Soviet-Arab Youth Bloc Mimics Adults at UN
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session, Ariel Whine of Israel
tore up a copy of the report at
the rostrum. Dennis Praeger of
New York, representing Interna-
tional Hillel Youth, took over the
rostrum before the adoption and
said he would not leave until
there was a vote on whether the
report had been legally adopted
by the assembly's commission
on peace.
Thalen called the chief of the
United Nations security to remove
Praeger, saying "Please take him
away for heaven's sake." Praeger
was escorted from the rostrum.
Jacob Levy of Israel stepped to
the rostrum. The chairman said
Levy did not have the floor and
asked him to leave. Levy continued
to speak from the rostrum. A drum-
fire of handclapping and shouts of
"out" were heard, and he left the
rostrum.
At a press conference Friday
morning, the Israeli delegation
charged the Arab and Soviet dele-
gates were "more interested in war
than in peace." Levy said the
Israelis' every effort to meet with
Arab delegates to discuss "doing
something not to continue the war"
had been ignored.
Calling this a tragedy because
"the young are the first victims of
war," he said, "We are still willing
to meet priviately, today or next
week, without public notice, to
discuss the issues.
Continuing, Levy declared "We
are for self-determination, but first,
Furthermore, he state d, the
let us learn to live side by side in
separate Israeli and Palestinian Soviet-Arab establishment which,
"by
a show of force has imposed
states with peaceful cultural and
people-to-people exchanges." On its will" upon the assembly has
Friday afternoon, UN Secretary 'thus brought "disgrace upon the
General U Thant delivered an ad- United Nations and the ideals it
dress to the delegates remarking should stand for."
that "I would like to compliment Militant's Charge That Jews
all of you for your hard work. I Own Most Slum Property
think you have been as productive Called Libel by AJCongress
as the diplomats who normally
NEW YORK — The American
meet here." One delegate summed Jewish Congress has charged that
up the reaction of many of his co- a "gross libel" was perpetrated
participants by noting: "This is cer- when a black militant student told
tainly true and definitely tragic."
Responding to questions from
the press regarding the discus.
sions of the Middle East situa-
tion in the World Youth Assem-
bly, Israel's Ambassador Yosef
Tekoah, said "Nothing could re-
flect more the irresponsible and
destructive nature of the World
Youth Assembly proceedings than
the fact that a resolution which
called for peace between Israel
and the Arab states in accord-
ance with Security Council Reso-
lution 242 of November 1967 was
barred even from serious dis-
cussion."
Instead of calling for peace,
Ambassador Tekoah said, the as-
sembly took note of the approval
in one of its committees' reports
of "the doctrine of the extreme
Arab terrorist organizations which
wage a campaign of murder
against Israel's civilian population
and deny the rights of the people
of Israel to self-determination,
freedom and sovereignty."
Youth Assembly Delegate's Judgment
By GEORGE FRIEDMAN
(Copyright 1970, JTA, Inc.)
Jonathan Livny has an LLB
from the Hebrew University and a
diploma in criminal law from Bar-
Ilan University. He is a lawyer
and former chief military prose-
cutor for the West Bank. Now 26
years old, he served earlier this
month as a member of the Israeli
delegation to the United Nations
World Youth Assembly in New
York. A Haifa-born sabra, his late
father was also a lawyer and his
mother spends most of her time
"worrying about the state of
Israel."
"I'm very optimistic," he said
about the Middle East during a
break in the assembly sessions.
If the Soviet Union refrains front
military confrontation "our situa-
tion is not so bad." But in the
next breath he says he does not
expect peace in his lifetime, thus
exposing the pessimistic side of
his optimism.
Jonathan conceded that Secre-
tary General U Thant "is in a
tough position," but declared
that nevertheless "he bears a
grave responsibility for the out-
break of the '67 day"—because
he immediately agreed to with-
draw UN troops from Egypt in-
stead of putting the issue to the
Security Council. And Thant's
comments in Geneva "took us
by surprise—the pro-Soviet im-
plication was so clear."
