Page 8-The Canadian Jewish News, Thursday, December 16,1993
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NOW IT S THE LEFT-WING
Its not only members of Israel's right-wing that hold demonstrations about the peace process these days. Following the recent killlngsi of two of Haipas' most wanted terrorists by Israel's security forces and a corresponding upsurge in violence throughout the territories, the leftist pressure groups "Gush Shalom" and "Women In Black" demonstrated outside the headquarters of Israel's defence establishment in Tel Aviv. [IPPA photo] ■
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Ottawa's community Jewish day school, invites applications for the position of
DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION
effective July 1, 1994
As Hillel Academy's senior professional, the Director of Education will be responsible for:
• Supervising all aspects pf the school\s operations
• Providing administrative: leadership in personnel and financial areas
• Playing a key role in representing the school to its jwent body, the Jewish community, the Ministry of Education and rcligional school boards, and to the community at large
The ideal candidate, having the following qualifications, will be:
• . A seasoned educator and educational administrator with a proven record of excellence at the elementary level
• Fluent in English and competent in Hebrew and French
• In possession of undergraduate and graduate degrees in cducaiion. Judaica.aiid other curricular areas-
• Eligible for or hold Ontario teacher ccrlification
llc/she\vill have dCmonsUatcd the following ah^
• Cpmpetcnce in conducting teacher evaluations and in, providing instructional support
• Capacity to serve as a euiTicuIar resource to teachers from nursery to' GnKle 8 levels ' :
•=Prscal maiiagement skills
Candidates should submit their applications to: Ian I. Kagedan, Chair. Director of lulucation Search Committee. Hillcl Academy. 881 Bmadview Ave.. Ottawa. ()nt:K2A"2M6. ; '^v /
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concerns some Jewish leaders
WASfflNGTON (JTA) - News that U.S. President Bill Clinton will meet next month with Syrian leader Hafez Assad has caused concern among some Jewish leaders.
But others in the community are taking a position similar to that of the Chnton administration, which views a meeting with Assad as furthering a comprehensive peace settlement in the region.
Following a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher earlier this month; Assad said he would grant exit permits to Syria's remaining 1,350 Jews by the end of December, leaving North American Jewish leaders pleased but skeptical.
Assad also reportedly agreed to allow the U.S. congressional mission to investigate the fate of missing Israeli servicemen, including navigator Ron Arad.
In Israel, Prime Minister Yitzhak ' Rabin called both developments an important step forward and a hopeful' sign.
The Jewish leaders voicing doubts say that to earn a meeting with Clinton, Assad must live iip to his promises to allow free travel for Syrian Jews and to allow the congressional delegation to look- into what happened to the missing Israeli soldiers.
In addition, there is concern that it would be inappropriate for a presidential meeting with a leader whose country remains on the State Department's list of state sponsors of terrorism.
'■L hope Assad backs the promises he's made," said Judy Feld Carr, chair of Canadian Jewish Congress's National Task-for Syrian Jews.
"ButI recall that such a commitment was made before by Assad, and
no exit permits were issued. My only consolation is that this is the first time a tentative time factor has been given," Carr told The ON.
"I feel confident that President Clinton won't proceed with the meeting until all the Jews have their exit permits," said Alice Harary, president of the Council for the Rescue of Syrian Jews.
The remnants of Syrian Jewry have been awaiting permits to leave the country since last year, when the Syrian government first announced the community would be able to travel freely, prompting some 2,600 Jews to leave.
But in recent months, only a trickle of Jews has been able to leave, prompting the Clinton administration and members of Congress to urge As-, sad to let Syrian Jews go,
Harary said that she was "hopeful they'll all be out by the end of the month," and that the Clinton ad-nministrafion had placed a high priority on the issue.
But she said that as of last week, nothing had happened; in Syria in the wake of Assad's recent an-^ nouncement.
About 400 of the 1,350 Jews in Syria have U.S. visas, leaving about 950 in need of exit permits, Harary said.
NVhile in Syria, Christopher said the Chnton-Assad meeting would "help to put in place a vital comer-stone in our efforts to build a comprehensive, just and lasting peace."
One of the goals of his trip was, to re-engage Syria in the peace process, and Christopher said at a news conference in Daniascus that the Syrians would bereturning to the Washington-based talks.
Syria's future participation in the ;
stalled negotiations had been in doubt because Syria and Israel-are-loeked in a disagreement over definitions of the shape of a future peace between the two countries, and an Israeli withdrawal from at least part of the Golan Heights.
The United States could be playing a more active role in the Israeli-Syrian talks than it did in the talks between Israel and the Palestinians, said Warren Eisenberg, director of B'nai B'rith's International Council.
"Syria represents a different case," Eisenberg said, with "wider stakes."
Christopher announced at the Damascus news conference that the Clinton-Assad meeting was scheduled to take place in mid-January in Geneva.
h would be the first meefing be-. tween the two, Assad, who has led Syria for more than two decades, met with some of Clinton's predecessors, most recently George Bush. .
