THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
24 Friday, January 29, 1982
The Journal Dissects Autonomy Problem
(Editor's note: The fol-
lowing editorial ap-
peared in the Jan. 19 Wall
Street Journal under the
headline "Whose Au-
tonomy?")
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Middle East, Secretary of
State Haig may well have
had the feeling he's trying
to cope with the balloon
payment on the Camp
David accords. His stated
mission was to work out an
American strategy for the
sputtering Israeli-Egyptian
talks on Palestinian au-
tonomy on the West Bank.
But the best hope for a
breakthrough will have lit-
tle to do with Secretary
Haig's peregrinations.
When the autonomy talks
idea emerged from Camp
David, it seemed destined to
fall apart from its own con-
tradictions. The Palesti-
nians on the West Bank
were expected to entrust
their future to Israel, whom
they resented for occupying
them, and Egypt, whom
they hated for "selling them
out."
They might have been
expected to come around if
they had no choice, but the
State Department never
convincingly rejected the
Arab world's claim that the
only party that could speak
for Palestinians was the
Palestine Liberation
Organization.
The PLO, with its main
base in the refugee camps
outside of Israel control,
couldn't care less about a
West Bank autonomy
deal. And with the Arab
world behind it, the PLO
could keep any West
Bankers from going
along.
The negotiators at Camp
David knew all this. At the
time, some Israelis worried
that Egypt could use a fu-
ture impasse in the au-
tonomy talks as an excuse to
renege on the rest of the
agreement. These fears
have abated as Israeli-
Egyptian relations have
deepened. Yet the au-
tonomy talks are still un-
likely to attract Palesti-
nians, even with the
maximum terms sought by
Egypt, in the absence of an
outside nudge which
neither Egypt, Israel nor
the U.S. can supply.
Ironically, such a nudge
may be in the offing, thanks
to the missteps of the PLO.
Saudi leaders are still
smarting from what they
think was double-dealing
by PLO leaderYasir Arafat
over their eight-point peace
plan. Arafat had given them
reason to think he would
support their plan. But
when the Saudis brought it
to an Arab summit meeting
at Fez in November, Arafat
and the hardline countries
tcrpedoed it, and the Moroc-
can hosts adjourned the
meeting after one round of
speeches.
As a result, the Saudis
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III ra l
11
•
Israelis Put Yerida on Trial,
Youth Talk of Israel Future
now are talking with Jor-
dan about somehow reduc-
By GIL SEDAN
(Copyright 1982, JTA, Inc.)
ing the status of the PLO as
"sole, legitimate represen-
HERZLIYA — A meeting
tative of the Palestinian dealing with an issue of
people." They appear to great import to the future of
want to bring in non-PLO Israel recently took place
Palestinians, including here. The very fact that this
local leaders from the West gathering occurred at all
Bank and Gaza.
seemed to contradict the
It's hard to tell how far charges which the meeting
this talk will get, or was to consider.
whether Jordanian and
Labor Alignment Knes-
Saudi backing will make set member Chaim Herzog,
local leaders any more a former ambassador to the
resistant to PLO intimi- United Nations, told sev-
dation. But if the interna- eral hundred high school
tional definition of students, their teachers and
"Palestinian" can be their parents that one'of the
broadened to include key causes for yerida (emig-
those Palestinians who ration of Israelis) was the
do have vested interests lack of public interest in Is-
on the West Bank, then rael and Zionism and
the autonomy talks might Judaism.
begin to have some point.
On the surface, it seemed
The problem for Secre- that Herzog was addressing
tary Haig, however, is that the wrong audience. Wasn't
this development is almost the very fact that several
entirely outside the scope of hundred Israelis had
his influence. The future of gathered for an entire eve-
the autonomy talks and the ning to discuss yerida proof
broadening of the "Camp that Israelis did care?
David process" may depend
The occasion was a "pub-
on his keeping his ears open lic trial on yerida." The
and his mouth shut.
"courtroom" was the His-
tadrut building here, and
the participants were 11th
Jewish Press
graders at Herzliya munici-
Awards Deadline pal
high school.
Any such gathering on an
NEW YORK (JTA) —
Conditions for entries for evening when Israeli TV
the first Simon Rockower shows "The Boston Strang-
Awards for Excellence in ler" would signify some
Jewish Journalism have interest on the subject of
been announced by Dr. yerida.
