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Protests Punctuate World Palestinian Solidarity Day
WASHINGTON (JTA) — $500,000 the United Na-
The United States described tions is spending for what is
"International Day of Sol- in effect a glorification of
idarity with the Palestinian the Palestine Liberation
People" as "confrontational, Organization.
one-sided and not helpful in
Carter said that the
the quest for a just regional Congress, by amendment
settlement of the Arab- to the State Department's
Israel conflict."
authorization bill, had
The State Department's requested President Car-
chief spokesman, Hodding ter to instruct Andrew
Carter, gave the Adminis- Young, United States
tration's views at a news Ambassador to the UN, to
briefing after questions had oppose the continuation
again been raised by a re- of both the UN special
porter as to when the U.S. unit and the committee.
would speak out against the
The legislation, he
program Nov. 29 and also pointed out, also asked the
about the Administration's President, "to use all means
continued silence regarding at his disposal to obtain ac-
the written pi'otests by 28 tion by the General Assem-
Senators against the U.S. bly to terminate" the com-
payment of $190,000 of the mittee and the special unit.
"We have been doing pre-
cisely that," Carter said.
Similar views were ex-
of
pressed to Rep. William
Brodhead (D-Mich.) when
he objected to the U.S. fund-
ing for the Nov. 29 activi-
ties.
The British Foreign
Office gave a similar view to
the Board of Deputies of
British Jews, saying that
Britain opposed the activi-
ties but would not cut its
UN commitment.
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Ambassador to the UN, re-
sponding to a reporter's
question on Solidarity Day,
said: "The glorification by
the UN of a terrorist organ-
ization bent on the destruc-
tion of a member state of the
UN is not only a grave
breach of the UN's own
charter. It is also a grave in-
sult to the memory of the
murdered athletes of
Munich, of the murdered
school children of Maalot
and of the countless victims
of these criminal elements
in Israel and the world over.
"The UN has never had
an international day of sol-
idarity with the victims of
terrorism. Yet is has seen fit
to celebrate its solidarity
al
Two conflicting tenden-
cies in the development of
therapy for physical and
mental illness are well
illustrated in "The Origins
of the Healing Art — a
Psycho-Evolutionary Ap-
proach to the History of
Medicine," by Dr. Irving I.
Edgar (Philosophical Li-
brary Inc.).
The first set of char-
acteristics is represented in
the early phase of medical
history, such as: Stubborn
dependence upon authority,
the superstitious, and
supernatural; the other set
by the steadfast pursuit of
truth with no regard to the
consequences.
The author details the
first phase that presumes
that illness is caused by evil
spirits, witchcraft, human
sins, anger of the gods, and
the consequent resorting to
therapeutic measures as
exorcism, amulets, incanta-
tion, magic numbers,
plants, and parts of animals
and humans.
That such magical
thinking was not inno-
cent is illustrated by an
event in the year 1348 in
Strassburg during the
Black Plague:
A Jewish doctor named
Balavignus urged the
ghetto dwellers to keep
their bodies clean, burn the
refuse, and remove the buc-
kets from the wells. This
diminished the rat popula-
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Some 2,000 people, most
of them students, massed in
Dag Hammarskjold Plaza
opposite the UN headquar-
ters to protest Solidarity
Day in a demonstration or-
ganized by the North
American Jewish Students
Network. They denounced
the PLO and carried signs
reading "Israel Wants
Peace — The PLO Wants Is-
rael," and "Jewish Blood is
not Cheap."
At the Isaiah Wall, four
blocks away, about 150
American Palestinians
and their supporters,
many dressed in tradi-
tional Arab headgarb,
marched in support of
the PLO. They handed
pamphlets to passers-by
denouncing the Camp
David accords and cal-
ling for rallies in major
American cities to pro-
test "Zionist settlers col-
onialism."
The pro-PLO rally was
sponsored by the Organiza-
tion of Arab Students in the
U.S. and Canada.
The UN events on behalf
of the Palestinians included
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A number of Jewish
groups in the U.S. pro-
tested the Arab celebra-
tion. A delegation of Bnai
Brith leaders met with
Ambassador James
Leonard of the U.S. Mis-
sion at the UN. Other pro-
tests were made by Bnai
Zion, the fraternal group,
and Charlotte Jacobson,
chairman of the Ameri-
can section of the World
Zionist Organization.
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As a result, the number of
deaths among the Jews was
only five percent of the
population.
A vicious rumor spread
that Jews poisoned the
wells. This was followed by
the torture of the Jewish
physician and the massacre
of thousands. A memorial
honoring the victims of this
superstition is presently lo-
cated in Strassburg.
The positive aspect of
human endeavor is shown
by the author as
exemplified in leprosy
quarantine, and especially
in the Jewish observance of
"kashrut", rules for sex
hygiene and the general
precept that "cleanliness is
next to godliness."
The struggle between
the arrogance and in-
tolerance of the. estab-
lished authority and sci-
entific research contin-
ued to hamper such
pioneers as Harvey, Lis-
ter, Virchow, and
Semelweiss. (The latter
fought the bigotry of the
medical die-hards, suf-
fered the arrows of
ridicule and humiliation
before his ideas of Puer-
pural Sepsis were ac-
knowledged.)
The section on the Origin
and Development of Shock
Therapy was most interest-
ing and excellent in pre-
sentation.
Dr. Edgar completes his
book with essays on psy-
chology, literature, reli-
gion, and law — offering
stimulating and challeng-
ing ideas. The section on
Maimonides is a very con-
cise analysis of the contri-
butions of this great Jewish
physician and scholar
whose credo is now a model
for graduating physicians,
replacing the Hippocratic
Oath.
an exhibition of Palestinian
posters, screening a PLO-
produced film and speeches
by the members of various
delegations participating in
Solidarity Day and by Sec-
retary General Kurt Wal-
dheim.
Meanwhile, Nov. 29 was
used by Jordanian Televi-
sion to air a videotape of a
controversial Israeli pro-
gram aired earlier this year.
The film, "Hirbet
Hiza," is an adaptation
a play by S. Yizhar
the expulsion of Arab-v.L.-
lagers by Israelis during
the 1948 war. Although
purely fictitious, the Jor-
danian broadcasters
have termed the film a
documentary account
about "occupied Arabs"
suffering at the hands of
Israeli soldiers.
"I can only regret that the
film is being used by the
Jordanians for propaganda
purposes," Yizhar said.
"The film was intended for
Israeli audiences mature
enough to judge its message
in the correct proportions.
The story is not political. Its
objective is to draw atten-
tion to all actions which
cause suffering to persons of
all creeds. Perhaps now
Arab writers, too, will be-
come more sensitive to the
suffering of all nations."
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