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THE JEWISH NEWS
Michigan Weekly
Review of Jewish News
Clarification
About
Blunder in
Jerusalem
Letter from
Bollek's Office
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January 29, 1971
Israel 'Secure Borders' Withdrawal
E cited; Jordan Bars Guerrillas
Pressures Continue to Ease
Russian Treatment of Jews
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Sen. Clifford Case said that pressure must be main-
tained on the USSR to persuade it to ease its treatment of Russian Jews. The New
Jersey Republican added the commutation of two death sentences did not mean
that the Russian attitude toward the Jews has changed.
Prof. Herbert Marcuse, a leading philosopher of the New Left in the United
States, signed an appeal cabled to Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin Monday
urging the Soviet Union to allow its Jewish citi•ns to emigrate to Israel if they
wish and to allow those who choose to remain in Russia to "perpetuate their
Jewish faith and culture." The appeal was initiated by Prof. Marcuse and Prof.
Richard Popkin of the University of San Diego. It was signed by seven other San
Diego professors, by Judge Roger Rossin and Prof. Jacob Branovsky, a British
scientist working at the Salk Institute. Their cable states:
"We the undersigned have witnessed with anguish and dismay the struggle
of lie Jews in the Soviet Union for national survivaL We believe this struggle is
net -erected against the Soviet Union but is a struggle for their Jewish identity
and their human rights. We have followed the recent trials of Jews in the Soviet
Union and are deeply troubled by reports that the Soviet Union intends to proceed
with its trials of Soviet Jews. In the name of the highest moral principles and
legitimate' human rights, in the name of which we have protested actions of our
OUR gesressmenta, we appeal to the Soviet government to recognize the present
__Ireaime•Ini Jews is morally intolerable and politically deleterious. Let those Jews -
- wisnatrilielre leave for Israel or the land of their choice and let those who remain
'attain l'effiliment of their rights to perpetuate their Jewish faith and culture."
The State Department reaffirmed American policy to speak out against the
repression of Soviet Jews but cautioned that "We must carefully-choose the forum
or occasion for public representations regarding the treatment of national and
religious minorities in the Soviet Union" because "to do otherwise might expose
our efforts' in the United Nations and elsewhere to dismissal as mere 'cold war
propaganda.' " The reaffirmation of policy was contained in a letter signed by
Harison M. Symes, acting assistant secretary of state for congressional relations
to Sen. Jacob K. Javits, New York Republican. It was in response to a telegram
Javits sent to Secretary of State William P. Rogers urging the U. S. to protest to
the Soviet Union against he "reported barbaric sentences imposed on Jews for the
(Continued on Page 36)
JERUSALEM (JTA) Israel is planning to inform Egypt shortly that it is
fully ready to withdraw to "secure and agreed borders" within the framework
of a peace settlement. It was learned that a new note is being drafted by Pre-
mier Golda Meir and Foreign Minister Abba Eban which contains the word
"withdrawaL" The note will be given to United Nations mediator Gunnar V. Jar-
ring to be conveyed to Cairo. It will represent Israel's reply to the latest Egyp-
tian note and is intended to refute Cairo's contention that Israel refuses to ac-
cept the principle of withdrawal and is bent on expansion. The cabinet author-
ized the premier and the foreign minister to draft the reply jointly at Sun-
day's session.
The new Israeli note will also seek clarification on several points, the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency learned. One of them will be whether Egypt's of-
fer of freedom of navigation through international waterways refers specifi-
cally to Israeli shipping or to "all states in the region," a formula with which
Israel has had poor experience in the past. The government will also insist on
"quiet diplomacy," meaning no leaks to news media of the content of notes ex-
changed in the Jarring talks. (Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home declin-
ed to state in the House of Commons Monday whether Britain would be willing
to participate in an international peace-keeping force to police the boundaries
that. may be drawn between Israel and its neighbors as part of an eventual Mid-
dle. East- peace settlement. Sir Alec was questioned on the matter by Christo-
pher Mayhew, a Labor MP. Mayhew also asked the foreign secretary if he had
noted "the increasing international pressure to induce Israel to withdraw from
the occupied territories." Sir Alec replied that "it would not be wise at the mo-
ment to state what the government had in mind." He gave the same reply
when asked about an international peace-keeping force.)
