Israel Court Orders
Army, Govt. to Justify
Treatment of Bedouins
Israeli Boat. NS reeked in Explosion:
One Yugosla. ian Crew Member Dies
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, August 11, 1972-9
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TEL AVIV LITA1 — The lives of was caused by . internal combo, •
. all but one of the 13 members were lion of the clut'micals or by a for-
saved Saturday night from the eign factor, although the former
burning wreckage of the SS Bat is believed to he the case.
Tiran, which exploded off a Greek
island and shortly thereafter was Arava Project Gets Aid
JERUSALEM (JTA1 — The Is- on the denial of justice. there is declared lost.
JERUSALEM—A new land recta-
The victim, the only non-Israeli mation project paving the way for
rael Supreme Court ordered the no accumulation of money which
Government and the Army Mon- will guarantee that security; and aboard, was identified as the ship's more settlements in the Arava Val-
day to explain why they would not not even an army as strong as that 43-year-old Yugoslavian petty of- ley along Israel's border with Jor-
ficer. Ilk body was taken off the dan w ill he adopted by American 4
permit nine Bedouin Tribes to re- of the Romans will ensure it."
turn to their homes south of the
Mrs. Heir had stressed at the flaming hulk when rescuers from Zionists, it was resolved at a joint
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Gaza Strip from which they were meeting that the government plLn- Greek tugboats came to the scene. s ebfrethe Zionist Organization 4 betwoon Southfield
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The 2.500-ton freighter was en- of A erica and the Jewish National
removed in an action which has ned to compensate the residents
caused widespread criticism in Is- by giving them cash, new land and , route from Yugoslavia with a Fund held near the John F'. Ken-
rael.
, new homes. Those who consider cargo of materials including chem- nedy Memorial, during the 7.0A's
The tribe contended that Israel themselves residents of Baram icals. Flames spread so fast as to 75th Jubilee Convention.
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Defense Forces last January gave number 1.900, including since- engulf the life boats before there
them only a few days notice be- grown children of the original was time to lower them. The crew
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fore ordering them to pack their residents. Those seeking to return managed their escape via the self- its 15,000 part-time student ern-
belongings and abandon their to Ikrit reportedly number about floating dinghies, which were bob- plovees $6,800,000 last year.
bing in the water and separating
homes and watering holes in Rafia, 600.
a community at the southern end '
In his letter, the archbishop. re- before the rescue seamen arrived
jetted the argument of fears of to assemble the survivors. Five of
of the Strip.
The court order gave the Gov- • a precedent, asserting that such the men were slightly injured.
The Bat Tiran, flying an Israeli
ernment and the Army two weeks . concerns "Should not deter you,
to prepare their replies. madame prime minister, from flag, was still burning Sunday as
following the call of justice and a team of Israeli experts left for
In January the Army removed
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The archbishop announced
fenced in their land on grounds
was calling a meeting of the former
that Arab infiltrators had been
villagers next Monday.
using the area as a route in
On Monday, police arrested
and out of the strip,
Several months later, 120 of 20 Arab demonstrators after
the Bedouin families received . they had seized four abandoned
200,000 pounds ($48,000) in I structures in Baram to protest
compensation. the government's decision. Police
said there were no injuries but
A number of kibutz settlements
that force was used.
in the Negev, all affiliated with
M
Meanwhile
some 200 former resi-
the left wing Ilashomer Hatzair
Movement, denounced the action dents of Baram continued a sit-
in at the village church. Tuesday
and charged it was in preparation
a
for efforts to settle Jews in the night the villagers drove away
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area Apparerft confirmation for large number of members of Matz-
that charge emerged in reports pen, an ultra-radical group of
Jewish dissidents, who came to the
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dozers were working on some 400 site to join the sit-in.
The former Baram villagers ex-
acres in the fenced-off area in
plained that they felt that sup-
what appeared to be preparation
for farm settlement, sources here port from Matzpen would only
reported. harm their cause.
Archbishop Khouri, leader of
In response to the protests, the
Army began an inquiry and a the Maronites in Lebanon and
a press
three-man committee decided on Northern Israel, said at
March 27 on reprimands for three conference in Haifa that he did
not accept the government's de-
senior army officers for transfer-
ring the Bedouins without authori-
The archbishop making his
ration; for destroying 124 build-
annual visit to his co-religionists
ings; and for fencing in the area.
in Israel said he was not con-
However, Army officials insisted
by the security argument
the Army had a legal right to oust vineed
and that he intended to try to
the Bedouins and that it would not
persuade the government to re•
permit them to return. The officers,
verse the ban.
whose names were not released. '
A group of leading Israeli
were reprimanded for acting with-
out previous orders, according to writers also were unimpressed by
the government's decision. Mrs.
Army officials.
Meir had met with them for
The ousted Bedouins have in-
seven hours earlier in the week,
sisted they will not accept corn.
but most of the intellectuals left
pensation and they contend that
the meeting unconvinced by the
the Army action contravened
arguments offered.
the Geneva Convention in ex-
Meanwhile senior government
pelting them from their homes
officials criticized the prime mini-
and the area, The Army said ster's adviser for Arab affairs.
it had put up the fences to dis-
Shmuel Toledano, who had de-
courage guerrilla infiltration for
nounced the government's decision.
terrorist activities.
Some government sources hate
Meanwhile the Greek Catholic called for Toledano's resignation
Archbishop, Joseph Raya, pursu- on grounds that his behavior was
Mg his effort to persuade Premier "unseemly" for a government
Golda Meir's government to permit civil servant.
former residents of the two Maron-
ite villages on the Lebanese border Arab W. Bank Summer
to return there for resettlement,
asserted Wednesday that "no end Visitors Ask to Remain
justifies injustice,' even if that JERUSALEM (JTA )—The mini.
goal "appears to be the security - stry of of defense is studying the
of a state." requests made by thousands of
The archbishop made that charge Arabs from surrounding countries
in an open letter in the Jerusalem who are visiting the West Bank
Post, addressed to Mrs. Meir, in for the summer to permit them to
which he also repeated the argu- , stay.
The ministry said it may grant
ments he had used in a futile
meeting with the premier Tuesday such permission to those visitors
in an effort to obtain a reversal who have relatives in the West
• Rank and who are not considered
of the decision.
security risks.
Mrs. Meir told the archbishop
Several hundred visiting Arabs
at their meeting that security
presently hold jobs in the West
considerations still prevailed and
Bank.
that the government feared a
precedent under which former
Real success in business is to be
residents of other evacuated
found in. achievements comparable
Arab village would seek permis-
rather
with those of the artist or
sion to return to their homesites.
In his letter, the archbishop also the scientist, of the inventor or the
asserted that "If you base security statesman.—Louis D. Brandeis
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