THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
26 Friday, September 21, 1919
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Synagogue Sale Nixed?
NEW YORK — Con-
gregant.s of a Lower East.
Side synagogue asked the
New York Supreme Court.
this week to overturn the
sale of their synagogue to a
Buddhist chit.ch.
The Orthodox congrega-
tion, Chebra Ukadisha Is-
rael Mikalwarie, said the
building was sold impro-
perly last January by three
men who represented them-
selves as trustees of the
synagogue. The congreg-
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ants say they only know one
of the men, and he was not.
an officer of the cong-re. ga-
tion.
New York Assemblyman
Sheldon Silver intervened
in the case and found that
the men did not notify the
congregation or the New
York attorney general as
required by law. They did,
however, have the sale ap-
proved by a judge.
The synagogue, at 13
Pike St., was built in 1904.
Normally, 20 persons
attend Sabbath services
and 60-75 come for the
High Holy Days.
The congregants were
locked out of the synagogue
last week and held Sabbath
services on the sidewalk.
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JERUSALEM (JTA) —
The Cabinet on Sunday
lifted a 12-year ban on the
purchase of private land in
the administered territories
by Israeli citizens. The
Cabinet acted on a proposal
by Premier Menahem Be-
gin.
A government spokes-
man said afterwards that
the ban is now outdated'.
"Israelis have been permit-
ted to buy land everywhere
but Judaea, Samaria and
Gaza since 1967 and we feel
this is now ludicrous and
outdated," he said.
The decision brought pro-
tests from West Bank Arabs
and the governments of
Egypt, Jordan and the
United States.
The Cabinet decision
was unanimous and a
ministerial committee
will work out the details
of how sales are to be
made, he added. The un-
derlying assumption of
the proposal is that in the
future, private citizens
who may wish to pur-
chase land will be able to
do so subject to govern-
ment guidelines. This
would not, however,
permit unauthorized set-
tlement projects camouf-
laged as land purchases.
The Egyptian Foreign
-Ministry commented that
the Israeli decision was a
"serious obstacle" to the
middle East peace talks. A
Jordanian Embassy
Spokesman in Washington
confirmed that Jordan will
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Israelis, saying that such
sales are "high treason."
Arab leaders in the ad-
ministered territories
reacted bitterly. Bethlehem
Mayor Elias Freij, consid-
ered a moderate, r said the
decision was "a death war-
rant for the so-called au-
tonomy."
There will be "very deep
repercussions," he pre-
dicted, "throughout the
Arab world and especially
among the Palestinians,
who will stiffen their resis-
tance to the autonomy plan
and the Camp David ac-
cords."
The mayor said it was
"blatant discrimination"
to allow Israelis to pur-
chase West Bank land.
"Will Menahem Begin
permit West Bankers to
buy land in Israel?" he
asked. "I feel deeply
turbed by this decision,
but it justified our suspi-
cion that the autonomy
talks are simply a hoax."
There was a general
agreement in the territories
that landowners would re-
fuse to deal with Israelis.
There is a general consen-
sus that any Arab selling
land to Jews was risking his
life.
Arab leaders in the ter-
ritories sent cables of pro-
test against the decision to
world leaders, including
President Carter and Egyp-
tian President Anwar
Sadat. Several
municipalities published
statements condemning the
Cabinet decision.
The Carter Administra-
tion condemned the deci-
sion, saying "it runs con-
trary to the spirit of the
peace process itself." Faced
with questions on the Arabs
prohibiting Jews from buy-
ing property in their 22
countries, the administra-
tion backtracked to ac-
knowledge that it was not
assuming that a settlement
of the West Bank issue
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Reading a prepared
statement on Tuesday,
State Department
spokesman Hodding
Carter said, "While there
is some question about
the legal implications of
this action and its practi-
cal effect, it appears to be
contrary to the spirit . and
intent of the peace proc-__
ess." He said, "What
regret in general" abot.
the purchase decision
and "other steps" are ac-
tions that make the
"negotiations , in the
peace process more dif-
ficult."
Carter said "no" when he
was asked whether he based
his statement on the as-
sumption that a West Bank
settlement would prohibit
Jews from buying property
there. He was then asked
how he knows now that the
Israeli decision is inimical
to the peace process. Carter
responded that "We don't
know" what a settlement
would say about Arabs and
Jews buying land but that "I
am talking of the spirit" of
the peace process. "I can't
tell what the long-range
practical effect will be." He
said that the decisions
"might best be reserved for
the process in which we are
now engaged."
But while Carter said
that he was "not trying to
make a legal tie whatever"
about the decision and the
peace process, he said that
the U.S. position on new
Jewish settlements and on
the land purchase decision
is "not greatly dissimilar."
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