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Two-Year Sentence in Murder of Arab
Draws Criticism for Israeli Chief of Staff
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NEW YORK (JTA) — A
58-page book in the Russian
language has been pub-
lished by the National Con-
ference of Synagogue
Youth, the youth group of
the Union of Orthodox
Jewish Congregations of
America, describing the
concepts and practices of
Judaism.
TEL AVIV (JTA) — A
motion to dismiss Chief of
Staff Gen. Raphael Eitan
was submitted in the Knes-
set last week by Uri Avneri
of the Sheli faction.
He sent letters to all of his
fellow MKs urging their
support on grounds that
Eitan had lied in his public
statements justifying the
reduction of the prison sen-
tence imposed on an Israeli
army officer found guilty of
murdering four Arab pris-
oners during the occupation
of south Lebanon in the
spring of 1978.
Avneri presented his mo-
tion along with what he
claimed were the unpub-
lished details of the case. He
acted after two other MKs,
David Glass and Shmuel
Toledano, lodged a similar
complaint against Eitan
with Acting Premier Yigael
Yadin.
Glass, a member of the
National Religious Party,
is chairman of the Knes-
set's legislation and law
committee and Toledano,
of the Shai faction, heads
the state comptroller
committee. Both said the
Chief of Staff had dis-
torted the facts of the
case in a recently pub-
lished interview with
Yediot Achronot.
The public has had very
little information on the
case. The trial and various
hearings were closed and
military censorship has
cloaked the affair in sec-
recy. The officer in question
was never publicly iden-
tified. He was, however,
sentenced by a military tri-
bunal to 12 years' impris-
onment. An appeals court
reduced the term to eight
years.
Subsequently, the Chief
of Staff, who is empowered
to review and commute
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military sentences, cut the
sentence to two years.
This was done without
the public's knowledge.
When news leaked out,
many MKs' and other Is-
raelis were infuriated. The
issue has already had a
polarizing effect. About a
month ago, 150 reserve offi-
cers signed a letter protest-
ing the Chief of Staff's ac-
tion. Subsequently, 90 offi-
cers and soldiers in full uni-
form, entered the Knesset to
denounce critics of Eitan,
creating a brief uproar in
the chamber.
.
The Chief of Staff jus-
tified his clemency on
grounds that the officer
was alone and in a situa-
tion of extreme danger
when he killed the pris-
oners. But many MKs re-
called a similar instance
in which the Chief of Staff
reduced the sentence of a
soldier who killed an
Arab civilian, apparently
because the killing oc-
curred on the same spot
where a terrorist had kil-
led an Israeli soldier 24
hours before.
Meanwhile, the suppor-
ters of Eitan are attacking
his critics. They assailed the
"hypocrisy of those who did
not say anything when the
sentences of terrorists were
reduced but do so in the case
of a young officer."
Likud MK Pessah Crup-
per charged in the Knesset
that critics of Eitan are
besmirching the good name
of Israel's defense forces and
denigrating its values. He
claimed that the army's fu-
ture operation activities
may be impaired as a result
of this criticism.
Negev Seizure Stirs Knesset
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A
controversial bill that
would allow the govern-
ment to seize some 40,000
acres of Bedouin lands in
the Negev without the right
of appeal passed its first
reading in the Knesset
Tuesday night by a vote of
46-44, The narrow margin
was a disappointment to co-
alition leaders who had
hoped for a broad concensus
on the issue in view of the
strong internal and inter-
national criticism of the
measure.
The opposition was led by
the Labor Alignment which
had been asked by Finance
Minister Simha Ehrlich and
Justice Minister Shmuel
Tamir at meetings Tuesday
at least to abstain if it could
not support the bill.
The lands in question are
needed for the construction
of one of three U.S.-financed
air bases to replace those Is-
rael will give up in Sinai.
Under the terms of the
Israeli-Egyptian peace
treaty, the bases must be
completed within three
years. For that reason, the
government-sponsored bill
bans the right of the Be-
douins to appeal the confis-
cation of their land to Israeli
courts, a process that could
seriously delay work on the
airfields. The Bedouins
would be offered compensa-
tion, however, and the right
to appeal if they consider
the offer to be insufficient.
