Jewish Historical Society
Marks Its 20th Anniversary

United Hebrew Schools Names
Rabbi Teller Superintendent

Story on Page 14

The USSR Jewish
Emigration Trends
and the
Defections
From Israel

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Basic Facts
About the
Settlements

Commentary, Page 2

Story on Page 23

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Significance of
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Center

Confusions
in the Media
Vis-a-Vis Israel

Editorials, Page 4

June 15, 1979

U.S. Pressure on Canadian
Jerusalem Plan Is Protested

Schmidt Predicts Statute
of Limitations Extension

NEW YORK — The American Jewish Congress said it was "altogether deplorable" that the
United States should put "pressure" on Canadian Prime Minister Joe Clark to reverse his
decision to transfer the Canadian Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Howard M. Squadron, president of the AJCongress, said in a telegram to President Carter:

NEW YORK (JTA) — Chancellor Helmut Schmidt of West Ger-
many said that he expects a "slim majority" in favor of eliminating the
statute of limitations on the prosecution of Nazi war criminals when
the Bundestag (parliament) votes on the issue. Schmidt made his
forecast at a 45-minute meeting with a delegation of the American
Jewish Committee. The press was barred from the meeting but was
briefed afterwards by Richard Maass,
AJCommittee president and Rita 'E.
Hauser, chairman of its foreign affairs
commission.
According to Maass, the meeting
with Schmidt was a follow-up to a simi-
lar meeting that the AJCommittee
groups had with him in Bonn last April
at which time he assured the group of
his support of the extension of the sta-
tute of limitation's effective date. The
statute, which sets a deadline for the
prosecution of Nazi criminals not yet
apprehended is due to expire on Dec. 31.
.4 Meanwhile, the Federal Supreme
Court in Brasilia will begin shortly to
HELMUT SCHMIDT
consider extradition requests
from four countries for wanted Nazi war criminal Gustav Franz
Wagner who was arrested near Sao Paulo 13 months ago.
His extradition to stand trial is sought by West Germany,
Israel, Poland and Austria. Attorney General Fir-
k wino Ferreira Da Paz shares the opinion of his immediate pre-
decessor, Henrique Fonseca de Araujo, that Germany has the
most valid claim.
But Israel's request is expected to be given serious consideration.
The Plenipotentiary of the Israeli government in the Wagner case,
- i Jacob Dolinger, a Rio-based lawyer, has distributed a 203-page petition
among all 11 justices of the Supreme Court. The petition refers to
,- opinions by 40 prominent law experts, world wide, up-holding Israel's
claim.
Wagner remains confined to a mental hospital in Brasilia. His attor-
r Flavio Marx, says his condition has worsened to a point where,
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"Statements by former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and news stories cur-
rently appearing in the Canadian press indicate that your Administration has energetically
applied pressure upon two Canadian governments not to move the Canadian Embassy to
Jerusalem from Tel Aviv. During the course of the Canadian election campaign, former Prime
Minister Trudeau was quoted as saying that President Carter asked me not to change our
policy' on' the location of the Canadian Embassy in Israel.
"Canadian newspapers report that the new government of
Prime Minster Joe Clark is under intense pressure by our country to
keep the Canadian Embassy in Tel Aviv, despite a campaign pledge
by Clark that he would move the embassy and despite an an-
nouncement by him that he intended to fulfill that pledge. We have
serious misgivings about the political wisdom and morality of our
own government's refusal to acknowledge that Jerusalem is indeed
the capital of Israel. We recall the 1976 Democratic Party platform,
on which you ran, which included a plank calling for the removal of
the United States Embassy from Tel Aviv to Israel's capital,
Jerusalem.
"It is therefore particularly unseemly that your Adminis-
tration should not only fail to act upon your own party's
pledge but in fact to engage in what amounts to a missionizing
campaign to convert the Canadian government to that view."
In Jerusalem, the chairman of the Conference of Presidents of
Major American Jewish Organizations, Ted Mann, said it HOWARD SQUADRON
would be "very improper" for the U.S. Administration to be pressuring Canada to go back on its
intention to transfer its Tel Aviv Embassy to Jerusalem. Mann said if the rumors currently
circulating to this effect proved true, he would express his feelings to the Administration "in the
most effective possible way."
"It was bad enough," Mann said, for the U.S. itself "not to recognize" Israel's capital city, but
for Washinton to bring pressure to bear on others was "very improper."
In Ottawa, the Canadian gosernment has made clear that while it intends to honor Prime
Minister Clark's election campaign promise to move its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to
Jerusalem, this will not be done immediately and not before Canada takes under consideration
"the impact of such a move."
That position was stated officially by the new Minister of State for External Affairs,

Begin Blasts Critics of His Settlement
Plan; Israelis Egypt U.S. Are Targets

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Premier Menahem Begin lashed out against critics at home and abroad of his
settlement policy on the West Bank. In a lengthy statement, penned by his own hand, and released to the
media in Hebrew and English, the premier reiterated his insistence on Israel's "full right to settle in all
parts of Bretz Israel" and accused Israelis who call that "provocation" of
adopting "the evil path of the enemies of our people."
Begin fired his verbal broadside as the Israeli, Egyptian and American
delegations held their first business meeting in Alexandria in the negotia-
tions for autonomy on the West Bank and Gaza Strip. His words were
directed specifically at the Peace Now Movement which held mass demon-
strations over the weekend against the controversial Alon Moreh settle-
ment near Nablus; U.S. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski,
who said in a Washington television interview that the settlement "could
contribute to a reversal" of the peace process; and the New York Times,
which has accused Begin editorially of breaking a pledge made at Camp
David to freeze settlements.
MENAHEM BEGIN
Begin also reacted to a bitter personal attack against him published in
the Cairo newspaper Al Akhbar by its editor, Moussa Sabry, who accused the premier of a desire to kill the
autonomy talks at their inception. He declared, "We shall pay no heed to the invective or abuse spoken or
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Half of Israel's Arabs Reject
Its Existence, Survey Reveals

TEL AVIV (JTA) — Half of Israel's Arab population believes that
Israel does not have the right to exist and much larger percentages hold
negative views of Zionism and support the establishment of a Palesti-
nian state, according to the results of a survey made public this week.
The survey was conducted among Israeli Arabs by the Institute of
Research and Development of Arab Education under the direction of
Dr. Sami Samouha, head of the Arab Department of the Arab-Jewish
Center at Haifa University. It was financed by a grant from the Ford
Foundation.
The poll showed that while 50 percent reject Israel's right to
exist, 64 percent consider the Zionist movement to be racist; 75
percent of Arabs holding an Israeli passport support a Palesti-
nian state; and 48 percent define themselves as Palestinians.

The findings showed further that 87 percent of Israel's Arabs
support the return of Israel to its pre-1967 borders and 59 percent
would have it return to the original borders envisaged in the 1947
partition plan. Of those responding, 64 percent favored abolition of the
Law of Return which allows Jews from anywhere in the world to settle
in Israel as citizens.