THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
State Department PLO Policy
Blasted by ADL, Republicans
NEW YORK — The Brock said. "It is a fact
Anti-Defamation League of The PLO are terrorists."
Bnai Brith has accused the He said the U.S. policy
U.S. State Department of should be "quite clear
acclimating the American and simple — no to ter-
people to the "smiling false rorism."
side" of the Palestine Liber-
Recalling Ambassador
ation Organization and Robert Strauss' statement
"creating a misleading im- on the NBC "Meet the
pression" of its terrorist Press," program that "I will
think about that along the
character.
In a joint response to a de- way" when he was asked
partmental explanation for whether he would like to sit
a visa approval to Shafik down personally and talk to
Al-Hout, a PLO propagan- Yasir Arafat, the head of
dist who lectured in several the PLO, Brock said, "The
U.S. cities recently, ADL's least we can ask this Ad-
two top leaders declared, ministration is not to send"
"this State Department de- Straussto talk with the PLO
cision was unwise and re- until the PLO accepts Is-
rael's existence, UN Secu-
grettable."
Maxwell E. Greenberg, rity Council Resolution 242
ADL's national chairman, and "rejects terrorist tac-
and -Nathan Perlmutter, tics."
national director, were
Brock addressed the
reacting to letters each re- Jewish Federation Council
ceived from Hodding Carter in Los Angeles.
"UnfoTtunately," Brock
III, assistant secretary of
state. Carter stated that said, "there are some in the
while the PLO is regarded State Department who are
as a--"proscribed" organiza- now actively attempting to
tion for which visas are re- use" Strauss and his posi-
stricted, a waiver was given tion as a mediator and con-
in the Al-Hout case because fidant to the President "to
he is a "moderate" within promote Arabist attitudes.
This must be resisted.
the PLO.
corre- Under the circumstances, I
In
their
spondence to Carter, the am skeptical of the role the
ADL leaders observed Administration is asking
his use of the term Bob Strauss to play.
"moderate" suggests the
"Similarly, this Ad-
ludicrous classification ministration should in-
of moderate terrorists.' sist that rejectionist
Al-Hout has never spo- Arabs — such as the Sy-
ken out against the ongo- rians, the Saudis, the
ing PLO policy of killing Jordanians — begin
innocents," and that he face-to-face talks without
therefore shares 'moral any concessional pre-
responsibility for such conditions from Israel.
murders.
The U.S. must not pro-
Carter's statement that vide any further tangible
the visa approval - for Al- inducements until we see
Hout does not change stand- their active participation
ing U.S. policy against in the peace process. It is
negotiation with the PLO time we used our lever-
until it accepts Israel's right age," Brock said.
to exist was also challenged
anwhile, the Arab,
Me
by the ADL officials, who Third World and Soviet
declared "in a subtle way, it blocs voted at the UN Con-
begins to do just that."
ference on Trade and De-
By providing the PLO velopment last week to pro-
with a U.S. platform, said vide aid to the ,PLO.
Greenberg and Perlmutter,
"we are conveying a mes-
sage to the PLO (as did Am-
bassador Andrew Young
several months ago when he
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The
referred to PLO representa- Justice Ministry has
tives at the U.S. as 'decent
recommended the early re-
men') that our policy is not
lease from prison of Terry
firm."
Fleener, 24, an American
Republican National
woman serving a five-year
1—)Committee Chairman Bill
sentence on charges of spy-
Brock declared Sunday
ing for a Palestinian ter-
night that the Carter Ad-
rorist organization.
ministration "has no firm
It also recommended the
policy with regard to the
release of Ludvina Jannsen,
PLO."
26, of Holland, on a
"The word terrorist is a
six-year term o n similar
word which has (Car-
charges. A ministry
ter's) administration
spokesman said Fleener
finds hard to use when
could be freed by the end of
speaking of the PLO,"
June and Jannsen in Sep-
tember, both for "good con-
Court Decision
duct."
Ms. Fleener, a former
NEW YORK (JTA) —
Kuwait Airlines stewardess
The American Jewish Con-
from Texas who admitted to
gress hailed last week as "a
the charges before she was
major victory for religious
freedom and church-state sentenced 15 months ago,
has been the subject of re-
-separation" a decision by
presentations by the U.S.
the United States Supreme
Court holding unconstitu- government on the highest
tional a New Jersey law levels. On May 14, Secre-
providing special income tary of State Cyrus Vance
tax deductions for parents asked Justice Minister
Shmuel Tamir to take ac-
who send their children to
tion for her release.
sectarian schools.
Friday, June 8, 1919 11
in your mail box today.
,
It is with much sadness, nostalgia, regret, and
mixed feelings that we announce this unpreced-
ented decision.
It was a tough decision for us to make after so
many years, but is had to be made. Now all that
remains is to sell off the remaining inven-
• tory....every single bit of it....rrght down to the
bare walls.
Israel Will
Free Fleener
PERMIT
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