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FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 20,1970
' Tlie Canadjan Jewish News would 'like to address a question to the publishers of the Globe and Mail and to its editor-in-chief.
On srvcral occasions in the past we have pointed out that Toronto's only morning paper has been partisan and unfair in its coverage of the Middle tcjst conflict. It has denounced President Nixon■ editorially for expressing his readiness to aid Israel defend herself against the Soviet-led conspiracy.
Of course', tht-' editor and publishers of Globe and Mail have the right to join forces with the avowed eneniies of Israel and to support those who would sabotage anti-hatred legislation in Canada. However, if that is the case, then the Globe should put an end to, its pose as Canada's national newspaper; it should admit its narrow-mindedness and prejudice in those areas which affect the Jewish community andthe Middle East.
What continues to dismay us most is the-doctoring of news regarding Israel from its New York Times' service. Inevitably, everything favorable towards Israel or detrimental to its avowed enemies is adroitly omitted from the dispatches from the New York Times service. Despite this record of journalistic mischief on the Globe's part, we never expected such outrageous treatment of James Heston, as was the case last week with the New York Times' columnist's  Cairo dispatches.
in Sunday's Times, Mr. Reston,-a vice president of the paper and probably one of America's most eminent political writers - and someone moreover who is not biased in Israel's favor -published a long interview with President Nasser of Egypt. Mr. Reston inade several comments about 1 this interview. One of. these comments reads
byMJ.NVRENBERGER ■®
POMPIDOU IS NOT FRANCE
When French President Georges Pompidou arrives m the United States he will receive the kind of reception vyhich is accorded the leader of a nation with whom Washington has to deal. But there will be little of the cordiality customarily lavished on Paris dignitaries. So far as New York is concerned it will receive him in a way that befits the representative of a regiine that, to all practical purposes, has become the heir of Laval and Petain,
To all of us who love France -- the France that will live longer in our hearts than the hatred for Pompidou and his henchmen— it is tragic to have to place a French president in the category of a Laval. But in paraphrasing Roosevelt's famous description of Mussolini's cowardly aittack on France, we can say that Pompidou has stuck a knife indeed into the back of an ally.
Mayor Lindsay, who gallantly refused to pronounce the banal and meaningless phrases which'a French president would love upon his arrival, has not only strengthened the world opposition to Pompi-dou's Mussolini-like treachery but has consolidated the faith of the fifty-five percent of Frenchmen who hate this radical departure from traditional policy. Iii a sense, when Mayor Lindsay refused to offer an official reception to Pompidou, he also spoke for the people of France, that not-so-:silent majority that has saved the honor of the republic;
So far as Canadians are concerned, it is important that here too the Jewish community, the friends of Israel and of France — and all thoscwho desire peace~in the Middle East - should protest in the kind of concrete manner that would be understood at the Elysee. ■■■ .
The French government now cynically admits that the Libya deal - arming a government that openly acknowledges that-rit will attack Israel (and which may officially join the United Arab Republic) is purely a matter of business: ce sont les affaires. In this respect we have but one alternative to remember: that business with the France of Pompidou serves only to strengthen the present^regime^economically and we can but look upon that regime with disgust.
Pompidou may think that tliere is no dignity left within the Jewish community but it is up to us, m Canada, and for all over the free world, to dem->onstrate our honbr and our concern. \ It is high time that influential members of our community did something effective in this area instead of offering meaningless protests.
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When the French government embarked upon this new policy of arming the enemies of the Jewish^> . Slate for their war again.st Israel, it knew that, it^ would encounter the opposition of all those who want tosee peace in the Middle East. It has challengers us all/to fight back. Let us not disappoint Pompidou and his gang. V
as follows:
". . . As the interview went diong It became paradoxical and even appeared contradictory. For on the one hand President Nasser was frank about Israel's superior military equipment technology, 3nd support from the United States, and highly sensitive to any suggestion that his country might be backward and ineffective."
This paragraph, in Reston's dispatch, certainly expresses this writer's opinion oj Nasser. It is not very flattering towards the Egyptian leader. Mr. Reston indeed must have been disappointed witt Nasser's mental acrobatics ducihg their talk if he considered it relevant and important enough to send this comment via telex, to the New York Times from the Egyptian president's palace.
