Establishments on Trial:
Indifference to Realities,
Youths' Community Roles

(Editorial, Page 4)

Ruth Dayan,
Other Notables
Coming Here
as Allied ,
Drive Speakers

Detailed Stories
on Page 8

Research on 'Geniza
Mishna,' Definitive
Yiddish Volume

(Book Reviews, Pages 4, 14)

Strange Bedfellows Merge
From USSR, Saudi-Arabian
Ranks in Blackmail Tasks

(Commentary, Page 2)

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1971 Campaign
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Reports in Flint
Section, Page 12

February

26, 1971

Conference on Soviet Jewry
Disrupted, but Aim for Unity
Assured in Seeking Justice

USSR's Jewish Defenders Get Mixed

Reactions at Meeting in Brussels

BRUSSELS (JTA)—A capacity audience jammed the Shell Building auditorium
and overflowed into the street Monday night to hear three prominent Russian Jews
defend the Soviet regime and its treatment of 3,000,000 Soviet Jews.
The occasion was a meeting organized by the Belgian Soviet Friendship Society
to counter the World Conference on Soviet Jewry, sponsored by Jewish organizations,
which opened here Tuesday night.
Observers said that about a third of the audience consisted of Soviet sympathiz-
ers, but the rest were_either merely curious or bitterly hostile. The speakers were
repeatedly interrupted by hecklers. One member of the audience was ejected when
he shouted "Judas" after a speaker noted that many members of the Friendship
Society were Jews.
The principal speaker was Col. Gen. David Dragunsky, the highest ranking Jew
in the Soviet army, who insisted that 3,000,000 Soviet Jews "live in freedom" and
are "perturbed" by the anti-Soviet campaign conducted by Jews abroad. "What right
have others to defend Soviet Jews? Do Soviet JeWs need defending? Soviet Jews have
defended the revolution and are now defending the Soviet Union against attack. We
protest the anti-Soviet campaign in Brussels. We hope people will underStand this,"
Dragunsky declared.
He shared the platform with Samuel Zivs, vice chairman of the Soviet Bar
Association, and Vladimir Peller, chairman of a "kolhoz" (collective farm), both
Jews. Heckling- erupted when the speakers tried to explain a viciously anti-Semitic
book by the Ukrainian author, Trofim Kitchko, as merely an antireligious tract by
one man. Members of the audience shouted "Anti-Semitism is rampant in Russia,"
"Let the Jews go to Israel," "You do not speak for them."
Dragonsky scored a point when be observed that "Russia has let Feigin go
to Israel, but he turned up in Brassels to agitate against the Soviet Union." Be was
referring to Maj. Grischa Feigln, a former Soviet air force officer who bad been
agitating for Jbwish emigration rights and was granted an exit visa last month.
He arrived in Israel only two weeks ago and is presently in Brussels as a member
of the Israeli delegation to the Conference on Soviet Jewry.
(Continued on Page 42)

Disrupted temporarily by issues involving Rabbi Meir Kahane, the
international conference on Soviet Jewry in Brussels nevertheless continued
to strive for fulfillment of the task of achieving unity in behalf of and with
the Jews of Russia. The democratic functions of an international gathering
were in full sway in Brussels, and the demands, especially by the younger
delegates, that Rabbi Kahane be given the right to speak, were in line with
the process of democratization and. of free and open discussions in viewing
the tragic situation of Jews in the USSR.
Because of the temporary disruption, conference decisions were de-
layed until the last sessions on. Thursday night, and detailed accounts of
final actions are now inevitably postponed until our next. issue.

BRUSSELS (JTA)-7Less than 24'hours after it opened, the World Con-
ference on Soviet Jewry was disrupted Wednesday by the appearance in
Brussels of Meir Kahane, leader of the militant Jewish Defense League
in the U. S. .
Kahane was arrested by local police after the conference presidium
refused his request to be admitted as a delegate, but no- specific charges
were lodged against him. Some sources said he was taken into cutody "to
prevent public disturbances." A later report said Kahane had been expelled
from Belgium._
But the appearance of the 38-year-old rabbi whose organization en-
gages in personal harassment of- Soviet officials in the U. S. as a means
of serving the cause of Soviet Jewry overshadowed all other develop-
ments at the conferente on Soviet Jewry Wednesday. The proceedings .
were interrupted by heated arguments between excited supporters and
opponents of Kahane, and there was some jostling and shoving on the floor.
His supporters are mainly members of the Herut Hatzohar delegation re-
presenting a militant Zionist group. They demanded that Kahane be ad-
mitted to the conference as an observer.
A motion to that effect submitted to the conference presidium Wed-
nesday was rejected. The presidium issued a statement on Kahane's arrest,
stressing that he had committed no breach of conference regulations and