Members of the Labor
Alignment's Knesset fac-
tion met several times
with Ehrlich and Tamir
While the top party lead-
ers — Shimon Peres, Yet-
zhak Rabin and Yigal
Allon — favored absten-
tion, they were overruled
by junior MKs. The labor
faction voted 19-7 against
abstention and as a result
the party opposed the bill
en bloc.
Ehrlich agrued that "sup-
reme defense necessity" and
a desire not to jeopardize the
peace treaty were the only
reasons the government
presented the bill. He noted
that uninhabited lands
were selected for two of the
projected air bases but the
third, in the opinion of mili-
tary experts, had to be lo-
cated in the Tel Malhata
area south of Beersheba,
inhabited by about 6,000
Bedouins.
Several thousand Negev
Bedouins, joined by Arabs
from the Galilee, demon-
strated against the proposal
outside the Knesset on
Monday.
The demonstrators called
for a halt to the "Judaiza-
tion of our lands." Rabbi
Meir Kahane, leading a
counter-demonstration,
shouted, "Jews to Zion and
Arabs to Arabia." He scuf-
fled with the demonstrators
and with police who took
him into custody.
A spokesman for the
Bedouins called the pro-
posed law "racist, ethnic
and cruel." He noted that
even in the administered
territories the residents
have the right to appeal
to the Supreme Court.
"We as citizens are de-
nied that right. , We are
refugees without the
rights of refugees," he
said.
Yamit Protests
Compensation
TEL AVIV (JTA) —
Housing Minister David
Levy gave a tongue-lashing
Tuesday to angry residents
of the seaside town of Yamit
in northern Sinai who
blocked roads, set fire to
tires and burned a kiosk in
protest against what they
consider inadequate com-
pensation for evacuating
the town about 18 months
from now.
"Violence will not pro-
duce more money," Levy de-
clared. Yamit is one of the
Jewish settlements in Sinai
that must be abandoned by
1982 under terms of the
Israeli-Egyptian peace
treaty that calls for the total
withdrawal of Israeli civi-
lians and military person-
nel from the peninsula.
The Yamit residents have
been complaining for some
time that government red
tape has prevented an
agreement on the amount of
compensation and reloca-
tion problems.
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OTTAWA (JTA) — The
statement by a leader of the
ruling Progressive Conser-
vative Party last week that
its promise to enact tougher
legislation against applica-
tion of the Arab boycott in
Canada is no longer on the
government's list of
priorities, drew expressions
of outrage from the opposi-
tion Liberal Party. But
Canadian Jewish leaders
expressed confidence that
the government would
honor its pre-election com-
mitment.
Walter Baker, president
of the Privy Council and
leader of the Progressive
Conservatives in the House
of Commons, appeared to
link the boycott issue for the
first time with Prime Minis-
ter Joe Clark's election
campaign promise to move
the Canadian Embassy in
Israel from Tel Aviv to
Jerusalem.
Baker told a press confer-
ence that it would not be
appropriate to introduce an
anti-boycott bill while
Robert Stanfield, former
head of the Progressive
Conservative Party, is
studying the situation in
the Middle East.
Clark appointed Stan-
field last month to head a
study mission to the Mid-
dle East on the proposed
Embassy move and re-
lated issues. He was
given one year to draft a
report and recom-
mendations.
That move by Clark was
widely viewed as a retreat
from his Embassy pledge
under pressure from the
Arab oil-producing states
and Canadian business
interests.
Before the elections, the
Progressive Conservatives
were sharply critical of the
Liberal government's
boycott guidelines and
promised to introduce fool-
proof anti-boycott legisla-
tion modeled on the strict
anti-boycott laws enacted
by the provincial legisla-
ture in Ontario.
But now, Foreign Trade
Minister Michael Wilson
says the guidelines are
working well for the tim
being and that the gover:
ment is able to tell which
firms give in to boycott
pressure.
The largest network of
ORT schools is in Israel,
with some 50,000 students
enrolled in 86 centers.