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Israel angered by UN move
NEW YORK [JTA] —
The United Nations General Assembly last week adopted five anti-- Israel resolutions, calling for sanctions against the Jewish state and denouncing the recent agreement between Israel and the United States on closer strategic cooperation.
Yehuda Blum, IsraeFs ambassador to the UN, condemned the resolutions, charghig that ^*hi-stead of demising tension and promoting recon-ciliation,^V the resolu-
tions add more fuel to the fire of the Mideast, conflict.
Blum said, in his remarks to. the Assembly, that the resolutions, instead of calling for negotiations and conciliation, "they grotesquely call on states to refrain from supplying Israel — the intended victim of Arab aggression — with the necessaiy means of defence.'*
Congressman Stephen Solarz, of New York, a
member of the U.S. delegation to the As-
Canada supports Israel on S-out-qf-S votes
NEW YORK-
Canada voted with Israel on three of the five UN resolutions critical of Israel, the external affairs department reports. ' _^
• Canada voted with the majority on a resolution declaring that Israel's decision to impose Its laws, jurisdiction and administration on Jerusalem was null and void. [Last year, Canada also supported this resolution].
• The Canadian delegate abstained on a resolution condemning Israel's "plundering" of Palestinian cultural property during its 1982 occupation of West Befant.
In 1982, Canada voted in favor of a similar resolution, and ab-stahied this year because the Israeli government recently returned historical archives it took fromthePLO.
sembly, said after the votes that "these resolutions will do nothing to further the cause of peace."
One resolution stated that the new Americin-Israeli accord "will increase Israel's intransi-' gence and its war potential and escalate its annexationist policies in the Palestinian and other Arab territories occupied since 1967." The resolution was approved by a vote of 81-27 with 29 abstentions. The U.S., Israel and West) European countries yoted against it.
Another resolution condemned the ''increasing collaboration" between Israel and South Africa, especially in the nuclear field, which, the resolution stated, enabled Israel to subject the states of the Mideast to ''nuclear blackmail." The vote on this resolution was 101-18, with 20 abstentions.
One resolution called for sanctions against Israel and demanded that all countries refrain from giving arms or economic aid to Israel, and urged all states to cut diplomatic ties with Israel. The vote was 84-24 and 31
abstentions.
By a vote of 137 fa favor, with only Israel votfag agafast, the Assembly adopted another resolutipn declaring that Israel's decision to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration on Jerusalem was null and void. The U.S., Guatemala and Dominican Republic abstafaed on this resolution.
The final tesolution adopted by the Assembly by a vote of 121-1 (Israel) and 20 abstentions, condemned Israel's ''plundering" of Palestinian cultural property during its occupation of Beirut, and called on Israel to make full restitution of all such property through the United Nations Educa: tional, S^entific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
When Blum spoke during the session, the representatives of Iraq, Iran and Libya repeatedly interrupted ^his speech, referring to'him as the representative of the "Zionist entity." Iran accused Blum of using "polluted rhetoric" in the service of "filthy American imperialism."
By
SHELDON iORSHNER
Yasser Arafat, having b^n ousted from Lebanon for the second time fa 16 months, sent his critics reeUng last week as he embraced Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, in Cairo and apparently got set to resume negotiations with King Hnssefa of Jordan over President Ronald Reagan's 1982 peace plan.
Expelled from Tripoli by pro-Syrian Palestinian rebels who drove Arafat and 4,000 of his men out of then- last strongholds in Lebanon, the PLO chairman surprised his Arab and Israeli foes by visiting Egypt.
Aiafat, who sailed out of Tripoli without his heavy arms and just within a deadline set by Palestinian dissidents opposed to his tactics and leadership, was met in Ismailia by Egypt's prime minister and ferried by helicopter to the capital to meet Mubarak.
As The Canadian Jewish News went to press on Dec. 22, there was no word about theh* meet-fag. But Yitzhak Shandr, the Israeli Prime Minister, expressed "shock and astonishment."
Hours earlier, Syria denounced the evacuation by saying it was part of a plot to induce Arafat to meet "agents of an American solution to the Middle East."
