West Bank Squatters Avoid Show down, Yield to Government Demand to Abandon Settlement; Political Dispute Continues TEL AVIV (JTA) — The 150 settlers who sought to establish a settlement at Sebastia near Nablus on the West Bank averted a show- down with the government Sunday night by deciding to leave their encampment a few minutes before a govern- ment deadline. A spokesman for the set- tlers, most of them Orthodox, said they were not leaving of their own free will but that they did not want a con- frontation with the Israel De- fense Force. Defense Minister Shimon Peres had informed the 35 families, in line with a cab- MICHAEL KAPLIT Photography' Weddings • BariMiiivos1 A42-1039 MAGICIAN Available For All Occasions 20 years experience- MAGICAL MEL - 547.2464 _ inet decision Friday, that if they did not leave the place on their own volition, the government would use its authority to remove them. The spokesman said they did not return directly to their homes but went as a group to Jerusalem to press their demand for permission to create a settlement in the Samaria section. Although the cabinet acted promptly in deciding that the settlers had acted illegally and could not remain, no government action was taken because of, first, the Sabbath, and then Tisha b'Av. The families had tried a similar effort last month but failed. On the second attempt they managed to evade an army cordon around the area, some eight miles northwest of Hebron. The settlers had made no secret of their plans, even informing Israeli officials. Several of the set- tlers met with Peres and with Minister Israel Galilee, but received only a repetition. of the government position that there could be no settle- ments in the area without approval by government. The settlers recruited hun- dreds of supporters who di- vided themselves into four separate convoys, each tak- ing a different route. A fifth convoy was the real one, taking a route officials had not expected and successfully making their way to the chosen site. One group of settlers placed barbed wire around their encampment. Another erected tents for themselves sand for the many children in the group. They then settled down for what POE RUSSELL SCHREIBER ASSOCIATE S AGENCY Of THE SHOW WORLD' • Orchestras • Entertainment • Speakers • Concerts od pol Downtown Detroit - 96243000' -94e martin- Avid Ofric4e4fra, The Modern Sound of Distinction: From Solo Piano to Large Orchestra . MARTIN KOSINS, 546-7558, Is TailoF Made for Your Needs * BUSINESS PROMOTIONS Greed °p•lting: Sidewalk Sales Or. FUND RAISING Fast Selling Fund-Raising Ideas All ea Consignment * PARTY PLANNERS Let us decorate your Bar Mitiva, Etc. With festive Low Cost Helium Balloons w. have Sslf-Sealing Helium Balloons.° W. also Custom Print Balloons, Buttons, Bumper Stickers, T-Shirts, Calendars. 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As the army moved in equipment to evict the set- tlers, Knesset members be- gan entreating the settlers to leave on their own volition. The mayor of Nablus, Aziz el Masri, declared there was rising resentment in the West Bank city against the settle- ment. The mayor made a formal protest to the military governor who, the mayor said, had given him assur- ances previously that there would be no settlement. One of the most serious clashes sparked by the un- successful attempt to estab- lish a settlement was at the farm owned by Likud leader Arik Sharon in the Negev where groups of Mapam youth and Moked members congregated Friday night. They set up a tent and put up flags and posters against the attempted settlement. The demonstration w a s quiet until Mordehai Levy, who was Sharon's driver dur- ing • the Yom Kippur War, became involved in a fight with demonstrators and his right leg, which had been broken during the war was broken again, and he was hospitalized. Later, more Sharon supporters arrived, and fights ensued until police forcibly removed the demon- strators from the farm. " Earlier Friday, in Jerusa- lem, a group of Hebrew Uni- versity students affiliated with the Labor Party were dem- onstrating at a major shop- ping area with signs such as "Law Is Not a Joke," and "Begin — the Negev Is Empty," when they became involved in a clash with re- ligious youths who tore their signs and poured water into their megaphones. Avraham Gal, secretary of the Labor Party Students Organization, was taken to the hospital after being kicked in the head. The stu- dents had passed out leaflets accusing Likud of introduc- ing fascism into Israel and trying to abolish democracy. The students demanded that the government act promptly against the settlers and bring them to court. The writer Amos Oz, one of the leaders in the demonstra- tion at Sharon's farm, noted: "This farm symbolizes the contradiction between the Sebastia act and the notion of settlement. Here are thou- sands of dunams owned by one person who employs Arab workers. Here there is plenty of land, waiting for Jews. They do not need to look for land near Nablus." The attempted settlement raised political differences which appeared likely to con- tinue even after the settlers decided to give up the at- tempt under government pressure. Doves in the cabinet said it was an illegal action which should be dealt with severely. Other s, particularly Rafi ministers including Pere s, agreed the settlers should be forced out, if ne - essary, but that action should be as deli- cate as possible, to dampen widespread differences among Israelis. Shulamit Aloni, head of the Citizens Rights Party, asked at the cabinet session Friday, at which the decision was made to force evacuation of the settlement, how it hap- pened that the army did not prevent the settlers from reaching the site, despite clear advance notice of their intentions. Some observers said for- mer Defense Minister Moshe Dayan was partially respon- sible for the settlement at- tempt. He spoke in favor of Jewish settlement in the West Bank in the Knesset last week, a statement con- sidered as giving a green light to the religious and Likud forces. But there was a general consensus among Premier Yitzhak Rabin's coalition partners that no matter what any particular minister thought about Jew- ish settlement on the West Bank in general, there was no justification for partisan settlements without govern- ment approval. A group of 15 professors from universities throughout the country urged Premier Rabin to enable Jews to set- tle in the Samaria region but Mapam spoke out strongly in opposition. 42—Friday, August 2, 1974 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Attacks on French Jewish' Cemeteries Called Savage PARIS (JTA) — A group of unidentified vandals last weekend desecrated the Jew- ish cemetery of Fergersheim near Strasbourg, destroying nearly 80 graves. It is the fourth attack on a Jewish cemetery in the region within the last two months. The area is in east- ern France near the West German border. The chief rabbi of the Strasbourg region, Max War- chawski, said he was con- vinced the attack was a "con- certed and deliberate action" rather than the work of un- organized hoodlums. The president of the Strasbourg Jewish community, Jean Ka- David a Dwarf? 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