THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, April 9, 1982 33

Caller Blames JDL for Fire at an Arab Restaurant in NY

NEW YORK (JTA) —
Representatives of the
Brooklyn Jewish commu-
nity reacted with "grief and
outrage" to the suspicious
three-alarm blaze in the
Brooklyn Heights section

early Monday morning that
killed a 75-year-old woman
and injured several other
persons.
An anonymous telephone
caller claiming to speak for
the Jewish Defense League

told local news media that
the JDL was responsible for
the fire. The caller claimed
the JDL "discovered" that
the building housed the
"secret headquarters" of the
Palestine Liberation

Begin Sees Parallel in Falklands

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JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Premier Menahem Begin
used the escalating crisis
between Britain and Argen-
tina over the Falkland Is-
lands to admonish the
British government "not to
demand" that -Israel sur-
render territory it occupies.
The Falkland Islands con-
flict was discussed during
Sunday's Cabinet session
where the ministers took
note that Britain was ready
to fight over a crown colony
8,000 miles from its shores.
"This being so," said Be-
gin, "we have the right to
expect our friends, in
England and elsewhere,
will better understand, and
will not demand of us

further that we surrender to tary in protest against the
foreign rule parts of our government's heavy de-
homeland that are located fense cuts.
less than one mile from our
Carrington's resignation,
capital city, and but a few which comes less than a
miles from most of our popu- week after his two-day visit
lation centers." to Israel, calls into question
British Foreign Secre- British foreign policy of the
tary Lord Carrington and past three years, including
two of his junior minis- Britain's aspirations to
ters resigned from the influence events in the
British government Middle East through the
Monday in a dramatic European Economic Com-
munity.
acceptance of responsi-
bility for mishandling the
There was no official
Falkland Islands crisis.
reaction in Israel to the res-
The new Foreign Secre- ignation. However, few Is-
tary will be Francis Pym, raelis expressed regret over
leader of the House of Carrington's fall, as he was
Commons, who last year never regarded as a friend of
resigned as Defense Secre- Israel.
His last major political
mission was his visit to
Israel, last week, during
which both he and the Is-
raeli officials he met with
rigation pipes, grade agreed that they had little
building sites and complete to agree on reagrding the
the other tasks entailed in Middle East situation.
Nevertheless, Car-
creating the infrastructure
rington's visit was de-
for settlement.
scribed as a new leaf in the
To implement the cam- relatively cool relations be-
paign for funds, the JNF is tween Britain and Israel. A
conducting a direct-mail tentative dialogue had
appeal that underscores the begun and Israeli officials
ever-increasing needs
said Monday, barely hiding
brought about by the with-
their grins, that it was too
drawal from Sinai.
bad he had to resign now.

Sinai Evacuation Prompts
JNF Fund-Raising Effort

Jewish National Fund

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NEW YORK — The
Jewish National Fund
(JNF) is launching a major
spring campaign to raise
urgently required funds to
prepare the sites needed for
resettlement of northern
Sinai settlers now moving
to the Negev.
The JNF has been hard-
pressed to finance the prep-
aration of the land for the
new homesites for the 350
families moving from ag-
ricultural settlements in
Sinai to new farming com-
munities in the western
Negev's Pitchat Shalom-
Peace Salient area, accord-
ing to Dr. Samuel Cohen,
executive vice president.
Dr. Cohen reported that
JNF crews in Israel have
been working to move mil-
lions of cubic feet of sand,
level terrain, bring in ir-

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Organization. Another cal-
ler later told local news
media he was a representa-
tive of the "Lahame Herut
Israel," or Freedom Fight-
ers for Israel and claimed
they were responsible.
The blaze started on the
ground floor of the building
at 160 Atlantic Avenue at
Clinton Street in the Tripoli
restaurant, an Arab-owned
establishment. It spread
through the five-story
structure, killing the victim
on the fourth floor. The FBI
terrorist task force is inves-
tigating the fire.
The statement issued
by Brooklyn Jewish
representatives said:
"Jews of Brooklyn
Heights, Cobble Hill and
Park Slope have long
cherished the peaceful
co-existence of the Arab
Jewish communities in
this neighborhood . . .
We have lived in a spirit
of peace and mutual re-
spect, which we hope will
continue."
At the same time, the
Jewish Community Rela-
tions Council of New York
said in a statement that
they were "appalled" by the
"apparent act of arson" at
the restaurant, adding that
"our society has no place for
terrorism of any kind."
They called for the swift
prosecution to the full ex-
tend of the law the indi-
viduals or groups responsi-
ble for the act.
The JDL has denied em-
phatically that it was re-
sponsible for the fire. In a
telephone interview with

the JTA yesterday, JDL na-
tional chairman Meir
Jolovitz said the fire "was
not a JDL action" nor was it
"sanctioned by the JDL." He

said he knew nothing of the
claim that the restaurant
was a front for the head-
quarters of the Palestine
Liberation Organization.

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French Protest
Against PLO

PARIS (JTA) — A crowd
estimated at several
thousand French Jews and
other supporters of Israel
demonstrated outside the
Palestine Liberation
Organization office in Paris
Tuesday demanding that it
\-)e closed.
A heavy cordon of riot
police surrounding the PLO
office prevented the demon-
strators from reaching the
building.
The demonstration was
triggered by the murder last
week of Yaacov Bar-
Simantov, a second secre-
tary at the Israel Embassy,
who was fatally shot by an
unidentified woman outside
his home.
Israel insists the PLO was
responsible for the killing.
French officials, including
Prime Minister Pierre
Mauroy, said there is no
evidence so far linking the
murder with the PLO.

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