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Iprael Is 'Undeterred' by UN
Effort to Halt Peace Process
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Dutch Resist Arab
Pressures to Move
Jerusalem Embassy
AMSTERDAM (JTA) The Dutch government is re-
sisting pressure by Arab countries that it move its embassy
from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv. Foreign Minister Christoph
van der Klaauw, who is acting premier in the absence of
Premier Andries van Agt who is on vacation, told a press
conference that diplomatic representatives of six Arab
countries accredited to Holland had met with him and
requested that the embassy be moved from Jerusalem.
Van der Klaauw said he told the representatives that
the Dutch embassy is in Jerusalem because of historical
circumstances, namely, the Dutch Consulate General has
been in Jerusalem since the early 1920s. The presence of
the embassy in Jerusalem, therefore, is not the result of a
political act in connection with the state of Israel, but its
removal would be clearly seen as a political act which
would offend Israel, van der Klaauw said.
He added, however, that Holland has objected to
the "annexation" of East Jerusalem by Israel and in
particular to the planned transfer of Premier
Menahem Begin's office to East Jerusalem.
In Jerusalem, Mattiyahu Shmuelevitz, director gen-
eral of the prime minister's office, told a radio interviewer
that Begin wanted the move to be ratified by a Cabinet
decision, and that had not yet been done.
Shmuelevitz noted that work began six years ago on
building a complex of government ministries at a site in
East Jerusalem. "We cast our eyes on one building which is
in a very advanced stage of construction," he said.
According to press reports, U.S. Ambassador Samuel
Lewis told Begin last month that he would not call on him if
his office was moved to East Jerusalem.
The Israeli government has also decided that both
the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Hous-
ing, Absorption and Construction will move their
offices from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Agriculture Minis-
ter Ariel Sharon told the Ministerial Committee on
Jerusalem that the transfer of his headquarters
would begin "immediately."
Finance Minister Yigal Hurwitz estimated that the
moves would cost the Treasury IL 1 billion ($20 million),
but officials of the two ministries concerned estimated a
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UNITED NATIONS (JTA) — Yehuda Blum, Israel's ambassador to the
United Nations, declared Wednesday that regardless of what resolutions are
adopted at the present special emergency session of the General Assembly,
"Israel will continue undeterred in the current peace process and in its deter-
mined effort to bring about a comprehensive peace to our region."
Blum addressed the General Assembly on the second day of its special
emergency session convened to consider the Palestinian question. As the
Israeli envoy began his address, many of the Arab delegations rose and walked
out of the assembly hall. The Egyptian delegation remained.
Blum asserted that the peace option "is the only constructive option
open" to Israel's neighbors. "We will not be in any way deterred by the
cacophonous chorus of-our detractors or by the force of arms raised in
support of immoral, unfair resolutions flying in the face of truth and
justice," he said. "It would be absurd to think that a people with the past
and depth of experience of my people can be browbeaten by the howls
of cynics, bigots, hypocrites and opportunists."
YEHUDA BLUM
He stressed, "Israel will not be deflected, Israel will not give up its resolve.
Israel will continue undeterred in the current peace process and in its determined effort to bring about a
comprehensive peace to our region."
The Israeli ambassador charged that the .holding of this so-called emergency special session is both
illegal and preposterous. It makes a complete mockery of the rules of procedure of the General Assembly."
He also charged that the aim of the Arabs and Palestine Liberation Organization in initiating this debate is
to torpedo the peace process in the Middle East. He said that this meeting of the General Assembly and the
UN "Decade for Women" Conference currently being held in Copenhagen "are only the latest manifesta-
tions of the ceaseleSs Arab warfare against Israel."
Blum attacked what he called the lawless
majority in this assembly" which, he charged,
"shamelessly turned its back on the real prob-
lems facing mankind by indulging so much of its
time in barren anti-Israel exercises."
He said, "The reason for this hypocrisy,
GENEVA (JTA) — The old Jewish cemetery of
cynicism and bias is not hard to explain. In
Carouge in Geneva was desecrated Monday night. Several
everything to do with the Arab-Israeli con-
tombstones were overturned and sprayed with slogans —
flict,
a majority of this assembly lets itself
"Death to the Jews," "Your dead shall never rest in peace"
be led — in some cases willingly, in others
and "Hitler's lessons have not been forgotten." The word
under duress — by a coalition of extreme
"Jude" and large swastikas were drawn on many of the
Arab states in conjunction with the Soviet
tombstones.
The Geneva Police Department was alerted by an
Union, its satellites and the radicals in the
anonymous phone caller who said "The Nazis are still alive.
non-aligned group of countries."
Go and see the cemetery in Carouge."
Blum observed that the Arabs and their sup-
While the Swiss police want to minimize the impor-
porters may be able "to push through whatever
tance of the incident, Israeli circles in Switzerland connect
resolutions they like." But, he warned, "this can
this act with the desecration of the Jewish cemetery in-
only be phyric victories. Those who seem to
Basel two months ago. As Geneva and Basel border on
think that an excess of repetitive assembly reso-
France some Jews in Geneva feel that the acts of desecra-
lutions adopted by large, automatic majorities,
tion may be the work of French anti-Semites who cross the
Vandals Desecrate
2nd Swiss Cemetery
border into Switzerland. •
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Meyer Fishman Contributes $250,000 for Sinai Emergency Center
Philanthropist Meyer Fishman has donated $250,000 towards the reconstruction of Sinai Hospital's Emergency
h A. in commemoration of his 70th birthday on July 28th. Bearing the name of its benefactors, the new facility will be
known as the Meyer and Sophie Fishman Emergency Care Center when it opens its doors for comprehensive service this
sir-a mer. A small portion of the center opened this week.
\Then completed, the Meyer and Sophie Fishman Emergency Care Center will cover 10,000 square feet, nearly 10
the area of the old emergency room. The new facility will feature a covered ambulance entrance and will house
equipment to handle dental and eye, ear, nose and throat emergencies. The Emergency Care Center will serve between
27,000 and 30,000 patients per year.
"Sinai _Hospital's construction of a modernized and sophisticated acute care facility was begun as a response to a
growing need from the community for this type of service," Fishman said. "It is my great pleasuer to support Sinai
Hospital in servicing this need."
Fishman has spent most of his life in Detroit and has been an active member of the Jewish community for
more than 40 years. He has served on Sinai Hospital's Board of Trustees since 1971 and is currently chairman of
the House and Purchasing Committee, a member of the board's Lay Committee and Joint Conference Commit-
tee.
He was chairman of the Allied Jewish Campaign in 1971 and he serves on the boards of Camp Tamarack, the Jewish
Home for the Aged and the Detroit Service Group. He is also a member of Cong. Shaarey Zedek, the Franklin Hills
Country Club, Keiden Lodge Bnai Brith, the Moslem Temple Shriners and the Standard City Club:,
Sinai Board of Trustees President Alfred L. Deutsch accepted Fishman's contribution on behalf of the board. "This
major contribution to emergency care services at Sinai will enable the hospital to remain at the forefront of the medical
community in Metropolitan Detroit and help us continue to offer the high quality of medical care for which we are well
known," Deutsch said.
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Shown with a model of the Fishman Emergency
Care Center are, from left, Sinai Hospital Board
Chairman Alfred Deutsch, Meyer Fishman and Sinai
Executive Vice President Irving Shapiro.