12 Friday, November 9, 1919 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Israelis Stage Protest DO YOU NEED A RIDE TO THE AIRPORT? TEL AVIV — Some 50 citizens of Ophira, a town and naval base at the tip of Sinai, blockaded the strait between the Gulf of Suez and Aqaba Monday, with a fleet of boats. The Israelis complained that their government was not seriously negotiating Call Max 548-6209 No Sabbath calls please. PARTY PEOPLE Serving and Clean-up - Responsible, experienced help Lisa: 356-2056 Erica: 355-5813 for resettlement of 120 civi- lian families who will be displaced when the region is turned over to Egypt in 1982. As it is, Ophira is being slowly constricted, accord- ing to Yaakov Bar-Levi, one of the organizers of the pro- test. Another slice of Sinai will be returned to Egypt next Thursday and Ophira fishermen who have oper- ated between Ras Moham- med and El Tur on the Gulf of Suez will no longer be able to do so Tortured Syrians Released NEW YORK (JTA) — Seven Jews in prison in Syria have been released, Abe Dwek, president of the Committee for the Rescue of Syrian Jewry reported last week. He said at least one Jew is still in prison. Dwek said four of those released are the brothers Albert and Maurice Nus- seiri; their cousin, Eli Nus- seiri, and Nissim Zayyat. He said the four men and their families had escaped pearls to Lebanon when they were abducted by Syrian agents and returned to Damascus. The men were jailed and tortured, Dwek said. He noted that Albert Nusseiri was one of the Sy- rian Jews interviewed by Mike Wallace on CBS-TV's "60 Minutes" three years ago. He said that Nusseiri said at that time that condi- tions were good for Jews in Syria and subsequently was arrested for trying to leave the country. The three other Jews released are teenage brothers, Aaron, Moses and Joseph Guindi. Dwek said they had been arrested three times, twice in the last three months, and tortured. Dwek said the one Jew still known to be in a Syrian jail, is David Kabariti who was arrested after trying to get a visa to the U.S. He charged that an official at the U.S. Consulate in Damascus turned over Kabariti's false passport to Syrian authorities. Kabariti's parents and sister are in the U.S. His sis- ter, Sheila, was among the Syrian women allowed to come to the U.S. in July 1977, because Jewish .hus- bands were not available in Syria. 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Hi., Sat.. 10-6, 1hw.. 10 9 • .14 masts, charge NEW YORK (JTA) — A grassroots coalition repre- senting Christian and Jewish views about the leg- ality of West Bank settle- ments has been formed in New York. . Calling itself the Ad Hoc Committee for Settlement in the Land of Israel, the organization claims that "strong; thriving and secure Jewish settlements are the only deterrent to other claims on our land." Rabbi David Hill, honor- arr president of the Young Israel movement and the chairman of the coalition, told the founding meeting that the press has not played an objective role in regard to the issue of set- tlements in Judea and Samaria and stressed the need for an on-going politi- cal action coalition to spot- light the view in favor of settlements which he said are held by. a significant number of Christians and Jews. Prof. Paul Riebenfeld, a visiting scholar in polit- ical science and interna- tional law at Columbia University who was a Zionist delegate to the League of Nations Man- dates Commission from 1937-1939, said Israel's legal rights to settle the entire area west of the Jordan River were set forth in the British Man- date. This, he said, is not ac- knowledged by the press which only refers to Judea and Samaria as the biblical names applied by Premier Menahem Begin or the Gush Emunim, thus suggesting that these names are not currently applicable. Riebenfeld noted that Samaria was called Samaria under the British Mandate, that Gaza was called the District of Gaza, and Judea, of which Jerusalem is a part, was called the District of Jerusalem. Thus, he said, not only were the names Judea and Samaria validated by the . Mandate, in addition to biblical claims, but the Mandate "translated Jewish histori- cal rights into rights under international law." Shifra Hoffman, execu- tive director of the Shuva aliya movement, presented a statement on behalf of the National Christian Leader- ship Conference, a coalition of Catholic and other American Christian lead- ers, calling upon the Vati- can to recognize Israel "within secure boundaries" and cited a statement by the International Council of Christian Churches con- tending that the territories secured by Israel in the Six-Day War were liber- ated" and that Israel simply secured that which is prop- erly hers." Dr. Heskel Haddad, president of the World Organization of Jews from Arab Countries, who was forced to flee Iraq 26 years ago because of anti-Semitic persecu- tion by the Iraqi govern- ment, deplored the fact that there is little world recognition of the plig' of those Jews who wei, _ forced to flee Arab coun- tries and whose land and property was confiscated by Arab regimes. Noting that these refu- gees are now living in Is- rael, he stressed that any peace negotiations must recognize their right to re- ceive compensation for their lands and property. Bucket Brigade? TEHERAN (ZINS) — Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini suggested to the Syrian foreign minister recently that if every Moslem poured a bucket of water on Israel the country would be swept away.