2 ~THE BIIUETIN —Thuisday. February 11.1982
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WASHINGTON ~ President Hosni Mubarak of ^ypt declined to explain ^n^ieUier his rderence to a **Qational entity** forthe Palestinians dttrii^ his remarks at the White House was a call for a Palestinian state.
Asked if he had meant a Psalestiiuan state. Mubarak, emerging from a 90>minute working lunch with Secretary of State Alexander Haig at the State Department, said he had given his ^^conception*" in his White House speech but refused to elaborate.
Mubarak and Haig told reporters that during their luncheon meeting they had discussed the entire gamut
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CAIRO — The following is an exoeipt from the communique Ksued at the close of the Arab "Rejectionist From" conference held in Aden, South Yemen, on Nov. 18-19 last year, as quoted by radio Damascus, and monitored here: *The dedared basis for a just peace in the Middle East can only be achieved through the eviction of the Israeli invaders from the Palestinian and Arab territories, the return of the Palestinians to their homeland and the establishment of their independent state in the whole of their national territory. U.N. Security Council Resolution 242 is inconsistent with the right of the Arabs and is not a sound basis for solving the Palestinian question and the Middle Eastern problem.**
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CAIRO—''Israel provides a good reason for every Arab. Aether he is a leader or an ordinary citizen, to act violently against any Israeli he may meet anywhere,** writes Al Medina, a Saudi Arabian daily (Dec 4,1981.)
The paper added: ^Any tie between Arab and Jew is forbidden, as any peace agreement. Every Arab leader, king, president, officer or ordinary citi»n—must workfor the destruction, liquidation and extermination of Israel. This must be the l^cy of every father to his sons and grandsons, and this goal must be part from generation to generation. No Arab may rest or sleep, until revenge has been taken.** ZiNS.
of issues — bilateral, ic^gional and world-wide. Mubarak, reiaffirmed that the April 25 date for Israers withdrawal from Sinai was not a deadline for an agreement on autdnomy. He said, they would continue to **pusii^ ahead with the autonomy talks.
Mubarak said jthe 62 Soviet technicians, he invited to return to Egypt were coming only to adjust Soviet equipment placed there in the last three years and would not be in Egypt very long.
President Reagan and Mubarak ended their two days of talks as they /began them, with pledges of continued U.S.-Egyptian friendship and cooperation and a reaffirmation of their governments* commitment to the Camp David peace process. The President, in bidding farewell to the Egyptian leader, stressed the close ties that have been established between their countries. **Foremost among these ties is a belief in and commitment to a peaceful solution to the Arab-Israeli dispute,** Reagan said. He stated that **President Mubarak has assured us that Egypt remains committed to a. peaceful solution of this conflict and to that end will spare no effort to achieve a <:omprehensiye'peace as set forth in the Camp David agreement.**
Neither in the welcoming ceremonies nor . in the departure statements were the two Presidents specific about what they would do toward achieving a comprehensive Middle East peace. However, Mubarak, who did not mention Camp Elavid initially and^ was ^ apparently sensitive that* the press had no^ the omission, was careful to refer to Camp David in his closing remarks.
In a dinner toast Mubarak said he supported Reagan*s statement in his State of the Union message last month calling for negotiations *^wherever both sides are willing to sit dovm in good faith.**
Mubarak said the U.S.**can make a great contribution to peace through promoting a meaningful and unconditional dialogue between Israel and all other parties willing to negotiate. No party should be excluded from this process,*^ he said.
He added, **A further step in this direction is an American dialogue with the Palestinians. This will encourage moderation and rekindle the spark of hopb in the hearts of niillions of your friends,** Mubarak said to Reagan.
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NEWLY MARRIED COUPLES living in the Yemenite moshav of Amishay near PctahTikvA are benefiting from American-sponsored programs on chlldcare. The Chicago Jewish cdmmnnity has selected the moshav as Its regional project.
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PARIS — Former President ValeryGiscard D'Estaing said recently that he plansio visit Israelsoonasagesture of goodwill towards the Jewish State. Giscard, who during his seven years as President, steered France along an anti*lsraeli and jplro-Arab course, made this pledge at an election meeting in one Of Paris^ Jewish areas.
The former president did not say when he plans to visit Israel. Sources dos^ to discard said Israeli Premier Menacheni Begin invited him to Israel when the two met during Egyptian President Anwar Sadat*s funeral last year.
French sources said, in the meantime, that though President Francois Mitterrand has decided to postpone his forthcoming trip to Israel, initially scheduled for February 10. he will go to Israel before Israel's final Sinai withdrawal April 26.
In a gesture of good will to Israel and France's Jewish community, Mitterrand announced that he will personally inaugurate a Paris exhibition in honor of IsraePs late Moshe Dayan. Mitterrand, accompanied by Dayan's widow. Rachel, will inaugurate a -showing of drawings and etchings by French painter Raymond Moretti which will illustrate Dayan's book. Af<?55ae/. to be published in France next spring.