As Arafat left Tripoli
inpay
TEL AVIV [JTA]—
Israeli wage earners are getting a 17.9% fa-terim cost-of-living allowance this week under an agreement signed by Histadrut and the Employers Association. The advance, to ease the shock of record inflation fa the last two months win be followed by the regular COL facrement of nearly 50% due fa January salaries.
The agreement averted a threatened series of wildcat strikes (CJN Dec. 22) in most branches of the economy. It was signed last week after a day of protest rallies at some 300 factories all over the country.
The last COL allowance was wiped out by the 21.1% rise in living costs in October followed
by a 15.2% rise in iNo-vember.
However, the agreement brought no relief to Israeli merchants engaged in the import-export trades or to citrus growers. Longshoremen at Haifa and Ashdod (as of Dec. 22) were continuing their work slowdown which has caused thousands of tons of produce to rot on the docks.
To counteract this, the business community, government representative;? and the port authorities created a special fund to finance the shipment of cargoes by air.
Shipowners, reluctant to send their vessels into ports where they may be forced to lie at anchor for weeks or even months, have dumped Israel-bound cargoes in Cyprus and Greece.
aboard one of five chartered Greek ships flying the colors of Greece, the United Nations and the Palestinian national movement, Egyptian Foreign Minister Kamal Hassan Ali delivered a letter from Mubarak to President Reagan at the White House. In his letter, Mubarak
— who has called for simultaneous Israeli-PLO mutual recognition
— expressed concern about the stalemate in the Middle East peace process and urged that ways be found to "energize" it.
Ali stressed Egypt's commitment to the Camp David process — which now lies in a dormant state — and to Reagan's proposals, which envisage an association between Jordan and the Palestinians of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and a moratorium on the building of new Israeli settlements.
fa a significant statement, Ali told Reagan and Secretary of State George Shultz that the U.S. peace initiative could only be effective if Jordan participates.
The Egyptian mfaister said he has sought to convface the PLO to give Jordan the authority to represent the Palestfa-ians at talks with Israel. Egypt believes tiiat a new opportunity for negotiatfons has arisen with the expulsion of Arafat from Lebanon.
Arafat and King Hussein discussed the applicability of the Reagan plan for six months. When Arafat failed to persuade hardliners within the PLO to consider the President's ideas, the talks collapsed and the Jordanian monarch said bitterly that the Palestinians were now
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JERUSALEM [JTA] -
Western countries now account for the bulk ofimmigrants arriving in Israel. Aliya from the Soviet Union is at its lowest ebb and immigra-
at last
NEW YORK [JTA] -
Long term Refusenik Eitan Ffakelstefa arrived recently fa Israel, the National Conference on Soviet Jewry [NCSJ] reported here last week.
Ffakelstefa, a physicist from Vilna, had been waitfag for permission to immigrate to Israel sface 1971. He arrived fa Israel with his wife Alexandra and his 9-year-old daughter Miriam.
tion from Romania is also down.
This information was released last week by Yehuda Dominitz, director - general of the Jewish Agency's immigration and absorption department.
But there are serious problems. As many as 40% of single olim from the West return home because of absorption difficulties — mainly in finding housing. This was disclosed recently by Leon Dulzin, chairman of the Jewish Agency and World Zionist Organization, at a meeting with representatives of the immigrants' associations in Israel — a meeting described as "stormy."
Dominitz, addressfag a semfaar for the directors of absorption Centres and iminigrant hostels, stressed the
significant rise in immigration. Some 15,028 olim arrived firom January through November this year, compared to 12,200 in the same period fa 1982. Of this year's number, 10,527 came from the West compared to 8,160 fa the same period last year.
The number of American immigrants, he said, rose by 30% — 3,157 from January to November, 1983 against 2,438 in the same period in 1982. Aliya from France totaled 1,952 through November compared with 1,506 in 1982.
Dominitz said the -trend shows signs of continuing; In November of this year arrivals numbered 1,174 (up slightly from November of 1982). Of that number 704 were from the West and the rest from Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe.
