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Another
Undeniable War
Imposed Upon
Israel by
Venom-Spreading
Manipulators
THE JEWISH NEWS
A Week(' Review
Editorial, Page 4
of knish Events
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April 9, 1982
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Conclave Spurs
Unity Government Prospects
Lost Page of Codex
Given to Hebrew U.
JERUSALEM — A parchment leaf of a biblical manu-
script, which has proved to be a lost page from the renowned
Aleppo Codex, the oldest known manuscript of the Bible,
has recently been presented to the Jewish National and
University Library (JNUL) on the Hebrew University's
Givat Ram campus.
The leaf contains the text of II Chronicles 35:7-36:19,
which was among the missing pages in the more than
1,000-year-old Codex brought to Jerusalem in 1958.
When Dr. MordecaiNadav, director of the JNUL's
Manuscript Department, saw the page, he im-
mediately recognized Wks identical in writing and size
to the other leaves in the Codex. As a result of this
finding, it is now hoped that other lost pages of the
Codex may eventually be recovered.
The missing page was donated to the JNUL by Mrs.
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — A two-hour meeting between the top government and opposition leaders on
Tuesday raised new speculation that a national unity government may be in the making, possibly as a
prelude to Israeli military action against Palestinian terrorists in Lebanon.
Attending the meeting, held under a veil of secrecy in the Prime Minister's Office, were Premier
Menahem Begin, Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir and Defense Minister Ariel Sharon for the govern-
ment; and'Shimon Peres, chairman of the Labor Alignment, former Permier Yitzhak Rabin, and Haim
Barley, Secretary General of the Labor Party.
Peres told reporters afterwards that the subject of discussion was 'political and security
affairs." He said a national unity government was not discussed. The meeting was held only a day
after Begin renewed his call for a national unity regime amid speculation over how Israel would
react to the murder of Israeli diplomat Yaacov Bar-Simantov in Paris last Saturday.
Israel insists that the Palestine Liberation Organization was responsible for the killing, raising the
possibility of a strike into Lebanon on grounds that the PLO violated the cease-fire in effect since last July.
The U.S. reportedly is pressing Israel not to over-react to the Paris murder. Ambassador Samuel Lewis met
Tuesday with Hannan Bar-On, director general of the Foreign Ministry. He is said to have expressed
Washington's concern over the rising tension in the area.
Palestinian terrorists are convinced that an Israeli attack is imminent. Many Israelis apparently
expect the same thing and believe Begin is anxious to form a national unity regime before undertaking
such action in face of probably adverse reactions from the United States and world opinion.
Peres- told the Labor Alignment Knesset faction after the meeting that there is no room for such a
government at this time. But he refused to endorse a resolution rejecting a national unity coalition under
any circumstances, urged by Mapam Secretary General Victor Sherntov.
Peres said that future circumstances might necessitate a unity government t and
any
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headed
Labor
Alignment. He thereby did
not rule out the possibility.
Meir Payil, a leader of the
small leftist Sheli faction,
urged Alignment leaders not
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Yaacov Bar-Simantov, the
to fall into the "trap of a na-
Israeli diplomat gunned down in Paris on Saturday,
tional unity government"
was buried at the Holon cemetery Monday. About 600
mourners attended the funeral services, among them
that would give Begin
the French Ambassador, Marc Bonnefous.
legitimacy for "aggressive
terror acts in Lebanon,"
Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who delivered
the eulogy, said that the murder was the work of
jeopardize the withdrawal
"Palestinian terrorist organizations which dare to
from Sinai or to continue "go-
use the name liberation to carry out murders in var-
ing wild on the West Bank
ious parts of the world on orders from the center of
and the Golan."
terrorism in Lebanon."
Meanwhile, the indepen-
Shamir warned, "We will use our force to
dent daily Haaretz warned in
crush these terrorist organizations, their lead-
an editorial that the murder
ers, their centers and their bases everywhere
in Paris did not justify mili-
our long arm reaches. We will hit them without
tary intervention in Leba:
mercy because we have decided to live."
non. Even a limited opera-
He said the_ bullets that struck the 42-year-old Is-
tion might deteriorate into
rael embassy official in Paris were "aimed at the
events beyond Israel's con-
YAACOV
heart of the entire Israeli nation."
trol, the paper said.
BAR-SIMANTOV
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4loppy U.S. Reporting, Forgotten Facts Hurt Israel
By VICTOR M. BIENSTOCK
Israel may be losing the hearts and minds of the American people because of the
distorted picture of Middle East developments presented by the media and careless
reporting by correspondents in the field. It is not they alone, however, who neglect the
ABCs of journalism and reveal such an appalling lack of knowledge of the history-of the
-411. region during the past half-century; their editors who are responsible for clearing their
copy share the responsibility.
It is not easy for this writer, a former correspondent and editor, to sit in judgment on
his successors, but it is painful to see misstatements of fact repeated over and over again
in the press, on TV and radio, in the news weeklies and other media, probably uninten-
tional but nevertheless harmful and exasperating because where they do not show malice
they reveal bad, reporting, sloppy reporting and negligent editing.
Regardless of the cause, these misstatements are harmful. Perhaps American
friends of Israel ought to set up a "truth squad" to complain to the local news-
paper or TV station each time it publishes a harmful misstatement of fact, for
there comes a time when ceaseless repetition of a lie, whether international or
not, gives it a credibility of its own.
The New York Times recently published an interview with King Hussein of Jordan
by its correspondent, John Kifner, which contained this paragraph:
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"The king (Hussein) suggested that the passage of time and lack of continuity'
weakened the original American intent under United Nations Resolution 242 which he
helped to negotiate in 1967. The resolution calls for Israel's return to its pre-1967
boundaries in exchange for a guarantee that all nations in the area live in peace within
secure borders."
It is startling how much misinformation can be packed into one short paragraph such
as that. It is disturbing to realize that this is not an unusual piece of slapdash journalism
but a specimen of what the respected Times and other newspapers hand out daily, as do
all the other media.
Look at the misleading statements in this one paragraph: First of all, Hussein
did not help to negotiate Ressolution 242. Hussein, actually, was one of the
obstacles to Security Council adoption of 242. Despite the crushing defeat Col.
Nasser of Egypt had led him into, Hussein remained a faithful ally and his role, as
was Nasser's, was a devious one.
In his memoirs, "Destination Peace," Gideon Rafael, who served as head of Israel's
United Nations delegation during those hectic days, describes how U.S. Ambassador
Arthur Goldberg negotiated with Hussein and Nasser's foreign minister on an American
draft resolution. Goldberg, Rafael reports, obtained Hussein's agreement after the king
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