JNF helping to prepare new settlements in Negev
NEW YORK-Thedevelopment of at least 20 new settlements in the western Negev is underway to replace the settlements Israel is leaving behind in the Sinai as part of the Camp David agreements with Egypt. ,
.According to Menahem; Perl-mutter^ director pf:;engineering,for the Negev ami Sinai in the Jewish Agency*s Settlements Department, the western Negev is similar to the northern Sinai area in its warin climate and sandy earth and, therefore, is fit for the development of winter agriculture. The basic, items to be grown, he said, are tomatoes, flowers and mangos.
Perlmutter, who was here as guest of the Jewish NationalFund (JNF), said that the establishinent of the 20 new settlements in the western Negev is a joint project of the JNF and the Jewish Agency,: with the JNF prepariiig the infrastructure for the new settlements. Three of the settlements will be idbbutzim and the rest moshavim, Perlmutter said.
He said that the first settlers have already inoved into six moshayim
and two kibbutzim in the western Negey. He listed the moshavim as Yesodot Hadarom, Yated, Pri Gan, Yevul, Dekel and Talmai Yafa and the Kibbutzim as Suffa and Holit. These settlements have already 160 familieis, PeHmutter said, adding :that 120 additional famiUes will moire to these settlements within the next three moiiths.
According to Perlmutter, the total cost of relocating one family from northern Sinai to the western Negev is about $100,000. He said that when the project is completed in the next few years the population of the western Negev will be close to 65,000. JTA.
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DURING A RECENT GATHERING in New Yoric, leaders of Hashadnr; the Hadassah^nsoved Zionist youth movement; telk wfth Bcnjanin Netanyahu,brotliw<tfJoiiattian,4aieconimand^(tfI«R^ rescue mission atEntebbe— who was'killed
dwiag that iiistoric nid. Netanyahu, who prc^lcd each ortiie gcbtt^ iiHth a book ofthc collected letters of his brotherv^ei/'-l^orcnrit ^« Ifcfo, renindcd the young people that hb brother had oiMe been a Jfodeu youth coumelor^.
Weinberger delves into Jewish roots
LOS ANGELES - In art interview with The Los Angeles Times, the U.S.' Secretary of Defense, Casper Weinberger, revealed something of his Jewish roots. . He told The L.A. Times reporter, Robert Toth: "My father's p^nts came from Bohemia, which is now part of Czechoslovakia. My grandfather was Jewish, my grandmother was not, and my father was raised without any organized religion. His father, Herman Weinberger, was bom in Denver and married Cerise Carpenter Hampson, daughter of Charles Hampson, an Englishman.*'
Casper and his brother were raised in the "general mouWof their mother's Episcopalian faith. In the past, an acquaintance told The Los Angeles Times, that Weinberger was reticent about his Jewish antecedents. The only time that Weinberger's tinge of Jewish^ ness affected his political fortunes was in 1958, when he ran for the Republican nomination to be California's attorney general. He lost and one former political associate attributed his defeat,,in some part, to the fact that "the gentiles thought he was Jewish and the Jews knew he was a gentile." ZINS
DROUGHT PERSISTS
TEL AVIV — Meteorologists in Galilee say they have this year i^corded the lowest level of rainfall since 1911, 'when precipitation measureme'nt began to be recorded in the region. The shortage of rain this year has not yet been officially declared a drought, although weather forecasters and farmers say there is little hope ofsufncieht rain during the rest of the wiiitier inaking up for the shortfall and saving Crops.
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JERUSALEM President Yitzhak Navon deplored the low Jevrish birthrate in the Diaspora and told a group of visiting leaders of the Israel Bond Organization that it was only : marginally teter in Israel.
CONFERENCE SCHEDULED
TEL AVIV — Leon Dulzin, chairman of the Jewish Agency and World Zionist Organization Executives, told a press conference here that the Third Brussels World Conference on Soviet Jewry will be held at the end of October, probably either in Paris or London.
PROJECT UNDERTAKEN
TEL AVIV - The 1982 Israel Prize winner AvrahamYaski is one of the architects of Nigeria's new capital, Abuja Yaski is planning a residential quarter for 35,000 residents in what will become a homefor 3.^ million people and replace the present capital of Lago^. Other quarters of Abuja are being planii^ by Lebanese, German, British and Italian companies. JNI^ia CZF
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PARIS President Francois Mitterrand was asked recently for the support of France aiid his own personal influence to help secure the release of imprisoned Soviet Jewish activist AnatolyShafanisky.
The appeal came froiSi Soviet human rights leader Aiidrei Sakha-rov, a Nobel Laureate who is himself in exile in the closed town of Gorky. His message to Mitterrand, brought to France by Western niews media correspondents^ stressed that Sharansky's health has; been ^seriously affected by the six monthSL he spent in solitary confinement in Christo-poi prison.^
NEW YORK^^ An international campaign to v secure one million signatures on a petition to Soviet Presidentl Leonid Brezhnev on behalf of Soviet Jewry, received a major boost recently when 28 members of Congress gave it their support.
According to a spokesman for th^ Greater New York Conference oh Soviet Jewry, which is coordihatiiig th& campaign in the metropolitan New York area, N.Y. and New Jersey legislators were almost unanimous in their backing.
The petition, intended for presentation to Soviet officials in Washington early in 1982^ criti?i?es tJie clamp-down on Jewish emigratron from the Soviet Union '.and the mounting campaign of harassment of refuseniks. , JCN$