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READY TO APPLY PRESSURE ON ISRAEL TO ADOPT A PEACE POLICY
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Diplomatic observers here and abroad believe that President Nixon's press conference remarks on the Middle East last week indicated that U.S. pressure will be put on Israel to make some move to get peace negotiations with the Arabs started.
The consensus was that while the president was even-handed in allocating blame for the present Middle Easi deadlock oii both Israel and Arab states, his rebtike to Israel w:as the more significant in view i
the close U.S. support that country has enjoyed over the past 25 years. Nixon made it clear that the U.S. wot)}d not sell Israel short over Arab oil threats.
But for the first time he publicly linked the Arab-Israeli dispute with the oil situa^ tion, two issues the administration previously maintained were separate. The president indicated further that the threat to U.S. and West European oil supplies was a major reason why he has asked Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, his foreign policy advisor and Secretary of State-designate to give the highest priority to a Middle East settlement; ~
Reports from Cairo said diplbmatic sources there expected Dr. Kissinger to visit the Egyptian capital as part of a tour that would include Israel and possibly other Arab states for background brief-, ings for the task assigned him by Nixon. Kissinger has never visited the Mideast in any official capacity for the Administration. However, Gerald Warren, White House spokesman, described this report as speculative and said Dr. Kissinger has no plans to visit the Mideast.
Nixon's press: conference statements were well received in the Egyptian press and Cairo observers interpreted his un-
expected rebuke of Israel as the beginning of U.S. pressure on Jerusalem for concessions that could advance the negotiating process. While there was naimmed-\ iate official reaction from Israel so far to Nixon's remarks* it was pointed out that Israel and the U.S. will sign an agreement later this month for the delivery of 48 F-4 Phantom jets and S6A-Skyhawks to Israel , at the rate of one a month over the next four years.
Nixon's news conference remarks also followed heavy pressure on the administration froni the powerful, domestic oil lobby; spearheaded by Standard Oil Com-
pany of California and Mobil Oil, to change its attitude toward Israel and become more receptive to the Arab states. The remarks also followed by several weeks statements by Joseph J. Sisco, assistant secretary of : state: for Near Eastern and South Asian affairs, and John Love, director of President Nixon's Office of Energy Policy, that Mideast oil was a factor in America's foreign policy thinking. .
Nixon's rebuke, following on the heels of condemnation of Israel by the UN Security Council and the International Civil Ayiatibn Organization (ICAO) for its Aug. 10 interception of a Lebanese airliner.
may be a bitter pill for the Israelis to swallow, observers here said.
The president stated at the press conference that both Israel and the Arab states are at fault and that both sides need to start negotiations. '-We are nol pro-Israel and .we are not pro-Arab ... We are pro-peace," he declared.
He stated further tliat neitherlsrael nor the Arab states can wait ''for the dust to settle in the Middle East," and asserted that Ills administration would use its in^: fluence, "what influence we havel - with
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By JAMES KRAUS
CASABLANCA, Morocco -
No one knows exactly how many Jews are now living in Morocco. The best estimates are that between 20 ^ and 25,000 still remain and emigration is rapidly reducing that number every month.
The poor have almost completely gone. Those who have not yet left are for the most part well-to-do businessmen, doctors and proprietors. The majority of Moroccan Jews, probably about 17,000, are now concentrated in Casablanca. Jewish shoe and clothing stores are found frequently in the commercial capital as well as a large number
0/ kosher butchers and restaurants.
Fear of Police
But the streets of the old Jewish quarter between the boulevards ZiraouiandMou-lay Youssef have become crowded with poor Arab: families Who are moving into the big cities from the countryside. Two synagogues in the old quarter on the Rue Verlet Hanus and Lusi--tana remain open. Elsewhere in the city, however, Jews prefer to hold services in private apartments for fear of police agents who survey the streets around the_syna-gogue, especially during Saturday services.
"Remember - not a word about politics with an Arab," a Casablanca Jew warned me. "But I assume coaling from Israel, you know the song," he added* referring
Protest concerts by chorus
MONTREAL -
Despite a heavy downpour 80 members of the Montreal Action Committee for Soviet Jewiy demonstrated last . week in front of the University of Montreal Spbrts Center where the Red Army Chorus began a five night engagement.
