Israeli COs Refuse
to Be 'Oppressors'
Israel's Arabs Shown in Dilemma Between Two Loyalties
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
22—Friday, August 20, 1971
JERUSALEM (J T A) — The not an economic one and that it
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Four Is- problem of the Israeli Arabs is went beyond the area of the rela- should help them to become social-
raeli conscientious objectors, who today one of a national minority tions between the individual and ly and politically integrated, Tole-
dano declared.
published a letter two weeks ago which is developing and becoming the State.
to Defense Minister Moshe Dayan better based while at the same
When the present five-year plan
Some 220,000 or more than half
refusing military service, told a time caught in a severe dilemma of Israel's Arab population, were for Arab and Druze village devel-
group of newsmen here recently between loyalty to the State of born in Israel and have never opment under which $30,000,000
that while other Israeli youths Israel in' Which its members have known any other rule, Toledano is being spent reaches its comple-
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had declined service with no ef- grown and lived as equal citizens 'pointed out. This includes some tion in 1973, there would be no
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fort at publicity, they had sought and loyalty to the Arab states to 60,000 young people between the need for a further five-year plan
by their public action to arouse which they are drawn by ties of ages of 16 and 24 whose language as the plan's goal—provision of a
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Toledano
said.
The four—three young men and
This view was presented by ural than the traditional eastern
1. Domestic—Plane, train, bus
one girl—have draft dates for call- Shmuel Toledano, advisor on Arab culture. These young people are
up from August through Novem- affairs to the prime minister, in seeking an identity and a way out
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ber. They asserted that war and a lecture to members of the Ha- of the spiritual conflict in which
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where
were generally ordered by "per- dano added that the problem was institutions and the public at large
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The resisters are Miss Irit Yaa-
Sales • Service
cobi, Reuben Lessmann and Dov
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Gall, all of Jerusalem and Giora
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Neumann from Tel Aviv. All are
high school graduates and at least
two of them from well-to-do fam-
LONDON, (JTA)—An estimated including a definition of her aims
ilies.
12,000,000 viewers tuned in BBC as premier and a disclaimer of any
Declaring they knew they were and for an hour-long presentation
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subject to maximum 15-year of Premier Golda Meir's attitudes, interest in another term as pre-
mier.
prison terms, nevertheless, as
BBC officials said copies of the ..•
Gall put it, "we do not want to
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become oppressors and we do Mrs. Meir Will Meet
countries.
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not want to die as oppressors."
Mrs. Meir said she had striven
Accused
'Ma
mzerim'
Although Israel has no law on
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Premier to make sure that "the mistake of
conscientious objectors, war re-
Golda
Meir has agreed to meet 1967," the Six-Day War, "is not
sisters are usually exempted from
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brother
and sister who have repeated." Her ambition, she said,
military service on "medical
was to make the 1967 war "the
been
barred
from
marrying
be-
grounds."
Tickets and reservations can be obtained at the synagogue every
cause they are considered "mam- last one between ourselves and the
.T5 o;mg 66. and evening during the hours of services or by calling
A 19-year-old youth sitting with zerim" (bastards).
Arabs."
the four COs said that he himself
She touched on some personal
The planned meeting will also
had obtained such deferment and be attended by their lawyer, Ram matters, declaring she wanted to
that he knew of many others.
Caspi. Caspi and his clients will retire before people became im-
Gall told of a visit to the Gaza ask Mrs. Meir why she feels that patient with her and started wait-
Strip where he had "seen the their problem will receive a posi- ing for her resignation. She said
fear and hatred in the eyes of the tive solution once new elections also that she hoped to die before
population of Jebaliyah village," for chief rabbis have been held. her mind becomes enfeebled by old
some of whose residents are being (Mrs. Meir explained this view in age.
transferred to El Arish for secur- reply to a letter to Caspi asking
Saying she had never made a
ity reasons.
will, Mrs. Meir remarked she had
her to intervene in the affair.
Gall said that he felt that "the
Caspi said that although he fully once, during a serious illness.
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fear and hatred were directed 'at understood the Premier's implica- written "a kind of testament-letter
me and I could not bear the tion — that if Tel Aviv Rabbi to my sister and children in which
thought." He described the Gaza , Shlomo Goren is elected Chief I ask that no eulogies be delivered
situation as only "a case in point." Rabbi he will act to solve the prob- about me after my death and that
The youngsters argued that "con- lem—he was doubtful if he could nothing should bear my name."
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quest breeds terror the latter beeds rely on. this.
She revealed that not only had
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Caspi pointed out that people she never believed she had always
circle of which they wanted no change when they take office and done the right thing in her busy
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When questioned on their views Goren, who has circulated a book- assailed by doubt."
about the pre-Six-Day War borders let setting out his view that the
and their political affiliations, the brother and sister are not in fact Sapir Says Plans for Next
four became evasive.
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were active in the "League for the full weight of her influence
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Sapir,
minister
of
finance,
said
At The
some sharp charges against the Chief Rabbi to move to solve the planning for the next decade calls
Israel government and its military problem. If she agrees to do so for doubling the number of stu-
authorities.
he will suspend the contacts he dents in Israel and increasing the
Both Gall and Neumann re- has had with certain Reform number of Sephardi among them
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troops and border police in the the case.
Speaking at the Labor Party
Gaza Strip carried out crimes
center, Sapir said the plan has
against humanity and contra- Israeli Envoy to UN Says
been discussed with Premier Golda
vened the Geneva Convention Israel Will Defend Itself
Meir and heads of the education
on the treatment of civilians by Against Lebanon Attacks
network in Israel but that it re-
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forcibly removing them across
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—Jacob Doron, Israel's Acting while at the same time efforts
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met Panther leaders when she went appropriate measures of self-de- in 5-10 years the whole problem
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Last week the four COs returned Security Council protesting attacks
their draft cards to the defense by Israel on major terrorist bases
ministry and wrote a letter to in Southern Lebanon (Fatahiand).
Dayan saying they refuse to serve
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Doron quoted from an interview
in the army because it was "an published . in the Egyptian weekly
army of occupation."
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