18 Friday, August 3, 1979 (RALPH YAMRON'S Orchestra THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Two-Year Sentence in Murder of Arab Draws Criticism for Israeli Chief of Staff Judaism Detailed in Russian Book Music For All Occasions 968-0021 FIRESTONE JEWELRY Wholesale Diamonds & Jewelry Remounting Jewelry & Watch Repairing SUITE 318 ADVANCE BLDG 23077 Greenfield at 9 Mile 313 557 1860 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 1919 CADILLAC ANDY BLAU "Best Deal In Town" WILSON-CRISSMAN CADILLAC CALL BUS. MI 4-1930 RES. 642-6836 1350 N. WOODWARD, BIRMINGHAM WU:ODYSSEY (Formerly Metropolitan Optical Center) . ORCHARD MALL 15 MILE & ORCHARD LAKE RD. For Appointments call 851 - 9898 Fri. 10-8:30 Open Tues.-Sat. 10-5:30 I ONE YEAR BREAKAGE GUARANTEE MANY DESIGNER FRAMES TO CHOOSE FROM AT LOW INTRODUCTORY PRICES! 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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. Canada to Break Boycott Pledge Everything in the studio! Sherwood Studios Tel-Twelve Mall 12 tMle / Tel SUNDAY 12-5 a- !; • 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.