The demonstrators carried banners and distributed flyers accusing members ol the Red Army of beating up and harassing Israeli "athletes and Jewish spectators at the World University Games in Moscow. One banner read, "In Montreal you sing, in Moscow you beat up Jews."
Some members of thecho-rus expressed their surprise at the banners and tried to speak to the demonstrators. But they were pulled back by their superior officers.
The Montreal committee issued a statement saying tliat "We appreciate the artistic accomplishment of the /Red Army Chorus but cannot allow ourselves to attend its performances in Montreal in view of the plight of Soviet Jewry and the physical abuse b(y Red Army members against Israeli athletes and Jewish spectators. ^'
disparagingly to anti-Israel, pro-Palestine propaganda and glancing quickly at two men who were eavesdropping on us as we sat in a cafe on the Boulevard Lalla Ya-coute.
There is no fear in Casablanca, but the Jews are extremely cautious as they must be living in, an intensely hostile Arab surrounding. Cinemas charge a tax that channels funds to terrorist organizations and newspapers daily feature a barrage of anti-Israel articles. The doors of Jewish homes are triple locked and even the poorer families in the niellah (Jewish quarter) have a night watchman. No , one has any illusions. They know that should King Hassan be assassinated ojr deposed, every Jewish dwelling will be ransacked and looted in-hours.
For the Jews in Morocco today, security is thus precariously balanced between two crucial factors. The first is the internal political stability and the continued rule of the king. The second is the Middle East, from where every Israel - Arab clash sends tremors through the Jewish community. In Casablanca and Marrakech, the atmosphere is still fairly relaxed. As little as 15 years ago, there were nearly 40,-000 Jews in Marrakech.
Synagogues Locked
Today, perhaps 3,000 re^ main, and out of 50 synagogues that once served the community, five remain open; The others are shuttered and locked and the keys to many have been lost. In the mellah, the Jewish residents have become Submerged in the sea of Moslems who occupied the quarter and turned it into an Arab slum after restrictions prohibiting the entry of non-Jews were lifted in 1963. There is still an active, Jewish life with Bar Mitzvahs and weddings, and the community maintains its own schools; nurseries, old age home and medical dispensary. But almost all Marrakech Jews are making arrangements to leave. In one home, men sat in a traditional Moroccan inner courtyard thrashing raw wool while a Voman stuffed it into mattresses arid then sewed them tightly on
This synagogue in the city of Tetuan in northern Morocco has been converted into a market. The Jewish community in the African country is diminishing quite rapidly.
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once," she smiled at me. "We love Marrakech and we love our life here, but there -is no future. Everything could change overnight and turn into catastrophe."
In Meknes, in the north of .'Morocco, about 1,700 Jews remain, and they complain that they are afraid to go out at night or to pass down certain streets for fear of being attacked by drunken Arabs., ''We can'tr carry on : normal business," one said ; to mev "If an Arab debtor fails to pay, no court will
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Aged Jews live in the cemetery of the mellah (Jewish quarter) of the city of Marrakech ui southern Morocco.
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By MARK MEDICOFF CJN Quebec Bureau Chief
TORONTO-
A North York bylaw, tabled last week by the Ontario Municipal Board, seriously threatens to disrupt Jewish education in the borough, says the executive director of the Board of Jewish Education.
Rabbilrwin Witty told The Canadian Jewish News: "It has become clearly obvious that the desire of the bylaw, even if it iis not its intent, IS to discriminate against minorities and private schools."
Observers told The CJN ilhat with land costs in North
York among the highest in the city, Jewish schools will be hard pressed to raise between $160,000 and $400,000 for land costs before the building's expenditure^ are even calculated.
North York Mayor Mel Lastman told The CJN the bylaw ' 'is good." He believes the negative implications of the bylaw do not outweigh its advantages.
He says the bylaw is aimed to protect youngsters from the hazardous conditions facing them when they leave their parent's car in front of the schools.
He favors a "kiss and learn" situation where the parient has the room to drive
onto school property, kiss their child goodbye, and then the youngster goes to learn. "It would be great for the safety of the kids," he said, emphasizing that no law can be retroactive.
Lastman said that schools are no longer wanted in North York because cars block driveways, the streets can't be cleaned, and garbage can't be collected.
