14 Friday, January 1, 1982 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Polish Authorities Release Warsaw Ghetto Survivor NEW YORK (JTA) — weeks ago. Rabbi Alexander Schin- The release of Dr. Marek Edelman, one of the last dler, president of the Union surviving leaders of the of American Hebrew Con- Warsaw Ghetto uprising, gregations, had intervened has been confirmed by with the Polish authorities Polish refugee sources in on Edelman's behalf. Paris. Schindler had earlier cabled He was one of several Polish Prime Minister and thousao“:1 Solidarity offi- Communist Party chief cials arrested when the Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski to Polish government imposed order Edelman's "im- martial law more than two mediate release." According PEARL gCTSSORS BUCKLES UNL IM ITED Bud iti Es $ _3 for $12.50 45 ° OTHER BUCKLES AT $5, SS, $8, $10 aiid up ; OVER 1,800 DIFFERENT BUCKLE STYLES PEARL SCISSORS 'THE BUCKLE LApr 2240 COOLIDGE Farmington Monday Urn Saturday 104 — Free Parking 5 BLKS. N. OF 11 MILE 35171 Grand River BERKLEY, MI. 48072 Drakeshire Shopping Center 545-6885 474-0055. 12 Wk. E. of Drake to the refugee sources he was freed last week. Meanwhile, in Washington, representa- tives of Bnai Brith Inter- national and the Ameri- can Jewish Committee met with Polish officials at the Polish Embassy. At the invitation of the embassy officials, who had earlier refused to meet with the Jewish spokespersons, Warren Eisenberg and George Spectre, director and associate director, re- spectively, of the Interna- tional Council of Bnai Brith,and George Szabad, a vice president, and Hyman Bookbinder, Washington representative of the AJ- Committee, called on the Polish government to dis- avow publicly all anti- Semitic actions. Embassy press counselor Lucjian Mieczkowski told the Jewish representatives that Polish policy "remains the same as it was last March" when the govern- ment headed by then Com- munist Party secretary Stanislaw Kania re- pudiated anti-Semitism fol- 5 LBS. 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The number of Jews pre- sently living in Poland is es- timated at 5,000, half of them married to non-Jews, and the rest elderly people. He charged that anti- Semitism and anti-Zionism have become tools in the hands of the Communist re- gime to divert attention from the real issues. Queens Emigres Receive Free Medical Service A Super Look At A Super Low Price . DIAMONDS OUR SPECIALTY 38400 TELEGRAPH 6 BIRMINGHAM LOCATED AT 1e1/2 Mile . spurn 104/134 Awarded Certificate by GIA in Grading & Evaluation lowing an anti-Jewish rally in Warsaw. He said he would forward the Bnai Brith and AJ- Committee statement Which asked the govern- ment to reaffirm the March declaration. In a related develop- ment, the International Network of Children of Jewish Holocaust Sur- vivors condemned the recent rise of anti- Semitism in Poland and called on all "freedom- conscious elements within Poland to fight the neo-fascist resurgence of anti-Semitism in the land of Auschwitz, Treblinka and Maidanek." Menahem Rosensaft, chairman of the network, said signs of a rise in anti- Semitism in Poland include anti-Jewish propaganda on radio and television and re- ports that Jews were being turned away from bread lines. Rosensaft, the son of Polish Jews, recalled that Polish anti-Semitism was not a new phenomenon. "Forty years ago," he said, "the Polish people watched in silence as our grandpa- rents were murdered and our parents persecuted. To- day, apparently the few re- maining Jews in Poland are once again being vic- timized." The network was formed at the World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust survivors in Jerusalem last June. * * * NEW YORK (JTA) — A project of the New York Association of New Ameri- cans (NYANA) to enlist doctors to provide free med- ical treatment to newly- arrived Soviet. Jewish refu- gees in Queens has enrolled more than 200 doctors who have provided treatment to some 110 Russian Jews since last July, according to Arthur Chernick, NYANA president. 