Page 2 r The Ganadian Jewish News, Thursday, December 3, 1981
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By RABBI W. GUNTHER PLAUT
There was~a time —- and not too long ago — when you could say "tJniversal Declaratioit of Human Rights" and see people's eyes.light up. Say it now and you will likely be met with ayacant stare or a bored look. _
"J3ut." you will continue, "don't you realize that Dec; 10 is a very fv^^^m>'i'i^'»^>>ms^^''^^ important date?"
Of course! It was the day in 1948 when the United Nations, after long debate, agreed on a declaration which would forever ensconce human rights in the constitution of humanity. There, it was hoped, they would be scripted as if in marble Rabbi Plaut
and people would know that as human beings they were forever entitled to free4oms and privileges.
So what has happened to this great and noble document?
To begin with, it has been honored in the breach more often than in the observance but that, by itself, should not detract from its worth. 1 am told (although to be sure I would not know) that the Ten Commandments too are no longer as carefully observed as once they were and that in fact there are a lot of people who don't even know what they say. Still, say "Ten Commandments," and people will come to moral attention. So why not with the Declaration of Human Rights, which may be considered the basic rule laid down by the United Nations?
Ah, there is the rub: the United Nations. With the Ten Commandments people have respect for the lawgiver, whether they believe him to beGod or Moses or consider the laws to have arisen from the bosom of the Jewish people^ Bnt witb the United Nationis as the giver and guarantor of the Declaration, it is a different story.
Back in the late 194Ps and early 50s we still had some hope for the organization. Since then its battlements and bastions have been dismantled. The floor .of the UN General Assembly is not the meeting place of i^deas it Was supposed to be. In fact, when certain countries (especially Israel) take the rostrum, other representatives walk out — they don't even want to hear what others have
to say . . .they just want to vote them down. The United Nations General Assembly has become-a political farce and no one knows this betteiTthan '■ Israel.
Take any^resolutions.and"^ the Arab/Soviet bloc will tack on an anti-Israel paragraph. _  The year of "the disabled? Be sure to mention^ that Israel is "disabling the Palestinian Arabs." -
The year of the child? Be sure to include a resolution on "Israel abusing. Palestinian children."
The year of the woman? Or of the Aged (1982)? Or of clean water? Or energy renewal? You name it and an anti-Israel statement will be joinedto it.
The result is, of course, that these resolutions, and with it the whole United Nations, have lost all . credibility. However noble the original intentions, they are vitiated by the single-purpose representatives who will Use the UN not as an opportunity for creating a better World but for beating Israel, the United States, and their friends.
Jews know this and for them especially that great hope which arose at the end of the last war has now almost vanished. The UN has become an. instrument of disruption rathef than of the pacification of humanity.
It is here that Canada can play a tole. Ever since Lester B. Pearson, we have a particular interest hi the United Nations, tet oar representative then make it cleaTi time and again, that the plethora of resolations with their single-minded attack on Israel have oOdermlned the usefiUness of the United Nations itself.
Precisely because we are Dot a t^orld power we have this opportunity. Canada should begin to impress this understanding on other nations. If the Declaration of Human Rights h to have any meaning, if Dec. 10 is to be at all a significant anniversary, thien the organization itself most once again begin to attend to its tn>e business. .
Canada may not have the political clout to bring this off by herself but she has taottd power and even today that counts for something. Let as proclaim and proclaim again ■when the real purposes and needs of the world organization lie.
Any resolution that is diluted by an anti-Israel rider should find Canada in the Opposition and not merely among the abstainers. If we do this consistently, maybe others will rally round the flag of sanity and begin to return the United Nations to its real agenda.
By SHELDON KffiSHNER
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Oil Nov. 9, while Israel Was busily denouncing Grown J»rince Fahd's 8-point peace plan, Israeli jets penetrated the northwest corner of Saudi Arabia and were reportedly driven off by scrambling Saudi planes.
An Israeli military Spokesman declined to comttient, but the Saudis — who lodged a stiff protest with the U.S. — called the overflight "one new aggression against the Arab world."
The Israelis how admit to having sent their aircraft to Saudi Arabia, and this acknowledgement has embroiled Jerusalem and Washhigton hi a falriy Serious dispute. The White House has asked Israel to stop the reconnaissance flights. But Israel says it won't until the U.S. provides it with intelligence data about mt^or Saudi air bases in that region.
This impasse, if not broken, is bound to Worsen Israeli-U.S. relations, since the Saudis seem to be so important, in economic, political and military terms, to the current administration.,
Israeli jets have been penetrating Saudi air space for the past few yeirs. When Israeli F-16s roared off to bomb Iraq's nuclear reactor last June, they streaked unscathed through Saudi Arabia and returned via the same route.
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By DAVID BIRKAN
TORONTO —
For the Canada-Israel Chamber of Commerce, contradictory signals from the. federal govieniment and increasied interest in Israel by some of the provinces are contributing to a future of both uncertainty and much promise.
the CICC is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year; Gideon Patt, Israel's minister of industry and commerce, will deliver:his country's congratiilations to the CICC at its annual meeting, Dec. 9 at the Royal York Hotel. Ontario , Premier Williarh Davis will give the keynote ad-;. dress. ..