Christopher would not say whether Syria had made any pledges in return for his meeting with Clinton, nor whether the United States had made promises to Assad.
Some Jewish officials said a meeting between Clinton and Assad could result in progress on the Israeli-Syrian negotiating track, and thus benefit the overall peace process:
"This is a first step that probably needs to be taken at this stage," Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y:) said in an interview.
Engel spearheaded a recent letter from 57 House colleagues to Christopher urging the secretary to press the Syrians on behalf of the Syrian Jew^. .
By STEVE RODAN The Jerusalem Post
JERUSALEM — The government is secretly drafting plans for a virtuarreturn to the 1967 borders and the establishment of a Palestinian state, proposals that for the first time are being considered by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, The Jerusalem Post /ia^ reported.
Sehiorgovernment sources, disputing Rabin's insistence that he refuses to consider these issues until at least 1996, say the government has drafted numerous plans for a withdrawal which would include Gush Etzion and the Jordan Valley, with only Jerusalem and minor border chianges in Latrun and.Samaria excepted.
Deputy Foreign Minister Yossi Beilin is the coordinator of these plans, working with the approval of Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, according to these sourcs.
Both men want the plans implemented before the right-wing opposition can foil them.
Peres and Beilin are urging for. the negotiations on a permanent settlement to begin after the estabhshment of a Palestinian cciuncil on self-rule, scheduled for July.
A three-month investigation by The Jerusalem Post,: published in The Po.yr's magazine last week, has revealed that Rabin has not ruled out these plans.
Sources close to the prime minister say in private conversation Rabin has ackrioWledged the inevitability of a Paiestiriian state and his mission is to ensure that it will not harm the Jewish state.
"The phrase he uses is that the level of Palestinian independence is dependent on the level of security for Israel," a Rabin source says.
Through interviews with scores of senior Israeli, U.S. and PLO officials, parliamentarians, negotiators and diplomats, Tfie Post has learned of the governrhent's conceptions, which have already been shown to several senior ministers.
The proposals include the following:
The government is preparing to begin negotiations on the permanent status of the territories after the estab-lishmient of' the Palestinian self-rule.council, .which is scheduled for July.
The government is ready to.withdrawfrom nearly all of Judca. Samaria and Gaza. The exceptions are several Jewish neighb(irhoods in Jerusalem arid minor border changes in Lalrun and Samaria. ■ i. Gush Etzion and the Jordan Valley, areas the Labor Party declared it would keep under.any future scttlc-HKnt, arc not to be retained. _
The government is ready to pcfmii the establishment • of itjPalestinian state.
Senior ministers have bcuun secret talks with PLO
representatives on the future of Jerusalem.
The government is ready to dismantle some settlements and.raise money from the U.S. to buy out many , of the 130,000 settlers in the territories. The price for this is estimated by the Foreign Ministry at SlObillion.
The prime minister has tried to shroud the issue in .secrecy, government sources say. He has refused to answer questions on the permanent settlement in the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, which until this year regularly discussed sensitive information:
Parliamentary sources say Rabin has even prohibited the head of the General Security Service from
■ presenting his agency'splans for 1994 to the intelligence subcommittee of the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee, for fear that pariiamentarians would learn what the government has in mind for Judea, Samaria arid Gaza'.- ■/ ■ ■,.' ..
. During the past few weeks, several, ministers have seen the Beilin-Pereis proposals of the permanent settlement. Although these ministers all support some form of territorial compromise in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, they recall being stunned.,by the plans for a fuU withdrawal.
"When Peres spoke to me about what he had in mind, 1 nearly fell off my chair," a senior minister says! ■ At the same time,:Rabin has approved the establishment of a Labor Party committee that will outline govemmentaltematives for a permanent settlement with the Palestinians. The committee includes senior officials such as Beilin, Deputy Defense Minister Mordechai Gur and Labor Party pariiamentarians On Orr, Ephraim Sneh and Gedalia Gal. . "Rabin approved this inmiediately,''says a committee : source. "He just said make sure that Shimon (Peres) is of the same position. Peres actually was not wild about the idea." ' ,
U.S. diplomatic sources say Israel has made President Bill Clinton aware of the government's conception of a permanent settlement.
The sources .say Rabin raised the issue of the Jewish . settlements during his meeting with Clinton last month, in Washington. The discussions continued during last
■ week's MiddkvEast tourby U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher. , ■
Clinton, the sources say. had sought a pledge frotn Rabin that sonic ot; thejjcttlements. particularly small communities in'isolated areas,, would be.disniantled-they say the U.S. is willing to help finance the resettlement of Jews from the tcrritlifies.
' 'Clinton dt>es not want this to be an obstacle to a sct.-: tlerae-ni;" a U.S^ source says,"So; we are empatheiic to the issue [of compensation]."