Page 2 - The Canadian Jewish News. Friday, June 24. 1977.
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It was an emotional time as Israel's new prime minister. Menachem Begin, is welcomed to Kne.sset by unidentified member at opening of tiie ninth session.
'Arabs deflecting dajms'
TEL AVIV [JTA] —
Dr. Vaacov Meron of the Hebrew University's law faculty charged that the Arab states arc trying to deflect possible claims by Israel for compensation for Jewish refugees who were forced to leave Arab countries in 1*^48.'
He told a' special meeting on the situation of Jews in Arab countries that for this reason, some Arab governments are urging those Jews to leave Israel and return to the lands of their birth.
.According to Meron. the .Arabs are afraid that Israel may make the same demands at a future peace conference that the Arabs themselves made during the Rhodes armistice ne-goiiations in 1949. Ai that time, the Arabs demanded compensation for the lands and other property left behind by Arab refugees from Israel. They also asked Israel to admit a token number of Arab ref-
ugees to those territories originally assigned to an Arab state by the UN Palestine partition plan. Israel was inclined to agree, but because of the compensation demands by the Arabs, the plan was dropped. Meron said.
.Meron said that the ouster of Jews from Arab
countries was a premeditated plan, especially in Iraq where it was initiated by Nuri .A-Said. He quoted portions of the memoirs of a British dip-. lomat who said that Said had suggested that trucks bring Iraqi Jews to the border between Jordan and Israel.
Bcx)k reveals bias
LONDON UTAj —
Steps by Prime Minister James Callaghan to check the traditional pro-.Arab bias of the Foreign Office are revealed in a book published here.
The book. The Diplomats, reveals that when he became foreign secretary shortly after the Yom Kippur War. Callaghan told the Foreign Office that the new Labor government would not repeat the policy stated in Sir Alec Douglas-Home's
Harrogate speech during the preceding Conservative administration, which had inclined Britain heavily towards the Arabs.
Author Geoffrey Moor-house writes that Callaghan was acting on the assumption that the Foreign Office was "pro-Arab .'pro-Catholic and pro-£urQpe almost to a man." He was stiffly told that the Office deeply relented the rumor that it fostered an Arabist "mafia".
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FALLSBURG, N.Y. —
Rabbi Gedalia Felder, chairman of the Rabbinical Vaad Hakashruth of Toronto Jewish Congress, and Nathan Shemen, the executive director, are in this city this week attending the annual convention of the Rabbiiiical Council of America.
Rabbi Felder of Shom-rai Shabos Synagogue delivered a paper on "Hala-chic Perspective on Gambling", and led a discussion on the ethical issues involved in gambling.
.Among, the leaders addressing the convention were Chief Rabbi Shlonio Gorcn of Israel; Rabbi Dr. Joseph B. Sploveitchik, outstanding Jewish theologian and scholar; Dr. Norman Lamm, president of Veshiva University; Yo-sef Burg, head of the National Religious Party of Israel; and Shniuel Katz. special. representa-.
live of Menachem Begin and the Likud Pany.
.A number of former To-rontonians are officers of the Rabbinical Council of America, which has oyer 1,000 members. Rabbi Walter S. Wurzburger. the president, was formerly rabbi at Shaarei Shoniayim. First vice-president Rabbi Bernard
Rosensweig was rabbi at Shaarei TefiUah, The recording secretary. Rabbi Moshe S. Gorelik, was rabbi at Clanton Park. All were members of the Vaad Hakashruth when they served in Toronto.
The Rabbinical Council of America is reported to be the largest Orthodox rabbinic bodv inthe world.
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U.K. MPs dispute allegation Jews unhappy in Israel
LONDONJJCNSl —
Claims by the Soviet Union that Jews who emigrated from there to Israel have been disappointed were disputed by the all-party committee of MPs who have just reported to Parliament on an examination they carried out into the Helsinki Agreement.
In a section on Jewish emigration, the committee said that there was no specific provision in the Helsinki Final Act in relation to this problem, but the human contacts provisions could be invoked on
behalf of Jews encountering -difficulty in emigrating from the Soviet Union or in visiting relatives in Israel or the West,-The principle of the agreement relating to respect for , human rights and fundamental freedoms could also be cited.
The report said that while overall Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union had increased slightly last year, it had been significantly lower than in the peak years of 1972 and 1973. That might not necessarily be due to
Soviet actioji, because there had been some fall in the numbers applying. The Foreign Office had told the committee that it was probable that the reduction could be attributed to fear of further repression and harassment and to the new restriction on funds sent from abroad to sustain applicants awaiting exit visas.
"The Soviet Union has suggested that one of the reasons for the drop in the number of Jews being granted exit permits was
Arab propaganda flow concerns Mexican Jewry
MEXICO CITY IJCNS] —
Mexican Jews are gravely concerned at the increasing volume of propaganda disseminated by Arab and Palestinian sources against Israel and the Jewish people generally. Some of this propaganda seeks to drive a wedge between Israel and Diaspora Jews.
Among the material studied by a special meeting of the Central Jewish Committee's executive board was a long interview by Marwan Tahboub. the Palestine Liberation Organization's representative in Mexico, printed in the weekly magazine Revista de Revistas (Review of Reviews) published by the Excelsior publishing house.
Tahboub accused Israel of committing atrocities against women and children in "occupied Arab territories" and appealed to the "progressive Jews of Mexico" to reconsider, their attitude towards Israel.
He also asked Mexican Jews to "join all men of goodwill to stop Israeli aggression" and "reach a just and genuine peace in the Middle East."
In another interview in the daily Heraldo de Mexico, Tahboub said that "only the establishitient of a democratic secular Pal-
estinian state" could provide "peace and justice" for all the people living "in Palestine and Israel."
He agreed that the PLO was receiving Soviet support "to restrain Israeli aggression and secure a just and lasting peace."
Revista de Revistas published a statement by the so-called Arab League of Mexico accusing Israel of "showing her real face
to the world by electing the terrorist Menacjhem Begin as the new prime minister."
The statement, signed by Dib Seman. the League president, and Mohammed Mustafa Bulhosen. said that Begin organized "in cold blood" the massacre of innocent Arab women and children at Deir Yassin (in 1948) and in Haifa.
Nazi ordered to return
to prison
HAMBURG (JCNSI -
Wilhelm Rosenbaum. the 62-year-old Nazi criminal and ex-SS officer, who is serving a life sentence here for the murder of more than 100 Jews, has been ordered to return to his cell. He hjis been outof prison for the past six months on temporary release."
But the Senate of this city turned down Rosenbaum*s request for extended leave from prison, and ruled that further action on his plea for clemency would not be considered for another two years.
Another Nazi criininal. Max Krahner. aged 73. also serving a life sentence for murdering Jews, and who has also been on leave for six months, has been allowed by the Senate to stay out of prison for another year on grounds of his ill health.
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the disappointment of Soviet Jews with Israel," said the report. "As the number of Jews in the Soviet Union seeking invitations from relatives and friends abroad has, however, continued unabated, the Soviet suggestion has doubtful validity.
"The Soviet authorities had also made use of a letter purporting to be signed by 300 Jews in Vienna who had expressed regrets at leaving the Soviet Union and were desperately anxious to return. According to figures published recently, 110.-
000 of the 131.000 Jewish emigrants from the Soviet Union between 1970 and 1976have stayed'in Israel.
"The most common reasons why some emigrants are unable to settle abroad are limited job opportunities, personal and cultural reasons and the difficulty of adjusting to a more competitive system. There seems to be some question as to the exact number of signatories to the letter, and another group in Vienna have alleged that the signatures were obtained 'by pressure and promises'."
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