Nick Simmonds. CICC
; executive director,   told . : The  Canadian Jewish Ne\ys that Canada's ministry of industry, trade and commerce has "agreed in principle" to eistablish a joint .technical, develop-" ment programwithjsrae!. : "We received positive.
/ reaction- from. ^ Ottawa,'' : said Simmonds. "Right now,; we are discussing
:   details of the program's ■^triictiire, operation and financing;" Corifirmatibn :
. from ptta:wa is expected : momentarily.
The joint program is one ; of a number of proposals that Herb Gray, minister of industry,  trade and ; commerce^ is expected to " : tiake -with him when he goes   to   Jerusalem. in /
rTJanuary to confer with hiis .Israeli counterpails,:;
If he goes, that is. One continuous disappointment with Ottawa hajs^ beenfthe postponement of atrip to isnel by Gray and his predecessor seven tiniies hi the. past three y<ear8, said iSImmonds.
Another disturbiiig as^^ . pect of Canada's apparent indifference to efforts at increasing bilaiteral economic relations is its,re- . cent refusal to participate.; in Israeli trade fairs or send federal missions to these fairs;
. ' "In the first eight months of this year, the federal government spon-: sored 45 trade fairs and missions around the world ;. . . none of theiri " to Israel,", said. Simmppds.
Phil Granovsky
"The last federal trade mission to Israel was several years ago.":
Simmonds .pointed out that Israel has consistently been; Canada's. third or fourth largest, trading partner in the Middle East, with a total annual volurne of about.SI50 million between them. Canada's iexports to Israel exceed imports by about S50 million.
"While it's true that Canada's trade surplus may obviate the need to push its products in Israel, as we are told, Israel has been one of the most stable and. lucrative markets in the Middle East," said Simmonds. '■A basic rule in businesis is not to ignore your best customers.
'-'Trade fairs and missions are an overt way of one country showing another  that  it's serious about maintaining economic relations,'' he said. -—- Provincial relations with. Israel are on the rise. "Both AlberlFand Quebec had trade missions lo^ Israel in November..Brit-, ish Columbia and Saskat-I chewan are considering sending missions. Ontario has been a regjuliir participant j at leaist every other year," said Simmonds. , Among the objectives of the Western provinces is to apply Israeli experience in building up their own high  technology sector. "Alberta's Heritage Fund has set aside specific funding to subsidize technological development , for example, " said Simmonds.
The CICC was established in Montreal in 1961 — the sanie year, coinci-dentally, that Israel's Economic Mission to.Canada, in "Toronto, was founded,
Ray Wolfe
^ to help promote' 2-way trade between Israel and Canada. CICC founding chairman arid first president was the late Sain Steinberg. At its first meeting, on Oct. 6, 1961, congratulations from Israel were delivered by the then ambassador to Canada, Yaacov Herzog!
In 1972, CICC headquarters were moved to Toronto by Ray D. Wolfe, who wias to become its longest-serving president. He is currently chairman
of the CICC's board of directors. Other past presidents include R. Lou Ronson. Edward Ernst and Mark Levy. Completing his term this year is the current president, Phil GranoVSky. /
The CICC's membership is made up of about 300 companies across Canada Including such firms as Air Cantula, the Royal Bank, Brascan^ Confederation Life and Zim Israel Navigation, who may send two or three representatives each to the CICC's quarterly limcheons in Toronto and Montreal. "We are looking to double our membership in the next two to three years," said Sim-; monds* "We ate i>eghj-. nlng tn offer membersUps to small companies and Individnals."
The CICC's work is largely done through four committees: membership; special projects, which is looking . into large scale
works, like the possibility t)f a Ganadian-buih railroad in Israel; high technology, which is. looking after the interchange program under consideration^ with Ottawa; and consumer products, which is organizing an Israeli products fair in Canada for early 1983.
"The CICC has contributed to an increased awareness in Canada of Israel as an attractive trading partner," said Simmonds. "It has involved senior Canadian business leaders in the promotion of bilateral trade. As well, the CICC has given encouragement and assistance to Cana-. dians on a wide variety of trade transactions. :
"Its most significant achievement to date would: be the intergovernmental technological development program — if it comes to pass," said Simmonds.
Until Nov. 9, the Saudis remained silent, or at least they did not express any complaints in tlie open. Although occasional mention of the overflights appeared in,the Arab press, Saudi newspapers did not carry the reports. [The Saudis were cool, as well, when an Israeli missile boat got stuck on a Saudi coral reef in the Red Sea. The matter was quickly settled through U.S. Intermediaries.]
Such discretion contrasted sharply with the attitude of the PLO in Lebanon, which regularly reports Israeli reconnaissance flights.
The Saudis, who are a cautious lot, probably decided to publicize the Nov. 9 incident to underline their vulnerability to Israeli attack.-The timhig, of course, couldn't have been better. It came on the heels of U.S. Senate ratification of a controversial S8.5 billion arms deal which Israel vehementiy opposed.
