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100 Pages
Thursday, August 25, 1988 Elul12, 5748
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= liana Eliezer, at 44, is Israel's oldest "test tube" mother to date. She gave birth recently to her healthy = I baby girl at Petah Tikva's Hasharin Hospital. [IPPA photo] * =
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Panel urged to launch appeal
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The plight of Syrian Jewry has become the^sub-ject of a United Nations committee meeting here. ; The International Federation oif Human Rights, which is based in Paris, submitted a dossier on the Syrian Jewish problem to
the United Nations sub-commission on hunian rights. ,
The report said 4,800 Jews remain in Syria today- down from 30,000 in 1948.
The. Jews there live in separate quarters in three cities — Damascus., with
3,000, Aleppo, with 1,300, and ' 500 in Kumishi (Qamishli).
It goes on to say that the Jews iare iinder constant police surveillance^ and that their religion is written in big letters on their identity cards.
A book—oh religion.
OTTAWA-
The second Montebello seminar for Jewish and Arab Canadians has been "postponedV from its Aug. 30-31 date, with no immediate plans for rescheduling, the sponsoring Canadian Institute for International Peace and Security (CHPS) informed The CJN late last 'week. ■ ,
Spokesman John Too-good^deputy to CUPS executive director Geoffrey Pearson, said CUPS decided to put off the "dir alogue!' at ameetirig'ada)^ following the Aug. 15, release of a Canada-Israel Gommi11ee statemerit questioning the "appropriateness ... at this time" of stajgingjylonte-- bello n given current Middle East events. (CJN Aug. 18), - . •
"The fact that the CIC felt it should be postponed was important. They correctly identified the new and highly fluid situation inlheMiddle East," Too-' good said.
News of the postponement pleased the CIC, which issued the following brief statement;
"In light of the concerns we had expressed, the CIC welcomes the decision not to proceed with the second Montebello seminar."
Toogood wouldn't say whether the controversy sparked by the first meeting, criticized by a' segment of the Jfewish community for being private and of being unbalanced, played a part in_ the decision. Several CIC leaders attended the first meeting.
"I'd just as .soon not discuss the thinking that went on," he said. "We want to stay very private about this process, and it's hard to discuss without antagonizing somebody."
For the .same reason, T(H)good would not disclose the reaction of the Arab participants or reveal if the department of external affairs was con-suHed about the postponement.
He did say that Pearson, who was officially on vacation, played an active part In the decision.
Toogood would not comment on whether the "postponement," without a hew date, was in effect a cancejlatiqn. "As far as we're concerned we're characterizing it as a postponement."
published in Syria in 1%3 by the ministry of education, calls the Jews "enemies of humanity." their schools are under the direction of a Moslem.
they are forbidden to ;-€mig4:ate, says the report, in violation of the Universal Declaration of Hunian Rights, signed by Syria at the United Nations in 1948. The report listed nine Syrian Jews imprisoned for having tried to leave the country.
The Paris-based hunian rights federation requested that the subcommission launch) an appeal to the Syrian government to liberate the Jews in prison, authorize the emigration of those Jews who so choose, and respect the clauses of the human rights declaration.
The federation provided the names of those in prison.; Among the names, were Kesskem (Kassehi) . Gneje (Ghounegh), Faraj, Derzie (Dirzie), and Mus-sa ikhalife. All of them are 19 years old. Their parents, says the report, were ^authorized to visit jhem only twicC; since, their arrests. .
George Gruen, director . of Middle East affairs of the Americitajewish Committee in New; York and a specialist on the subject of
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JERUSALEM (JTA)-Both Likud and Labor appeared indifferent last week to continuous reports that-the Palestine Liberation Organization was-about to adopt a more flexible stance toward Israel.
Premier Yitzhak Shamir and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres dismissed as mere words the declaration by Yasser Arafat's deputy Salah Khalef, that the PLC was ready to negotiate with . Israel.
- Khalaf, popularly known as. Abu lyad, was quoted in a French news weekly as saying that a provisional government being planned . by the PLO for the West Bank and Gaza would be "\yholly different from the actual PLO's national covenant."
The covenant calls for Israel's destruction.
Abu lyad called for mutual recognition by Israel and any Palestinian state that might be created. . PLO leaders abroad, as well as their backers in the territories, seem determined to move the Palestinian uprising, now nine months old, into a political course.
Israeli political analysts believe Abu lyad's declaration might be an indication that the mainstream PLO, loyal to Arafat, has succeeded, or believes it can succeed, in adopting a common formula with the extremists, by claiming that a basis for negotiations with Israel would be the United Nations partition resolution of 1947;.
But Israeli leaders' immediate j-eactions were negative.
The Prime Minister's Office dismissed the report as "playing with words." Shamir told Israel TV that Abu lyad's ideas do not bring peace closer, but rather push it away. .
He said Israel would never deal with the FLO even if it did change its charter.
-^Public sector agreement
TEL AVIV (JTA) —
Long, drawn-out negotiations on a - new public-sector wage and e m p 1 oy m e nt a g re e me n t ended in success recently when a 2-year pact was signed by finance ministrv and Histadrut representatives.
The accord calls for an 11 % pay hike oyer the next
• two years.,
The fresh element in the new contract was agreement on a 5-day, 42-and-a-half-hour work week to replace the present :6-day, 45-hour week.
The agreement toalongr sought reduced work week was worked out in princi-
-ple between Finance Minister Moshe Nissim and Histadrut Secretary-General. Yisrael Kessar.
But the accord was followed by days ijf discord over when the new^hours ^A'ould take effect; and which governrheht corporations would be exempt from paying the raises.
He also maintained that the idea of a Palestinian gover'nment in exile was not accepted by anyone in Israel:
_ Shamir told Yedrot Achronot he did not believe the intemanonal communis ty would recognize a Palestinian government in exile, and said Israel was determined to thwart such a development.
Defence Minister Yitzhak Rabin said Israel could not mold its policy according to "one declara-. tipn or another," and sources at the foreign ministry said they would not become Abu lyad's interpreters;
PLO leaders have been meeting in Tunis to evalu-
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annexation
JERUSALEM (JPFS)-Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and all the Likud ministers have rejected Industry Minister Ariel Sharon's demand to annex certain West Bank territories on the basLsof what Sharon referred to as an "extended" Allon Plan.
Shamir reiterated the Likud's commitment to the Camp David Accords, but stressed that this commitment did not require giving up one inch of land or stopping settlements.
Earlier at a press conference, Sharon proposed that the government apply Israeli law to the Jordan Rift Valley, other Jewish settlement areas in Judea and Samaria and "strategically vital" areas. Sharon said that the step was "urgent," in light of King Hussein's recent moves and the PLO's impending establishment of a, government which, he said, is sure to be recognized by many countries around the world. Sharon said there was a " psychological-politlcial vacuuni waiting to be filled" in the wake of recent developments.
He dismissed talk of a rift between him and his party, saying that "there are moments in the life of a nation when leadership must rise above party and sectarian interests. This is the inbst recent .such, moment.;'' . ^
Sharon said that he was proposing the annexation-
of those areas over which "the widest possible consensus could be achieved," He claimed that Shamir supported his proposals but had a.sked him to attempt to win the agreement of the Labor Party. Sharon conceded, however, that he '^had failed to achieve this. Sharon added that he would work to have his plan approved by the cabinet, even by a narrow majority without Labor's agreement;
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