Thursday, April 17, 1980 — THE BULLETIN — 5
FRANCE'S PRO-PLO POLICY BRINGS
WIDE-RANGING PROTESTS
SENATOR EDWARD KENNEDY concludes a meeting with Jewish religious and civic leaders in Borough Park, Brooklyn,'before Presidential primary election in New York State. Kennedy won the State, which has a large Jewish population, by a large margin over President Carter. The wui was mafaily attributed todispleasure ait the recent anti-Israel vote at the United Nations by the Carter administration.
BY MICHEL GURFINKIEL
PARIS — A mood of militancy has gripped French Jewry in the wake of President Giscard d'Es-taing*s statements in favor of Palestinian "self-determination."
Three thousand people attended a rally in Paris sponsored by Crif, the representative council of French Jewry; Jean-Pierre Bloch, chairman pf the International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism (Lica); and General Jean Lecomte, chairman of the France^Israel Alliance. The French branch of the Likud
PLO attempting to reselnd U.N. 242
/WASHINGTON - ThePal-e^tine Libieration Orgainiza-tibn intends to mount a diplomatic pffeiisive at the United Nations to rescind Security (Jouncii Resolution 242 and replace it with one supporting the Palestinian "right to self-determination** through creation of an independent State on the West Bank. U.S. officials, reacting to a report to this^ffect in The New York Times, said that America would veto any U.N. Security Council resolution calling for Palestinian self-determination and a Palestinian State. JCNS.
MOREJEWS
^MNEV^ of 2,910
Jewish emigrants from the Soviet Union arrived ih Vieima in February, compared with 2,800 in January, the Inter-Governmental Committee of European Migration (ICEM) reported in Geneva.
Some 5,000 people from Eastern JBurope, mainly Soviet Jews, were moved to other countries by ICEM in February after they had received transit documents.
Of this number, 3,200 went to the United States; 1,166 to Israel; 281 to Canada; 154 to Australia; and about 200 to other countries.
Most arrived in Western Europe in the latter part of 1979, when more than 4,000 emigrants a month were arriving in Vienna.
However, such resettlement is expected to diminish in view of the reduced rate of emigration from the Soviet Union during the first two months of 1980. JCNS.
BRAZIL WARNS
PLO
RIO DE JANEIRO - Sar-aiva Guerreiro, the Brazilian Foreign Minister, has warned Farid Sawan, the Palestine Liberation Organization representative in Brasilia, the capital, and the Arab League Office there, that Brazilian law forbids offending the heads of foreign countries and that foreign diplomats are liable to be expelled for infringing this law. The warning was jssued after Sawan, who is officially attached to the League, office, distributed an offensive pamphlet about Menachem Begin, the Israeli Prime Minister, among Brasilia university students. The pamphlet was published by the Arab League office. Moshe Erell, the Israeli Ambassador, complained to the Brazilian Foreign Ministry about the pamphlet, JCNS.
Two-way contest for CJC ieadership at
TORONTO — A two-way contest for'national presidency of Canadian Jewish Congress will be decided in elections at the organization's 19th Plenary Assembly, scheduled May M at Toronto Harbor Castle Hilton hotel.
Announced as seeking the presi-. ; dency are Professor Irwin Cotler of Montreal, who has been involved in various Congress and Canadian Jewish affairs, and David Satok of Toronto, CJC chairman pf the national executive cpmmittee. Rabbi W. Gunther Plaufs term ^ as president concludes^ during, the Plenary. '■^":r': ■■^■k
More than 1,000 delegates, representing ^^^fand |it)gahizations, are expected at the convention which will deliberate oh issues affecting Caimdian Jewry and elect officers.
Among awards to be pre$ented is the second Isaiah Award to Bishop Eugene P. LaRocque, first chairman of the Liasipn Committee of Congress, Canadian Council of Churches and. the Conference of Catholic Bishops, formed in 1977. Additionally, an illuminated scroll willbe presented to Martha Price, widow of Christopher Eberts, Canadian ambassador to Iraq who in 1970 helped save Jewish lives in the Middle East.
