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Moderate Palestinian Editor Defites PLO Stance
By GIDEON WEIGERT
and among the inhabitants
of East Jerusalem. People
JERUSALEM — There live in fear. If they don't
can be no doubt about the subscribe to the slogans
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tension in the West Bank from Beirut and Damascus
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and toe the "official line,"
• they are branded as
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cause and their lives could
• be endangered.
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If one meets a Palestinian
who openly defies the call
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• for a "secular, democratic
• state in all of Palestine" and
• advocates Israel's right to
• exist in recognized and se-
• cure borders, it means one is
• seeing an unusual, almost
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• unique phenomenon.
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In , addition,. the same
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dares to say
• Palestinian
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openly that the PLO Na-
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Charter should be
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modified in such a way as to
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from it all refer-
• eliminate
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ence to the use of "violence
• and armed struggle to de-
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• stroy the Zionist existence."
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If „ the Palestinian
• organizatictns forming
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• the PLO wish to return to
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• the West Bank, they
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ABU SHILBAYA
peared in Arabic, followed
by "The Road to Salvation,
Freedom and Peace." He
came out strongly against
the use of force to solve the
Palestinian issue and
wrote:
"The Palestinian state I
have in mind has no use for
arms, we need no army,
since we don't wish to de-
stroy anybody, throw any-
body into the sea or build
our state on the ruins of Is-
rael."
He also went on record
as the first Palestinian
courageously to advo-
cate that payment of
compensation should not
only be made by Israel to
Palestinian refugees but
also by the Arab coun-
tries to Jewish refugees
who had to leave their na-
tive countries after the
establishment of Israel.
Today Abu Shilbaya
workS as a journalist. His
"Sawt el Jamaheer" (the
Voice of the Masses) weekly
was a short lived venture in
1973, though he was the
first Palestinian editor to
call in his pages for mutural
understanding and com-
promise, advocating the
foundation of an Israeli-
Palestinian "Peace Party."
Today, one of the editors
of the Arabic "Al Anba"
Jewish Youths
Beaten in France
PARIS (JTA) — Two
Jewish schoolboys were at-
tacked and seriously beaten
up last week in Marseilles.
Police arrested two of the
four assailants and said the
incident was the result of a
street fight.
But local Jewish sources
said the boys were beaten
up because they wore yar-
mulkes and were openly as-
serting their Jewishness.
Two of the attackers are of
Algerian origin.
Police sources said the
two Jewish youths, aged 16
and 17, were leaving the
Jewish high school, Yav-
neh, in one of the city's
working class districts
when they got into an
argument with four other
boys. They rapidly came to
blows and one of the Jewish
boys was badly beaten and
had to undergo surgery for a
fractured jaw.
In another incident, a
Jewish doctor's car was
blown, up on a Paris street.
The doctor said he had re-
ceived no threats and has no
enemies. Police said they
have no clues.
daily, Mohammed Abu
Shilbaya continues his writ-
ings on the Palestinian
problem.
As in the past, Abu Shil-
baya speaks with optimism
and conviction about the
"many deep social changes
which have occurred among
the Palestinians in the
occupied areas during the
last 13 years, as a result of
their daily mixing with Is-
raelis."
He believes that in the
wake of this develop-
ment, new classes among
the inhabitants have
emerged, especially the
workers and the women,
who are looking forward
to two things; a really
democratic regime, and
the possibility of taking
over from the traditional
"semi-feudal Arab lead-
ership."
His political line, which
he 'has been preaching for
over a decade now, callS for-
the establishment of a tri-
party federation between
Israel, the Palestinians and
Jordan — later to merge
into a Middle East Federa-
tion to include Egypt. Ac-
cording to him the "secular
— democratic" plan (a la
PLO) will only lead to a bi-
national state and "more
wars, like in Cyrpus."
He says frankly: "What
we want is a Palestinian
state in the West Bank and
the Gaza Strip. As to
Jerusalem, an Arab and an
Israeli municipality with a
roof organization combin-
ing both, some sort of a
`Greater Jerusalem Coun-
cil,' later to become the capi-
tal of the above mentioned
Federation."
A five year interim re-
gime should be set up and
U.S. supervision, he says.
Two years later, ree elec-
tions to a Palestinian gov-
ernment should take place,
that government then
entering into negotiations
with Israel over all out-
standing problems.
But again and again he
calls for a "complete mutual
cessation of acts of violence;
the modification of the PLO
National Charter so as to
guarantee Israel's secure
and recognized permanent
borders, and in return, Is-
rael's recognition of a peace-
ful Palestinian state in the
areas."
A Letter from Wiesel
To a Jewish friend in
France:
My friend, I feel your pain
and I share your anger. The
explosion at the synagogue
on Rue Copernic has been
heard throughout the
United States. Those who
murdered innocent people
on Simhat Torah, in Paris,
attacked us all.
For the first time since
Auschwitz and Treblinka,
Nazi murderers set out to
kill Jews — only because
they were Jews.
You have been told by the
French people that "We are
all Jews." And we are
grateful to them for this act
of solidarity. Nevertheless,
numb with outrage and hor-
ror, we must ask: why? How
could whis happen? Perhaps
we are beingitold something
by events; something we
have been afraid to under-
stand.
When the cynical rhetoric
of the United Nations, -day
after day, tells us that
"Zionism is racism." ‘.
When Israel's right to exist
is continually challenged
. . . When nearly a hundred
books have been published
in a dozen languages calling
the massacre and burning of
six million Jews "a lie" and
"a hoax." . Then perhaps
these "new" Nazis may feel
they are following a trend —
that they have some claim,
however twisted, to legiti-
macy.
Is it not time for people of
good conscience,
everywhere, to recognize
the face beneath the mask?
To recognize that even pass-
ive assent to intellectual ra-
cism leads the way to open
anti-semitism and murder?
How else explain the re-
surgence of organized
Nazism all over the : world?
You have your Nazis and,
ELIE WIESEL
apparently, we — all of us —
have ours. But these disci-
ples of Hitler must be de-
nied even the semblance of
support. They must be de-
nied the dignity of dialogue.
They must be cast out from
civilized society. In attack-
ing‘you, my Jewish friend in
France, the killers have is-
sued a N,v a rn ng to all of us.
As Pastor Martin Niemol-
ler, the German theologian,
said: "First the Nazis went
after the Jews. but I was not
a Jew, so I did not object.
Then they went after
Catholics, but I was not a
Catholic, so I did not object.
Then they went after the
Trade-Unionists, but I was
not a trade-unionist, so I d
not object. Then they cams.
after me, and there was no
one left to object."
Perhaps the killers think
we have forgotten our his-
tory. I write this letter to as-
sure you — and them — that
we have forgotten nothing.
1988 Delivery
TEL AVIV (ZINS) — Is-
rael expects to produce a
prototype of its second-
generation fighter aircraft,
the Lavie," by 1984. But the
first plane is not expected to
be delivered to the Israeli
air force until 1988.