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Palestinian Government-in-Exile Idea Rejected

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Burg said the idea was
in complete contrast to
the Camp David agree-
ment and spirit. "In
Camp David we talked
about autonomy by a
self-governing authority
for the Arab inhabitants
of Judea, Samaria and
the Gaza district. This
should apply for the next
five years. Talks about
the final status of the
Bank should start
after three years of

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the autonomy. If some-
one already wants to talk
today about the constitu-
tion of an exile govern-
ment, it is an absolute
contrast and contradic-
tion to the agreement,"
said Burg. -

Burg noted that in Camp
David the partners obliged
themselves to continue the
autonomy talks con-
tinuously and "in good
faith." Asked for his reac-
tion to reports that Sadat

wanted to wait until after
the elections in Israel for
the continuation of the
talks, Burg said this too was
contradictory to the Camp
David agreement.
Burg said Israel may send
Cairo an official protest re-
garding Sadat's "govern-
ment in exile" idea.
Begin said last week that
he was pleased by Sadat's
solid commitment to the
Camp David process, ex-
pressed in his speech to the

Yale Begins $6 Million Drive

(Continued from Page 1) gram is now moving
began in 1978 and the ahead to an expanded
Judaic studies major for teaching and research
undergraduates officially agenda.
began this past fall with a
According to "A Proposal
ceremony at which Elie for Judaic Studies at Yale,"
Wiesel delivered the inau- authored by a faculty com-
gural lecture.
mittee, "The unique role of
The new program Judaism in the develop-
builds on Yale's scholars ment of Western culture
currently on the faculty, and the remarkable contri-
a rare and extensive bution of Jews and their
Judaica collection and traditions to modern
some 40 courses related American life and letters
to Jewish culture and have important conse-
history available in var- quences for a university.
ious departments and the
"The Jewish experience
divinity school. Having
coordinated these re- constitutes a unique record
sources, the new pro- of the interaction of an iden-

tifiable group with a vast
spectrum of cultures."
Representatives from
religious studies, near
Eastern languages and lit-
erature, and other Yale de-
partments participated in
drawing up the proposal.
"Our aim is to establish a
distinguished humanities
program accessible to all
students and distinctively
interdepartmental in na-
ture," Prof. Hartman said.
"The program should ap-
peal not only to specialists,
but to all who wish to inform
themselves about the his-
tory and cultural contribu-
tions of a major religion."

Vatican 'Clarification' of Offending Passage
in November Papal Encyclical Is Expected

ROME (JTA) — A rank-
ing spokesman for the Vati-
can's Commission for Reli-
gious Relations With the
Jews has informed the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
that a passage in a papal
encyclical offensive to Jews
is "being studied and there
will be a reply" to the ques-
tions raised by many Jews
all over the world.
"How and when the reply
will be given has yet to be
determined," the Vatican
official said in the course of
an exclusive interview on
the matter.
The passage referred to
was contained in the Nov.
30, 1980 encyclical, "Dives
in Misericordia," delivered
by Pope John Paul II.
The encyclical, which
dealt with distortions of
justice in the modern
world, stated in Part VI,
Section 12: "Not in vain
did Christ challenge his
listeners, faithful to the
doctrine of the Old Tes-
tament, for their attitude
which was manifested in
the words 'An eye for an
eve and a tooth for a
th.' This was the
m of distortion of jus-
tice at that time and to-
day's forms continue to
be modeled on it."
A letter sent nearly two
months ago by Henry Sieg-
man, executive director of
the American Jewish Con-
gress, observed that "This
passage misrepresents the
Judaism of the time of
Jesus, which in fact under-
stood and interpreted the
biblical 'eye for an eye and a
tooth for a tooth' to require
monetary compensation for
injury inflicted on one's fel-
low man. Indeed, there is no
evidence that it was ever in-

terpreted in Judaism to re-
quire or permit inflicting of
physical injury."

