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\ Vews Analysis; Dispute over Lebanon
25<^ A "SOLUTION OF THE JEWISH QUESTION."
By
SHELDON KmSHNER
The U.S. has reportedly come up with a plan to break the impasse over the issue of troop withdraiwals from Lebanon.
Talks on the removal
of foreign forces have not started because Israel and Lebanon cannot agree on their scope and locale.. As a result, negotiations involving Syria and the PLC cannot begin.
Put simply, Israel wants talks to be political
By
HILARY HORLOCK TORONTO —
The Arab Palestine Organization was caught red-handed last week when it distributed anti^ Israeli political material at - a Toronto, city hall exhibit that was to have been purely cultiural. (Ethnic groups are given space in the city hall for cultural displays.)
The Arabs handed out abooklet provided by the Pal e s t i n e I n f o r m a t i o n Office in Ottawa which charges that the State of Israel is "racialist,
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colonialist and expansionist," and it goes on to accuse Israel of trying to wipe out Palestinian history and culture.
The booklet was not distributed during the First couple of days of the exhibit and thus apparently escaped the initial inspection of material by city hall • officials. However, as sck)h as Graham Emslie, the city property commissioner, found oiit about the contents of the booklet he Qrd.ered the Arabs to "fold their tents and quietly steal away. ... I thought my remark was rather Hterary." . . However, he kgreed to let them stay if offensive pages were: torn out of the booklet.
Toronto Mayor Arthur Eggleton told The CJN he had been wary about the Arab display when he first heard about their request. "I told my staff," he said, "to teU them they had better be careful about what they were planning to do — absolutely no political propaganda was to be allowed."
When the booklet ap-peaied^ the mayor said, "I told them to getit off the shelf or get out. They .agreed to rip out two. pages of Wending ma-terid...." ] r-^r ;
Eggleton added that "I'm very sensitive to these kinds of things and don't want anything that wfll cauise division within the community on dis-tere." Michael Chemack, of the Canada-Israel Committee , said ■ his office received ■. several complaints about the display;
■'I spoke to Godfrey (Metro chairman Paul _ Godfrey) and he was prett)'irate about it The objection we'Had was to . the pamphlet, which was. a breach of commitment :
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in nature so that it can normalize its relationship with Lebanon. On the other hand, Lebanon insists that they deal -purely with military matters.
Exacerbating the dispute is Israel's insistence that they be held in Jerusalem, and Leb-anon's-refusal to do so.
Philip Habib, President Ronald Reagan's Middle East envoy, had not expected such difficulties when he predicted that all foreign forcies could be withdrawn from Lebanon by the end of this year.
Last week, The New York Thnes reported that HabIb and his deputy, Morris Draper, planned to resolve the imbroglio by a deceptively straightforward method. They would return to the Middle East and get talks on track again by shuttling back and forth between the Israelis and the Lebanese.
"There are a lot of ways to skin the cat," Habib said.
The shuttle, however, may only be a face-saving, temporary device, because It does not address itself to the key problem of what . the negotiators will dis-cuss.Tt Is.hard to believe that Israel will give up its prerogative of settling political issues within
the context of troop withdrawal talks.
One of the Israelis' goals in invading Lebanon was to create a "new order" there — a friendly Lebanese government that would, it was hoped, sign a peace treaty with the Jewish state. But this hope is fast crumbling in the face of Lebanese resistance. Both the president and prirne minister of Lebanon have made it clear they do not have the slightest intention of alienating the Arab world by succumbing to Israel's demand for normalization.
In theory, the U.S. favors the establishment of political and commercial relations between Israel and Lebanon — but not at this stage of Lebanon's development from war-torn state to normal one.
For this reason, and because a formula bias yet to be reached for the evacuation of Syrian and PLO forces, the Americans will be hard-pressed to achieve their stated aim of coaxing elements from Lebanon. [An Israeli major general was quoted as saying there Is a possibility that Israel will be in Lebanon for most of 1983. Ehud Barak, head of planning
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By dr. THEODOB HERZL.
But we can do nothing without the enthimiasni of our own nation. The idea muNt make ita way into the meet distant miHerable bolefl where our people dwell. They will awaken from gloomy brooding, for into their live* will come a new «ignificance. Let each of them but thjnc of himself, and what ^ ast proportionr the movement must assume ! And wnat ginry awaita those who fight uoselGshly for thecduse I A wondrous generation ol Jews will spring into exJatence. The MacialiH'tns will rise again.
And »o it will bfl : it is the p^or and the simple who dp not know wbatpower man already exercises over the forces of nature, it is just these who will have tinnertt faith in the new raessage. For these have never lost the bbpe of the Promised Land.
