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i MONTREAL — "Canada is ready to assist Israel with S supervising eventual elections" in the West Bank and E Gaza Strip "should the government of Israel ask for it," S External Affairs Minister Joe Clark told members of the g House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee in s Ottawa.
S    He also suggested that the PLC has a long way to go to s assure Israel of its good intentions, s    "The Palestinian movement first must take steps to E dissipate the anxieties of the Israelis," Clark said, s    What PLC leader Yasir Arafat told French President s Francois Mitterrand in Paris three weeks ago "is not S enough to convince the Israelis of the PLC's sincerity, = because he expressed his personal view and not that of the S whole, entire Palestinian movement," Clark said, a     He was referring, among other things, to Arafat's a statement that the 1964 Palestine National Covenant, B which calls for the destruction of Israel, is "null and void." S    Clark, who on March 13 authorized Canadian diplo-S mats to meet with PLC i-epresentatives, also stressed that g "Canada must encourage those elements favorable to 5 Arafat inside the PLC, because if they fail in their efforts, s the radicals will take over, and we don't like them." s     But he was sharply criticized by Jewish Liberals on the § S committee for initiating talks with the PLC in the first g
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By DAVID LANDAU
JERUSALEM — Opposition to Israel's new peace plan continues to simmer within the Likud bloc, with one cabinet minister calling on the heads of the Likud-Labor coalition government to resign.
Yitzhak Moda'i, leader of Likud's Liberal Party wing and minister of economics and planning, made the suggestion last week at a news conference in Tel Aviv.
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may Havie reached a turning point in its large-scale employment of Arabs from the Administered Territories. The practice is on the wane and may eventually come to an end.
That is because of mounting antipathy and fear between Jews and Arabs on both sides of the "Green Line," spurred by the continuing uprising in the Territories. Anti-Arab sentiment is especially rife in southern Israel.
Arab day laborers from the Gaza Strip had to run a gauntlet of rocks hurled at their
cai-s by Jewish youths when they began returning to their jobs in Israel.
About 30 cars with Gaza license plates were ambushed on the road connecting Gaza with Ashkelon and Ashdod. Jewish settlers in the West Bank have had the same experience driving through Arab-populated areas.
Jews of Ashkelon and Ashdod were in an especially angry mood since the recent discovery of the remains of Sgt. Avi Saspprtas, a paratrooper who had been missing since Feb. 16.
His body was found in the course of a search — still
under\yay — for another soldier, Ilan Sa'adon, who has been missing since May 3. Both are believed to be victims of Arab kidnappers.
Spirits have cooled somewhat, but Arabs from Gaza driving to work in Israel have had to pass through several roadblocks and undergo stiff police inspections.
The Israel Defense Force has imposed a nightly curfew on the Gaza Strip. Workers cannot leave their homes before 4 a.m.
An immediate consequence has been failure of street cleaners and gardeners to report to their jobs in the
Ashkelon and Ashdod municipalities. Apparently they preferred to lose pay than risk their lives.
Past experience shows that many will gradually return to work. But increasing numbers are looking for alternative work inside the Gaza Strip.
Arabs from Gaza employed in industrial and construction jobs did show up. They are mainly on monthly salaries, unlike the municipal laborers.
The Gaza Strip and West Bank were sealed off from Israel and under blanket curfews to prevent incidents while Israelis observed Mem-
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He has been a leading opponent of the peace plan, which calls for Palestinian elections and eventual self-rule in the Territories.
Moda'i insisted that Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and Vice-Premier Shimon Peres, are "morally obliged" to step down and "seek a new mandate" from the public. The two are leaders of the Likud and Labor parties, respectively.
;Mpda'i denounced the pro-^ ppsgli^^lectipri ■Bank and Gaza Strip "a surrender to the terror of the intifada and a sellout to the United States."
"This isn't a plan," Moda'i told reporters. He claimed the plan, approved in a 20-6 vote by the Israeli Cabinet last week, deviates from the unity coalition's guidelines, from Likud's platform "and, as far as I know, from Labor's platform too."
Shamir's first test will come when Ariel Sharon, the hawkish minister of industry and trade, convenes the Herut Central committee, which he chairs, to try to register grassroots opposition to the plan.
The Likud Central committee, which includes the Herut
and Liberal components, may also meet.
If Shamir loses a Central committee vote on the plan, he will have to seek new Knesset elections, Moda'i said.
Sharon condemned the scheme as a clear danger to Israel's existence and pledged to do everything in his power "to foil this dangerous initiative."
Sharon was joined in his opposition by Housing Minister: David Le vy^ a Herut-po w-erhouse who also holds the rank of deputy premier.
Meanwhile, 30 right-wing Knesset members calling themselves the "Eretz Yisrael
As The Bulletin goes to press, we learn that Israel's Knesset has approved the peace plan by a 43-15 vote after seven hours of debate. Legislators opposed to the plan included Geula Cohen of the far-right Tehiya party. Eleven MKs abstained.
However, 51 legislators were absent — including some Likud members, such as Modai and Sharon, who walked out prior to the vote.
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In the past two years, he's met with dozens of world newsmakers, including British primie minister Margaret Thatcher, French president Francois Mitterand, and Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Shamir and foreign minister Shimon Peres.
As one of nine Jewish leaders invited to the Vatican for an historic meeting on Catholic-Jewish relations, he has spoken with Pope John Paul II.
Last winter, during a journey to press authorities for cultural and religious freedoms for Soviet Jews, he helped form the first B'nai B'rith unit in Moscow.
ThiscomingMonday, May 29, Seymour D. Reich, president of B'nai B'rith International, will bring to Vancouver for the first time his legendary incisiveness and his formidable passion for Jewish causes.
Reich, who was recently elected chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations — perhaps the most prominent position a representative of U.S. Jewry can attain — will highlight his visit by addressing Vancouver's community at Schara Tzedeck auditorium, 8 p.m.
Jewish affairs around the world, especially in Israel, will be the focus of his talk.
Reich, only the second international B'nai B'rith president to visit the community since 1968, will be introduced by B.B. District4 president Shimon Erem.
SEYMOUR D.REICH
Schara Tzedeck Rabbi M. Feuerstein will offer an invocation, and District 4 board member Joe Sinclair will participate.
When the Harvard-educated lawyer took on the international presidency of the world's largest Jewish organization in August 1986, he already had an extraordinary record of service. One of the youngest men ever elected to the B.B. office, the 55-year-61d senior partner in the New York Law firm of Dreyer and Traub has been active in numerous Jewish organizations since his early twenties.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Reich received his law degree from Harvard. Formany years, he was involved in the leadership of the ADL, the B'nai B'rith's human rights agency. He headed its Civil Rights committee. As well, Reich served on the National Conference on Soviet Jewry and the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council.
Demonstrating an outstanding commitment to human rights, Reich's interest in justice is reported to have gone far beyond legal definitions and guarantees. A leader in the effort to aid Soviet Jews, his special interest has led him to many capitals, where he has called upon heads of state to intercede with the Soviets on behalf of Prisoners of Conscience. REICH - Page 12