THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Elon Moreh Wins Five-Week Extension

JERUSALEM (JTA) —
The government easily de-
feated four motions of no-
confidence Tuesday over the
five-week extension
granted for the evacuation
of Elon Moreh.
The vote was 60-43 with
independent MKs Moshe
Dayan and Samuel Flatto-
Sharon supporting the coal-
ition. Geula Cohen and
Moshe Shamir of the ultra-
nationalist Tehiya move-
ment and Kalman Kahane
of the Poale Agudat Israel
abstained.
Premier Menahem Begin
vigorously defended the ex-
tension voted by a majority
of the Cabinet last Sunday
on grounds that the time
was needed to complete the
new settlement at Djebil
Kebir so that it would re-
ceive the . Elon Moreh
settlers.
He denounced charges
that he was surrendering
to the Gush Emunim as
"libel and slander" and
insisted that both the
government and the
settlers have complied
with the Supreme Court's
order to evacuate the
Arab-owned land on
which Elon Moreh was
built.
Several parcels were re-
turned to the Arab owners
in November and, according

to Begin, he was assured by
the Gush Emunim that the
remainder of the land will
be evacuated as soon as Dje-
bil Kebir is ready.
No-confidence motions
were introduced by four op-
position factions — the
Labor Alignment, Shai,
Sheli and the Communist
Party. Labor MK Yossi
Sarid, who opened the de-
bate, said the Cabinet's ac-
tion on Elon Moreh ignored
the Supreme Court's ruling
and it appeared doubtful,
therefore, that Elon Moreh
will be completely
evacuated.
He charged that the Gush
Emunim were dictating to
the government.
Charlie Biton of the
Communist Party said
the government was
spending millions of
pounds on West Bank set-
tlements while it was urg-
ing the underprivileged
to tighten their belts. The
Gush Emunim, he said,
not only dictates settle-
ment policy but runs the
country's economy.
Meir Payil of Sheli said
the .government's settle-
ment policy was undermin-
ing the peace agreement
with Egypt by preventing
the establishment of a self-
governing body in the occu-

pied territories.
Payil attacked Agricul-
ture. Minister Ariel Sharon,
chairman of the ministerial
settlement committee, as
"Baron von Sharon" who,
like a Prussian Baron, tries
to impose his leadership
over the entire state with-
out having any real consti-
tuency among the public.
Dayan, who resigned as
foreign minister last Oc-
tober 21, just one day before
the Supreme Court ordered
the removal of Elon Morel;
explained that he supported
the government Tuesday
"so that one does not inter-
pret my vote as opposition to
settlement in the ter-
ritories," but he made it
clear that he was opposed to
Elon Moreh and to the new
settlement at Djebil Kebir,
both close to Nablus, the
largest Arab population
center on the West Bank.
He said there was no
justification for the new
settlement which would
only cause damage to Is-
rael.
In a related development,
Shimon Peres, chairman of
the opposition Labor Party,
said that he had "not
encountered any American
opposition" to the idea that
Israeli settlements could
remain along the Jordan
Valley in a future peace set-

tlement.
Similarly, Peres told
correspondents in
Jerusalem, the U.S. was
prepared to see the Israeli
army remain on the Jordan
River under a peace agree-
ment.

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Muting of Jewish Dissent in U.S
Hurting Israel Says Hertzberg

NEW YORK (JTA) —
The muting of dissent
within the American
Jewish community is caus-
ing more harm to Israel
than its enemies, according
to Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg,
vice president of the World
Jewish Congress and
former president of the
American Jewish Congress.
Speaking at the annual
Hanuka dinner of Ameri-
cans for Progressive
Israel-Hashomer Hatzair,
Hertzberg.warned that "the
single most dangerous
thing that can happen to Is-
rael is the muting of dis-
sent." He noted that when
American Jews wish to de-
bate the issues that are re-
ported on and discussed
every day in the Israel
press, there are some in the
American Jewish commu-
nity who charge that it
would be "treason" to do so.
"Dissent in the Jewish
community was always
legitimate in this country
on the right," Hertzberg
said, noting that no one
faulted the critics of the
Labor Party government.
He recalled that the history
of the Zionist movement is
replete with dissent.
He pointed out that
"Jabotinsky walked out
of the World Zionist
Organization" to pursue
an independent policy.
"For his heirs to say it is
dangerous to dissent is
nonsense," Hertzberg
declared.
The Zionist movement, he
continued, was in dissent
since its beginning. Chaim
Weizmann opposed Theodor

RABBI HERTZBERG
Herzl on cultural issues and
Herzl saw no room for
Socialist Zionism in the
Zionist movement,
Hertzberg said. He noted
that since the founding of
the state of Israel, Ameri-
can Jews have been asked to
unequivocally support the
policy of the_ "in" govern-
ment.
Most prime ministers
since Levi Eshkol have
come to the U.S. and "called
together the Jewish leader-
ship and told them that they
were going on a dangerous
mission to Washington and
must have the unanimous
support of the Jewish com-
munity. They then returned
to Israel and parlayed this
domestically into a claim
that American Jews are
unanimously behind their
policies."
Hertzberg said he finds
that Israelis believe "that
all you have to do is push the
button and out comes sup-
port for the government."
The myth then, he said, is
created of American Jewish
unanimity.

Hertzberg said that the
future of Israel lies with
organizations such as
Americans for Progress-
ive Israel and individuals
who defend Israel for its
lasting values, who are
against "occupation"
and who see Palestinians
as having a national con-
sciousness of their own.
He characterized the "Is-
raeli right as indistinguish-
able from the Ayatollah's."
The authentic voice of
Zionism is "not in the lead-
ership of the organizations
but that of the poeple who
still speak out," Hertzberg
asserted.

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Poland Makes
Holocaust Sites
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WASHINGTON (JTA) —
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given assurances that work
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memorializing
Umschlagplatz in Warsaw,
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