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Clergyman Thanks Israel
for Bombing Iraqi Reactor
By REV. FRANKLIN
LITTELL
(Editor's note: Rev. Lit-
tell is president of the Na-
tional Christian Leader-
ship Conference for Is-
rael and the National In-
stitute on the Holocaust.
He is a professor of reli-
gion at Temple Univer-
sity.)
For several years Iraq has
een constructing an atom
eactor with military capa-
bility. Using oil blackmail
as leverage, the dictator
Hussein refused the request
of the French engineering
contractor that the reactor
be fueled with material suf-
ficient for peaceful use but
of insufficient grade to
manufacture the bomb.
We remember that Iraq
has for long a declaration of
war out against Israel, and
that her dictator has sworn
to destroy that country.
No Israeli government
could do less than to protect
the Jewish state from the
s
certainty of a second
Holocaust had the Iraqi
plan succeeded. Israeli in-
telligence forces are to be
congratulated in providing
the right timing for the
strike: after the building
has reached the stage that
will require a long time for
reconstruction, and before
the weapon was far enough
along to poison the atmos-
phere in its destruction.
Romanian Rabbi
Reports on 1981
Jewish Exodus
BUCHAREST (JTA) —
Chief Rabbi Moses Rosen of
Romania told the press that
during the first five months
of 1981, 333 Jews left the
country for Israel, while 390
Jews obtained passports
and are ready for emigra-
tion. Rabbi Rosen also said
299 Jews have been ap-
proved and are preparing
the required documents for
passports.
Iraq has served as a Rus-
Rabbi Rosen said he had
sian pawn in the Near East accepted in 1979 a request
and after the Yom Kippur from the Conference of
attack on Israel (1973) re- Presidents of Major Ameri-
ceived enormous quantites can Jewish Organizations
of Russian tanks and planes' to supervise Romanian
as replacements for equip- Jewish emigration to Israel.
ment lost in the failed ag- He said that, following the
gression.
1979 agreement, emigres to
Israel also are registered in
The Russians and their the offices of the Romanian
fellow-travelers will of Jewish communities.
course condemn the Israeli
He said he is given lists by
defensive action. Christians name of all applications and
may give thanks that once the action of Romanian
again the Lord has deliv- authorities on each request.
ered Israel from out of the He expressed his gratitude
hands of her enemies.
to the Romanian govern-
ment for the "goodwill and
humanitarian feelings"
they are showing concern-
ing the problems of Roma-
and said he might have a nian Jews. He said that
revised column in the fu- since 1948, more than
350,000 Romanian Jews —
ture.
Meanwhile, the Argen-_ 90 percent of the country's
tine government has turned Jewish population — ar-
down a provincial pub- rived in Israel, adding there
lisher's bid of $1.15 million are 33,000 Jews now left in
to purchase the plant of La Romania.
Opinion, seized by Argen-
tina from Timerman in Jewish Folk Art
1977.
at BB Museum
A government commis-
WASHINGTON — The
sion said the bid for the
plant was too low to pay off Bnai Brith Museum will
stage a gala opening of its
the newspaper's debts.
renowned rare collection of
Jewish ceremonial and folk
Cult Bill Hit
art in expanded and remod-
NEW YORK — A repre- eled quarters June 26.
sentative of the New York
The new installation,
Chapter of the American funded in part by a grant
Jewish Committee joined from the National Endow-
Protestant and Catholic ment for the Humanities,
spokesmen last week in op- will house not only the
position to a New York enlarged permanent exhibit
State Assembly bill against but also two temporary ex-
cults.
hibitions, "A New Field of
The bill would allow Vision: Posters from Jewish
courts to appoint temporary Museums" and "Suspended
guardians for anyone who Animation: Puppets by
radically changed their Marc Chagall and Simha
religious beliefs or life-style Schwarz."
through "coercive persua-
sion."
Haskell Lazere of the
AJCommittee said that the
change in Moses after se-
eing the burning bush
would have required the
appointment of a guardian
under the proposal bill.
Soldier Cleared
of Killing Arab
t
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A
military investigation ab-
solved an Israeli soldier of
blame the in the fatal shoot-
ing of an 18 year-old Arab,
Mohammed Mustapha Jib-
ril, at the Dahaisha refugee
camp near Bethelem last
vriday night.
The authorities con-
tended that the soldier had
acted according to the regu-
lations and could not have
avoided killing the youth.
Camp residents said that
there had been no provoca-
tion for the shooting and
blamed the Israeli army for
unrest at the camp.
The army claimed that
Dahaisha has been the
scene of repeated grenade
and Molotov cocktail at-
tacks on Israeli vehicles and
that was the objective of the
two youths confronted Fri-
day night.
Maccabia
Team to Play
Exhibition in NY
U.S.
NEW YORK (JTA) —
The U.S. Committee Sports
for Israel has announced
that the U.S. Maccabia bas-
ketball team will play the
European Championship
Maccabi Tel Aviv team at
Queens College in Flush-
ing, N.Y. on Tuesday.
Arrangements have been
made for Maccabi Tel Aviv
to train for a few days at
New York Tech, with the
U.S. Maccabia Team. The
U.S. team will be coached by
Sam Stern, the athletic di-
rector at New York Tech.
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Wiesenthal Denies Making
Anti-Timerman Statements
NEW YORK — Simon
Wiesenthal has denied
making some of the state-
ments attributed to him
that were critical of Jacobo
Timerman, the former pub-
lisher who was jailed with-
out charge in Argentina for
two years and later exiled to
Israel.
The statements appeared
in a nationally-syndicated
column by William F.
Buckley on May 31 (See
Purely Commentary, The
Jewish News, June 12).
Buckley quoted Wiesent-
hal as having suggested
that Timerman exagger-
ated the anti-Semitism of
Argentine authorities, that
Timerman was arrested be-
cause he favored terrorism,
and that he had "leftist"
sympathies.
The Buckley column
was based on an inter-
view which appeared
April 26 in El Pais news-
paper in Uruguay.
Buckley did not check the
interview with Wiesenthal
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