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. THE JEWISH NEWS Common Decencies Negated by Tactics of the New Left Detroit Aids Vital Causes CE –ric=m –r A Editorials Page 4 Weekly Review NAI of Jewish Events Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper — Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle ..;%1127 VOLUME LV — No. 11 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd., Detroit 48235—VE 8-9364—May 30, 1969 The UJA and Lecturers' Role Einstein, A-Bomb and a Columnist's Misapprehension Commentary Page 8 $7.00 Per Year; This Issue 20c 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 (Continued on Page 7) 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. (Continued on Page 18) 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: - 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? (Continued on.Page ID) 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- (Continued on Page 7) 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.