We can assume that this description of President Nasser's state of mind was read by the Egyptian censor. He didn't ask Mr. Reston to delete it. Yet in both editions of the Globe and Mail of Monday, February 16th this extremely pertinent text was dexterously removed so that those who depend on Canada's national newspaper for their information wouldn't know what James Reston's opinion was about this interview or about Nasser.
With all humility, as a small newspaper addressing the formost morning paper of English Canada, we take the liberty of asking those re'sponsible for editing the Globe:
Is this policy directed from above or is there someone in the Globe's newsroom who makes su'e that nothing unflattering about Nasser' appears in this paper?
Is it not an insult to a man of James Reston's reputation to edit his copy when he makes a statement about the Egyptian dictator?
's peace terms:
Bertrand, Levesque attack Trudeau
CALL PIERRE A RACIST
Special CJN report
BLAST PRIME MINISTER.- Quebec Premier Jean Jacques Bertrand and separatist leader Reni Levesque deny Pr|me Minister Tru-deau's 'insinuation" of an-tisemitism in Quebec.
Premier Jean-Jacques Bertrand of Quebec and Rene Levesque, leader of the sep-eratist Parti Quebecois
Hans Dietrich Genscher, West Germany's Minister of the Interior has posted are-ward of $20,000 for information leading to the capture of the arsonist wlio last week caused the death of seven elderly Jewisii persons at the Jewish Com'ininity Center on Reichenbacher Strasse in Munich.
Among the ||ctinis of this dastardly crin^t were: Siegfried Offciibac|)er, 70, a librarian; Daw!(;ir,<,'ikiibowie7., 60, former concentration camp inmate; Geort; Pfau,
63 and his wife Mrs, Yadwiga Pfau; Regina Becher, 59, a Brazilian citizen; Leopold Gimpel, 50; and iVlax Blum, 71, an -American citizen.
The Center's 64 year old janitor, Hermann Weitz, who tiad been rescued from a second floor window, was still trembling from shock when he compared the devastating fire to his days in a concentration camp. "Itwas as grim and terrible as in the last months in the camp," ,he said, "when we did not know what would happen to us."
Israel-s economic problems
DEVALUATION OR SUBSIDIES
AN EXCLUSIVE ICNS REPORJ FROM TEL AVIV
BY RUTH MICHAELS
SHMUEL yOSEF AGNON.-Nobe.j prize winner and one of the grdat Jews of our time who died in Jerusalem on Tuesday.
(A Profile and obituary by Arnold Ages, page 6.)
ALSO m THIS ISSUE:
* Profiles of our congregations
* WhoisaJew?
by Moshe Ron
* Our poor jublic relations
j[editorial7 page 6.)
^Many Torontonians - Jews and non-Jews - wilt attend a non-sectarian ^meeting on the Middle East.
(Details m'Seven Days, . feature, page 7.)
Recently, the Israeli Government published the list of goods on which customs duty, excise or stamp duty is being increased. This underlined the absurdity of the sb-called "packagedeal" negotiated last week between the Histadrut (General Federation of Labor) and the Manufacturers' Association, with the Finance Minister, Mr, Pinhas Sapir, acting as referee;
The new imposts will re-result in additional annual revenue to the Finance Ministry of only $30 million or so, Instead, of the $175 million Mr. Sapir originally intended toskini off purchasing power if the Histadrut leadership had persisted in its • original demand for a 15 percent wage rise.
Mr. Sapif agreed to a scaling downi of the additional purchase taxand duty, etc.. when a compromise was fmally hammered out. This gave workers (whose collective wage agreements expired on December 31,1969) a 4-percent cash increase in wages ^- free of income tax — as "compensation" for past increases in the cost of" living, plus another. 4 percent in Government Defense Loan bonds,; which are sub-^ ject to income tax.
However, since national insurance payments are also
going up, the average wage or salary earner will find very little change in his pay packet. ,
One of the reasons for the increase in national insurance is, purely actuarial -higher wage levels will mean higher accident compensation and higher payment for men doing their annual reserve service.
Meanwhile, housewives are already finding that.gro-ceries cost more because the new wage increases have to be met, and also because grocers — in common with other employers — have to meet the cost of the compulsory Defense Loan bonds they have to buy oii their own account.
