Golan Heights Druze Leader,
Syrian Ex-Parliamentarian
Commends Israel's Actions
JERUSALEM (JTA)—A Druze from the Golan Heights, who was a former member of the Syrian parlia-
ment, Monday lauded Israel, saying his appraisal was based on Israel's actions rather than declarations.
He headed a delegation of Druze from Majdal Shams, which paid a return visit to the - Knesset Labor
Committee here. Moshe Erem, chairman of the committee, told the delegation that Israel owes a great debt to
the Druze, an Arab-speaking non-Moslem minority, many of whom serve in the army and border police. The
debt is being repaid in full, he said, by Israel's fostering of social, economic and educational progress among
the Druze.
The Druze villages in the Golan Heights were the only ones not deserted in the Six-Day War. Their
inhabitants had been engaged in agriculture, while the Syrian villagers had been employed althost exclusively by
the Syrian army. The army had turned the area into fortified camps and military installation.
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USSR Jewry's Freedom Hopes
Mark Dissidents' Plea to UN
Tight
British Security Measures
Will Protect BG on Isles Visit
LONDON (JTA)—Strict security measures are planned here for
former Prime Minister David Ben Gurion's June visit in light of an alleged
Arab terrorist plot uncovered in Copenhagen to assassinate him in Rio de
Janeiro. Exact dates of his arrival, his timetable and his hotel are not
being revealed.
Ben Gurion will address a Joint Palestine Appeal group and attend
a reception in his honor to be given by Michael Sacher, chairman of the
appeal.
Israeli Ambassador Aharon Remez also plans a reception for him.
The London Daily Telegraph Monday reported the uncovering in
Sweden of a network of secret agents operated by the Palestine Liberation
Army (PLA), an arm of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
MOSCOW—A nephew of poet Chaim Nachman Bialik was among the 55 mem-
bers of a small community here to appeal to the United Nations to defend human
rights in Russia.
Pyotr Yakir, 46, son of a general killed in the Stalin purge, was the most
prominent signer of the three-page appeal to the UN Human Rights Commission.
It was given to Western correspondents May 22.
The document said the signatories were "deeply indignant over unceasing
political persecutions in the Soviet Union" and included in its list of grievances
the fact that trials have involved "Jews demanding the right to leave for Israel
and believers seeking religious liberty," as well as "people seeking national equal-
ity and preservation of their national culture."
"We appeal to the United Nations," the statement reads, "because we have
received no answer to our protests and complaints, which have been sent over a
number of years to the highest state and judicial agencies of the Soviet Union."
The document said persecutions appear to be returning "to Stalin's times, when
Authorities discovered the group during the investigation into the
our whole country was in the grip of terror."
suspected conspiracy by three persons to assassinate Ben Gurion. The
It was under Stalin that Yakir's father, Gen. Ion Emanuilovich Yakir, a com-
group Infiltrated ineffectual anti-Israeli groups in Sweden, but unlike
mander of the Ukraine military district, was shot after a secret trial in 1937.
the PLO, the Swedish groups have used only peaceful persuasion in
their anti-Israeli activities, the
Pyotr Yakir, a historian, spent 14 years in Soviet prison
newspaper reported.
camps on charges of anti-Soviet activity. His mother was
Freeing
of
Nazi
Murderer
The network was revealed by
imprisoned for 18 years for being a "member of the family
the prosecution in the Danish high
Arouses U.S. Jewish Protests
of a traitor to the homeland." Both of them were rehabili-
court in Copenhagen when the
tated in 1955, and Gen. Yakir was cleared posthumously in
NEW YORK (JTA)—The acquittal in the West Berlin branch
three suspects were remanded in
1957. Pyotr Yakir is now working as a librarian for the
of the Supreme Court of a former Nazi charged with murder
police custody for three weeks.
has brought protests from two American Jewish organizations.
Academy of Sciences.
They were appealing their deten-
tion. Court proceedings were
secret but evidence produced by
ate prosecution has been disclosed
by sources close to the Danish
security service, the Telegraph
said.
The Informants, said the pros-
ecution, who cooperated with the
Swedish security service, allegedly
established that an Egyptian
colonel in the PLO visited Stock-
holm in May to arrange for the
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The American Jewish Congress said that the acquittal of Her-
mann Heinrich, convicted in Kiel last year for having helped
shoot prisoners while an officer in the SS (Elite Guard) in Po-
land in 1942-43, made it "imperative" that the German statute
of limitations on genocide and other capital crimes be abolished.
He had acted "under orders," a lower court had said.
