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Rosenfeld Admonishes Israel's
Friends of Plot to Destroy State

ALVIN ROSENFELD

Alvin Rosenfeld, for many years a foreign corres-
pondent for American newspaperS in Israel, a broad-
caster from Israel for NBC, a resident in Israel for
many years, writes as an expert. Few have devoted as
much time to the subject involving Israel's security.
His admonitions of the threats confronting Israel
and of the plots on the nation's right to live assume
special significance.
In "The Plot to Destroy Israel: The Road to Ar-
mageddon" -(Putnam) Rosenfeld explores every aspect
of the Middle East situation, probes the evidence of a
desire to destroy the 29-year-old, state and warns of the
enmities and hatreds that are uniting the antagonists
who are bent upon the demolition of -Israel's
sovereignty.
The Arab Jihad warehreat, the terrorist dangers
and brutalities, the Arab states' combined animosities
are the paths to Armageddon which -inspire Rosen
feld's warnings.
The views of this authoritative foreign correspon-
dent are summarized in this epilogue:
"Short weeks before the accession of the Carter
Administration, the Arabs mounted a new campaign
in their war of destruction against Israel. The catch-
w0 this time was Peace. The major weapon in the
",pedre offensive:' was oil. In return for its generosity
in holding an oil-price increase to "only" five percent,
Saudi Arabia expected the United States to show "ap-
preciation" by forcing an Arab-style peace on Israel.

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"The blackmail was softened by images of new mod-
eration in which none Other than Yasir Arafat, the angel
of the Lebanese war, figured prominently. The PLO was
to "accept" a mini-state linking the West Bank with Gaza
via a corridor slicing through Israel.
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"Were the pivotal Arab states, then, ready for
peace? No. They were ready, as Anwar el-Sadat
acknowledged, to repay Israel for full-scale retreat
with nothing more than an end to "the state of war,"
without open _frontiers, trade or diplomatic relations.
Israel would thus remain, as she had been for three
decades, the pariah of the Middle East, but added to
her isolation would be a new vulnerability and the
presence of a new Arab state called Palestine, a state
viewed by the ,Arab world simply as a step toward
Israel's elimination.

"What if Israel refused to sign her own death war:
rant? Hafez el-Assad, with Sadat one of the world's
newfound "moderates," had an easy answer; there
was always, he pointed out in the midst of the "peace
offensive," the "military option." •

Warsaw Ghetto Subject of Study

N DON — The to the Allied powers, and
London-based Wiener the unwillingness or ina-
Library has published in bility of those powers to
volume 29 of its bulletin, a take any action to rescue
study on the American the ghetto sufferers.
Grobman's documented
public reaction to news of
the atrocities committed study includes anguished
in the Warsaw ghetto, by texts of telegrams sent by
Alex Grobman, a doctoral the ghetto Jews to the
candidate at the Institute West, and discusses the
of - Contemporary Jewry 1943 Bermuda -Confer-
at the Hebrew University ence which purported to
find a solution to the
of Jerusalem.
problem of Jewish victims
Grobman traces, the of Nazi persecution, while
gradual
unfolding
news of the
ghetto, of
ac- the Germans finally de-
the ghetto and its
companied by public and stroyed
last occupants.
private protests of Jews

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N.Y. Legislature Will Consider Bill
to Shield Disabled From Conversion

NEW YORK (JTA) — A
bill to prevent the con-
version of minors who are
under state supervision
will be considered soon by
the New York State As-
sembly.
Assemblyman Leonard
Silverman, who repre-
sents the Flatbush and
Boro Park section of
Brooklyn, said that he in-
troduced the bill after
learning that two re-
tarded young Jews in
state-supported foster
homes had been con-
verted to Catholicism.
Silverman's bill would
forbid the religious con-
version of any minor in a
psychiatric center or
facility, development
center, group home, fam-
ily care home, foster care
home, for retarded chil-
dren being supported or
maintained under the
supervision of the state
department of mental
hygiene. A similar bill is
expected to be introduced
in the state senate.
urging
- Silverman,
Jewish organizations to
support the legislation,
said the problem came to
his attention when he
learned that children who
had been sent to foster
homes from the Willow
brook Developmental
Center on Staten Island
had been converted by
their foster parents.
Rabbi Philip Goldberg,
the Jewish chaplain at
the center for retarded
children, said the prob-
lem arose when the state
decided a few years ago
that children would be
better off in foster homes
than in institutions.
However, he said Jewish
families have not offered
to take in the children,
even though funds are
provided, so they go to
Christian homes. At the
time the program began,
Goldberg said, 1,400 of
Willowbrook's children
were Jewish. Now there
are 700 Jewish children
there.
Goldberg said that
some of the foster parents
want .the foster children
to have the same religion
as they and -their other
children have and so have
converted them. This, he
noted, has happened in
three cases. He said that
the Catholic chaplain at
Willowbrook also com-
plained that two Catholic
children sent to foster
homes were converted to
the Pentecostal faith.
Asked whether these
children would have the
mental capacity to un-
derstand the conversion
process, Goldberg stres-
sed that they do. In addi-
tion, he emphasized that
as Jews "they are as dear
to us as normal children:"
He said according to
Jewish law they are ac-
cepted fully as Jews.
As- Jews, the children
may be better off in -in-
stitutions thari in the fos-
ter homes, Goldberg
noted. He said he provides
the children with Jewish
education and with Sab-
bath services as well as
with special programs for
the Jewish holidays.

More than 330 colleges
universities
and
throughout the United
States now offer Jewish
studies, with 40 offering
programs leading to a de-
Funds come froin various vice president of the New gree and 27 offering
Jewish organizations and York Board of Rabbis,. graduate courses.
the rabbi himself. has reported that a
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various locations.
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Rabbi incompetent to deal With
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German Official in Middle East
for Talks With Arab Leaders

BONN (JTA) — West
German Foreign Minister
Hans-Dietrich Genscher,
currently visiting the
Middle East, met with
Syrian President Hafez -
Assad and Foreign Minis-
ter Khaddam in Damas-
cus.
They reportedly dis-
cussed the . Middle East
conflict, -Arab-European
relations and bilateral
matters. German' sources
said that Khaddam and
Genscher had reached
"wide agreement in their
assessment of the objec-
tive possibilities of a
Mideast peace."
In interviews with Sy-
rian and Kuwaiti' news-
papers, Genscher praised
the "constructive at-
titude" of Assad. He said
"Syria's role in what has
already been achieved
and in future progress
cannot be over-
estimated."
Genscher is expected to
meet with King Hussein of
Jordan and President
Anwar Sadat of Egypt and
with the foreign ministers
of ' those countries.
Gerischer's visit to Syria is
the first by a West German
Foreign Minister since
Syria broke diplomatic re-
lations. 10 years ago be-
cause of German arms de-
liveries to Israel. Rela-
tions were restored be-
tween the two countries in
August, 1974:
Since 1974 Syria has re-
ceived $72 million in
German capital aid (loans
at cheap interest) and

technical help worth $12
million. Trade has also
risen rapidly. Germany
has since 1973 been
Syria's largest source of
imports.

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