THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 40 Friday, July 30, 1982 Norwegian Interview Refutes Torture Charges Against Israel . NEW YORK — The fol- lowing article, date-lined Sidon, Lebanon was pub- lished in the Norwegian newspaper Agadbladet on Mack Pitt and his Orchestra plus Disco Music just for you 358-3642 July 13: It is absolutely not cor- rect that Israeli soldiers maltreated and tortured prisoners after the invasion of the City Saida (Sidon) in south Lebanon, as the two Norwegians Steinar Berge and Ivind Miller claimed. This was said by a promi- nent Lebanese who himself was interned for seven days and was in proximity to the two Norwegians during the 48 hours they were kept in a schoolyard in Saida. The SlopOng • • • • • Meat Market Daily Fresh Produce • Salad Bar Daily Fresh Fish • Coney Islands Deli & Bakery Homemade Ice Cream • Gourmet Carry-Outs • Assorted Boutiques- Middlebelt corner 14 Mile Road 851-2467 name of the Lebanese is Salim Mamlook, adminis- trative director at the biggest hospital in Saida, a city of about 300,000 in- habitants. He was among the first to be arrested and interned by the Israelis, suspected of being con- nected with the PLO. He was also among the last to be freed from his imprison- ment in the schoolyard in Saida. In an open conversati- school for girls. It has 1,100 their gun if he did not obey pupils and the schoolyard is orders to move quickly divided into sections of a enough, but I also saw that total of 2,000 square meters. those soldiers were im- Here several hundred of the mediately talked to by their city's men where interned officers. "Were you yourself hit or during the period June 6-12. Some were held only a maltreated? - "No, and I had every rea- couple of hours before they His statement is con- were released after interro- son to expect rough treat- firmed by other Lebanese gation, while others were ment since I was suspected to be a terrorist. On their who were interned in the kept for about a week. backs all the prisoners had a schoolyard, and indirectly The nuns at the school by the nuns who are run- saw the prisoners every day label saying what they were ning this school, a convent and never did witness any suspected of, so the soldiers knew very well why I was torture or maltreatment. there, and that was also the Doctor Steinar Berge said reason why they detained crowded coastal plain to the that during the two days he me for so long. mountainous hinterland — was interned in the school- "How would you describe meaning the West Bank. yard approximately 10 pris- the treatment of the pris- oners were carried out as a - Tehiya has demanded the oners? prompt annexation of that result of violence and beat- "They were at war and ings. This, the nuns at the territory. many of the young soldiers Before he was sworn in, school say, they have never were nervous and short the Justice Ministry im- heard about, and that it tempered. But I don't think posed a 125,000 Shekel would have been difficult the treatment could have fine ($5,000) on Neeman not to notice so many dead been much different. We got for what it called a tech- bodies. Salim Mamlook also says food and water several nical violation of Israel's times a day: When I was re- currency regulations. categorically that he never leased after seven days' im- saw dead prisoners being The public committee prisonment I just went which investigated the carried out. People could home to take a shower be- faint because of the heat, violation said that con- fore going to work." trary to regulations, but they were treated by Neeman held a foreign doctors on the spot. THE JEWISH currency account in the "The Norwegians say U.S. during the years that the Israeli soldiers COMMUNITY COUNCIL 1968-1978, when he lived were hitting some pris- INFORMATION & most of the time in the oners systematically all RESOURCE OFFICE U.S. over and that an elderly According to the commit- man was hit unconcious in Southfield tee, the violation was tech- by four, five soldiers. will be closed from nical because had Neeman August 2 to "That is absolutely not asked permission for the ac-, true. I was in a position to August 20 count, it would have been see most of the other pris- For information, assistance granted. oners and nobody was and programming service treated like that. It could during this period, please happen that the soldiers hit call 962-1880 a prisoner with the butt of June 18 broadcast in which a chapter from Hitler's "Mein Kampf' was read with the substitute of the words "Palestinian" and "Palestine people" for "Jew" and "the Jewish nation." Disc Jockey They charged this was slan- derous and anti-Semitic, de- "The Best Music in Town" filed the memory of the Holocaust victims and was a Parties, Dances & direct attack on Swiss Jews. Special Occasions Swiss Jews are concerned over what they perceive to 546-5797-544-0454 be an increase in anti- Semitism following Israel's invasion of Lebanon, par- . ticularly among young people between the ages of 15-20. non Mamlook says that he has no reason to rose- color the Israeli behavior in Lebanon, but it would be unreasonable to ac- cuse them of torture and systematic maltreatment of the prisoners in Saida. Tehiya Boosts Likud Margin JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Knesset voted 57-49 on Tuesday to approve the entry of the ultra- nationalist Tehiya faction into Premier Menahem Be- gin's coalition government. The addition of Tehiya's three Knesset mandates gives the government a comfortable eight-seat par- liamentary majority (64- 56). One coalition MK, Dror Seigerman of Likud's Lib- eral Party wing, abstained. Shortly afterwards, Tehiya leader Yuval Neeman, a professor of physics at Tel Aviv Univer- sity, was sworn into the Cabinet as Minister of Sci- ence and Development, a newly-created portfolio. Neeman, an outspoken ad- vocate of "Greater Israel," said he would devote him- self to using science and technology to shift Israel's population center from the Broadcast Called Biased GENEVA (JTA) — The Zurich Jewish weekly, Is- raelitische Wochenblatt, has lodged a complaint of anti-Semitism against the Swiss National Radio for comparing Hitler's plans for the extermination of Jews with Israel's policies toward the Palestinians. The editors referred to a MARC ANKERMAN LIGHTS - SOUND EXPERIENCE Detroit Area Retail Kosher Meat Dealers Assoc. These specials prevail at all member markets of the Detroit Area Retail Kosher Meat Dealers Assoc. 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