Congress Is Pushing Citizenship for Savior of Hungarian Jews

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JNF at 80
an Historic
Celebration

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When Silence
Is Unacceptable
in Fight for
Human Rights

Anti-Semitism
Repetitive,
Vigilance
Obligatory

THE JEWISH NEWS

A WeekIN Review

Commentary, Page 2

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West German's
PLO Backing
Harms His Nation

of Jetuish Events

Editorials, Page 4

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June 12, 1981

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on Right to ProolEmpt e R "ci

F our Michiganians
i n Maccabia Games

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel will protest to the United States over what it considers to be Washing-
ton's hasty condemnation of Sunday's air attack that destroyed a nuclear facility under construction in Iraq
whibh Israel claims would soon have had the capability to produce atomic bombs. Premier Menahem Begin
told the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Security Committee during a three-hour briefing Tuesday that the
protest would focus on the fact that the U.S. State Department issued its condemnation with
waiting for
Israel to provide it with all the relevant data and explanations surrounding the operation.

Appeal for Justice Sounded in Israel

Israel's academic, military and social service communities, concerned about the
urgency of defensive needs to sustain the nation's security, expressed shock over Wednes-
day's temporary suspension of the shipment of four planes to Israel by the United States.
The overwhelming feeling in the Jewish state is that the suspension was unwarrented,
that Israel must defend itself against those threatening her existence, that there is a state of
war with Iraq and self-defense is mandatory.
The major reaction to the U.S. suspension is an appeal for justice. "Let our friendship
prevail," is the sentiment expressed, with the urgent request that support for Israel should
be based on the realism of threatening conditions in the Middle East.
Begin said it was virtually "now or never" to knock out Iraq's potential nuclear capability in order to
save Israel from destruction. Iraq's "cruel" ruler, Haddam Hussein, who had "butchered his own close
colleagues," would have had no hesitation" to drop "three or four or five" nuclear bombs on Israel.
Begin was defiant in response
to world reactions which have
been largely critical. He said
Israel would "stand firm" in the
face of criticism from whatever
quarter because the operation had
JERUSALEM (JTA) Israel's raid on Iraq's nuclear facility Sunday
been required "to ensure the exist-
became enmeshed in election campaign politics this week as Premier
ence of the Jewish people in its
Menahem Begin, continuing his defiant stance against mounting world
criticism, accused Labor Party leader Shimon Peres of having opposed the
homeland." He said he had sent a
air strike that Begin claims saved Israel from destruction by Iraqi atomic
letter to President Reagan,
bombs.
through the Israeli ambassador in
Begin drew a sharp reply from Peres. The Labor Party issued a
Washington, Ephraim Evron, ex-
statement Tuesday accusing the Likud government of timing the air
plaining the operation. He con-
attack to gain maximum political benefit. The party named Gen. (Ret.)
firmed that the U.S. had no prior
Mordechai Gur, who was chief of staff during the famous Entebbe rescue
knowledge of the Israeli attack
operation in 1976, as its spokesman on the issue.
and also that he had given no hint
Begin vowed at a press conference late Tuesday that Israel
of it to President _Anwar Sadat of
would "not tolerate" the development of "weapons of mass destruc-
Egypt when they met at Ophira in
tion" by any of its enemies. He said that if the Iraqis rebuilt their
bombed-out nuclear reactor, Israel would destroy it again, but he
Sinai last Thursday.
predicted it would take them "many years" to rebuild it.
, Begin strenuously denied alle-
Begin also lashed out at France and Italy for having supplied nuclear
gations from opposition sources
know-how and material to the Iraqis, invoking the Holocaust. He termed
that Israel's elections at the end of
their behavior "inhuman" and "shameful." Those European nations
this month had anything to do

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Election Charges Flying
in Aftermath of Iraq Raid

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NANCI GOLDSMITH

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Four Michigan athletes will be on the 400-man United
States contingent that will participate in the 11th Mac-
cabia Games in Israel July 6-16.
The Michigan athletes include Nanci Goldsmith,
gymnastics; Mark Jaffe, tennis masters (over age 45);
David Linden,'squash; and Anita Rival, swimming.
In addition to the athletes' families, Michigan resi-
dents who will attend the games include Mrs. Maxine
Kronick of Flint, national membership chairman and
board member of the sponsoring U.S. Committee Sports for
Israel; Mrs. Natalie Pelavin and Mrs. Joan Hallen, both of
Flint, Mr. and Mrs. Max Sheldon, Mrs. Ilene Rice, Robert
Arnold, Mrs. Ann Barnett and her grandson Ari
Goldsmith.
Miss Goldsmith, 14, is a member of the U.S. Na-
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tional Gymnastics Team. She has been training in
Oregon for the past two years and she placed second in the U.S. this spring in the balance beam event. She
placed third in all-around competition in the National Elite Team Championships in Tucson four weeks ago.
Miss Goldsmith attended Brookside School, Cranbrook, and Bloomfield Hills Junior High School.
She was the leading qualifier in women's gymnastics at the U.S. team tryouts for the Maccabia Games. She will be
accompanied to Israel by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rick Goldsmith, and her sister, Julie. Nanci is also the daughter of
te s Canner.
Jaffe, a Bay City businessman, is a six-time winner of the Michigan State Open Men's Singles tennis championship.
As a member of the University of Michigan tennis team, he won Big Ten championships in singles and doubles in 1955,
1956 and 1957.
Jaffe won approximately 200 tennis tournaments
while competing actively from 1948 to 1978. He is
president of the Essexville-Hampton School Board
and Bay City's Temple Israel, as well as a director of
Israel Tennis Centers, Inc.
Jaffe will be accompanied to the Maccabia Games by
his wife, Judy, and two of their three children.
Linden competed in the 1977 Maccabia Games in
squash, and won the silver medal for the U.S. team. In
1977, he was ranked second in U.S. amateur ranks.
A native Detroiter, Linden, now 32, attended
Hampton, Cass, Mumford, the University of Michigan and
Rutgers Law School. He is the sop of Victor and Barbara
JAFFE
LINDEN
RIVAL
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Maccabia Games opening ceremony.