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Policy Background on Atrocity in Zurich .

A background report outlining the crimes that have been com-
mitted by Arab terrorists who have attacked planes carrying pas-
sengers to Israel points to the guilty who have committed crimes on
the international arena.- The review by foreign observers accuses
of first degree, murder the responsible criminals. The charges state:

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failed right there and then to take
immediate action to nip in the bud
what was so obviously the introduc-
tion- of yet another 'dimension of
Arab aggression against Israel.
Guilty of first degree murder are
those who make available the arms
and the means that feed and fan
Arab passion for as of blond
and blazing horizods" (Nasser)
and who in rendering them the
requisite political support have
cynically perverted and destroyed
international organizations and in-
struments that were conceived and
designed to thwart and prevent
these very same deeds.
And no less guilty are those who
in their sophistry have clothed and
embellished a nihilistic, destruc-
tive and cowardly phenomenon
such as the PFLP and converted
them in their distorted imagery
into "guerrillas" and "freedom-
fighters !"

Bikel to Join U=M Protest
on e a o Russian Jews:,

Theodore Bikel will take part in
a rally on behalf of Soviet Jewry
to be held on the University of
Michigan campus March 23 under
the auspices of the Committee on
Soviet Jews of the U-M Hillel
Foundation.
The actor and singer has been
actively involved in the fight on-
behalf of Soviet Jews.
He will be part of a three-hour