Until recently, about half an acre was considered sufficient for a medium-sized school. For example, a small school such as the Beth Jacob High School for Girls on Lawrence Avenue, with, an enrollment of   only 110
NDP leader worried Israel losing its socialist ideals
By T. SCHNURMACHER
MONTREAL -
New Democratic Party Leader David Lewis said here - this week that Israel was moving away frpmiher socialist beginnings and is: showing some of the charac-' teristics of. the capitalist system.
"Skyscrapers iai-e going up in the middle of Jerusalem and there is growth for the sake of growth, instead of for the benefit of the people," said the leader of the socialist political party.
Lewis, who made his opening remarks in Yiddish, addressed an audience of 400 at the Chevra Kadisha B'nai Jacob Synagogue on the 60th anniversary of the Labor Zionist Alliance. '
"The rat race.of our so-, ciety should not be imported," he asserted, expressing the hope that the Jewish state would learn from the mistakes of Canada, Great Britain, and the United States instead of repeating them.
' 'Since you have given the Jewish people a future as well as a past," he stated, "there is no longer any need to fear the'death of Jewish-ness in the world while Israel exists . . . and. exist it will.
"We cannot live our lives as Jews as if we were in Israel. , We as Jews in Canada have to live our lives as Ca-^ nadians, for nothing annoys me more than to hear fund raising hyperbole about Israel; as if it is the essence : of all that is good in the world."
Lewis said hehad too much respect for Israel nottocri- , ticize it: "Israel is a_dyna-mic, exciting country, but
like all human societies it has both strengths and weaknesses."
The New Democratic leader spoke glowingly about his 1967 and 1973.visits to Is. raei;''saying' it wiSTjulte latf' experience for him to see the Jewish state ... as a Jew born in Poland and raised in Montreal.
- The yofing people of Israel also impressed Lewis, who found them to be a deter-
inined and aiissured group, and not angry or bitter. "Most of them are anxious for peace, more so than any speechmaiker at the UN. "It saddens me that the ,-_,Arab . States. do jipt accept^ the existence of fsrael - for their own sake - because Israel has so much to teach them. Israel deserves to exist and it will continue to exist as it becomes strong-^ er, more self-reliant, "and secure."
Waldheim pessimistic aper his Mideast tour
JERUSALEM (JTA)-
United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim wound up his five-nation Middle East tour in Amman no less pessimistic than when h^ began it a week ago over prospects for an immediate solution of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The UN leader made it plain, in statements during his 31-hour visit to Israel and his stay in Cairo that he could perceive no break in the impasse: .
Party approves Dayan plan
Division remains within Labor
TEL AVIV (JTA) - ment's election platform.
The Labor Party Secre- The various facets of theplan tariat gave overwhelming originated with Dayan and approval last week to a:ser> were drafted into document ies of proposals^ by Defense > form by Miiiister-Without-Minister Moshe Dayan that-^^rtfolio Israel Galili. , will open the way to private ^ fuH blessing of
land purchases by Jews in Premier Golda Meir, but the administered territor-   Finance Minister Pinhas Sa-
tes, increase Jewish settlement in the territories and reduce the Arab laborforce presently working in Israel.
pir is known to be opposed to parts of it. Aryeh Eliav, the Labor Party's former secretary general; an out-
The plan, which is bitterly Sspoken "dove'f,, declared opposed by Labor's align-   that he could not support the
executive and its endorse- The temper of the Labor ment by the secretariat was Party majority was mani-considered a mere formality: fested in the crushing 65-13 Approval w^s ^y^JTvol^v^defeat on Sept. 3 of a sug-There were several absten- Agestion by former Trans-tions but no^/hands were i)ort\ Minister Moshe Car-raised against it., mel that the question of land Mapam leai(lers'were fur- purchases in the territories; ious that theyjwere excluded undergo ^further discussion; from the discussions of the The issue is probably the plan held by th^ Liabor Party most controversial "aspect of leadership duriW the pastthe Dayah-^^lan with far-few weeks. Mapam-is. ex-; ringing ^^^i^^ the
ment partner^ Mapam and by a minority within the.La>-bor Party itself; will be in-r corporated in . the align--.
Dayan plan fn any forum. But he did not vote against it. « The document was approved a week ago by the party's
pected to have a platform document of its own to subr mit to the alignment secretariat at a later stage but no alterations of the Dayan plan : are expected.
future of administered territories.
