THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
18 Friday, January 12, 1919
General Assembly Ends Year as Usual, With Hatred for Israel
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noticed. There was no better
example to illustrate the
growing irrelevance of the
world organization than the
issue of the Mideast.
The assembly began Sept.
19, only two days after the
historic Camp David
agreements were signed be-
tween Israel and Egypt. The
United Nations, which de-
votes so much time to ac-
rimonious Mideast debates
and attacks on Israel, WAS at
once over-shadowed by the
historic achievements of
Camp David.
Although diplomats said
that the General Assembly
did not follow'the "spirit" of
Camp David, the unprece-
dented breakthrough be-
tween Egypt and Israel, the
By YITZHAK RABI
UNITED NATIONS
(JTA) The 33rd session of
the General Assembly re-
cessed Dec. 21, the same
way it opened three months
ago: almost ignored and un-'
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accords nevertheless had
their impact, at least during
the first few weeks of the as-
sembly.
Historically united in
its hatred of Israel, the
Arab camp found itself
suddenly divided in the
wake of Camp David. De-
termined to sabotage the
Egyptian-Israeli impend-
ing peace treaty, the ex-
tremist Arab states —
Iraq, Syria, Libya,
Algeria and South Yemen
— with their chief sup-
porter, the Soviet Union,
joined forces to have the
General Assembly serve
their aims.
The United Nations,
which was established to
advance and promote peace
between its members, was
being used to delay and
obstruct peace in the
Mideast.
While the influence of
Camp David was felt during
the first half of the General
Assembly, with Israel
enjoying a relative period of
quiet, the Jewish state came
under fire during the last
weeks./of the assembly'.
Most notable of all the
anti-Israel resolutions was
an Iraqi-inspired resolution
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NEW YORK (JTA) —
Nearly 29,000 Jews left the
Soviet Union in 1978, ac-
cording to the Soviet Jewry
Research Bureau of the Na-
tional Conference on Soviet
Jewry.
The figure was slightly
lower than that expected by
Western diplomats, but by
far the highest in five years.
December's emigration of
4,197 was also the highest
monthly figure in five year s
and raised the 1978 total to
28,8 58.
In 1973, 34,933 Jews left
the Soviet Union, with
4,408 exiting in October of
that year, the bureau re-
ported,
Despite the anexpec-
tedly large number of
December emigres —just
about 1,000 more than in
each of the previous two
months — the annual fig-
ure failed to reach its
predicted peak.
News stories originating
in Moscow at the end of 1978
reported that "well-
informed Western dip-
lomats" estimated that
30,000-31,000 Soviet Jews
would emigrate in 1978, the
bureau noted. Soviet offi-
cials have not explained the
rise from 1977's total of
16,737, but it is believed
they want the United States
to lift trade restrictions that
are linked with emigration,
according to the bureau.
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Rights of the Palestinian
People, an anti-Israeli body
comprised of 23 members of
which 19 have no diploma-
tic relations with Israel.
The committee is devoted to
promoting the political
goals of the Palestine Lib-
eration Organization.
Ironically, while the
standing of the PLO in
the Arab world in gen-
eral, in Lebanon in par-
ticular and in major
Western capitals has
been reduced to zero as a
result of the civil war in
Lebanon and the Camp
David accords, its stand-
ing in the UN was
strengthened during the
33rd assembly session.
While each member state
has to finance its own prop-
aganda activities at the UN,
the PLO, which has &a-
server status, disseminates
its anti-Israel propaganda
through a "Special Unit for
Palestinian Rights" within
the UN Secretariate, which
has a budget of $500,000.
In addition, the PLO
managed — with the mas-
sive Arab vote at the UN —
to pass a resolution requir-
ing the United Nations De-
velopment Program "to con-
sult and cooperate" with the
PLO on practical projects to
improve the social and eco-
nomic conditions of the
Palestinians.
In the view of diplomats
here, such resolutions
enhance the political stand-
ing of the PLO at the world
organization.
With the Camp David ac-
cords and the Blair House
peace negotiations in the
background of the 33rd ses-
sion of the General Assem-
bly, the irrelevance of the
UN to peace in the Mideast
was clearer than ever. Some
even felt that the UN had
turned into an obstacle to
peaceful Mideast solution.
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Ilyinka Jews Are Visited
The celebration of "Pales-
tine Day" was yet another
UN peculiarity. The "Pales-
tine Day" was sponsored by
the Committee for the Exer-
cise of the Inalienable
29,000 Exited
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calling on the Security
Council to impose an arms
embargo on Israel.
Although it was clear '
that the United States —
and other Western pow-
ers — would block such a
move by • their veto
power, observers here
viewed the Iraqi-inspired
resolution as bringing a
new dimension in the
struggle against Israel by
alleging a nuclear col-
laboration between Is-
rael and South Africa.
Israeli sources pointed
out that Egypt, while con-
ducting peace negotiations
with Israel in Washington,
gave its sponsorship to the
arms embargo resolution
against Israel, contrary to
all expectations. In the
opinion of diplomats, had
Egypt disassociated itself
from that resolution it
would not have been
adopted by a two-thirds
majority.
As in previous as-
semblies, there was no shor-
tage of anti-Israel resolu-
tions, ranging on issues
from Israel's occupation of
Arab land to its relations
with South Africa. But the
"novelty" of this year's as-
sembly was the celebration
of "Palestine Day" on Nov.
29 — the same date of the
1947 UN partition resolu-
tion 'which recommended
the establishment of Israel
as a Jewish state.
American members of the Student Struggle for
Soviet Jewry visit three generations of Ilyinka Jews
in Jerusalem, some of the lucky few who managed to
win emigration from a Jewish "shtetl," now a collec-
tive farm, deep in rural Russia. Today, the Ilyinkaites,
descendents of peasants who converted en masse to
Judaism, remain tenaciously observant and are per-
secuted and barred from exit. A detailed booklet,
"The Jews of Ilyinka - II," is available free in single
copies 'from the SSSJ at 200 W. 72nd St., suites 30-31,
New York, 10023.
ORT Federation Meeting
Will Initiate Centennial Year
NEW YORK — Paul
Kedar, newly designated
Consul General of Israel in
New York, will help initiate
the 100th Anniversary ORT
Celebration — the Organ-
ization for. Rehabilitation
through Training — when
he addresses the National .
Conference Dinner of the
American ORT Federation
Jan. 20 at the New York
Hilton.
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Some 600 • delegates
attending the three-day
American ORT Federation ,
National Conference, Jan.
19-21, are also scheduled to
hear reports on the critical
problems currently involv-
ing the Iranian Jewish
community, Russian
Jewish migrants and the
immediate prospects for
peace in Israel and the Mid-
dle East, as well as ORT's
increased responsibilities in
many areas.
Among those -who will
address the delegates are:
Eugene Gold, New York
district attorney and
chairman of the National
Council on Soviet Jewry;
Gaynor Jacobson, executive
vice president of the United
HIAS Service; Mrs. Bella
Akselrod, principal of the
ORT Vocational School in
Ramat Gan, Israel; Ab-
raham Karlikow, director of
the Foreign Affairs De-
partment of the American
Jewish Committee; and Dr.
Judah J. Shapiro.
Intensified worldwide
ORT activities to meet the
needs of Jews in 24 coun-
tries of Europe, North Af-
rica and the Middle East,
particularly Israel, and the
budget to fund them, will be
described in keynote ad-
dresses by Harold Fried-
man, president, and by Dr.
Roland -Moskowitz, chair-
man, National Organiza-
tion Committee of ORT.
There are 93,000 Jews in
Michigan.
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