(Continued on Page 44)

Israel's Clarified Position: Calls for 'Direct Dialogue'
With Egypt, Notes Willingness to Discuss Suez Reopening

JERUSALEM (JTA)—Foreign Minister Abba Eban
told the Knesset Wednesday that not a single friendly
government, including the United States, has suggested
that Israel accept the latest Egyptian proposals as they
stand. However, some of them attach importance to
Egypt's expression of willingness to enter into a peace •
agreement with 'Israel, and the Israeli government shares
this view, Eban said. -
(As part of its peace proposal, Egypt has agreed hn-
plicitly to relinquish control over the Gaza Strip, Arab
sources said Tuesday. They said Egypt would be willing
to allow Gaza inhabitants to form a free state, possibly
with ties to Jordan or to a future Palestinian state on the
west hank of the Jordan River.)
'The :drafting of Israel's reply to the Egyptian note ap-
- parently has been completed but there was no indication
Wednesday when it would be submitted to United Nations
mediator Gunnar V. Jarring for transmission to Cairo.
An official communique issued here Wednesday said the
reply would refer to the cabinet's declaration of last Sun-
day that Israel will not return to the borders that existed
on June 4, 1967, the - eve of the Six-Day War.
Eban termed "groundless" reports that some members
of the cabinet wanted that reference omitted from the
reply and that an alternative note was being considered
by hinutelf and Premier Golds Meir.
Informed sources said the Israeli reply makes it clear
that any subject can be raised In the course of negotia-
tions between Israel and Egypt, including Egypt's demand
fee total Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territories

but that Israel is not prepared to start negotiations tinder
the burden of prior conditions. The sources said the reply
also calls for a 'direct dialogue" with Egypt and expresses
Israel's willingness to discuss the reopening of the Suez
Canal.
Eban told the Knesset that the reply makes no refer-
ence to the March 7 expiration date of the current cease
fire extension because Israel recognizes no time limit on
the cease fire.
Eban said the U. S. government has disavowed any
responsibility for the wording of Jarring's latest ques-
tionnaire to Israel and Egypt which the Israelis found
objectionable, but he said he had "no reason to assume
that the U. S. has abandoned its policy with regard to
the need to draw defensible borders resulting from a
peace agreement." Informed sources said the government
formed three committees to draw up territorial maps
indicating what borders Israel would accept as defensible.
Replying to questions, Eban said that "to the best of
my knowledge, the U. S. does not support the precise
delineation of guarantees" of a Mid East peace by the
big powers "as long as the parties to the conflict have
made no advance toward a peace agreement and have
not asked for external backing for the agreement not
yet reached." .
Premier Golds Meir said in Beersheba Tuesday night
that Israel wanted borders that would make Arab leaders
"think twice before waging another war against us."
She said defensible borders would "persuade them that
another war would be too costly an adventure." Mrs.

Meir visited the Negev capital to receive "Freedom of
the City" from Mayor Eliahu Nevi and to attend the
cornerstone laying for the Zalman Aranne Library at
Negev University.
(Former Premier David Ben-Gurion, accompanied by
Labor Party Secretary Arieh Eliav, left Tel Aviv for
Brussels to participate in the conference. Before his de-
parture, Ben-Gurion told newsmen that Sadat's latest offer
might .hold hope for peace, but without guarantees . of
peace, no withdrawal should be made. Ben-Gurion, ad-
dressing the Hadassah mid-winter conference on Saturday
night, declared: "The Jewish state does not yet exist,"
explaining that his remark was justified by the fact
that only 17 per cent of the world Jewish population live
in Israel, a position he called "unique and dangerous.")
Scott: U. S. Must Continue to Play
Key Role in Achieving Mid East Peace
NEW YORK (JTA)—Senate Minority Leader Hugh
Scott declared in a speech Sunday night that the United
States must continue "to play a key role" in achieving
peace in the Middle East, and declared that "It is clear
that the Jarring mission will not succeed if the Soviet
Union and Egypt regard it as an instrument to force
Israel's surrender on the issue of territories and to deny
Israel genuine peace."
Scott, Pennsylvania Republican, spoke here to Bnai
Zion, the American Fraternal Zionist Organization, which
has awarded him its 1971 Israel Friendship Gold Medal.
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