28 Friday, August 1, 1981
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Ad Condemns
Mexican Bias
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MEXICO CITY (JTA)
— The Central Jewish
Committee published in a
local daily, Excelsior, a
statement condemning a
large number of pro-Arab
and pro-Palestinian articles
and cartoons in other local
media which the statement
called "open poisonous"
against Israel and opposed
to - Jewish rights to
Jerusalem.
The statement said one of
the journalists is a Com-
munist member of the Mex-
ican Parliament, Graco
Ramirez, who accused Is-
rael of "genocide" against
the "Palestinian people in
Lebanon" and demanded
that the Mexican govern-
ment halt oil shipments to
Israel.
Similar declarations were
published by the local
branch of the Arab League
and a group of Mexican lef-
tist politicians, intellectu-
als and writers supporting
the "just cause" of the Pales-
tinians.
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GEMOLOGIST r61 DIAMONTOLOGIST
CONDENSATION OF AN OPEN LETTER
TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
By the President of the
ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA
IVAN NOVIK
The time has come when the basic problem that plagues the peace of the
Middle East must be addressed. One of the major obstacles to peace is the
Covenant of the terrorist Palestine Liberation Organization which calls for the
elimination of the Jewish State. Israel does not advocate the demise of any
Arab nation. Israel has no quarrel with the people of Lebanon; however, Israel
cannot ignore the threats and actions of violence directed at her by the PLO
and the PLO cannot claim immunity for its actions. We have appreciated and
applauded the words of disapproval that you and Secretary Haig have voiced
against terrorism and the PLO in the past. The time has now come for
concrete action.
1. The Government of Lebanon cannot turn its back on its own respon-
sibilities. As a sovereign nation, it has an obligation to itself, its neighbors
and the cause of peace to take such action as will eliminate bloodshed and
violence. Lebanon must no longer tolerate the presence of PLO terrorists in
its midst. We urge you to voice public support to the Government of
Lebanon and encourage it to remove the PLO as an important step to avoid
further conflict.
2. The PLO is responsible for the violence and destruction in Lebanon, in
Israel and throughout the world. Its most effective supporters are the
Soviets and Saudi Arabia. The Saudis have already announced that they
will provide 20 million dollars to compensate the PLO for the loss of its
facilities in Lebanon. This is the "moderate" friend of the U.S., who de-
mands that we provide it with our most sophisticated and secret arma-
ments. Until such time as Saudi Arabia dissociates itself from the PLO,
the U.S. must refuse to provide it with F 15 enhancements and
AWACS.
3. The PLO stands guilty before the world by its inhuman and cowardly use of
civilians as a shield to protect its terrorist activities against Israel. The
placement of PLO bases of operation in the midst of heavily popu-
lated areas must be condemned.
4. We urge you to condemn and repudiate the PLO Covenant as a document
calling for the liquidation of the State of Israel and as a manifesto of global
anti-Semitism.
5. The U.S. has properly assumed a policy-position wherein it refuses to
"recognize" the PLO. But non-recognition is no longer a sufficient answer.
The U.S. must now publicly condemn the PLO as an instrument of genocide
and world-wide anti-Semitism, quite apart from being an organization sub-
ject to Soviet dictates and controls. It is inconceivable that PLO representa-
tives should be allowed to operate freely in the U.S. Capital, in New York
and other cities espousing programs of violence and hate repugnant to
everything we stand for as Americans. We believe and, indeed, urge that
PLO offices in the U.S. be shut down and their occupants expelled.
Zionist Organization of America
Detroit District
SIDNEY SILVERMAN, Chairman Executive Comm. IRVING LAKER, President
LOUIS PANUSH, Chairman Public Affairs Comm.
Economy Causes Exodus of Jews
from Religious Freedom in Spain
By MICHAEL FOONER
(Copyright 1981, JTA, Inc.)
Joseph Bensadon settled
in Spain 25 years ago, emig-
rating from Morocco which
had been the homeland of
his family for generations.