Premier Wafsi Tal of Jordan said on a BBC television interview in Lon-
don Monday that Palestinian terrorists would not be allowed to continue their
fight against Israel from Jordanian soil. He also said that Jordan would not
give up any of its territory for the establishment of a Palestinian state. On a
separate BBC interview, El Fatah chief Yassir Arafat pledged that his guer-
rillas would continue to fight "for the liberation of occupied Palestine." He
rejected the United Nations Jarring peace mission and said that if the Arab
governments made peace with Israel but failed to give the Palestinians what
they wanted, "the fight will go on."
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Druze Residents Rosenwasser's Kin to Ask UN Aid for His Release Israel Will Help
40,000 Arabs
Ask Vengeance
TEL AVIV (JTA) —The wife and daughter of the kidnaped Israeli watchman, Shmuel
will go to New York shortly to appeal to the United Nations and to world
Move to W. Bank
for Decapitation Rosenwasser,
opinion on behalf of the 50-year-old man who has been held captive by Arab terrorists
since Dec. 31, 1969. A ticket for the daughter, Annika Rosenwasser, was purchased by Jo-
TEL AVIV (JTA)—The Druze resi- seph M. Mermelstein, a tourist from New York, who read about the Rosenwasser case
dents of Dalyat el Karmel village are de- in local newspapers.
manding revenge for the mutilation mur-
Her mother insisted that the girl was too young to travel alone. El Al, Israel's national
der of one of their number, 27-year-old airline, provided her with a ticket so that the mother can go along. Rosenwasser was
Hammed,
whose
decapi-
Hassan Abou .
seized by terrorists from Lebanon while on duty as a watchman at Metullah on Israel's
tated body was found near his tractor on northern frontier. He is presently being held in Jordan. Negotiations for his release have
a remote slope of Mt. Hermon in the made no progress as Israel refuses to deal with the terrorists and insists that Leban-
Golan Heights two weeks ago. The mur- ese authorities are responsible for freeing him. According to Red Cross representatives
der*** attributed to terrorists from who have visited the captive, Rosenwasser is in good health and has received parcels sent
Lebanon.
by his family. The family has since moved from Metullah and lives near Haifa.
The cries for revenge came at a town
This week, five letters Rosenwasser wrote to his family were delivered by a repre-
meeting Saturday night which was at-
received them through the Inernational Red
tended by Deputy Premier Yigal Allon. sentative of Israel's Red Megan David which
The Victim's head was taken away by his Cross. There was no explanation why the five letters, written on different dates, were de-
killers. According to Druze custom, a livered at the same time. The JTA learned that Rosenwasser has received letters and par-
decapitated corpse cannot be buried. cels from his family.
• • •
Alien said, "The blood of every man
Rosenwasser's sister, Mrs. Herman (Helen) Greenberger, who resides here on W. Eight
who falls on the borders—soldiers, bor-
der policemen, settlers or workers — is Mile Rd., -was deeply moved to receive the news, from The Jewish News, of the impending
dear to us. Oneenemies will pay heavily new effort to have him released from Arab terrorists' imprisonment.
Mrs. Greenberger said she hoped that both at the UN and at the State Department sup-
for its -shedding." He said that "only
barbarians who have lost their human port will be given to the appeals for Rosenwasser's freedom after his 13-month captivity.
image were capable of such a brutal
Mrs. Greenberger has not seen her brother for more than 30 years. She has a daugh-
murder and mutilation of a dead man's ter, Mrs. Irving Zeltzer of Oak Park, and a son, Robert G. Wasserman of Alexandria, Va.
,
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — About 40,000
Arab refugees now living in the Gaza
Strip will move voluntarily to the West
Bank within the next few months, it was
learned Tuesday by the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency. Their move will be as-
sisted by the Israel army.
The move has long been sought by
military authorities who believe that
overpopulation and unemployment in the
Gaza Strip are responsible for the high
incidence of terrorist activity in that
region. About 220,000 Arabs presently
live in refugee camps in the Gaza Strip,
comprising two-thirds of the population.
About 5,000 former Gaza Strip residents
have already moved to the West Bank.
They are mainly in Jericho, Tulkarem
and Jenin.
In contrast to conditions in the Gaza
Strip, the West Bank is short of labor
and contains several former Jordanian
army and refugee camps that are empty
and could provide temporary shelter for
Arabs coming from Gaza, officials said.