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TAMMUS13.5t43 THURSDAY, JUNE 23; 1983
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JERUSALEM — Deputy Foreign Minister Yehuda Ben-Meir said here recently that the U.S. has hot applied any pressure on Israel to hold to its present lines in Lebanon/Speaking on Voice of Israel Radio of his recent meetings with Administration officials in Washington, Ben-Meir said he was not '"aware of any American opposition to a ppssible — I stress possible — redeployment of Israeli forces in Lebanon.*^
There has been consid- Syria to agree to pull its own
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A 10-WEEK DISPUTE between Israeli doctors and the govctrhnient ov^r higher pay and shorter hours took anew twist when physicians'began stagihg a natloh-wlde liunger strike to
underscore their demands. Above, doctors protest outside Prime Minister Begin's off ice In Jerusalem during an earlier phase of the dispute.
IsraePs aniMissaddr to thfe United Nations, Yehuda Bluing told a cai3a:city audte^^ Beth Israel synagogiie recently that honest criticism of Israel was '^always legitimatei*!ilM^ often bver]lq^ked;ihe JoiPl^^
"When Israelis criticize their own government^ these arie* people wilting to take the risks of their advice being accepted, people "willing to lay their life on the line for their country,*' he declared. **rm not always sure that everybody who offers his gratuitous advif e in Vancouver or in New York is also willing to bear thejconsequencies of that advice or criticism: What if that advice proVies to be wrong? Is the reaction then just to shrug one's shoulders and apologize?"
Speaking here upder the auspices of the Combines Jewish Appeal, the veteran Israeli diplomat was introduced by CJA Men's campaign chairman Daniel Pekarsky and thanked by women's campaign chairman Evelyn Loomer. With the 1983 Campaign drawing to a close, both CJA representatives urged the community to honor its commitments this month.
On the issue of homegrown dissent, Blum voiced his objections to the behavior of groups who use English protest signs in Tel Aviv demonstrations thereby going over the heads of the Israeli government to reach American public opiiiion. "Have you ever seeii Norwegians demonstrating in Spanish?" he asked wryly. "If you oppose your own government's policies, you do it at home and you criticize your own government to its own face. JDon't these people realize that the purpose of those who encourage and applaud them in their efforts is todrivea wedge between Israel and the Jewish community around the world?" r
Touching on the findir^ ofKahane iCp of Inquiry
into Beirut massacres, the U.N: ambassador observed that /countries with a^^mw^ of ixiief of law than
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sibility" ihcircumstatices similar or graVer than the Saj>ra Chaitilla incidents. "If we^id so, we did it for ourselves, notrfijiir the outside world," said Blum. "In fact we owe very little to tixe outside world. And especialiy in the 26th century, Idon't think it is proper for the outside world to lecture Us."
One of the fallout reactions of the Lebanon war, he noted, was a pathological upsurge of anti-Semitic sentiments. "This took the form of comparing Beirut with Dresden and the war in Lebanon with the extermination of theJewish people in Europe. The terminology used — genocide, final solution. Holocaust— 'our dictionary'was appropriated.
"All this was an indication that there still existed a very strong guilt complex among many Gentiles who wished to divest themselves of wartime sins by projecting them upon Israel. Israel, make no mistake about it, stands for the Jews."
As for the United Nations, Blum stated, it had long ceased to be4he organization conceived by its founders in 1945. Branding it as an anti-peace body, he pointed out the U.N. had opposed the Camp David Peace accords, the Lancaster House agreements bringing about peaceful indejpendence for Zimbabwe in 1979 and the most recent Lebanon-Ismel agreement.
At a press conference earlier in the day, Blum had said the y.N. was now "a tool of the Soviet Union, not only in the Middle East, but also in other spheres." The USSR and the other woi-ld dictatorships who mahipulate the world body, he
eriable speculation as of late that Israeli forces might be pulled back to the Awali river line, defining the 28-mile security zone in south Lebanon, . in order to reduce casualties.
Maariv has repohed that Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Defense Minister Moshe Arens haVe already decided to redeploy the army within a matter of weeks. Ben-Meir said he was unaware of any such decision and stressed thaf it Would need the approval of the entire Cabinet.
