DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
THE DETROIT
Friday, April 1, 1977 19
Israel Remains Ready to Negotiate
UNITED NATIONS
(JTA ) — Israel reaffirmed
Monday its readiness "for a
reconvening of the Geneva
conference at any time with
the participants of the origi-
nal conference of Decem-
ber 1973" and said that she
is willing to compromise
for peace in the Mideast.
Addressing the Security
Council, which held its sec-
ond meeting on Egypt's
request to discuss Secre-
tary General Kurt Wal-
dheim's recent Mideast
tour and the progress to-
grd reconvening the Gen-
a Peace Conference, Is-
1-aeli Ambassador Chaim
Herzog told the Council:
"We are prepared to
negotiate (with the Arabs)
today, tomorrow. We are
prepared for compromise.
We are prepared to go to
Geneva to a reconvening of
the peace conference with
the original participants.
We see the main problem
to be a clear definition of
the nature of peace. We are
not prepared to negotiate
with those who call for our
destruction because we
have no intention of com-
mitting national suicide."
Referring to recent re-
marks by President Carter
and Soviet Communist
Party Secretary Leonid
Brezhnev on the need for
negotiations between the
parties in the Mideast, the
Israeli envoy said: "The
fact the joint co-chairman
of the (Geneva) Conference
(the U.S. and the Soviet
Union) recognize the cen-
trality of the principle of ne-
gotiation between the par-
ties is of the greatest signif-
icance."
Herzoh said that Israel
"welcomes" Brezhnev's
Mideast statement, noting
.
that Israel takes cogni-
zance of the Soviet leader's
statement that the confer-
ence in Geneva, of course,
is not an end in itself. Fruit-
ful and just results of its
work are the main thing."
Herzog said, however,
that this welcome Soviet
move towards the principle
of free negotiations be-
tween the parties would ap-
pear to be somewhat irre-
concilable with the pre-
conditions for the final docu-
ment on peace which the
Soviet statement sets out in
advance of such negotia-
tions.
In particular on issues
which divide the parties
and which are vital to Is-
rael's security such as bor-
ders or the establishment
of a further state in addi-
tion to Jordan on our East-
em border."
Responding to the attack
against Israel by Egyptian
Ambassador Esmat Abdel
Meguid, who charged last
Friday at the opening of
the Council debate that Is-
rael is mistreating the
Arab population in the occu-
pied territories, Herzog
said disturbances in the
West Band "invariably coin-
cide exactly with the open-
ing of any Security Council
meeting. An analysis of all
the Security Council meet-
ings over the past years
will reveal the facts that
events in the West Bank
are not unrelated to the con-
vening of Security Council
meetings."
On the Egyptian charge
that Israel violates the
human rights of the Arab
population Herzog said that
the recent demonstrations
in Egypt over food prices
and the `'brutal repression
of hungry workers in
Egypt" do not give Meguid
"any standing" to talk
about human rights. He
said that it is time for the
UN to turn its attention to
the problem of human
rights in the Arab world.
On the issue of Arab refu-
gees, Herzig said: "that a
major exchange of popu-
lation in the Mideast has oc-
curred - with the absorption
of more than 800,000 Jewish
refugees from Arab coun-
tries in Israel. While the
Arab-Jewish refugees were
cared for by the Jewish
people, the Arab states,
Herzog charged, kept their
refugees in subhuman condi-
tions as political pawns".
IRV & SOL COHEN
And The Gang
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Passover Will Be Celebrated
Despite Romanian Earthquake
BUCHAREST—Passovei-
will be a sad event- for the
700 Jewish families in this
city whose rooms or apart-
ments were damaged by
the March _ 4 earthquake.
The Jewish community is
mourning over 100 dead.
Many hundreds more are
homeless and living tempo-
rarily with friends and rela-
tives under precarious con-
ditions.
The Federation of Roma-
nian Jewish Communities,
led by Chief Rabbi Moses
Rosen, together with the
American Joint Distribution
Committee are determined
to do everything possible to
enable every Romanian
ew to celebrate Passover.
As early as January the
community received 150
tons of matzot as well as
Passover wine from Israel,
sent by JDC as a gift, fi-
nanced with United Jewish
Appeal funds.
Part of the matzot and
wine were stored in Buch-
arest's Fortuna and Mamu-
lari Synagogues. They are
no longer functioning as
synagogues, and both were
severely damaged by the
earthquake. On the morn-
ing after the disaster, the
staff of the Bucharest Jew-
ish Community moved their
Passover supplies to safe
premises. A major part of
the matzot and wine were
saved.
This year as in previous
years, the Romanian Jew-
ish Federation will dis-
tribute matzot and - Pass-
over food parcels to over
12,000 needy. Jews through-
out the country. There will
be communal Seders for
over 1,200 persons in Buch-
arest and in 20 towns in the
provinces. Some of the syna-
gogues where the commu-
nal Seders are usually held
have been so badly dam-
aged that they cannot be
used. Makeshift premises
are being readied.
Forest for Hazani
JERUSALEM (JTA)A
20,000-tree forest has been
dedicated near the Etzion
bloc of religious settle-
ments in memory of the
late National Religious
Party Welfare Minister Mi-
chael Hazard.
NRP Pleader Yosef Burg
and Jewish National Fund
director general Shimon
Ben-Shemesh recalled Haz-
ani's role in developing the
Etzion settlements, on the
road from Jerusalem to
Hebron. Hazani died in
1974.
His widow unveiled the
plaque and received the
scroll of dedication from
Ben-Shemesh.
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