However, there were at
David Mirsky of Yeshiva
University, awards com- least two indications that
there was some validity to
mittee chairman.
The annual awards, es- Herzog's charge. One, the
tablished by the American strong and angry reactions
Jewish Press Association to the "defense witnesses,"
(AJPA), are administered those courageous Israelis
who tried to present a logi-
by Yeshiva University.
Dr. Mirsky said Feb. 26 is cal explanation of why some
the deadline for submission Israelis can no longer live in
of entries to his office at this country.
Yeshiva University. He
The other indication that
said prizes will be awarded Herzog was apparently on
for distinguished news re- the right track in charging
porting, editorial writing, that the subject of yerida
feature writing and for was not a priority issue for
"page one" layout and Israelis, was that the initia-
make-up.
tive for the meeting did not
come from the students nor
even from the school ad-
Army Denies
ministration. It took place
Using Ammo
as part of an ongoing drive
by the Zionist Council to
on Maneuvers
promote Zionist issues
TEL AVIV (JTA) — An among young people.
Army spokesman said that
Such "public trials" are
there was absolutely no now taking place at least
truth to a report by the twice a month in various
United Nations Interim parts of the country. Young
Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) people are encouraged to
that Israel carried out mili- attend and to give thought
tary maneuvers using live to an issue which will very
ammunition on Lebanese much determine the future
soil Monday and Tuesday.
of Israel.
According to a UNIFIL
The attitude of the meet-
spokesman, Israeli troops ing in Herzliya was symp-
were involved in the exer- tomatic of the public's atti-
cise in the Yarin and Mar- tude in general. Israelis do
wahin areas of Lebanon, not like to think about other
about a mile from the Israeli Israelis leaving them be-
border.
hind.
The figures explain why.
Jewish Studies
Only 12,000 immigrants ar-
PHILADELPHIA (JTA) rived in Israel last year.
— A new specialization and Figures on Israelis leaving
certificate program in the country permanently
Jewish studies will start vary from 13,000 to 24,000.
during the spring semester The discrepancy in these
at Temple University for figures depends how one de-
students who want to con- fines leaving the country
centrate in Jewish studies permanently, because very
before entering graduate few Israelis actually declare
school or preparing for a that they are emigrating.
Whatever the real figures
Jewish communal career.
are, one fact is definite: in
the last two years, for the
first time since the estab-
lishment of the state, there
were more emigrants than
immigrants.
The prosecution at the
meeting in Herzliya argued
that there was no real rea-
son for emigration: the gen-
eral economic situation in
the country was good, and,
contrary to the situation in
Western countries, there
was hardly any unemploy-
ment.
The emigrant, the pro-
secutor charged, was not
only acting against Zionism .
and contrary to his national------
duties, he was also acting
against himself and his
family.
The defense raised a
moral issue: "Does anyone
have the right to compel
others to live in a place in
which they are unhappy?"
The defense stressed that it
did not want to defend
yerida as a phenomenon,
but rather a person's right
to emigrate.
The key witness for the
prosecution was Herzog. He
recalled that during the
United Nations General
Assembly debate on
Zionism in November 1975
one of the arguments raised
by Israel's enemies was that
if Zionism was a positive
solution for the Jewish
people, why was it that so
many Israelis were leaving?
The "trial" ended with no
verdict. The public "trials"
dealing with this issue are
really the minimum that is
being done to place the
agenda of yerida on the na-
tional agenda.
,
Two La. Schools
Ignore Court
Ruling on Prayer
ALEXANDRIA, La. —
The principals of two
schools in the: Rapides
Parish district said they
would continue to institute
a voluntary school prayer
despite the Supreme Court
decision this week against
such practices.
The principals of Bolton
High School and the J. I.
Barron Elementary school
said prayer sessions would
stop only upon new orders
from the school board or
superintendent.
Top Companies
TEL AVIV (ZINS) —
Economist Eliezer Levin,
writing for the newspaper
Haaretz, recently wrote
that Israel's 100 leading
firms did a combined total of
$5.4 billion in business last
year.
Israel's leading business
was military production
with 30,000 employees.
distant second was the
Tadiron electronics firm
and Histadrut's Tnuva ag-
ricultural marketing com-
pany was third.
If lumped together as one
firm, Israel's 100 leading
businesses would have
placed 65th on the U.S. list
of top firms.