He repeated the statement he-,^«^de during^ihis visit to Wa$^ngton: "The government of Israiel did not ask American permission when it sent the IDF back from any part of Lebanon." He added however that if arid when Israel decided on a possible redeployment, it would be done with prior consultation and coordination with the government of the U.S. and of Lebanon.
The U.S. reportedly has been urging Israel to stand fast in Lebanon and not remove any incentive for
forces out of that country. The Americans were said to be playing on Israel's concern that any area evacuated by its troops would be occupied by the Syrians and the Palestine Liberation Organizatiou.
Meanwhile in Washington, an official at .the Israel Embassy here stated that "for the time being there is absolutely no decision" by Israel for a partial, unilateral redeployment of Israeli troops in Lebanon. "There is absolutely no pressure from anybody on Israel," the official added in the course of briefing reporters on the situation in Lebanon.
He acknowledged, however that "the idea of a partial, unilateral redeployment of forces was raised in Israel." He charged that Syria is "now trying to sabotage the agreement between Israel and Lebanon by putting physical pressures on members of the Lebanese parliament to prevent ratification of the treaty." However, he said, "We expect ratification" by the Lebanese parliament.
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JERUSALEM — Former Premier Yitzhak Rabin blames American misconceptions for the present impasse in Lebanpri. He said Secretary of State Georjge Shultz relied on erroneous information when he insisted that Syria would accept the Israel-Lebanon agreement. '
The Syrians should have been brought intp the negotiations froni the outset, Rabin declared on a television interview recently. "I had a difficult argument with Shultz when he was here, and asked what made him think the Syrians would accept an American-Israeli-Lebanese agreement," Rabin said. "He relied on information that the Syrians were ready to do so in principle. I nearly fell off my chair ^whcn I heard what American policy was based on and I am still worried bytheitconception," Rabin said. -/ He was referring to his meeting with Shultz last month when, the Secretary of State spent 17 days in the re^on shuttling between Jerusalem and Beirut in an effort to secure the Israel^ Lebanon agreement signed May 17.
According to Rabin, a Khesset member and a leader of the opposition Labor Partyy he is concerned thatastfaestalematein Lebanon continues, the U.S^ will link a solution in Lebanon to wider issues such as thefuture status of the Golan Heights which Tstael annexed in 198L 7714
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FiyE-YEAi|^C>Lp DiWitt H^ROWiT^ prior to his liver transptgnt operatipii.
"Save David's Life campaign continues
The JWB campaign to "save David's life" continues. David Horowitz, a five-year-old Israeli boy, is in critical condition as he recovers from one of medical science's most intricate operations — a liver transplant. The total cost for the operation, performed at the University of Pittisburgh Medical Centre, and for i)ost-operative carej amounts to an astronomical $250,000.
To help ease the burden for David's parents, Yigal and Attara Hbrowitz, Bulletin readers have so far contributed $4,210.
In his most recent correspondence with JfVB, David's grandfather. Rabbi Aron Horowitz, a former Winnipeg educator and author, now residing in Toronto, relayed his wife's account of David's current condition. She is in Pittsburgh to
Todk after the other three Horowitz children enabling the parents to spend time with David.
- to see David, I do not comprehend
JKiM^ andAttardfiave been able to bear it all during the past three monthSi but she andYigalare a tower of courage dnd^trength, WhehlhokedqfterDavidforafew hours, JfwtiiefimiiitieJ (wmot yeUf orqyeqk or cry aloud, so he grinds his teeth and bites Ms Ufis and jaws. Although his fever still goes up and downr^his condition seenis4o have improved The doctors arfi considering removing his spleen, because the trouble s^ntsio emanate from there... in addition to all this, the :iiu^aiudat^ of the mucous from his bmgs has to be
hour via a tube through an ineisim below his neduHe is fed with synthetic food by means, of a tube leading from his rutse to his bbdy... We all persisi Ml our faith, prayers and hope..
Donations of any sum may be sent to the "Fund to Save David's Life," yjf^, 3268 Heather St;, Vancouver. B.C. V5Z
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