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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

MOVING?

Sharon Orders Conciliation in Territories

JERUSALEM (JTA),.— A
week after assuming his
duties as Israel's new De-
fense Minister, Ariel Sha-
ron, generally regarded as
Israel's most hawkish per-
sonality, startled Israelis
and Arabs alike by an-
nouncing a new conciliatory
policy toward Arabs living
in the administered ter-
ritories.
The changes were em-
bodied in a series of direc-
tives issued by the Defense
Ministry. Ministry sources
I the purpose of the new
puiicy was to seek resump-
tion of dialogue with local
Palestinian leaders in the
West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The directives stipulate
that:
• Terrorists and civilians
will be treated differently.
• Efforts will be made
to prevent acts which
might humiliate the Arab
residents in daily con-
tacts between them and
the military government.
• Soldiers will stop enter-
ing schools to disperse
demonstrations.
• Collective punishment
of villages or neighborhoods
for security violations
within their areas will be
halted.
• Israeli soldiers will be
instructed to show greater
courtesy to Arab residents,
particularly when holding
them for road block checks.
• The new policy will aim
to create a joint framework
of "common life" with the
Arabs "in a spirit of mutual
respect, to implement the
policy of the government, as
set up in the Camp David
agreements," in the words
of the ministry sources.
• There will be an
"open door and a listen-
ing ear" to Arab leaders
who are willing to coop-
erate with Israel in re-
solving the autonomy is-
sue.
• An effort will be made to
create a situation in which
such potential Arab
pArtners to the negotiations
will not remain silent out of
fear of the Palestinian ter-
rorist groups or of the Is-
raeli government.
• With adherence to the
policy of no negotiations
with the Palestine Libera-
tion Organization, there is
to be a concerted effort to
increase the influence of
"moderates" in the ter-
ritories, to include physical
protection of such Arabs so
that they will not fear to
speak out.
The Sharon plan caught
most Arab public figures off

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ARIEL SHARON

guard. Generally, they had
expected the new Defense
Minister to live up to his
reputation as a hard-liner
by further limiting their
political freedom.
The response of those
Atabs to what appeared
to be a desire by Sharon
to open a new page was to
welcome the easing of the
"iron-fisted" policy of the
military government.
They also welcomed Sha-
ron's intention to start
meetings with the mod-
erates.
Mayor Elias Freij of
Bethlehem welcomed the
new policy, calling Sharon
"courageous," adding he
hoped to meet with Sharon
soon. Freij also expressed
the hope that the new policy
plans would lead to greater
understanding between the
Arab residents and the Is-
raeli government.
Gaza Mayor Rashad
A-Shawa took a different
view, dec'aring that the or-
ders to the Israeli army to
treat the Arab resident bet-
ter was a side issue. He said
the real question was the
Palestinian right to self-
determination, which he
said Israel avoided.
Karim Khalaf, Ramal-
lah's radical mayor, refused
to comment on the plan, as-

serting that, every time he
made a public statement, he
was "called in for interroga-
tion." Bassam Shaka, the
mayor of Nablus who lost
both legs in a bomb attack
on June 2, 1980, com-
mented, "It should be in-
teresting to find out what
Sharon's reaction will be
when he meets me and finds
out I oppose" the Jewish set-
tlements on the West Bank.
Hanna Siniora, editor
of the East Jerusalem
daily Al-Fajr which is
identified with the Arab
radical nationalist line,
said, "Sharon's declared
policy is to provide a
homeland for the Pales-
tinians in the East Bank
of Jordan. This we vigor-
ously oppose. If Mr. Sha-
ron wants to start a
dialogue, he should start
it on this main issue —
self-determination for
the Palestinians."
Leaders of the Jewish set-
tlements and representa-
tives of the ultra-
nationalist Tehiya move-
ment in the Knesset wel-
comed the "human aspects"
of the new plan, but they
questioned its political as-
pects.
They said that while Sha-
ron wanted to create a "pro-
per atmosphere" for imple-
menting the autonomy
plan, they — as foes of au-
tonomy — felt that a more
humane treatment of the
Arab residents would work
only if operated within a
framework of full Israeli
sovereignty over the ter-
ritories.
Observers commented
that the new Sharon pro-
posals are reminiscent of
the declared policies of then
Defense Minister Moshe
Dayan soon after Israel took
control of the territories fol-
lowing the 1967 Six-Day
War. They noted that the
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ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
JEWISH WELFARE FEDERATION OF DETROIT

Nominees to the Board of Governors

Pursuant to the by-laws of the JEWISH WELFARE FEDERATION OF DETROIT the following list
of nominees, selected from the membership of the Federation, eligible for election to the Board of
Governors of the Federation has been presented to the Executive Director not less than thirty days
prior to the Annual Meeting which will take place on Wednesday, September 23, at the Jewish
Community Center, West Bloomfield, at 6 p.m.

FOR RE-ELECTION

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3-Year Term Ending in 1984

Dr. Milton H. Goldrath
Rabbi James I. Gordon
Lawrence S. Jackier

N. Brewster Broder
Maurice S. Cohen .

Milton J. Miller
Jane Sherman

FOR ELECTION

3-Year Term Ending in 1984

Mark E. Schlussel

Dr. Leon Fill

FOR ELECTION

2-Year Term Ending in 1983

Robert G. Slatkin

Other persons may be nominated by petition or petitions signed by not fewer than 25 members of
the Federation and filed with the Executive Director of the Federation not less than ten days prior to
the date of the Annual Meeting. Only one person may be nominated in each petition and no
nomination shall be valid unless the nominee shall have consented to be a candidate.

1981 NOMINATING COMMITTEE

Martin E. Citrin
Chairman

Marvin I. -Danto
Alfred L. Deutsch

Joel D. Gershenson
Jessie Stern

JEWISH WELFARE FEDERATION
OF DETROIT

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965-3939
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olda's Home
Landmark?

DENVER — A resolution
urging that the former
home of Golda Meir be
designated as a historical
landmark has been passed
by the Denver Landmark
Preservation Commission.
The commission hopes to
prevent the Boys Club of
Denver, current owners of
the home, from razing it to
put up tennis courts. The
late Israeli Prime Minister
lived in the Denver home
from 1913 to 1915.

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