He prospered and raised a
family here, but now he
thinks he may emigrate
again, to Israel.
In this he seems to reflect
a growing conviction among
leaders of the Jewish com-
munity of Spain, despite its
achievement of religious
freedom and rights to an ex-
tent undreamed of through-
out Spanish history. The
community is well aware
that in place of the dis-
crimination and officially
sanctioned mob violence of
ages past, Spain today pro-
tects Jews' religious free-
dom and institutions as a
matter of national law, and
is about to extend official
recognition to basic pro-
visions of rabbinic law.
Paradoxically, leaders of
the Jewish community are
wary of where they go from
here. They are appreciative
of the present democratic
regime's enlightened prac-
tices regarding Judaism
and the support of the King,
Juan Carlos, but they say
they must weigh the effects
of world conditions to which
Spain is particularly sensi-
tive. .
Maurice Hatchwell, a
former president of the
Jewish community of
Madrid, and head of an
internationally active
cement company, sum-
marizes the position of
three points: the eco-
nomic problem, political
uncertainty, the "pet-
rodollar syndrome."
"The petrodollar syn-
drome is probably the point
of greatest anxiety to the
Jewish community," he said
at an interview in his Mad-
rid office. "The present re-
gime has unfortunately
knuckled under to OPEC
blackmail. Spain is cut off
from normal relations with
Israel, which might other-
wise be of great economic
benefit and receives no
compensating advantages
from the Arabs."
On the economic front,
the 1960s showed strong
economic development, fol-
lowed by faltering in the
1970s, with no plan for cur-
ing economic ills in the
1980's yet visible, he said.
With unemployment run-
ning close to 13.5 percent
the country is in deep trou-
ble, and it's a contributory
factor to political instabil-
ity.
The political uncertain-
ties that exploded publicly
Rabbis' Patron
NEW YORK — Talmudic
scholar and Jewish philos-
ophy professor Joseph B.
Soloveitchik has ordained
1,400 rabbis in his 40 years
at Yeshiva University.
His total of ordained stu-
dents is believed to be the
most of any sage in Jewish
history.
society, much less than, say,
in France or even the
United States.
But despite the undeni-
able satisfactions of Jewish
life in Spain today, commu-
nity leaders feel they have
to keep options open, and
the most prominent option
is migration to Israel. This
is not theoretical. The,
President of the Jewish
community, Joseph Bensa-
don, says two of his grown.
children have already set-
tled with their families in
Israel, and the third is
likely to make the same
choice as soon as he is old
enough. It's a trend among
the community's youth, he
says.
Jews of Bensadon's gen-
eration, having become es-
tablished in Spain, cannot
as easily pick up and go, but
they expect to or are consid-
ering it as inevitable unless
conditions substantially
change. Nevertheless, he
says, the community as a
whole is stabilized because
in-migrants from less fa-
vored countries have been
offsetting the departures.
with the abortive ,coup
d'etat attempt in February,
and which are now seen as
running deep within some
part of the Spanish estab-
lishment, are being
watched by the Jewish
community as a future
threat to the gains they
achieved in the past decade.
"The lessons of Ger-
many and some Iron Cur-
tain countries are vivid,"
Hatchwell said. "When
extremism takes over,
whether from the right or
from the left, anti-
Semitism is virtually a
knee-jerk consequence."
But, he added, for Spain
this is a national problem
far more than a Jews' prob-
lem, if only because the
Jewish community is so
tiny, estimated at about
12,000 in a population of 38
million. Observers in the
United States and other
Western countries are fear-
ful that Spain's recently ac-
quired democracy may be
too fragile to withstand the
terrorism and violent
separatism that which
opens the door to repression
with the military and police
interests shaking off civi-
lian control.
Interviews with various
leaders of the Jewish com-
munity brought out com-
plete agreement that anti-
Semitism is practically
non-existent in Spain today.
Isolated incidents of a few
years past were dealt with
firmly by the authorities,
and if there are a few
"crazies" around it's no
more than would be found in
any open, pluralistic
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