THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

World Leaders Deplore Ma'alot Tragedy

Worldwide condemnations
of the Ma'alot massacre were
expressed during the entire
week.
A U. S. House of Represen-
tatives resolution urged Pres-
ident Nixon to call upon the
UN Security Council to con-
demn the "brutal act of vio-
lence."
President Nixon, in a per-
sonal letter to Golda Meir,
expressed condolences on the
death of the children.
A White House statement
the day after the mass mur-
der deplored the Israeli at-
tacks on the Lebanese border
villages by the Israeli air
4orce.
There were demonstrations
in many of the world's capi-
tals.
Among the many state-
ments by heads of national
Jewish organizations was one
from Paul Zuckerman, na-
tional chairman of the United
Jewish Appeal, who said:
"This deplorable act of
senseless violence can only
knit closer the bonds of unity
of the Jewish people. We
share the suffering and the
sense of loss of the families,
friends and neighbors of
Ma'alot. Whenever Jewish
blood is spilled — when in-
nocent children, Jewish
children are killed and used
as pawns by terrorists —
our reaction must be one of
strength and determination.
We stand solidly with the
people of Ma'alot and the
people of Israel and pledge
to provide them with the
humanitarian help they ur-
gently need."
The president of the United
Church of Christ and the in-
terreligious affairs director
of the National Conference of
Christians and Jews spoke
out forcefully against the
massacre and castigated fel-
low Christians and member
states of the United Nations
for keeping silent or failing
to punish terrorists in face
of continuing outrages.
The Rev. Dr. Robert V.
Moss, who heads the 2,000,-
000 member United Church
of Christ, declared that
churches must speak out
against terrorism even if do-
ing so endangers church ac-
tivities in some places be-
cause "the church has no
relevance if it refrains from
condemning evil, especially
when the blood of innocents
is shed in wanton murder."
He made that statement in
a letter to the Rev. Dr. Philip
Potter, president of the World
Council of Churches, in which
he urged the council to "or-
ganize the world Christian
community to get in touch
with all governments" that
now harbor terrorists to de-
mand that they arrest or ex-
el them. "I am especially
I2oncerned that non-Arab gov-
ernments, such as that of
Greece, are unwilling to deal
forthrightly and sternly with
the scourge of terrorism,"
Rev. Moss said.
Dr. Bernhard' E. Olson, of
the NCCJ, said that he per-
sonally felt "bitter outrage
and deep sorrow over the
utterly senseless and cruelly
calculated massacre of inno-
cent and peaceful citizens,
primarily children . . . Mem-
bers of the United Nations
who have consistently re-
fused unequivocally to con-
demn Arab terrorism and to
take ef f ecti v e measures
against it, share a grave mor-

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al responsibility for the tra-
gedy at Ma'alot. But so do
those Christians throughout
the world who, through their
silence and inaction, have
given implied if not open
support for those abominable
acts."
The New York Times
wrote: "The Palestinian lun-
atic fringe has committed
the most abominable yet of its
long series of cowardly, mur-
derous outrages. Just 16 days
after last month's terrorist
attack at the Israeli town of
Kiryat Shemona, President
Assad of Syria formally re-
ceived the commander of the
Palestinian g r o up that
launched the raid.
"The leader of another
Palestinian faction heralded
Kiryat Shemona as marking
the beginning of a new era
for the Palestinian Revolution
—and his group, the Saiqa,
operates under open Syrian
sponsorship.
"Nor can other, non-Arab
governments point with pride
to their record of dealing with
the scourge of terrorism. Just
last week the government of
Greece pardoned two guer-
rillas who had been sentenced
to death for the machine-gun
attack at Athens airport last
August. More than 150 Arab
terrorists have been arrested
in Europe over the past five
years, and all but nine have
been quietly set free, with or
without trials.
"Against this dismal and
self-defeating record, the Is-
raeli responses of self-de-
fense cannot be faulted."
In London, Prime Minister
Harold Wilson and opposition
leader Edward Heath sent
messages to Israel express-
ing their frief and sorrow and
condolences to government,
the people and the families
of the victims.
In Bonn, the new West Ger-
man government said it
viewed the terrorist atrocity
"with disgust," and said such
acts of violence could only
jeopardize a solution of the
Middle East conflict and ser-
iously impair current peace
efforts.
In Paris, Valery Giscard
d'Estaing condemned the at-
tack saying "the taking of
children as hostages• can
never be justified." More
than 1,000 people attended a
special memorial service in
the city's main synagogue
Friday evening.
Some 5,000 persons gath-
ered in front of the Israel
Embassy in Buenos Aires and
overflowed into the side
streets around the embassy
building.
It was also reported in
Buenos. Aires that a high pow-
ered bomb was found May 16
by police minutes before it
was scheduled to explode in
front of the Jewish commun-
ity and school building in
Santa Fe. Police said that ex-
tensive damage would have
occurred had the bomb ex-
ploded.
In Amsterdam, Dr. Marga
Klompe, the chairman of the
Dutch branch of the interna-
tional Roman Catholic organ-
ization, "Justitia et Pas," ca-
bled PLO leader Yassir Ara-
fat protesting the terrorist
act.
More than 3,000 gathered
at Chicago Civic Center
Plaza to protest the massa-
cre.
In Vancouver, the Canadian
Labor Congress adopted a

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nant to the entire civilized ing one of these darlings to
world."
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In Philadelphia, more than
Mrs. Klingman said, "We
2,000 members of the city's are going to get much more
Jewish community held a joy out of this than the chil-
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