Yiddish Struggle,
Media Problems
Analyzed in Israel
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Courage of Nation
With Creativity
Commentary
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VOL. I.XX, No. 21
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Ordered Execution
Mrs. Bloch's Sons
Name Security Chief
As Her Murderer
LONDON (JTA) — The suspected murderer
of Mrs. Dora Bloch, the Israeli hostage killed in
Uganda after the Entebbe raid, was identified
herd by her family. He is Lt. Col. Farik Minawa,
assistant director of President Idi Amin's se-
curity police. After being removed from the hos-
pital in Kampala, Mrs. Bloch was said to have
been strangled on the orders of Minawa who then
shot her in the face.
Grenville Janner, Labor Member of Parlia-
ment who has been leading a campaign for the
recovery of Mrs. Bloch's body, said that previous
information released by her sons in Israel had
proved to be correct and1VIinawa should be put on
trial. Uganda still maintains that Mrs. Bloch left
the hospital before the Israeli raid at Entebbe
early last July 4, and that her disappearance was
Israel's responsibility.
According to Janner, a second Western dip-
lomat saw her alive after the raid in addition to a
British official, Peter Chandley. The diplomat was
identified as Andre Bonfi, the Cultural Attache at
the French Embassy.
It was he who first told the British High
Commissionei; about the presence of a British
woman in the hospital. Mrs. Bloch held a British
passport as well as an Israeli one. However, the
French government has refused to confirm that
Bonfi saw Mrs. Bloch, despite being urged to do
so.
Meanwhile, concern has been expressed here
at Amin's declared intention of coming to Lon-
don in June for the Commonwealth Conference.
Britain severed diplomatic relations with
Uganda over the Bloch affair but Uganda is still
a member of the Commonwealth.
Janner will press the government to oppose
Amin's visit as long as he continues to behave in
what the MP termed an "uncivilized and savage
manner."
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A New
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and Some Old
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Editorial
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January 28, 1977
Syrian Troops Cross
Red Line in Lebanon
TEL AVIV (JTA)— Israeli sources confirmed on Tuesday that a Syrian army unit of battalion
strength has entered the south Lebanese town of Nabatiyeh, less than 10 miles from Israel's
border. The Syrian troops and armored cars encountered no resistance from the4ocal populace,
according to the report. The unit is part of the inter-Arab peace-keeping force in Lebanon which
consists mainly of Syrian formations with token forces from other Arab countries.
The latest Syrian deployment has created a new situation in southern Lebanon, the Israeli
sources said, and developments are being watched closely. Nabatiyeh lies inside the Red Line
zone, a region never defined by Israel in precise geographical terms but in which Israel has said it
would take action if an Arab army entered and created a situation that threatened its
security. The force in Nabatiyeh is expected to fan out to the south and west in order to prevent
clashes between Moslem and Christian Lebanese. A Lebanese army unit has entered the port
town of Tyre which is also close to Israel's border.
Nabatiyeh has a population of about 26,000, mostly Moslem, and was the site of a terrorist advance
headquarters and logistics center.
An artillery duel Sunday night between Christians and Moslems in southern Lebanon sent
several stray shells crashing into Israeli territory near Kibbutz Misgav Am in Upper Galilee.
There were no casualties or damage.
Despite the new outbreak of fighting, Lebanese civilians continued to enter Israel through
the "Good Fence." A group of 16 Lebanese school teachers and principals visited the Reali School
in Haifa Tuesday to observe Israeli educational methods.
Wire service reports last week said Lebanese Christian leaders and Syrian President Hafez
Assad have agreed to prohibit "unauthorized" Palestinian raids into Israel from southern Leba-
non. The agreement was reportedly reached in Damascus at a meeting between leaders of the
Christian Lebanese Front and Assad.
Ambassador Hits
Meetings With PLO
Block Canadian Entry
by Trifa, Group Asks
MIAMI BEACH (JTA) — Israel's Ambassador
Simcha Dinitz has deplored unofficial meetings be-
tween American Jews and representatives of the
Palestine Liberation Organization as "well-
meaning efforts by friends of Israel that lead to
nowhere except to give credibility" to a terrorist
movement.
Addressing the annual plenary of the National
Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council
(NJCRAC) on Sunday, Dinitz contended that "such
dialogues are misused" by the PLO which, he said,
was struggling to regain prominence after having
been weakened "physically and politically" in the
Lebanon crisis.
The informal contacts, Dinitz said, are also
"misinterpreted" by some official American quar-
ters that the PLO's new pose of moderation is being
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MONTREAL (JTA) — The Canadian Jewish
Congress on Wednesday asked the minister of man-
power and immigration, Bud Cunnen, to deny ad-
mission to Archbishop Valerian Trifa who/is ru-
mored to be seeking entry into Canada because he is
under investigation in Detroit.
Alan Rose, executive director of the CJC, told
the minister that the CJC was concerned about the
number of suspected war criminals already resid-
ing in Canada. He urged that Trifa, who was a
member of the fascist Iron Guard during WW II
and held responsible for the massacre of Romanian
Jews, be kept out of Canada should he apply.
A CJC spokesman said that while the reports
were not confirmed, they were firm enough to lead
Rose to make his request to Cunnen. Trifa, according'
to the reports, hopes to enter Canada to settle. _
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Soccer Game By PHILIP
With
Human Message: Good Fence Still Prophetic
SLOMOVITZ
METULLA, Israel (on the Lebanese Border)— Why wouldn't the Israelis, or any normal
person, be intrigued by what is happening on Israel's border with Lebanon?
Members of the Lebanese Christian military unit crossed into Israel from the village of
Klea for a soccer game with Israeli soldiers. The Lebanese carried weapons and wore their
uniforms. To distinguish the players, the Israeli soldiers were without their shirts.
Major Gershon Bar-Lev, an Israeli army veteran who is in the reserves, serving in the
Miluyim — constantly on call for.reserve duties — was assigned the task of supervising the
Metulla Good Fence operations for a month. He was as excited as the audience that watched
the football game between Israeli soldiers and Lebanese Christian army units. Why not?
Wasn't it a sort of fulfillment of Prophecy that the lion shall lie down with the lamb and that
nation shall not make war upon nation any more; as predicted by Isaiah?
It didn't really matter who won or who lost: the Israeli sense of decency was the victor. After
all, the Lebanese who fought were in an enemy camp on Israel's border, even if deep down in
their hearts the Maronite Christians prayed for Israel's victory so that the Moslems should not
do them evil.
Metulla is one of the testing grounds in human decency. It was bordered by Fatahland,
whence came the terrorists who invaded Maalot, Kiryat Shemona and other Israeli settle-
ments, murdering innocent people, massacring children. Now Fatahland is no more — on
Israel's border, at least. Metulla is one of three sectors that have earned the name Hageder
Hatova, the Good Fence. Each so-called Fence spells freedom for Lebanese who are permit-
ted to enter Israel for family reunions, to secure jobs and to earn the same pay as the
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unionized Israelis.
Lebanese youth are shown loading Israeli water across the border from
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an Israeli medical unit serving Lebanese villagers.