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the statement continued to say that
"If Israel wishes peace, she can
have it. But she cannot also have
the territories occupied in June
1967. It is essential that she with-
draw from them, and that the
United States, but for whose per-
missiveness she would be unable
to continue to defy the United Na-
tions year after year, must do
everything possible to see that she
does." It invited official organiza-
tion of Christians here to speak
out on these subjects.
Father Ryan noted a "progres-
sive decline" in the number of
Christians in Jerusalem from 25,-
000 in 1948 to about 10,000 this
year." (See commentary, page 2).
Rabbi Tanenbaum opened the
rebuttal by suggesting that those
who left did so not because of Is-
raeli oppression but, rather, "for
economic and other practical rea-
sons."
Rauf said "that the practical
and legitimate solution to the prob-
lem of Jerusalem is to restore it
fully to Muslim rule," adding that
until the 1967 war, Muslim inhabit
tants constituted a vast majority
of the city's population. He told
the subcommittee that Islam "rep-
resents a continuity of the one true
religion of God, revealed to a
series of prophets," and that Is-
lam has "a more legitimate claim
to the custody" of the Christian
and Jewish holy places "than they
may have over Islam's own sacred
shrines."
Dr. Rauf added that Muslim
tolerance gave the Jews "access"
to the Wailing Wall, but the Zion-
ists capitalized on this tolerance.
He referred to the Wall as a
"myth" seized upon by the Zion-
ists to serve as a rallying point
for Jewish. attention.
Replying to questions by com-
mittee members afterwards, the
two Roman Catholic witnesses told
Rep. Jonathan B. Bingham (D.,
N.Y.) that their statement repre-
sented only themselves. Dr. Krit-
zeck remarked that "the Christian
church would be satisfied with a
say-so in the administration of the
Holy Places." Father Ryan ob-
Jewish Leftists Join in Paris Pro-Arab Rally
Declare Portugal's
Religious Law Has
- 'Romantic Value'
:
LISBON (JTA) — New legisla-
tion, formalizing the religious free-
oms granted to non-Catholics in
ortugal, was passed unanimously
ere by the Portuguese Parliament.
The new law changes little in
.practice, as Portugal granted de
`facto -religious freedom to Jews
and Protestants as long ago as
1910. Before this date the only
recognized religion in Portugal was
the Roman Catholic.
Parliament _passed the legisla-
tion very swiftly. Usually, the
Portuguese parliamentary assem-
bly discusses at length all legisla-
tion introduced. Observers say the
swift passage of the legislation
means that the legislators con-
sidered the law as a minor matter.
Dr. Seqera, president of the
Lisbon synagogue and general sec-
' retary of the Portuguese Jewish
Comunity, told JTA: "We have
been enjoying all freedoms a com-
munity may be granted for a long
time now. Therefore this piece of
Jeciislation has romantic, but not
practical value. Now the Catholic
',religion has become but one of
_:many."
The new legislation does not
legalize divorce. In 1940 Portugal
signed a concordat with the Vati-
Can prohibiting divorc'e on its
territory. Jews may divorce before
a rabbinical court but this divorce,
while binding in communal mat-
ters, is not recognized by the state.
When a man is old enough to
do wrong, he should be old enough
to do right also. —Oscar Wilde.
served that "the question of the
Holy Places should be considered
in the light of the whole city of
Jerusalem."
Congressmen questioning the
witnesses sought to establish the
relative importance of Jerusalem
to each of the three faiths.
Rabbi Tanenbaum observed that
"all three faiths have a deep in-
terest in Jerusalem and its en-
virons" but he cautioned against
"equating one and the same thing
to Jews, Christians and Moslems."
He said, "Judaism has no Rome,
no Geneva, no Mecca, no Medina
— only Jerusalem. It is an entire-
ly necessary and indispensable
part of Judaism as it is not for
Christianity and Moslems. That is
why there is so much feeling on
the part of the Jews all over the
world for it."
Rep. James G. Fulton (R., Pa.)
responded that he had visited the
Wailing Wall and saw the "in-
tensity of the feeling of the Jews
there."
Dr. Rauf listed Mecca, Medina
and Jerusalem in that order in
response to Rep. Bingham's ques-
tion as to which were the holiest
places of Islam. The Moslem
scholar said he was opposed to a
divided city, adding that it was
"difficult to separate the admin-
istration of the Holy City and its
Holy Place s; the government
should handle all of it."
Replying to the same question,
Father Ryan listed Jerusalem,
Naiareth and 'Bethlehem as Chris-
tianity's holy cities. Dr. Kritzeck
declared: "Jerusalem would be my
unhesitating answer," to which
Rep. Bingham retorted: "Not to
most Christians, but to Roman
Catholics, Rome would be most
important."
He and several other subcom-
mittee members took issue with
the testimony presented by the
Catholic and Moslem witnesses.
At one point Bingham said: "Your
statement is good from the Arab
point of view but not Israel's."
He spoke of his visit to Israel and
the West Bank this year where
he said he could "attest conditions
were remarkably peaceful and
stable." He said he saw no guards
at Bethlehem and other places and
that Arab Christians, with whom
he spoke, though they were not
in favor of Israel's policies, denied
alleged misdeeds by the Israelis.
Bingham observed that Israel
"would have been glad to stand
by the status quo" in Jerusalem
in 1967 but Jordan attacked and
"there must be consequences."
When Father Ryan countered,
"Does military conquest establish
right?," the New York Congress-
man replied, "Over the centuries
it has."
Rep. Lester L. Wolff (D., N.Y.)
challenged Rauf's statement that
Moslems suspected Israeli au-
thorities of "condoning" the burn-
ing of the Ei Aksa mosque in
East Jerusalem two years ago.
The Congressman noted that a
"deranged Australian" had set the
fire and that the Arab guards at
the mosque were unable to avert
the act.
In another reference to Rauf's
presentation which demanded
Moslem rule of Jerusalem, Rep.
Seymour Halpern (R., N.Y.) asked
"why as a Jew" was he forbidden
entry in the early 1960s to the
Holy Places under Jordanian con-
trol. Rauf replied that he was not
at the hearing to "defend a con-
temporary state" (Jordan) and
that he "personally regretted the
ban." He said the Jordanian gov-
ernment "did make mistakes" in
an "exceptional situation." Hal-
pern observed that "no corn-
parison can be made between the
upkeep of the Holy Places at
present" and the "squalor" before
1967 at the sites.
Rabbi Tanenbaum said that Is-
rael was prepared to turn over the
city's Holy Places with complete
extra-territorial control to the re-
ligious denominations. Rep. Fulton
said: "We want to keep the Holy
Place's holy but how do you run
them?"
When the session adjourned,
Dr. Rauf approached Rabbi
Tanenbaum, shook his hand, and
suggested a dialogue on Arab-
Jewish religious matters at a fu-
ture time. Rabbi Tanenbaum ac-
cepted the invitation.
Catholic Leader Ryan's Stand
Called' His Own Personal View
NEW YORK (JTA) — The gen-
eral secretary of the United States
Catholic Conference said the Rev.
Joseph L: Ryan, S. J., was speak-
ing for himself when he testified
before a House subcommittee in
Washington in favor of interna-
tionalizing Jerusalem.
In a telephone interview from
Washington with the JTA, Bishop
Joseph Bernardin said: "We have
not taken a position (on Jeru-
salem). It's being studied now (by
a USCC committee)."
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