This frontpage feature by Theodor Herzl In London's Jewish Chronicle was meant to prepare Jewish public opinion for the founding of the Worid Zionist Organization at the first Zionist Congress In 1897. The 30th Congress was held during the past week hi Jerusalem.
JERUSALEM [JTA] —
Despite outbreaks of fisticuffs and partisan heckling, Israeli Foreign Mfailster Yitzhak Shamir made an eloquent plea on iiehalf of unity at the opening of the 30th World Zionist Congress lastweek.
"I know that there are some people in this hall who do not want Mena-chem Begin to be Premier or Yitzhak Shamir foreign minister," he told an overflow audience of delegates and invited dignitaries packed into Binyanei Ha'ooma. Convention Hall.
"But there is no room for words and expressions of hatred, despite political differ- ' ences,'' he continued. "Israelis a democratic' state which chooses its government on election day. If you want to change the government, do it through the Knesset."
During the course of his impassioned speech, Shamir was interrupted repeatedly by Labor Zionist \ delegates and -members of the Peace Now movement, shout-
Hieodor Herzl ... founder of WZp
ing epithets and waving placai^s that read "Sha-mir. This Is Not The Way" and "Zionism Is Not Occupation."
In a few cases, ushers had to separate delegates who exchanged fisticuffs with the hecklers.
The congress, which meets every four years, also heard Israel President Yitzhak Navon affirm strongly his faith in Israel's ability to withstand the recent wave of anti-semitism in the wake of the war in Lebanon;
He acknowledged it was unprecedented in scope and intensity; ht-
Jews of 13 countries
- By''
WESLEY GOLDSTEIN
MONTREAL--
Canada is among 13 countries that have formed the new Coiincil of Jewish Communities of the Commonwealth.
The council was established recently at a gathering of Commonwealth Jewish communities in London. Delegates spent three days discussing issues of common cbncem, and concluded by passing a resolution calling on Britain to close down the local office of the Palestine : Liberation Organiz^
in a statement the council said: "The PLO can play ho part in the , Cainp David process. ; The PLO is offensive to
all civilized persons because of its campaign of murder perpetrated against innocents of all
faiths." 'A:\-'^
The council will be based in London under chairmanship- of Greh-ville Janner, a British Labor Party member of parliament.
Alan. Rose, Canadian Jewish Congress execu-tiye vice-president, led the 7-per8on Canadian contingent to London, and was among the conference delegates who met with Prime Minister Mai^aret Thatcher.
Rose said the hour-long meeting, which came only a few days after she refused to meet with an Arab League delegation that included a PLO representative, was cordial and touched
on a number of Jewish concerns, including the plight of Soviet Refuse-niks Anatoly Scharansky and Ida Nudel.
"Mrs. Thatcher was quite aware of the situation and very sympathetic . She said we should continue to pressure the Soviet authorities for their release," Rose said. ■ ■ \f, ;■
Canadian high commissioner to London Jean Wadds addressed the conference, as did Sir Francis Pym, Britain's : foreign secretary. According Jui. Rose, Pym ; received a niuch more critical reception than his prime minister. The delegates expre^sed Str0ng reservations about Britain's policy towards the PLC to Pym, Rose said.
: Delegates were hosted by the Queen and Prince Philip at a kosher reception in St. James Palace. Rose said both expressed satisfaction at the formation of the council, saying it would be "a useful step." ■
yond anything the Jewish, world has known for many years. However, he spoke out optimistically aigainst those "who say the whole world is against us."
He warned it was. easy to be swept away by this sentiment.. "But it is dangerous — we must not fall into such a mood," he said.
In the first place, Navon said, the assertion that the whole worid is against us simply is not true. "Thank God, Israel has many fi^ends," he said.
"Secondly, this sentiment frees us from our own responsibility," Navon declared.
"Thirdly, it inevitably breeds depression. We live on this planet, not on some other world. It is vital not to.make such generalization."
Granted, he said, "there has been intemperate criticism of Israel, even from its friends and they have applied a double standard.
"But let us remember: ; it is we who want to be treated differently . . , who seek to be different from other nations in oiir area .. . to be the people of the Book . . ; to build, a just, equitable society. We can't have it both ways'. This desire to be different is the source of our strength; and resilience."
Navon endorsed a statement made by Se-phardic Chief Rabbi Ovadia Ybsef, who urged the Zionist movement to [Cont'd, on page 8]
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In the Commonwealth council incinde Aas-tiaUa, Canada, Gibraltar, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, New Zealand, Singapore j United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
^Members of the Canadian delegation in addl -tlon to Alan Rose were Pamela Medjuck, Martin Levin, Donna Levin, Ena Robinson, ' Mrs. Leon" Teitelbaum and Robert Teitelbaum.
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