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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
W. German Publisher Blasts UNAnti-Zionism Resolution
BY AXEL SPRINGER
Publisher of Die Welt
A horrible deed has been
done; in the glass tower on
East River a majority of the
United Nations General
Assembly has resolved to
declare Zionism as racism
and to condemn it accord-
ingly.
The United Nations,
founded 30 years ago to
promote and encourage
"respect for human rights
. . . for all without distinc-
tion as to race, sex, lan-
guage or religion", have
taken a great step on the
way to a decline scarcely
less graceless than that of
the former world organiza-
tion, the League of Nations.
The UN has confirmed Al-
exander Solzhenitsyn's
words in which he called it
an "immoral institution".
Zionism was the partly
nationally, partly reli-
giously motivated, move-
ment of Jews throughout
the world who sought a re-
turn to the heritage and the
land of their fathers. Racist
excesses — pogroms in
Czarist Russia and mil-
lionfold murder by National
Socialism — turned Zionism
from a romantic dream into
a necessity for survival.
Today Zionism is identi-
cal with the Jewish peo-
ple's right to self-determi-
nation. To identify
Zionism with racism is to
deny Israel's right to sur-
-
vive. .
Wherever in the world the
Jewish people, their faith or
their country's right to ex-
istence is disputed, the
question of the attitude of
the Germans cannot be ig-.
nored. The UN-delegation of
the Federal Republic of Ger-
many voted against the res-
olution, which the head of
the American delegatio,n
Daniel P. Moynihan called
an "infamous act" granting
"symbolic amnesty to the
murderers of the six million
European Jews". The Ger-
man Ambassador to the
UN, MI diger von Wechmar,
spoke of "a black day for the
United Nations."
All the parties in the Bun-
destag, the West German
parliament, unanimously
condemn the resolution. The
chancellor, the fdreign min-
ister and the leader of the
opposition have left no
doubt as to their unanimity
in the matter.
From East Berlin came a
quite different reaction. As
early as Nov. 9 the chairman
of the Jewish community in
Berlin, Heinz Galinski,
- pointed out "with loathing
and indignation" at a me-
morial service for the vic-
tims of the "Kristallnachtv,
the 1938 pogrom in Ger-
many, that the "DDR" was
also among the agaitators in
the UN bodies who most
stringly supported the ra-
cist resolution.
At the shameful specta-
ble of Germans, diplomats
of the "GDR", performing
as anti-Semites before the
forum of the United Na-
tions, one is constrained to
wonder again why in the
eaphoria of the Ostpolitik
Bonn paved, indeed
opened, the way into the
UN Organization for the
Communist-ruled state.
Under the headline "Can
One Shoot One's Way Into
the UN?" in Die Welt Au-
gust, -.1972 I warned that
East Berlin must be pre-
vented from joining the
United Nations "in the
name of human rights,
which are the aims of the
organization. Or are they
that no longer? What are
the aims, then? The "GDR"
in the UN, human rights out
— that cannot be the mis-
sion of the free part of our
country."
A year ago, when Arafat,
the leader of the PLO, the
Palestine Liberation Organ-
ization, was to called to
the podium of the United
Nations, the East German
delegates naturally voted in
favor. West Germany with-
held its vote, presumably
with a timid sidelong glance
at the great protector of
Arab terrorism, the Soviet
Union.
Since then the UN
forum, which should really
serve friendship between
the nations but now
spreads enmity among
them; has resolved to ad-
mit the PLO to all bodies
and meetings. And the
emissaries from East Ber-
lin are the most eager,
most sedulous,•most rigor-
ous partisans of those
who, today as in the past,
would annihilate the state
of Israel.
The- sacrifices laid three
'years ago apparently on the
altar of mutual understand-
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ban Ra'anana, in the Sharon
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called Neot Hoffman, the
new project will be the fore-
runner of additional- larger
building developments he
plans in the same vicinity. _
Hoffman has formed,
with American-trained Is- .
raeli construction engineer
Shimon Shrod, the Hoff-
man-Shuleah Construction
Corp., which has already
completed several. apart-
ment structures in the
Rpanana area.
ISRALOM, Homes and
Real Estate Ltd., an inter-
national agency servicing
the acquisition of residences
in Israel by families abroad,
Hoffman stated, has been
selected to handle overseas
sales for Neot Hoffman.
NEW YORK — A new
manual on "Creative Pro-
grams for Increasing En-
rollment" has been prepared
by the Board of Jewish Edu-
cation of Greater New York
as part of its Survival
Through Education Drive
activities.
The manual, the second in Israeli Patrol Hit
a series on promoting school
enrollment, was designed to by Lebanese Border
present school personnel
TEL AVIV (JTA) — A
with an outline of the pro- -border police patrol came
grams, activities and mate- under bazooka and small
rials necessary to mount an arms fire Thursday - in the
effective local recruitment vicinity of Zari'it near the
drive.
Lebanese border. The patrol
For information on any of returned the fire. There
BJE's Survival Drive mate- were no Israeli casualties.
rials, contact the Office of Several terrorists were seen
Communication and Public. entering a car and speeding
Information, Board of Jew- off when the Israel unit
ish Education, 426 West opened fire. It was not
58th St., New York, N.Y. known if the terrorists sus-
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tained casualties.
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ing are now turned _not
merely against the free part
of Germany, as heretofore,
but also against Israel, a
country endangered since
its foundation, to which we
Germans owe an obligation
more than any nation on the
earth.
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