Electioneering After the Raid
(Continued from Page 1) matter, that it would be
"should have remembered the height of insensitivity
the Jewish tragedy" in Nazi to bomb the Iraqi reactor,
Europe, Begin said, but in- built and maintained by
stead they contributed to_a French technicians, on
potential "new Holocaust .' the day of the French
against the Jewish state.
elections.
He also reportedly in-
He said 2.5 million
Jewish children were killed formed Begin that his fellow
by the Nazis in World War socialist, Francoise Mit-
II and a similar fate would terand, who won the elec-
have befallen hundreds of tion, had agreed to restrict
thousands of Jewish chil- French nuclear activities
dren in Israel had Iraq been and that the new govern-
allowed to implement its ment in France should be
nuclear plans.
given a chance to change its
It was understood here policy of selling nuclear
'lat Begin offered the same material to Iraq.
The Labor Alignment ac-
fgument in his letter to
President Reagan justifying cused Begin's government
the Israeli raid. He sought of making political capital
to play down the Adminis- of the raid. It's statement is-
tration's strong condemna- sued Tuesday expressed
tion of the attack and said "doubt and reservations
he hoped the U.S. would about the political consid-
understand Israel's motives erations, the timing and in-
once they had studied them. formation pertaining to the
Begin made it clear that destruction of the Iraqi
Israel would knock out reactor as given by the gov-
nuclear installations in ernment yesterday" (Mon-
any Arab country if it de- day). Chaim Herzog, head of
cided that such installa- the Labor campaign com-
tions could produce mittee, said on a television
weapons to attack Israel. interview that election con-
Asked if a similar strike siderations had contributed
might be launched to the timing of the attack.
The Labor statement
against Libya which is
reportedly building a nu- suggested that "the helm of
clear facility, he replied, state be removed from
"Let's first deal with the Likud control because gov-
meshuggener (lunatic) ernment decisions increase
Saddam Hussein our fear that its responsibil-
(president of Iraq). We'll ity and political considera-
deal with the other
meshuggener another Witnesses Sought
time." He was referring
obviously to Libya's for Sept. Trial
ruler, Col. Muammar of Former Nazi
Qaddafi.
BONN (JTA) — War
Begin's running battle crimes prosecutors are
with Peres developed after searching for witnesses in
Begin claimed in a radio the trial offormer SS official
interview Monday that the Heinz-Guenther Wisner
Labor Party leader wrote to who is accused of atrocities
him "three or four weeks at the Riga-Kaiserwald
ago" advising against the concentration camp during
Iraqi raid. Peres replied World War II. The trial, in
that he had not opposed the Dusseldorf, is scheduled to
planned raid but its original , open in September.
timing for May 10, the day
Wisner has been de-
of the French presidential scribed by the prosecution
election.
as the right-hand man of the
On Tuesday, Begin, in ef- notorious camp doctor,
fect, called Peres a liar. He Eduard Kresbach. He is
sent Knesset Foreign Af- charged with personally kil-
fairs and Security Commit- ling many inmates, some of
tee Chairman Moshe Arens them in a brutal manner.
a copy of a confidential let-
During pre-trial hear-
ter he said he received from ings, 52 witnesses testified
Peres on May 10 in which and the prosecution hopes to
Peres urged him not to order find more former inmates
the strike. According to the prepared to testify against
letter released by Begin, the Wisner in the actual trial.
Labor Party leader wrote, "I
Wisner is presently in
speak from experience and prison pending trial. If con-
there are others who think victed he could draw the
the same way I do. Israel maximum penalty of life
would become isolated and imprisonment.
lay herself to similar at-
tacks."
Begin said Tuesday that Students Receive
there was nothing in Peres' Absorption Prize
tter which indicated that
(JNI) —
objected only to the tim- An JERUSALEM
11-year-old Petah Tikva
ing of the air attack. Peres boy who prevented the
issued a sharply-worded emigration of a Russian
statement criticizing Begin immigrant family by find-
for releasing the text of a ing work for the father
"personal letter." He said shared top honors with 40
that provided even more students who received Ab-
proof that Begin was pursu- sorption Awards in the
ing electoral considerations Knesset last month. The
rather -than the national winners, who wrote corn-
interest.
positions on how they 'ab-
Peres said in his letter, sorbed' an immigrant child
which has handwritten and his family were selected
and partially in coded by WIZO, with the Absorp-
phrases because of the tion and'Educational Minis-
sensitivity of the subject tries.
tions cannot be relied
upon."
Gur, replying to Be-
gin's press conference
remarks, said that be-
cause of the attacks on
Israel for the Iraqi raid
"by friends and foes
alike," he had to "walk on
hot coals" in his criticism
of the government. But he
focussed on what he
termed Begin's "light-
hearted approach" to so
serious a matter and his
"humorous" comments in
reply to reporters' • ques-
tions. He said this called
into question the credi-
bility of the premier and
his colleagues in dealing
with fateful matters.
According to Gur, he had
information that indicated
that the nuclear reactor
near Baghdad was not as
close to completion as Begin
had suggested. He said the
air strike could have been
ordered after the June 30
elections, noting that even
if Likud was defeated,
Begin and his Cabinet
would remain in office for
several months until a new
government is sworn in.
Gur also protested Be-
gin's "hysterical use of the
threat of a holocaust. A
month or so ago we heard of
a holocaust of the Chris-
tians in Lebanon and now
we hear of the potential
danger of a holocaust in Is-
rael," Gur said.
However, Gur insisted
that the use of American-
made fighter bombers in the
raid "was fully within the
terms of Israel's right to
self-defense."
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