Israeli Luxury Cruise Cancelled After Spanish Shipping Ban (Direct JTA Teletype Wire Israel said it would, take sentation in Spanish territory, to The Jewish News) LONDON — A refusal by Spain restrict their stops to the ports various diplomatic steps in in- ternational and maritime organ- to allow the Israeli motel ship, the of Malaga and Palma where Isra- izations if Spain persists in im- eli ships with tourists are accus- Nili, to use a southern Spanish port resulted Tuesday in cancel- tomed to call, the release said. It plementing orders to deny har- lation of several holiday cruises by denied that the action had any bor facilities to Israeli shipping. The Barcelona order, according Somerfin of Geneva, the owners of political • overtones. The statement failed to explain to officials of Zim Israel Lines at the ship. The Spanish ban was part of a wider restrictive order that Spain has refused to establish Haifa, read: "As from the 30th of by Spain on access to Spanish diplomatic and consular exchanges April, no Israeli-flag ship, carry- ing either passengers or cargo, ports for Israeli ships believed to with Israel. Reports were received in Wash- will be permitted movement in. stem from Arab boycott pressure. ington that, last week, the Spanish this port because Israel has no About 4,500 Britons had made port of Cadiz refused for three diplomatic relations with Spain." reservations for the cruise, which days to unload the Israeli ship An official communique at Las was to have included ferry service "Yehuda," on the basis of "new from Southampton on May 15 on instructions" to deny rights to Palmas stated: "As Israel has nei- the $8,400,000 ship now being com- Israeli vessels. At the port of Las ther diplomatic relations nor trade pleted in a Scottish shipyard. Is- Palmas, another Israeli ship was or bankers agreement with Spain, rael has accused Spain of yielding refused fuel, and harbor facilities no Israel ship will be permitted to to • Arab boycott pressure, but there and at Barcelona will be carry out trade transactions in this port." Spain has denied the charge, as- closed to them after April 30. It was learned that, under Arab serting it was simply restricting Shipping sources termed the Israeli vessels to two ports — Spanish move "an arbitrary, sud- pressures, the anti-Israeli policies were about to be put into effect Palma in Majorca and Malaga. den imposition of a ban that will in both ports on March 18, but It was believed here that prevent Israeli ships access to were postponed after intervention Spain was. acting against Israeli Spanish ports." by local Spanish tradesmen deal- shipping in a bid to win Arab ing with Israel. support for the current Spanish At least two steps are open to drive against British control of Israel on this issue, it was said Gibraltar. here. Israel and Spain are both The Somerfin company an- members of the General Agree- nounced it would return the reser- The time has come for those who ment on Tariffs and Trade, so vations payments to the pas- hate Germany and the Germans to sengers. A substantial advertising forgive that country for the slaugh- that Israel would appeal to GATT campaign had brought total book- ter of more than 6,000,000 Jews un- for intervention on the grounds that Spain is violating the GATT ings of $4,400,000 in- Britain. der the Nazis, a German-born The first hint that the cruise American rabbi declared. Writing in the current issue of might have to be canceled de- veloped last week when Spain be- Look Magazine, Rabbi Joseph Ash- gan turning Israeli ships away er of Temple Emanuel, Greens- from Spanish ports. Zim ships boro, N. C., said that those who carry "unending retribution" in were the first to be affected. An agreement regulating Israeli- their hearts toward Germany must Spanish shipping relations was ex- "take a new look into their feel- pected to be signed in Madrid by ings." • Rabbi Asher is himself a for- a representative of the Zim Israel Lines and Spain's maritime under- mer victim of Nazi terror. In his youth he was driven out of secretary. school three years after Hitler The agreement to which Spain assented will relate only to Zim came to power. His father, an shipping initially. But it was ex- Othodox rabbi in Wiesbaden, pected that the pact be widened to p e r i s he d at the Buchenwald_ cover other Israeli maritime firms, death camp. Recently returned from his first although currently only Zim ships trip to Germany since the time he are calling at Spanish ports. Spanish officials denied any of- was forced to flee, the rabbi said: `When I first returned to the - ficial boycott and said the re- strictions were due entirely to a scene of my youth, suspicion and revision of harbor dues, but Is- loathing were my uppermost senti- raelis noted that only Israeli ships ments. Having seen the Hitler were, affected. The Nili owners tragedy in all of its enormity, I _began looking for other routes for was neither willing to forgive nor the 7,800-ton Nili, which is due in forget." But talks at length with German London on May 11. It can carry students of the postwar generations 125 cars and 530 passengers. The Spanish embassy in Wash- convinced him that guilt for Nazi ington insisted in a press release crimes must not fall on the shoul- that Israeli ships for some time ders of Germany's young people. have been calling at the ports of Asked Rabbi Asher in his article: How much of a burden of guilt Malaga and Palma without pre. viously requesting permission can you lay on the shoulders of an from Spanish authorities and 18-year-old boy without damaging without meeting consular and his soul almost beyond repair?" Since little Or nothing is taught customs requirements which are normal for vessels of all nations in German schools about the story and common practice for all world of the Jews and Judaism, Rabbi Asher proposed that a number of shippers. With the recent increase of calls German-speaking American rabbis by Israeli flag ships and their in- be asked each to devote a month clusion of other ports in eastern to teaching in Germany secondary and southern Spain, Spanish au- schools. He said: "There exists in Germany a vir- thorities have requested that such vessels, having no consular repre- tual vacuum of information on Judaism, other than its victimiza- tion in the Nazi era. There cannot be anything but a warped view of Jews and Judaism if the only con- tract with them is either to read of the tragedy or of the lingering bitterness that one imagines besets Jewish people in relation to Ger- many." charter. Another course seen here as open to Israel is to point out that Spain's action might jeopar- dize the Madrid govermhent's ef- forts toward a link with the Euro- pean Market. Meanwhile, a Spa- nish passenger liner docked in Haifa, and received complete port services. 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