Siegman and other Jews
who studied the encyclical
pointed out further, in let-
ters to the Vatican Commis-
sion, that the offensive pas-
sage flatly contradicted a
preceding chapter of the
encyclical Part III Sec-
tion 4 — which was dedi-
cated to in-depth research
and interpretation of the
various Hebrew expressions
for mercy, such as "hesed"
and "rahamin" as attributes
of God according to the
Jewish conception.
That passage was in effect
nullified by the disparaging
remarks in the later section.
According to Siegman, it is
a step backwards "inconsis-
tent with both the letter and
spirit of the Vatican
guidelines for implementa-
tion of Nostra Aetate of
1975" which urged
Catholics not to set "the Old
Testament against the New
Testament in such a way
that the former seems to
constitute a religion of only
justice, fear and legalism
with no appeal to the love of
God and neighbor."
When the JTA first sol-
icited comment from Vat-
ican sources more than a
month ago, it was told
that Vatican circles were
aware of the problems
created by the passage in
question. But Jewish
hopes that the Vatican
would correct it seemed
doomed to disappoint-
ment because an
encyclical cannot be
modified once it has been
delivered.
"Clarification" was, of
course, possible, the JTA

was told. But the initiative
first had to be approved and
coordinated at high levels
since any such step would be
considered "official" with
all the consequences at-
tached.
Nevertheless, the Vati-
can has since taken at least
two actions that appear in-
tended to mollify Jews and
demonstrate good-will. The
first was the invitation by
the Vicar of Rome, Cardinal
Poletti, to Chief Rabbi Elio
Toaff to meet with the Pope
in a parish church border-
ing the old ghetto.
The second gesture was
the publication in the Vati-
can newspaper Osservatore
Romano of a front page arti-
cle titled, "Clarification —
Dives in Misericordia: An
Encyclical for Christians
and Jews." The author is
Pinhas Lapide, an Israeli
scholar who lives in Ger-
many. His article expanded
on the encyclical's section
on the Old Testament which
emphasized the "merciful"
qualities of the Jewish
vision of God which, he said,
entirely coincide with the
Catholic vision.

Carter Choices

NEW YORK (ZINS) — In
a Time magazine interview,
former U.S. President
Jimmy Carter said the
world leaders lie admired
the most are Anwar Sadat of
Egypt, Giscard d'Estaing of
France and Deng Xiaoping
of China.
He said Menahem Begin
of Israel was "impossible to
deal with" and Helmut
Schmidt of West Germany
was "duplicitous."
Carter said he trusted
Sadat "like my wife."

Parliament of Europe in
Luxembourg. But he was
less happy with Sadat's
support of Palestinian self-
determination.

Begin noted with satis-
faction that the Egyptian
leader ignored the Pales-
tine Liberation Organiza-
tion in his speech and
stressed to the Euro-
peans that he had "not
come to sell out Camp
David." That, said Begin,
was a "positive pro-

Mexicans'
Bias Noted

Friday, February 20, 1981

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nouncement."
However, he recalled that
at his summit meeting with
Sadat in Ismailia in 1978,
and later at Camp David,
Israel flatly rejected Pales-
tinian self-determination
"because it means in plain
terms a Palestinian state
which would be a mortal
danger to Israel."

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Yeshiva Student
Attacked; Two
Are Detained

JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Israeli security forces de-
tained two suspects in a re-
cent attack on a yeshiva
student in Hebron's
downtown marketplace.
In Haifa, four Jewish
students at the Technion in
Haifa were detained by
police on suspicion of hav-
ing beaten up three Arab
students, one of them a girl,
in the university dormitory
in the early hours of the
morning.
One of the Jewish stu-
dents was found with stab
wounds near the student
dorm.
Police said preliminary
reports indicated the
Jewish students, corn-
posed of members of a
nationalist group, at-
tacked the Arabs who
were asleep in two rooms.
The Arab students de-
fended themselves and
called for help, but the at-
tackers fled before police ar-
rived. The university's stu-
dents' organization de-
nounced the attack.

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