. Not only that, but the list of items on which purchase tax has been raised is riot' by any means confined to purely luxury itemslike cars and imported cigarettes and foodstuffs, or the more expensive locally produced drinks.
~   MORE FOR BEER The list also includes beer (up^by over 10. percent),-stoves, heating installations . and even commercial delivery vans. .
Nobody here disputes the necessity to tighten belts, but it IS difficult: to see the point of raising wages and
then taking theriseaway. All it has done is to upset the relative stability of wages and prices during the past two years, and put exporters at adisadvantageby increasing their production costs..
Moreover, by agreeing to this fictitious wage increase, the Government lost a golden opportunity to introduce a wage freeze. Had it attempted to do so and coupled it with increased taxes, it would have, met with total understanding on the par,t of the overwhelming majority of the population..
Hardship could have been alleviated by fixing a higher minimum wage for the lowest paid workers (which is provided for in the ."package deal") and increasing allowaiices to families with many children under work-ingage.
Higher taxes have been imposed m any event. The': defense levy, which is apart of mcome tax is being in-creaded by.5 percent.
The conversion of the hither to voluntary De fense Loan purchase into_:a compulsory ; one is fully .justified, since it will force those who have been shirking their civic duty to fulfil It. However, the rate of purcjiase has been in-, creased as well.
(Cont. on page 10) •
sharply attacked some of the statements made last week by Prime Minister PierreEUiot Trudeau in an address to the Montreal Jewish community. The Quebec premier said that Mr. Trudeau injected racial overtones in his speech, Mr. Levesque was even more critical and called the prime minister's address "disgusting.'"
"There was a disgusting tone dfpandering racist feelings ... and an implication that those who want to change Quebec society are by nature full of anti-semetic feelings," the leader of the separatist party said. Mr. Levesque was referring to remarks made by the prime minister in which he told his audience to insist on its rigtits "and don't give up.'"
"When he says 'Fight for your rights, boys,' he is implying that anti-federalists and others who want to change the status quo... would make things difficult for Jews," Mr. Levesque said.
"This is the lowest form of demagogy . ... and insinuates that all Quebecers are a bunch of savages.''
Mr. Levesque said the-Parti Quebecois hopes to have a prominent member of the Jewish community as one of its candidates in the next provincial election expected this fall.
Mr. Bertrand also stated that Prime Minister Tru-deau's remarks at the Anti-Defamation Leiague Meeting have created fear in Montreal's Jewish community. He specifically referred to Trudeau's exhortation to the Jews "to stick with it" in their struggle for basic rights.
According to the Quebec goveirnment leader, such a statement is bound to " sow concern among minorities and invite thenvto linwarrant-ed vigilance."
Concerning antisemitism, Premier Bertrand stated for the record " that, there is no antisemitism in Quebec neither among the population nor at the go"ernmerit level." :
Tlie rights of minorities, Premier Bertrand concluded, .have always been . respected "1 don't blame minorities for being watchful of their rights biit only when these rights are threatened, which )is not the case."
In Ottawa, the Prime Mmr ister's office, inanexclusive interview with the Canadian Jewish News on Tuesday, declared that Mr. Trudeau will not comment upon the re-_ marks made by Bertrand and Levesque. The Prime Minister stands by what hrsaid in his speech tq the Jewish community, this newspaper was told.  - :.
Proposes Al Fatah program as price
for "settlement"
By the CJN diplomatic editor
Diplomats stationed at the East River and in the capitals of interested powers, agree in general, that in his interview with the New York Times, published last Sunday, Egyptian dictator Gamel Abdel Nasser, for the first time supported the terrorist demand for the liquidation of the Jewish State.
Accordingto James Reston, a New York Times editor, the Egyptian leader made the following points:
"He could not accept giving Israel one inch of Arab territory, he wanted peace but peace meant complete evacuation of the Israeli-occupied territories including Jerusalem, a solution of the Palestinian refugge problem, and the creation of a non fanatical multi-religious Israeli state."
According to sources in Jerusalem, Nasser's latter demand has not been stressed by most of the radio stations and TV outlets. What it means in plain English is that the Jewish State, Israel, should cease to exist arid that it should be replaced by some kind of an Arab-Jewish federation.