program that begins with a Candle-
light march in the Law Quad and

continues in Hill Auditorium.
Marchers will carry candles -and=
wear black armbands, while a Sht,-,;
In Amman, Jordan, and in Bei- Athens. The PFLP and their ilk,
rut, Lebanon, "credit" for the scot free in Beirut, could hardly
far is - blown every three to : ft*:
deeds was "proudly" claimed by an fail to draw encouragement from
Arab-Thrganization known as the ' the eventual condemnation of Is-
minTiltes,
he master of - vereinoniesi.
Popular Front for the Liberation of rael at the Security Council for
Larry Schwartz, wilt -OW*11i the
Palestine. having wantonly
destroyed
a
quail-
purpose
of the rally, augmented-
.
Why were these people mur- tity of upholstery and springs, tires
by source books and fact skies'
dered? According to a communique and fuselages, wheels and toilet
to be distributed among the
issued in Beirut, Lebanon, by a fixtures.
dience.
An authority on Soviet Jewry,
spokesman of this or that Arab I Guilty of first degree murder is
organization—it really matters not , the government of Algeria for hay-
Hal Light, will come from Cali.
,which one—they died because they , ing willingly collaborated with the
fornia to speak on the problem.
In charge of one of the largest -
were either themselves "senior ' first act of air piracy against Israel
full-time organizations ,. working
Israeli officials" en route to Israel, by incarcerating an El Al plane
or were merely flying in their and its passengers and bartering
on behalf of the Soviet Jews,
company. , them ultimately for a group of con-
Light has visited the Soviet Un-
The mind boggles at the deprav- victed Arab terrorists. How much
ion several times and written
many articles on the subjeet.
ity and barbarism of these men l less guilty however are all the
organizations
and
associations
who
Members of the University-- of
who sit in Beirut and in Amman ti
Michigan speech department will -
and issue 'war communiques' on
present a dramatic reading, after
the manner in which they send
which the audience will fill . out
men, women and children to their
postcards for a mass mailing
deaths in Zurich, Athens or Munich.
which, it is hoped by the sponsor6,
But the mind also boggles at the
will bring about action.
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circumstances which have progress-
Co-chairmen of the U-M Commit-.
In hopes of developing ways to than those who didn't sign. Cor-
ively and almost inevitably led to
tee on Soviet Jews are Edward
the atrocity in Zurich.
, "awaken the conscience of Ameri- respondents keep track of those
Pieczenik and Schwartz.
The people who died in Zurich can Jewry," a number of Detroit- who signed their names. A major
were not the victims only of a ers joined with leaders from othe r reprisal would get bad publicity,
and the Soviet Union can't afford —
cowardly band of Arab murderers. Midwest communities at a recent
it."
They were in no less measure the regional conference on Soviet Jew-
victims of the grossest case of in- ' ry in Cleveland.
A personal experience that up-
ternational permissiveness in mod-
At the conference, which will be held Dr. Friedberg's views was re- I
ern history.
duplicated in Philadelphia, Boston lated by a university student, Zev
Percy Kaplan, executive direc- troit's JNF organization has been
Guilty of first degree murder are Los Angeles and Atlanta for cities Yaroslaysky, chairman of the Cali- t - of the Jewish National Fund in greatly expanded. JNF material
each and every Arab government in their regions, participants were fornia Students for Soviet Jews.
!Detroit, will be guest of honor at is widely distributed in schools
for having been waging for 21 told by one of the nation's leading
Yaroslaysky, who advocates in- a Purim celebration sponsored and community centers, and over
years now a criminal war against experts on the Soviet Union: "Mos- creased militancy on the part of by the Landmanshaften Committee 100 JNF programs yearly are .put
Israel with the avowed purpose of cow does pay attention to serious grass-roots organizations to win for JNF, 8:30 p.m. March 26 at on for local groups.
exterminating its people in viola- manifestations of opposition abroad. rights for Soviet Jews, said that on Bnai Moshe Synagogue.
Master of ceremonies at the
tion of every norm - and law, every We must heed the tears of our a recent trip to Russia he was ap-
Kaplan, who guides JNF activi- Purim celebration will be toast-
custom and practice of civilized brothers and sisters and do all in proached constantly by Jews- seek- ties throughout the state, this year master, humorist and communal
society, national and international. our power to help them."
ing a way to get to Israel.
leader Max Sosin. Providing the
But how much less guilty is the
The speaker, Dr. Maurice Fried-
"I talked to a fourth-year engi-
musical entertainment will be Can-
international community and its berg, professor of Slavic languages neering student who quit college
tors LOWS Klein of Bnai Moshe
constituents for having consistently and literature, directs the Russian so he wouldn't be too valuable to
Synagogue and Hyman Adler of
shut its eyes to it, tolerated and and East European Institute at In- the Soviet Union," said Yaroslav-
Bnai David Synagogue. Bella Gold-
condoned it, almost with equa- diana University—the largest insti- sky. "We must take lessons from
berg will furnish piano accompani-
nimity.
tute of its kind in this country.
the Russian Jews themselves .
ment.
Despite the sensitivity of his We must be unyielding in our ef-
Guilty of first degree murder are
Guest speaker will be Wayne
in this particular instance the gov- position, Dr. Friedberg urges forts."
County Citcuit Court Judge Charles -
ernments of the so-called "moder- that public opinion be brought to
Kaufman.
Cleveland is one instance of a
ate" regimes of Lebanon and Jor- bear on the 'Soviet Union "be- grass-roots organization—the Cleve-
dan for having permitted their cause it can be translated into land Council on Soviet Anti-Semit-
capitals and territories to serve action." The Soviet Union needs ism—cooperating with the organ-
foreign exchange, must sell to ized community—the Jewish Com-
epenly as the headquarters and
bases for the gangs of assassins foreign countries, must develop munity Federation — on behalf of
such as the PFLP. How much less tourism, he said. Gatherings such Soviet Jewry. Elsewhere in the
guilty, hoWever, are those who as this regional conference were U.S., however, there has not been
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described as "a nuisance" to the such a happy merger, and the
issued not a single word of protest,
PERCY KAPLAN
I go with heavy heart,
Soviet Union.
not a gesture of sensure and who
plight of- Soviet Jewry has not
With
leaden steps..
When
the
results
of
the
1970
would never consider taking any
caught the imagination of the total marks his 18th anniversary of ser-
With each step
Soviet census are made known, community.
