Our 61st Year
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Publisher and Editor-in^Shief SAmUELKAPLAM
Advertising Manager MNFREBOMAN
News Desk ETHAN MINOVirZ
EdiiariiulJS — i»age Four
Thursday, Aufijust 22,1991
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Saudis woo Canadians
The Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto is widely advertised by its sponsors as the largest annual national exhibition in the world.
Held on the spacious exhibition grounds near LakeX)ntarioi the €NE attracts millions of visitors each year to its trade fair cum entertainment arcade. Despite complaints that it has become somewhat jJaded, the fair still occupies an affectionate place in th<e hearts of Ontarians.
This year entrance to the fair on the first day is free — thanks to the largess of the government of Saudi Arabia which has decided as a gesture of good will and as a sign of appreciation for Canada's participation in the Gulf War to foot the million or so dollars that Hrst day crowds pay to view what the fair has to offer.
offer with the dispatch of a trade mission to Canada in the person of Abdullah Dabbagh, secretary general of the Council of Saudi Chambers of Commerce. In Toronto this summer, Dabbagh (Toro/i/o Star) spoke warmly of Canada's role in operation Desert Storm and advised Canadians to investigate business opportunities in Saudi Arabia more aggressively.
"You have to remember that Saudi Arabia, just like Canada," said Dabbagh, /^is a free-enterprise
system. The doors were already wide open, so it*s a question of really going in there and competing . . . ' Hhink that both of us are obsessed with the American market... Canadians find it, m^ch easier .to , concentrate on the American market.'',; [ ^. *r.
Canadians anxious^ pursue economic ties with Saudi Arabia shoukl^^^ot accept all of Dabbagh's -comments. Canada is liot *'just like Saudi Afalbia^^^^^ • Canada is a free and democratic society. Saudi Xra- ^ bia is a feudal monarchy with an autocratic leader-ship. It is a fanatical Muslim state which categorically bars Jews from its borders and all non-Muslims from its holy city of Mpcca.
It is a country in which women are forbidden to drive automobiles and where religious police roam the streets to identify and arrest those who deviate from the puritanical Wahabbi form of Islam regnant in the country. It is a land where body mutilations and beheadings are permitted under its criminal code.
Finally, Saudi Arabia is a sworn enemy of Israel and for four decades has, through boycott, tried, to strangle the Jewish State; it has bankrolled Arab terrorists and cheered their murderous exploits.
Saudi Arabia is not '^ust likb CanadaL.'VI^^ at the CNE should remember this on their free entry first day.
Nazi hate films are i^suilacingwitli debate
By ARNOLD AGES
During Hitler*s Third Reich, Joseph Goebbels^ the minister of propaganda, made over 1,400 films designed to glorify Kazism, celebrate the triumphs of the German army and — vilifyJews.
Although the latter category is represented only by a small number of such films, their virulence was of such a high order that, according to yarif/y correspondent Rebecca Lieb, they were used to **tum Germans against their Jewish neighbors and to inure them to the march of the Holocaust.**
Debate over whether films such as Z)er Ewige Jude (The Eternal Jew) should be made universally available today has recently surfaced with the revelation that a Chicago-based company. International Historic Films, has been advertising the sale of videos of the films in question in described by the Anti-Defamation League of B*nai B*rith as**the wealthiest and most active anti-Semitic organization in the United States.**'
While the company president says that the advertisement appeared there by inadvertence, the larger issue of peoples* rights to view such material has been thrust into the public domain. The right in question is to see a film, produced in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940, which depicts Jews as objects of scorn, derision and hatred and which is filled with such obscenities that to describe them would be to participate in the Nazi slander.
*'The purpose of the film was to inspire the Nazis to kill Jews,** says Lieb, **and the Jews who appeared in it were killed.** A participant in a recent dialogue on the issues raised by The Eternal Jew says that it is the ultimate snuff movie.
AraoM Aget Is professor «t Unfvorslty of Wateiloo and a regular JMfB contributor.
Some American Jewish groups, sldtfishabput appearing to circumvent tjiie First Amendment whichguai^iiteesfree speech, want the Gennan agency.respbnsible for thedistribution rights^ to make them available only to the National Center for Jewish Film (at Brandeis university) for educational purposes. Other groups, including the ADL, do not support blocking the film.
Canada*s criminal code is much more specific in this regard., Our antirhate literature statutes prohibit materials which are likely to incite the kind of racial hatred promoted against Jews by Goebbels and his evil coterie of collaborators.
A testimony of hate framed in celluloid SO years ago should stay where it is^ in the archives of Transit Film, the German govemmentrcontrolled agency which follows the German statute that prohibits the showing of any Nazi propaganda film. This is a policy which Canada emulates indirectly through the proper application of our criminal code.
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Jerusaiemite finds new site for U.S. embassy
Dear Mr. Kaplan:
Moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem will adorn -r- not impede—a Middle East peace settlement.
The refusal to do so is tantamount to not recognizing pre 1967Jerusalem as part of Israel and reinforces the refusal of the Arab world (except Egypt) to accept lisraeFs very existence on the earth.
1 have a wonderful spot picked outfortheembassy. It isin*no ' man*s land* — formerly the residence of the British High Commissioner overseeing the Mandate for Palestine (on both banks of the Jordan river) and how United Nations HQ. The site is also called the Hill of Evil Counsel. Mivejust^ver that hill.
MOSHE BRODETSKY
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Most olim arrive from Soviet Union
NEW YORK-Of 119,8II immigrants arriving in Israel from the beginning of January until the end of July, 97,891 are from the Soviet
Union.
A total of 11,101 immigrants came in the month of July. Of these, 10,325 are from the USSR.
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By ETHAN MINOVITZ
Did you goto Isnel this summer?
David Ben-Mo8he, [\
painter and renovator: ^ "Not this summer — I can't afford iti I last went in February 1989 to visit my fartiHyTiV Hbtbn; I hope to go next year."
•U Betty Goidon,
^ dental a^istant: "Not this year/but we were privileged to spend a month in Israel last summerduring acrit-ical time: at the beginning of the Persian Gulf war."
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Oscar DJrrtfeld,
manufacturer's agent: "My son and I plan ongoing in time for Chanuka. We should all go and bolster ^ the tourism Industry that seems to be falling."
n Brenda Shane,
T: sales representative: "No, because I'm working, and I haven't any holidays. I just got a new job."
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Zack Rubin,
14, counsellor, Jewish Community Centre: No, because J live In Winnipeg, and I came to Vancouver lb work for the summer."
/] Naomi Freeman,
Hebrew teacher, Vancouver Hebrew Academy: ^'1 haven't, because I haven't got any money. I was born in Beer-sheba. but left Israel with my parents when I was four days old!"
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