This is exactly the formula advocated by Yasser Arafat, the leader of the Arab terrorists.
Diplomatic sources express their astonishment at Nasser's new line. They point out that it was the Soviet Union's Andrei Gromyko, who, at the United Nations Assembly in 1947, stressed the righteous demand of the Jews, after the Hitler experience, to establish a sovereign state. The question now asked, is whether the Soviet Union will conveniently forget its own committment to the existence of Israel and accept the Nasser — Arafat proposals.
Mr. Reston In his Cairo dispatch, stated with regard to the Nasser interview that the Egyptian leader, "became paradoxicat and even appeared contradictory. For on the one hand. President Nasser was frank about Israel's superior military equipment and technology, and the support from the United States, and on the other hand, he was openly defiant, not only of Israel but of the United States, and highly sensitive to any suggestion thathiscountry might be backward and ineffective."
Also, western diplomats are reluctant to accept the Nasser interview as the current policy of |he Egyptian ruler. Diplomats stationed in Cairo, says Reston, maintain that Nasser in hjs conversations with Hussein and others, "has been far less rigid" than he was in the interview.
In its own report of the interview, the New York Times clearly expressed its disappointment with Nasser's statements; as it must have been hoping for sonde indication of peaceful proposals from Cairo.
, Israeli sources openly discount his interview as pure propaganda.
|n Jerusalem an influential spokesman reminded newspaper men that Nasser lies openly vifhen he speaks of Israeli attacks against Egypt. "What business has Egypt in our country," he asked? "Wasn't it Egypt that attacked us in 1948 and declared usanehemy without iany cause or reason? "
The most impottarit part of Nasser's interviiew is his rejection of a cease-fire.
Nasser coriyeniently forgot thar it was the Arabs who broke the cease-fire, not Israel.
Nasser also demonstrated his ignorance of the China-America difference when he said that the United States does not occupy any Chinese territory. According to Peking, FormosaJs occupied by America.
Nasser also repeated the Arab propaganda canard that Israel "drove out more than a million Arabs from their homeland,'' when it is known that no Arabs were-expelled but fled in the hope of retuning after the liquidation of Israel.
DATELINE ISRAEL: STORY OF A HERO
Isahar (Schocky) Kaufman was a 23 year old Israeli platoon commander when the vehicle he was driving ran over a mine during the Six Day War.
.:-sIn the ensuing explosion he lost his right leg.^his left hand and suffered fractures all over\ his body. His right ear was partly torn off. * It was'Bngadier Ariel Sharon who found Kaufman in this shattered state and arranged for his transfer to
the Tel Hashomer military hospital.
Several days ago I met Kaufman in a Tel Aviv cafe. He had been outfitted with an artificial arm and leg and his ear had been restored. He was obviously still experiencing pain with the new leg.:
Kaufman has now enrolled at'the Haifa Technion and is studying indus tr lal engineer - / ing. He explained that initially the Technion had been
reluctant to admit^him because of the difficulties.they felt he would havem performing the physical aspects of engineering, work. Their fears were groundless.
Now m his second year, he has shown that he is more 'tha'n^capable of handling the academicjirogram there.'
In 19G9 durmfe, a trip to the United States Kaufman was directed by-friends to Dr. Maurice Silver, of Mount
Sinai Hospital. The doctor, an expert in orthopaedics and rehabilitation, is a man with strong ties to Israel. With the help of his. brother Charles, they had helped to found a charitable loan fund for immigrants inlsrael who came from thedoctor's home town. Most! Wielkie in Poland.
ISAHAR KAUFMAN
"I made a courtesy call on Dr./Silver,'' Kaufman said. Vand he simple would
not let me go. He treated me as if 1 were his own son."
Dr. Silver suggested outfitting the young Israeli with a new prosthesis. 'When he put on "his new leg" he felt as if his foot had been redeemed."! was so happy and overjoyed and apologized to Dr. Sliver for having first doubted that he, could provide me with som^^ thing better than I had got at home;" • ^
To prove his point, Kaufman got up from his chair and walked about with astonishing ease. He told me that he even drives a car. He now participates fully in social activities and parties.
Isahar Kaufman told me that there is a possibility in, the near future that-Dr.-/-Silver intends to look into the possibility of fitting him with an'electr onic prosthesis for his arm.
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