Plenary speakers include Yehuda Blum, Israel Ambassador to the. United Nations; William Davis, Premier of Ontario; Baron Alain de Rothschild, head of the political body of French Jewry; Theodore Mann, chairman. Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations; Dr. Solomon Gaon, Chaham, World Sephardic Federation; Yeshayahu Anug, Israel Anibassador to Canada; Dr. Alvin Schiff, executive vice-president of the New York City Board of Jewish Education.
The Canada-Israel Committee will host a session entitled **A CIC Primer: The PLO — a Masterpiece of Deception.** The program is expected to include the screening of a propaganda film with a view to isolating its structural and thematic properties. The analysis will be followed by a discussion of countering strategies.
Youth., participation has been recognized as a priority at the ■ Assembly by the passing of CJC constitutional amendment which recoinmends that at least 10 percent
COMMEMORATE TREATY
JERUSALEM — Egyptian Ambassador Saad Mortada presented Israel Premier Begin with a set of three gold coins issued in Cairo to commemorate first anniversary of Camp David peace treaty.
PROFESSOR IRWIN COTLER , ... candidate.
of all voting delegates be young people. With the assistance. of government funding, subsidies are being made available to youths (aged 18-30) acrpss the country for leadership training and travel to the Plenary. A youth caucus will beheld at which major issues-will be discussed atid there will also be a special lecture program addressing national concerns.
Israel Singer, executive director. World Jewish Congress, American section,^ has been announced as speaker, for the International Affairs
DAVID SATOK^ .. .seeksoffice
breakfast conference. The New York City-based professional is a former lecturer on political science at American and Israeli institutions.
The Religious AfTairs Conference will have as its keynote speaker Rabbi Dr. Michael Wyschogrod, philosophy professor at New York University. An internationally-' known scholar, he represents the Synagogue Council of America in Christian-Jewish dialogue.
Further informatipn on the Plenary Assembly is available in Vancouver from CJC office, 261-8101.
staged a protest demonstration in Paris.
Even more striking has been the prominence given to the Israel issue by French political leaders.
The Union for French Democracy (UDF) convention in Orleans Was almost brought to a halt by fierce filibustering by pro-Israel militants.
They included Senator Andre Monteil, a former chairman of the France-Israel Alliance, and Didier Bariani, chairman of the small Radical Party, which serves as the UDFs Left wing.
Bariani declared that eyen if the PLO modified the so-called Palestinian Covenant, a Palestinian State on the West Bank would still threaten the existence of Israel
Outside the UDF, France*s other main political groupings have expressed **strpng reservations** abPut the President*s "Arab policy.**
Plulippe Maloud, chairman of the small conservative National Independent Centre (CNl), which includes 40 deputies and Senator^, criticized President Giscard d*Es-taing*s policies in the Middle East as "irresponsible.** ^
Many members of the Neo^jaul-list RPR Party have ealled for a reassessment of French foreign policy, although Jacques Chirac, the former French Prime Minister and RPR leader who is now Mayor of Paris, supports the Presidential line.
Chirac had a pne-hoiir meeting with Meir Rosenne, Israel's Ambassador to France.
• The prominence given to the Israel issue by many French political leaders is iseen not so much as an effect toinfluence the "Jewish vote,** as. suggested by Rabbi Jacques Gniiiewald, the editor of Tribune Juive, but as a means for many French political leaders to dissociate themselves from the Government's foreign policy.
Another reason is that it is the outcome of a long-term public relations campaign on behalf of Israel undertaken by Crif and other orgianizations. JCNS.
HUMT ATTACKERS
JERUSALEM — Security forces combed area- surrounding West Bank village of Aboud for traces of unidentified men who attacked four buses bringing Arabs to work in PetachTikva.
FIRST ISRAELI SEDER held in an Arab State sees the Jewish Staters Anibassador to Egypt, Eliahu Ben-Elissar (left) leadnhe proceedings in Cairo. Some 48 Israeli embassy personnel hosted 112 Egyptian Jews at a traditional Seder, with the kosher chickens, wine and matza coming from Israel. The Seder was s(]ueezed into the stufTy dining room pf the Pharaohs hotel its name coincidental to the choice of place. Seated next to Ben-Elissar is his wife Nitza, and next to her are embassy minister Yosef Hadass and his wife Stella. *  (Jerusalem Post).