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Friday, November 2, 1979
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Clark Withdraws Canadian Embassy Stance
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OTTAWA (JTA) — Prime
Minister Joe Clark has
submitted to the Canadian
House of Commons an
interim report by Ambas-
sador at Large Robert Stan-
field in which Stanfield
recommended that Canada
should not implement
Clark's campaign promise
to move the Canadian em-
bassy from Tel Aviv to
Jerusalem. Clark said he
had accepted the recom-
mendation.
Stanfield made his report
on his return from a six-
week tour of the Middle
East to get their views on
the transfer proposal.
"It is not now our policy to
move the embassy from Tel
Aviv to Jerusalem," Clark
Congregation Shaarey Zedek
and
told the House of Commons. might in fact work
"If there is a just and lasting _ against progress toward
peace settlement that set- a just and lasting peace.
tles and clarifies the ques- The government accepts
tion of Jerusalem, that may the recommendation that
allow us to reopen the ques- no action be taken until
tion. But until there is such the status of Jerusalem is
a clarification, within the clarified within a com-
context of a just and lasting prehensive agreement
settlement, the Canadian between Israel and its
embassy will remain in Tel Arab neighbors."
Clark's backtreading on
Aviv."
Clark said, in answer- the Jerusalem promise has
ing a question, As a re- put him in an awkward
sult of extensive consul- position with the opposition
tation, Mr. Stanfield has parties. Both Liberal leader
concluded that a change Pierre Elliott Trudeau and
in the location of the New Democratic Party
Canadian embassy in Is- leader Edward Broadbent
hat they
what
rael could be seen as pre-
judging the negotiations termed "your irresponsible
among parties in the campaign commitment."
Broadbent called Clark's
Middle East. The move
pledge "an incredibly bad
decision." Trudeau said that
"it was a disastrous decision
made by Clark which has
not brought only tremen-
dous financial losses but
also loss of credit interna-
tionally for Canada."
Detroit District
Zionist Organization of America
present
Jewish Settlements
in the 'West Bank'
to be discussed by
PROF. LEON H. WARSHAY
SHELDON L. KLIMIST
Wayne State University,
Sociology
National Vice President Labor
Zionist Alliance and President
Histadrut Associates
PROF. MICHAEL DRISSMAN
RABBI DR. LEO Y. GOLDMAN
Macomb County College,
Political Science
Congregation
Shaarey Shomayim
Introductions
LEONARD E. BARON
President, Congregation Shaarey Zedek
Moderator
SIDNEY SILVERMAN
President, Detroit District ZOA
Sunday, November 4, 1979
8 P.M.
CONGREGATION SHAAREY ZEDEK
27375 Bell Road, Southfield
BRING YOUR FRIENDS
Within the Jewish com-
munity, the disappointment
was manifest in the state-
ments given by Leon
Kronitz, executive vice
president of the Canadian
Zionist Federation, who
said, "We are disappointed
that the Prime Minister of
Canada gave in to this type
of pressure. We believe that
only the government of a
country can decide which
city will be its capital. Israel
has chosen Jerusalem for
historic, cultural and politi-
cal reasons and Jerusalem,
in our view, will remain the
capital of the state of Israel.
Therefore, eventually all
the friendly countries which
have diplomatic relations
with Israel will have their
embassies in Jerusalem."
Abdullah Abdullah, di-
rector of the Palestine sec-
tion of the Arab League In-
formation Center in Ot-
tawa, said that Clark's deci-
sion was "a correction of a
previous mistake which is a
good thing. It is a positive
step for the government to
realize its mistake and cor-
rect it."
* * *
Trudeau Against
`Jewish Pressure'
Earlier, Trudeau warned
that continuing pressure by
Canadian Jewish leaders
over anti-boycott legisla-
tion and the transfer of
Canada's embassy could stir
anti-Semitism in Canada.
He also charged that
pressure by Zionists in the
United States is making it
difficult for President Car-
ter to aid in the current
Middle East peace negotia-
tions and that the Israel
government's hard line on
the West Bank makes a set-
tlement of the Palestinian
problem impossible and
oculd result in a new war in
the Middle East.
Trudeau expressed his
views in an interview pub-
lished in the Toronto Star
last Thursday. "Zionists in
the United States, who are
more zealous than in Israel,
have made it difficult for
Carter to aid negotiations
by telling Israel they must
be more flexible or risk los-
ing American support,"
Trudeau was quoted as say-
ing.
He said similar pres-
sure was exerted by
Canadian Jewish leaders
who are only now becom-
ing aware that by forcing
the Conservative gov -
ernment to promit
tougher anti-boycott-
legislation and to shift
the Embassy to
Jerusalem "they have
opened the way to grow-
ing anti-Semitiim."
"The pressure groups in
Canada, responsible for
convincing the Conserva-
tive Party while they were
in opposition, to support
boycott legislation tougher
than ours (Liberal Party)
and the embassy transfer"
have hurt Canada eco-
nomically, Trudeau said,
and thereby stirred anti-
Semitic feelings.
•
He expressed the belief
that Canadian Jewish lead-
ers are only now becoming
cognizant of this fact and
therefore would be urging
Prime Minister Joe Clark to
back away from his election
campaign promises.
Polish Theater
Schedules U.S.
Tour in '80
WARSAW — The Polish
State Jewish Theater has
signed a contract with
American producer Jack
Garfein to tour the United
States early next year.
The 30-member cast of
the theater, augmented by
10 non-Jewish Polish ac-
tors, performs in Yiddish
with a simultaneous Polish
translation (on headsets) for
its audience in Warsaw. An
English translation will be
provided for the six-week
run at the Belasco Theater
in New York.
Following the prefor-
mances in New York, the
company, which last per-
formed in America in 1964,
will go on an extended tour
of the U.S. The places and
dates of performances have
not been set.
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