6425575 No talent is needed to lie and deceive. Boris Smolar's `Between You . . . and Me' Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, JTA (Copyright 1982, JTA, Inc.) THE GOLAN HEIGHTS ISSUE: Whatever the motivations of President Reagan in suspending the U.S. strategic cooperation agreement concluded with Israel only about a month ago, it is obvious that his anger was aroused not so much by Israel's new law to put the Golan Heivr - under civil Israeli administration — which is interpret, as annexation — as by the fact that the Israel government did not take him into its confidence to inform him in ad- vance of this planned act. President Reagan failed to realize that while Israel is the greatest friend the United States has in the Middle East — in fact an ally — it is nevertheless a sovereign country making its own laws. There is justified fear in Israel that plans entrusted prematurely to the United States govern- ment can leak out through Arab sympathizers in the State Department. President Reagan seems to be especially offended by the fact that Israel's Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, who signed the American-Israel strategic cooperation agree- ment in Washington last month, did not even hint of the planned annexation of the Golan Heights. Nor did Israel's Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir when he was on a friendly visit in Washington. It is obvious that had the Israel government confided in the White House or in the State Department in advance its plan to annex the Golan Heights, the government would have been strongly "advised" by Washington to abstain from doing it. The possibility that Syria will emulate Egypt and come to an understanding with Israel is very remote. The Syrian government still calls for the annihilation of Israel. Rejecting "advice" from Washington to abstain from action on the status of the Golan Heights would undoub- tedly have antagonized President Reagan more than Is- rael's action in putting before him a fait accompli which will be straightened out with the march of time. It is worth noting that Golan was not a part of Syria before World War I. The area, as well as all the territories in the Middle East, was at that time under Turkish rule for exactly 400 years. Jewish history tells us that this region was inhabited by the tribes of Menashe and Dan, and later ruled by King David, who fortified it. From the days of King Solomon, Israel and Aram — a northern neighbor — struggled over the possession of the Golan. In the course of several wars the region passed from hand to hand. Jews began settling there again in the Second Century BCE. A STEP LONG OVERDUE: I was on the Golan Heights 24 hours after the Israeli military forces entered there. I have seen the heavy artillery and the huge disabled Soviet tanks with the names of the Soviet factories painted on their fronts in Russian which the Syrian army left in a hurry during its retreat. I admit I was puzzled all the years since then why the government of Israel did not annex the Golan Heights area outright for the sake of Israel's security. The conquest of the heights opened a new life for the settlers in the lowland section of the Lake Kinneret region. No longer were the colonists afraid of day and night attacks. No longer were mothers ever watchful for evacuation to underground shel- ters. Normal life in the settlements was restored after more than 19 years of actual siege. I.am not a specialist in international jurisprudence; however, I have seen wars and have never known of any conquered territory being returned by the victorious to the losers. After World War I, none of the countries which lost territory received it back. During World War II, the Soviet government annexed a number of Polish cities, including the city of Lwow, and never returned them to Poland even though a Communist government was established there after the country was liberated from Nazi occupation. Nor did the Kremlin return to Communist Czechos- lovakia the Carpathian region which it annexed. Neither did Communist Romania receive back the province of P sarabia which the Soviets annexed after the Nazi an retreated. Israel agreed to return to Egypt the Sinai — where Israel invested heavy capital to develop oil fields during the occupation period — only after Egypt recognized the state of Israel. The rulers of Syria refused to follow the example of Egypt, and even condemned it. Today, Syria is the most extreme enemy of Israel among Arab countries. It is the center where the Palestine Liberation Organization trains its terrorists against Israel and Lebanon. It supplies the terrorists with arms which it receives from the Soviet. Union. It speaks constantly of amaihilation of Israel. It has stationed missiles on its border pointing them at Israel and endangering Israel's security. It is ignoring Israel's demand to remove them. Under such circumstances, why should Israel wait longer with the an- nexation of the Golan Heights? 0