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THURSOAY, SEPT EMBER 23,1982
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mASSACRE SHOCKS ISRAELIS
Terry Fox Run draws 500 participants! GemayeVs death
brings vengeance
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PARTICIPANTS IN THE TERRY FOX RUN HELD recently are seen lining up to register for the annual Jewish' Community Centre event (below). Following a moment of remembrance led by Vancouver Rabbi Wilfred Solomon, runners position themselvjft^ on the starting line^Qop: photo).
JWB Staff
Upwards of 500 people joined in the Jewish Community Centre's Terry Fox Run on Sept. 12, raising nearly $5,000 for cancer research in memory of the late Marathon of Hope runner.
The lO^lcilometre Vancouver run, under brilliant sunny skies, was held #x3WS£](UBa^r. -the9is.lt&s^^ nlaralhon td avoid^ conflict ^wiQil Rosfai Hashona. Inattendenceforthe? JCC-sponsored event were:^ Roily and Betty Fox, parents of Terry, who handed special certificates to those who completed . the pre-set route.
Starter for the run was Deputy-Premier Grace McCarthy who joined in the March with her husband, Ray. Also on hand were Vancduver- city council members Helen Boyoiaiidfe^ Ford and May Brown, kepres^nta-tives from the media included Kathy Baldazzi — CFUN Radio; Phil Johnson — CKLG Radio; Terry David Mulligan — CFOX Radio as well as BCTV talk show host Alan Thicke.
Prior to the race. Rabbi Wilfred Solomon led those present in a
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against refugees
Compiled from Dispatches Israel's decision last week to send her army into West Beirut to head olf possible unrest in the wake of the assassination of Lebanese president-eled Bashir Gemayel came under fierce domestic and internatipnal attack with the disclosure of a major massacre of Palestinian civilians in the Lebanese capital.
Units of the Christian Phalangist militia, apparently seeking revenge for their slain leader, killed an estimated 300 Palestinian residents of the S hatilla arid Sabra refugee camps in the southern suburbs of Beirut between Friday and Saturday, SepJ^ 17-1S.-
Ihresirometoth^ has recalii^her ambassador to Israel and angry protest demonstrations against the Begin government have occurred in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. An emergency meeting of the Israeli cabinet decided on Sunday to accept the presence of United Nations: observers in Beirut arid the government agreed to hand over key points in the Lebanese capital to the Lebanese dimy.
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was indll^J^^pponsible for the massacre fiSkymg based its takeover of West Beirut on a pl^ge to maintain order and pirevent civil war between the warring factions;
Israeli officials have argued that had it not been for the presence of the Israel army in the vicinity of the refugee camps, the massacre would have been far more extensive. Israeli army officials said they intervened to halt the bloodshed when they realized what was happening and went on to blame the Lebanese army for refusing to fill the power vacuum in West Beirut following the departure of the PLO.
In an interview on Israeli television on the weekend, Israeli army commander in the region, Maj.-Gen. Amir Drori said that, before the massacre, he held a meeting with the Lebanese army's deputy-chief of staff and warned him
"that we(the Israelis) are under strict instructions not to go into the camps and that if we don'^t go in and the Lebanese army doesn't go in... then we could well imagine what might happen^
"I begged him in every language possible to take responsibility for the security situation in the camps,^ said Maj.rGen. Drori.
A series of conflicting reports seem to indicate that the Israelis knew in advance that the Christian Phalangist militia intended to enter the Palestmmn re^ of an overaU plan to root out terj-priiits; ^sraeK o^ insistijicy never iniagined the Phalangists wottld^^o out a wholesale
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resignatidris of Prime Kfinister Begin arid Defense Minister Sharon, stated: ;^'A Senior official iri the Foreign rriinistry said oii Sunday that we permitted the Phalangists to go into the camps to search* for terrorists. Anyone who knows the Phalangists and their relations with the Palestinians should have known that it was indefensible to permit this."
Unnamed Israeli officials have said a disciplined military operation into the refugee camps had been planned by president-elect Bashir Gemayel before his assassination. The operation turned into pure vengeance following his death. Said to be among those perpetrating the maissacre were members of the Phalangist Damouri brigade composed of sons of Christian families massacred by the Palestinians in Damour in February 1976.
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JEWISH NATIONAL FUND UUJN6HES YOINKIPPUR APPEAL
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Throughout British Columbia-d synagogues this coming week, the Jbwish National Fund will make its annual Yom Kippur Appeal in siipport Of vital JNF projects for the post-t,ebanon War era.
The recent conflict against the PLO, waged to safeguard settle-frieiits in the Galilee, has had a serious inipact on Israeli govern* meriit financing of future andcurrent Jewish National Fund projectsv according to BC*s JNF shaliach Col. Yaen Vered.
"Because of the enormous cost, of thr^^rar," said Vered, "the govem-irierit ckiiriot par^^ as fully as it had planned in establishing new settlements on the hills of Galilee. These mitzpinty as they are called, ire vital iforthe future of the Galil, a
region long ^eglected and long ___
urtderpopulated by the Jewish resi- ALLAN BJL1:JMANFALD :dents :6fi Israel.'';..'v:.w^^^::vi^v^
I Col. Vered expressed his serious concern that what Israel had won on the battlefield — a secure^ inhabi«^
[ table Galil — might l>e lost by
I;attrition during peacetime due to failure to initiate sweeping agri-
^ciriturat development in what historically had always been a Jewish heartland.
-In a.joinf statement issued recent> ly, JNF British Columbia president ! Allan Blumanfald and Yom Kippur vAppeal chairman Abe Rosenbaum stated: "The peril of a terrorist threat has been lifted and now we must turn efforts a^in towards the redeeming and developing of the Galil. Canadian Jewry has long recognized the importance of the Galilee and several years ago initiated the Galil-^Canada project involving the adop-. tion and development of 14 villages, eight of which already exist, two others being in the advanced planning sitage.
ABE ROSENBAUM ... Yom Kippur Appeal Chairman •
"The traditional Yom Kippur Appeal in British Columbia is the channel that gives every Jewish resident of the province an opportunity to participate in helping the reclamation of the Galil and the process of transforming *swords into ploughshares.*
"This year, more than ever," said the JNF statement, "we must increase our participation in IsraePs future. Money is needed to develop the region our brethern in Israel defended. In fact, we are asked to give much less than the Israelis themselves have sacrificed.
We can do nothing less than open our hearts. It has been a tough yeaj^ here economically; it is much tougher in Israel."
The following British Columbia congregations will be addressed by members of the community on
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