practical action?
vice to the Jewish NatiOnal Fund,
I tear away
Under his direction, Detroit's
Guilty of first degree murder is said Dr. Friedberg, there will be a
Among the suggestions brought
Pieces of earth
the government of Syria—a band of number of changes indicated in the out at the Cleveland conference ' JNF organization, on a proportion-
Soaked with my blood.
international brigands of long- Jewish population, among them an were education programs for coin- ! al basis has become the most pro-
I wrench my eye away
standing — an accomplice in the increase to well over 3,000,000—
ductive in the nation with respect
munity leaders and Hebrew school
I wrench my heart away
crime of kidnapping two Israeli perhaps as high as 3,500,000—and students, "at least one program a to the plantin g of tr ees in Israel.
And wish you:
When Kaplan joined the JNF
passengers who had misfortune of a greater number of speakers of year" within every Jewish organi-
Let all be well with you!
organization in 1952, Detroit ac-
being hijacked with some 80 Yiddish—perhaps 1,000,000.
After our 1965 permit was re-
What makes the situation of So- zation, from Hadassah to Bnai counted for some 65,010 trees an-
others on an airliner bound for Tel
Brith, and the setup of a committee
voked, we appealed to the high-
nually.
Today,
it
finances
the
Aviv, and whose exclusve misfor- viet Jewry different today from
on Soviet Jewry within every syna- planting of more than
est authorities but apparently our
tune was to have been left behind that of five years ago is the mani- gogue.
201,000•
trees each year, as well as rais- plea didn't reach that high
to languish in jail for months while festation of government anti-Semit-
This
year, we applied twice for an
The Jewish Community Council ing large sums for land recla-
the others were allowed to fly out. ism linked to Israel, coupled with
exit permit but after seven months
How much less guilty are those the willingness of Jews to speak in Detroit is studying the imple- mation road building and the of "considering" we were twice
mentation of several ideas pot forth establi s hment of settlements in
who instead of immediately insti- out on behalf of their Judaism.
denied. And once "again--without
explanations. It goes without " say-
tuting something of the order of a
Israel.
There is more to the latter than at the meeting, in addition to pro-
grams
it has been sponsoring in the
total boycott of Arab civil aviation young people dancing on Simhat
Long an advocate of total com- ing that we will persevere in our
acquiesced in the Syrian action and Torah, said Dr. Friedberg. It is the past. The Detroit Council is a con- munity participation in Jewish stubborn struggle for our lawful
later even saw fit to refer to the unexpected attendance of students stituent organization of the Ameri- National Fund projects, Kaplan rights- And 'we feel sure that the
Syrian government as "compas- at a Jewish concert "no matter can Jewish Conference on Soviet haS been instrumental in organ- Soviet authorities, basing them-
on the highest- principles
sionate" for having finally conde- how bad it is;" the revival of Jewry, a co-sponsor of the meeting izing a JNF Council composed of selves
of justice and humanity, will in
scended to discharge the two Is- Purim since the death of Stalin, with the two Cleveland groups.
representatives of 80 organizations. the end renew our permit.
Detroiters who attended the con-
raelis in exchange for a group of "the modern Haman;" the imme-
In addition, the Women's Auxil-
The question is only—how long
Arab criminals!
diate sellout of any book of Jewish ference were Messrs and Mes- iary of JNF now has more than will it drag on?- The years fly
Guilty of first degree murder is interest "even if the buyer can't dames Shmarya Kleinman, Louis 1,000 members and at its recent swiftly by, and our health is de-
teriorating. I have not published
the government of Lebanon for be- r ead it;" the whispered requests Panush, Walter Klein and Harold donor tea raised over $115,000.
single line in four years. You
stowing national honors on a de- or religious trinkets from tourists; Dubin.
The educational function of De- a
know how hard and bitter it is for
mented French hijacker of an he universal custom of reciting
us - . . But
are -not -asking for
American plane, in recognition of k addish on yarzeit; and the con-
pity. All we ask, dearest Nehama,
the 'nobility' of his animosity to- umption, by every Jew, of "some- Jews Must Work for Human Rights—Cassin
is that you help us knock on all
wards Israel. But could we really t hing resembling matzo" on Pe-
NEW YORK (JTA) — The Jew- Brith International Council.
the doors. Perhaps through you
absolve of guilt all those who were s ach.
ish experience during the Nazi
The affair was attended by Unit- our pain, our cry of woe, will reach
so "enraged" and "shocked" when
Dr. Friedberg insisted that pro- regime makes it imperative for ed Nations diplomats, representa- the highest Soviet authorities.
Remember—we are on the verge
Israel—long liberated of any illu- tests abroad will bring no reper- Jews everywhere to work for the fives of the UN's non-governmen-
sions concerning international jus- cussions for Soviet Jews. "The extension of human rights, Nobel tal organizations and civic and of destruction. Yes, destruction—
tice — was obliged to resort to its Soviet authorities didn't harm Laureate Rene Cassin told a Bnai communal leaders. Prof. Cassin, for we have no other way, out if
the great injustice done our family
own resources in an attempt to
(Soviet author Boris) Pasternak Brith luncheon in his honor.
pesident of the Alliance Israelite
not redressed, if our right to
stem this latest phenomenon of because Western correspondents
The 88 year-old French delegate Universelle and a long-time mem- is
emigrate to Israel is not' soon re-
Arab lawlessness by destroying I would have publicized it." Like- to the United Nations Human ber of Bnai Brith in France, said stored.
Arab airline property, hot people, wise, "the Jews who signed pe- Rights Commission, cited by Bnai there was a "distinct relationship"
Keep well, Nehamele, 'our solace
in B e i r u t, whence came the
titions to go to Israel will have Brith as "a noble champion of between his work in Jewish causes and our great hope! I wish you
attackers of an El Al plane in less chance of going to Siberia human rights," was presented and his dedication to hunian rights. success in all your singing and in
with a silver menora by Maurice He also emphasized that "all peo- all your undertakings. Anya,.Berele
4$ Friday, March 13, 1970
THE DETROIT JEWISH HEWS Weinstein, chairman of the Bnai ple have a right to have a country." and I embrace you, hug you and
kiss you with all our heart.

How to Spur U.S. Jewry to Help
Soviet Brethren Aired at Parley

candsmanshaften to Honor
Percy Kaplan, JNF Director

Letter to Nehamele: ,
Plea for USSR Visa
to Settle in Israel

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