THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, July 18, 1980 5
Politicization Marks UN Women's Parley in Denmark
States appealed to the con-
ference to show "a spirit of
moderation and com-
promise" when discussing
resolutions, amendments
and political proposals. The
co-chairman of the Ameri-
can delegation, Sarah Wed-
dington, made no mention
of the issues to which she
referred, but it was clear
that she was appealing for
moderation in what has be-
come the conference's main
political issue — the pro-
posal by the non-aligned
nations to brand Zionism
as one of the major evils of
the world.
The politicization of the
conference, and the parallel
meeting, the open "forum"
held at Copenhagen Uni-
versity, is daily increasing.
At the "forum," which is
attended by semi-private
organizations and indi-
viduals, the atmosphere is
heavily anti-Israel.
At a session organized by
a Danish medical branch of
Amnesty International, two
alleged "victims" of Israeli
"repression" were brought
to "testify" about Israeli
brutality and torture. When
(Continued from Page 1) and economic assistance to her attention to the
invited the head of the Is- women especially in the psychological and moral
raeli delegation Israel's Third World, while includ- implications for Denmark, a
Ambassador to Norway ing the Cuban anti-Zionist country which had actively
Hava Harelli to a brief amendment in a special pre- saved Jews during the Nazi
"courtesy" meeting. Israeli liminary declaration which occupation of Europe, for an
and Egyptian sources say they would oppose. The anti-Zionist declaration to
that no political issues were Western "compromise" be made under the name
discussed. would thus enable these "The Coperhagen Declara-
The Israeli delegation countries to vote against the tion." Mrs. Ostergarde re-
consisting of half a dozen anti-Zionist declaration portedly promised to do her
prominent women repre- which would nonetheless be best to try and "tone down"
senting both the Knesset carried by a large majority the Cuban amendment.
Ambassador McHenry
and major women's organ- and vote in favor of the pro-
later told a press briefing
izations met with the dele- gram of action.
The Israeli delegation that his delegation is hold-
's of major Jewish
. ,i':en's organizations in as well as the representa- ing permanent multilateral
the United States. Among tives of the various talks on this issue" and said
those present were Hadas- American Jewish "I hope that the final docu-
sah President Bernice Tan- women's organizations ment would be very differ-
nenbaum and Betty Shap- had hoped for a more ent from the suggestions
iro, Bnai Brith Women's energetic Western re- now being made." McHenry
president. The meeting was sponse. The diplomatic said it would be unadvisable
held in view of the growing adviser of the Israeli if the 1980 Copenhagen con-
danger of a new anti-Zionist delegation former Am- ference were to be remem-
declaration to be known as bassador to the UN Dr. bered for its anti-Zionist
the Copenhagen Declara- Ovadia Sofer, met at stand, he said. "I hope and
tion." length with the co:. trust that something more
The Western powers on chairman of the U.S. productive can emerge from
whom Israel counted for delegation, Ambassador here. The place where the
Palestinian question should
diplomatic support are cur- Donald F. McHenry.
Sofer and Ambassador be debated and will be de-
rently trying to find a "corn-
promise solution which Harelli also called on the bated ad nauseum in a few
chairman days is the General Assem-
would maintain the pro- conference
posed" program of action, Danish Education Minister bly — not Copenhagen."
which provides for technical Lise Oestergarde to draw - Meanwhile, the United
Rabbis Reaffirm Their Support
for Begin's Settlement Policies
NEW YORK (JTA) —
Prominent rabbis within
the Orthodox Jewish com-
munity reaffirmed their
support for Premier
Menahem Begin's policies
regarding settlements at a,
press conference held here
Monday. The same group
sponsored a full-page adver-
tisement in The New York
Times recently urging
Begin to halt the autonomy
talks.
The International Rab-
binic Committee for the
Safety of Israel (IRCSI),
claiming to represent the
community and responding
to recent media coverage of
open opposition to Begin's
policies, hailed Begin as "a
statesman who is motivated
by a sincere desire for peace,
and deplore those who as-
sail his leadership and
undermine his efforts."
Rabbi Sholom Gold, past
president of Young Israel
Rabbis and IRCSI co-
chairman, said that the
committee's foremost con-
cern is the Jews who live in
Israel and stressed that "au-
tonomy is a stepping stone
to the creation of a Palesti-
Alan state, which consti-
tutes a clear danger to the
life and limb of each and
ery Jew in Israel."
Though Gold would not
comment when asked
about territories already
returned by Israel to
Egypt, he did say "that
any further return of ter-
ritories places Israel in
dire jeopardy."
He also reiterated the
need for rabbis on the com-
mittee to publicize a legal
ruling from the Talmud,
later codified by rabbinic
authorities, to protect the
land from conquest by
"strangers." The new and
old legally established set-
tlements in Judea and
Samaria are not obstacles In
the way of peace, but rather
are the frontline of defense
for the state of Israel, he
continued.
The committee proclaims
"Jerusalem -will for all
times remain the indivisi-
ble, eternal capital of the
Jewish people, will never be
divided, nor will the flag of
any other nation fly from its
ramparts," and calls on the
American government to
resist pressures from coun-
tries hostile to Israel when
negotiating sales of mili-
tary equipment which could
be used against it.
World
Meanwhile,
Organization
Zionist
sources report that plans
are in the offing to establish
85 new settlements in the
West Bank within the next
five years.
However, Begin said
that Israel would only
build 10 more settlements
there. He said that was all
that was required. The
Begin government has
already set up 27 settle-
ments in the West Bank
since coming to power in
1977.
In London, Lord Car-
rington, the British Foreign
Secretary, accused Israel of
conducting a "damaging
In Toronto, six major
the Israeli delegates pre-
sent tried to intervene and Canadian women's organ-
to question the "witness" izations — five of them
they were shouted down. Jewish — have urged the
This sort of process repeats government to try to block
itself several times per day the politicization of the
and many of the representa- United Nations Decade for
tives of the American Women Conference in
Jewish women's organiza- Copenhagen.
tions are permanently
attending the sessions at
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In his sharpest attack yet
on Israeli policy, Car-
rington rejected the strong
Israeli criticism of the re-
cent European Economic
Community (EEC) initia-
tive which had called for the
Palestine Liberation
Organization to be associ-
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