Dr. Joachim Prinz of Newark, chairman of the commis-
sion on international affairs of the AJCongress, and a rabbi
in Berlin until he was expelled by Hitler, declared "the court
ruling confirms our worst fear that West German statutes of
limitation will exonerate hundreds, if not thousands, of those
directly implicated in Hitler atrocities.
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No Similarity With Western Version
How Cairo Radio Doctors Nasser's Statements
The Time magazine May 16 interview with President Nasser of Egypt was
doctored by Radio Cairo, which, on May 13, carried the Egyptian version of the
interview. The discrepancies between the two are illustrative of a technique: State-
ments delivered for Western audiences are couched in moderate phraseology, then are
doctored and rewmten for local consumption to conform with actual policy.
The realities of the Middle East have shown that the public utterances at home
carry more weight and reflect more correctly attitudes and policies than do the
declarations beamed to the West. By their statements to their public, the Arab
leaders arouse expectations and commit themselves to lines of action. Significantly,
Arab national indoctrination and school education follow the public commitments.
Thus, addresses of King Hussein, delivered during his U. S. visit, were edited
and slanted for the purpose of the Arab media. The interviews of President Nasser
in Newsweek, Feb. 10, and in the New York Tames, March 2, were likewise re-
phrased. His latest Time interview has been subjected to the same treatment, as
the following excerpts show:
The Versions Compared
The Time editors who conducted the interview state in their introduction:
"In the three important areas—demilitarization of Sinai, a nonaggression
treaty with Israel, and recognition of Israel—Nasser offered new thoughts
and embellishments on old ones."
The Cairo version of the interview offers no support for this assertion:
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a. On the demilitarization of Sinai, Nasser told Time:
"Israel wants to have Sinai demilitarized. We could agree to such a situa-
tion with the Security Council, with Dr. Gunnar Jarring—something like
- that—for a short period. But on the permanent demilitarization of Sinai
we refuse."
The Cairo version makes absolutely no mention of this. It is totally erased
from the text.
b. On a Nonaggression Treaty
Time Version
Q. If a solution is somehow achieved, would you sign a nonaggression pact
with Israel?
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Meanwhile, Ilya Burmistrovich, 31, a Soviet math-
ematician, was sentenced to three years in prison for
circulating typewritten copies of works of authors banned
in the Soviet Union. One of the authors, Yuli Daniel, is
Jewish. He and Andrei Sinyaysky were sentenced to long
prison terms three, years ago for distributing anti-Soviet
works.
In Los Angeles. Rabbi David Hollander of the Bronx,
past president of the Rabbinical Council of America (Ortho-
dox), declared that the Soviet government "is not anti-
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IlevolutionaryJewishEducationPolicy
Statement Asks Priority in U. S.
Schools for Aliya, Hebrew Studies
NEW YORK—In a major and revolutionary policy statement, the governing
council of American Association for Jewish Education calls upon Jewish schools and
school systems to "deal with the reality of Israel in a constructive manner" and to
incorporate "formal courses on modern Israel into their school programs."
The association's Statement of Objectives, presented by its Commission on ,
Teaching About Israel in America, is the product of a year's work by the 50-member
commission and a subcommittee of scholars, educators and lay leaders.
The association is presently engaged in the development of a curriculum and
courses on teaching about Israel for Jewish schools — a three-year program for which
the association has budgeted $180,000. The governing council approved the proposed
statement after intensive debate, with only one abstention.
In a dramatically new approach to teaching about Israel, the statement
calls
upon the organized Jewish community -to help American Jewish young people enrolled
in our high school programs to have at least one summer of personal experience in
Israel."
Facing the question of "aliya" or immigration to Israel, the commission asks
that schools "present to the student, at all age levels, the very real options which Israel
offers to him" and calls upon the schools to "explore the critical question of how
the individual Jew can best fulfill himself — whether by enrichment of his Jewish
life in America and/or by aliya to Israel."
Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, historian and author, chairman of the AAJE's com-
mission, listed the five major objectives to this education program:
1. To familiarize Jewish students with the basic similarities between the
democratic ideals of the nailed States and the state of Israel.
2. To relate them to the Jews of Israel in firm bonds of kinship.
3. To tie Jewish students more closely to the Jewish people throughout
the world.
4. To help them to consider favorably the various opportunities of aliya
to Israel.
5. To teach modern Hebrew as the living language of the Jewish people.
The AAJE will distribute the policy statement to 3,000 schools in the United
. States and Canada as well as to its national and local constituents.