Dr. Nahum Goldrnann's plan for
an internationally protected "neu-
tralized Israel" is "unacceptable
to me as an Israeli," Jonathan
said. "He believes that Israel's
role in the Middle East should be
a national yeshiva, a center of
learning. That's not why we're
there,"
"As long as Arabs and Palestin-
ians don't accept a Jewish state
in the Middle East there will not
be peace," the young Israeli ob-
served.
The six-member Israeli delega-
tion to the Youth Assembly was
chosen by a selection committee
of representatives of the foreign
office, the national studentry
and the public, and was thus not
hand-picked by the government,
Jonathan noted. In fact, he said,
an Israeli Arab was sought but
none would participate. Con-
trarily, the Soviet delegation was
made up not of youths but of
"diplomats who have been
around since the League of
Nations."
Jonathan's colleagues, also in
their 20s, were Ariel Whine, the
delegation head, English-born (the
only non-sabra in the group) and
representing the World Union of
Jewish Students; Jacob Levy and
Shalmi Barmor, students at the
Hebrew University, and Shlomo
Cohen and Mrs. Pnina Krind21,
students at Tel Aviv University.
The Israelis found the Youth
Assembly heavily pro-Soviet, pro-
Arab and anti-Israel. They were
"rudely rejected" by the Arab
delegates, who would not talk with
them privately until, Jonathan said,
they declared they were "opposed
to Zionism." The Israelis never-
theless stayed till the end of the
assembly so as not to "jeopardize
our position" with the delegations
of the nonaligned Latin American
and African nations — "When it
comes to really serious business
they're with us."
Jonathan Livny, nonetheless, has
great admiration for American
freedom of expression and self-
satire. "We saw 'Hair' last night,"
he said. "The Soviet delegates
roared at all the anti-American
jokes. They didn't see the irony."
Friday, July 24, 1970-5
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
21 Teens at UN School Charged With Murder
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Israeli
military authorities have arrested
21 teen-age students at a United
Nations vocational school in Gaza
on charges of terrorist activities
and murder.
The youngsters, including sev-
eral girls, have been charged with
the murder of an Israeli soldier
killed in an attack on a military
patrol several months ago and
with throwing grenades in the
Gaza Strip.
They are said to have belonged
delegates to the United World to two terrorist organizations, one
Youth Assembly, on a tour of Har-
lem last week, that "Jews, pre-
dominantly" were the exploiting
landlords of slum buildings.
In a letter to Neville Wade, the
British youth delegate who asked
about the ownership of the build-
ings he saw, AJCongress said the
answer that slum housing was
owned predominantly by Jews "is
entirely unwarranted."
The letter, signed by Theodore
J. Kolish, chairman of the execu-
tive board of AJC's New York
Metropolitan Council, cited the re-
cent city housing study by Prof.
David Sternlieb of Rutgers Uni-
versity, which found, according to
the New York Times report of
May 1, "that black landlords own
52 per cent of the all-black build-
ings and 20 per cent of the build-
ings that are mostly black. Simi-
larly, in Spanish-speaking areas,
most of the buildings are owned by
Spanish-speaking landlords."
Kolish asked Wade to distribute
copies of his letter to the other
youth delegates before the assem-
bly adjourned; the American Jew-
ish Congress sent several hundred
to him at the United Nations by
messenger.
In the letter, the AJC leader
wrote:
"Undoubtedly, some of the slum
property in New York is owned
by Jews, just as some is owned
by members of the many other
groups that make up the popula-
tion of New York. It is plain, how-
ever, that the statement that slum
housing is owned predominantly by
Jews is entirely unwarranted.
"I want you to know also that
the organized Jewish community of
New York has been among the
leaders in th,p fight to correct the
intolerable conditions in the city's
ghettos."
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