When Israeli F-16s overflew Saudi Arabia's air base at Tabuk on their way to Baghdad, the Saudis' radar picked them up too late. In fact, the F-16s are said to have been spotted by watchmen on the ground, not by the radar in the U.S.-made Hawk ground-to-air missile system.
So the Saudis, in U.S. eyes, were able to justify their request for AWACS radar planes. Saudi vul-
F-16 on patrol over Israel
nerability may have been one factor in the Reagan administration's deter-
■ mined push to get approval for the gigantic arms transaction.
Israel, which does not regard Saudi Arabia as a moderate, peace-loving state, is motivated by several overlapping reasons when it orders its
^ air force to patrol the skies of northwestern Saudi Arabia.
First and foremost, the Israelis consider Saudi Arabia a confrontation state — a point which Defence Minister- Ariel Sharon underiined in a recent press conference. Israel believes the AWACS and the beefed-up F-15s the Saudis have on order will ultimately be directed against its air fields and military installations.
Saudi Arabia's oil wells -are in the eastern part of the country, yet U.S. intelligence sources claim that the Saudis are building two new air bases not far from the Israeli frontier. Thus, Israel wanted to see what the Saudis were doing when it ordered its air force to fly over these installations.
the airfields are said to be located at Turalf and Quraiya, 10 to 12 minutes' flying time from Jerusalem. Tabuk, the existing base, is a mere 200 kilometres from Eilat.Accord-ihg to the Israelis, the installations are Jtoo far from the Persian Gulf oil wells,
[Uzi Keren photo]
or Saudi Arabia's troublesome neighbor. South Yemen — a Marxist state — for them to have any strategic significance except on Israel.
Israel maintains that the Saudis have concentrated huge stores of weapons at Tabuk — equipment that could only be used against the "Zionist enemy."
The Israelis do not trust the good intentions of Saudi Arabia because they say it has participated in three wars against them. As Sharon put it: "They fought against us in the War of Independence ... in the Six Day War . . . (and) in the Yom Kippur War. . . with the Syrians."
Israel, Sharon warned, will treat Saudi Arabia "like we treat every confrontation Arab state."
By every estimate, Saudi Arabia's air force is still on the puny side. But when the Saudis take delivery of the 62 enhanced F-15s (equipped with extra fuel tanks and air-to-air missiles] and the
five AWACS, tfiey may pose a threat to Israel in a war. At worst, tiie Saudis couldl^bqmbard Israeli^ bases, and possibly, cities. At best, Uiey could dixert Israeli forces aytay from the important battles. ;
Since the Yom' Kippur War, Saudi Arabia has consolidated its ariried strength to an amazing degree, having purchased some $35 billion worth of military equipment from the West. It is a development that can only alarm the Israelis, ever concerned abotit the balance of power in the Middle East.
The U.S. is worried that Israel might be tempted to launch a pre-emptive air strike against Tabuk, Turaif and Quraiya. Former president, Jimmy Carter, may have had this consideration in mind when he successfully convinced Israel to stop its surveillance flights.
Israel acceded; to his request after he promised to pass along satellite data on Tabuk. He kept his ^promise and Israel was pacified. But Ronald Reagan has apparendy not passed any such infonna-. tion to Israel, particolariy on Turaif and Quraiya, whose construction began relatively recentiy.
Observers believe Israel carried out its Nov, 9 overflight to demonstrate this lack of co-operation from Washington. The theory certainly sounds plausible in light of all the disclosures about the matter.
It appears that Israel will continue to deploy'Its ah- force hi Saudi Arabia until the U.S. supplies it wiUi satellite data. An Israeli spokesman In Tel Aviv confirmed die supposition when he told the Jewish Chrai^icle News Service of London that Israel "will... take aU tiie steps necessary for its security."
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British Jewry is to pro-; vide material assistaince to enable the estimated 6,000 Jews in Poland to "survive this winter," Greville Janner, MP, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, said last week.
He was speaking after a visit to Poland with his wife as a guest of the Polish ministry of religious affairs.
Only apples and potatoes, he said, stood be;-tween the Polish people and starvation, and British: Jewry wanted to help the Jews of Warsaw in the same way that the Caritis organization assumed responsibility for Catholics.
Nevertheless, Janner was full of praise for the attitudes of the Polish government to the remnant of a. Jewish community which ohcje'numbM^ 3,3 million. He paid simi-
lar compliments to the governments pf Czechoslovakia and Hungary, which he also visited.
,r In Hungary.Janner was a mernber of a delegation from "the European section of the World Jewish Congress, which spent three days in Budapest as guests  of  the 80,000-
. strong Jewish community. His separate visits to Czechoslovakia and Poland were conducted at the invitation of the religious.
; affairs ministries of those countries,
' Sn0>i>ilng up, hn-pressJons, Janner told the Jewish T(Blegraphic agency he was "surprised and deeply impressed by the way the govercunents of gU three coontries help the Jewish icommonlties to maintain their coitural and reDgionr' Ufe wWch in some ivays^ our oVn community eoidd well lean firom." /
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