Only three months ago, the government, upheld the : current ban on purchases of land in the territories by in-
dividual Jews and private corporations. Dayan adamantly refused to accept^his and threatened to leave the> Labor Party befoi-e election day if'the platform failed to satisfy his approval.
In a related move, the cabinet agreed to; give the military' governors control over ho>v long; and hbw many Arab workers may be employed in Jewish agricultural settlements in the ad-r ministered territories. A resolution to that effect was. submitted, Jointly by Dayan, Galili and Jusitice Minister Yaacov Shim.shon Shapiro.
Standard
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MONTREAL -
Angered by the Standard Oil-Company of California's statement to its shareholders and employees to support Arab aspirations for peace, a Montreal ijidustrialist has ceased all: trading with the multinational firm. _
Jacob M. Lowy, along-time community leader in the city, and president of the Point Claire Industrial Park, received a reply from Q.N. Miller, chairman of the Standard Oil Board explaining that his statement has been ."misinterpreted by some readers." ' \
The Miller memorandum stated that the United States has enjoyed. 100 years of'' continuousjand cordial" relationships with the Arab iiations. In a five-page reply, Lowy-r condemned the statement for its ol;»vious "peirver-slons": of hi s 10 r 1 c ai: truths.'
Waldheim repeatedly stressed the enormity of the effort required to bring about Middle East peace, maintained that the UN was ready and able to play an important part in that endeavor and said he was convinced that all parties sincerely desired peace. But he reiterated to newsmen at all his stops that he brought no fresh proposals and had received none from the government leaders with whom he met.
Waldheim stated in Israel and repeated again in Cairo I that the peace-seeking mis-i sion of his special Mideast i representative. Ambassador i Gunnar V. Jarrin'fe was still ! valid and said he would meet ■■■ with him to discuss the find-I ings of his trip. In his Cairo reference to   the Jarring mission, the secretary general also observed that Dr. Jarring's .memoranda of Feb. 8, 1971 - asking Egypt for a commitment to make peace with Israel and, Israel _ior a com mitment to withdrawn to its pre-June, 1967, borders - was stiU valid. '
Israel's'rejection of the Jarring memorandum resulted iBr suspension of the UN mediator's mission. Israeli leaders, nevertheless, expressed satisfaction with Waldheim's visit insofar as it enabled them to convey to ; him the Israeli point of view in the Middle East conflict. .. His reception was friendly though low-keyed in every country he visited. Heavy ^security precautions attends ed his stayin Jerusalem-His visit there was marre^^ V slightly by his refusal to don) a skull cap when he entered the Yad Vashei^ memorial .Jlo^: place a wreath on the marker inemorializing. six million Jews whd^perished under/the Nazis.,
Waldheim's visit also made it clear that "the^UN still does not recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
youngsters, sits on only .3 acre.
Last week the volunteer lawyers of the schools rushed to the OMB meeting to request a postponement. The board's chairman, W.HJ. Thompson, approved the request and postponed the hearings until November, well after the Jewish holidays.
He ruled that discussion of the controversial two acres clause will be heard at that time, but permitted the other clauses in the bylaw to pass into law.
Rabbi Witty pointed out that if the two-acre clause is approved by the Ontario Municipal Board there would be immediate ramifications for the Jewish schools.
The Bialik Hebrew Day School on Viewmount Avenue has purchased a lot containing two homes for eventual expansion purposes - but the school sits on less than two acres of real estate. Should the bylaw be approved, the school would face curtailment of educational development, the rabbi said.
Mel Lastman
The school, serving 470 children, is considered inadequate to meet the pressing demands of desk space and is located on .58 acre.
The approved parts of the bylaw restrict the construction of new educational institutions within varying distances from the roadside, determined by the distances of homes from the roadside in the immediate vicinity:
Sources say that these
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'J set-back "conditions may make it necessary for new schools to leave, on the average, of up to 140 feet from the roadway.
As a result of the bylaw, North York, a largely residential area,: has imposed strictures on highrise development. "No personshall erect for institutional use in an 'R' or'RM'(residential) zone, any building or^-structure in excess of three stories or 35 feet in height^ which ever is the lesser," says the bylaw.
The approved parts further demand that additional parking space .be available on school land for institu^ tions which have gymna^ slums, because they are considered ■'a place of public assembly,and one park-
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