUEBEC p. 27
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Cost of IDF Redeployment
in West Bank Could Double
By Naomi Segal
JERUSALEM — As govern-
ment and army officials continue
to prepare for an Israel Defense
Force redeployment in the West
Bank, senior Israeli army officers
have told the Cabinet that they
expected the complete redeploy-
ment plan to cost double the
planned amount.
Briefing ministers at the weekly
Cabinet meeting Sunday, Maj.
Gen. Ilan Biran, commander of a
sector that includes the West Bank,
estimated that the total cost of the
redeployment, expected to be com-
pleted by the end of 1997, would
be $1 billion.
The revised estimate drew a
sharp reaction from Finance Min-
ister Avraham Shohat.
“I totally reject the amount of
money that he talks about," Shohat
told Israel Television, adding that
the government and army had pre-
viously agreed that the cost of the
redeployment would be $500 mil-
lion.
In his efforts earlier this year to
gain Cabinet approval of his 1996
budget, Shohat had engaged in
marathon negotiations with the
Defense Ministry and Prime Min-
ister Yitzhak Rabin over the cost
of redeployment, called for under
the terms of the recently signed
agreement for extending Palestin-
ian West Bank autonomy.
Meanwhile, Biran and the IDF
chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Amnon
Shahak. told the Cabinet ministers
Sunday that the redeployment plan
was set to move ahead and that
Palestinian elections would be held
in the territories Jan. 20.
The redeployment from West
Bank towns “will be completed at
the end of December, with one
exception in the case of Hebron,"
Environment Minister Yossi Sarid
told reporters after the Cabinet ses-
sion.
Some ministers expressed doubt
that the timetable would be kept.
Housing Minister Binyamin
Ben-Eliezer said the redeployment
would be delayed if Palestinian
landowners attempted to prevent
the expropriation of land needed to
build the bypass roads.
The roads would allow Jewish
settlers in the West Bank to avoid
driving through population cen-
ters under the control of the Pales-
tinian Authority.
Agriculture Minister Yakov
Tsur told Israel Radio that keeping
the redeployment on schedule de-
pended on a number of factors,
including the Palestinian
Authority's ability to live up to its
commitments to curb terrorist ac-
tivities in areas under its control.
"It will also depend on (comple-
tion) of the bypass roads,” Tsur
said, “and making sure that the
Palestinians prepare what is needed
to run the elections."
Meanwhile, the army was pre-
paring for a pullback Wednesday
from Jenin, the first of six West
Bank towns from which the Israeli
army will redeploy completely by
year’s end.
The completion of the pullout
could take until Nov. 10, Israel
Radio reported.
A team of Palestinian liaison
officers were scheduled to begin
joint patrols with their Israeli coun-
terparts this week in order to get to
know the Jenin area and to prepare
to take over internal security re-
sponsibilities after the Israeli pull-
back.
Naomi Segal is a TJP/JTA cor-
respondent.
Jewish Leaders Reject Call
to Dialogue with Farrakhan
By Matthew Dorf
WASHINGTON —The major-
ity of participants in the Million
Man March cheered when Nation
of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan
called for a dialogue with Jewish
leaders.
But calling the gesture a “public
relations stunt" and "a gimmick,"
Jewish leaders have categorically
rejected meeting with Farrakhan
until he changes his ways.
“I don’t like this squabble with
members of the Jewish commu-
nity." Farrakhan told more than
400,(X)0 black men gathered on the
National Mall here Monday for a
day of atonement and reconcilia-
tion.
“It’s time to sit down and talk,
not with any preconditions,” he
said.
“You got pain, but we got pain,
too. You hurt; we hurt, too," he
said. "The question is, if the dia-
logue is proper, then we might be
able to end the pain And ending
the pain may be good for both and
ultimately good for the nation."
Phil Baum, executive director
of the American Jewish Congress,
was one of many Jewish leaders to
reject the invitation.
"The motion that he can sum
mon us to a meeting is offensive,”
Baum said. “It would be a terrible
mistake to meet with Farrakhan.
We would be placed in a defensive
position of defending our history
and we re not going to do that."
Farrakhan has charged, among
other things, that Jews financed
the slave trade and the Holocaust
and that Jews arc "bloodsuckers”
for not reinvesting in the black
community.
In rejecting the call for dialogue,
Abraham Foxman. national direc-
tor of the Anti-Defamation League,
said, “What am I going to discuss
see CALL p. 26
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