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VOL. LXXXII, No. 1

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September 3, 1982

U.S. Proposal on Settlement,
Jerusalem Raise Opposition

Christianity's Role

Duty to Be Just
Role of the Vatican
Defined by Springer

By AXEL SPRINGER

(Editor's note: Axel Springer, the leading German
editor and newspaper publisher, has written an in-
dictment of bigotry, a review of attitudes toward Is-
rael in the current Lebanese situation, with a com-
ment on the role of the Vatican and an appeal for
justice that reads like a Christian confessional. His
article, which was featured in the Springer-edited Die
Welt, published in Berlin, Aug. 18, under the title "Die
Pflicht der Gerechtigkeit," is presented here in the
English translation, "Justice as a Duty.")
More and more often the Is-
raelis are accused of making it
difficult for their friends to stand
by them. Yet even those who do
not believe they are able to take
sides in the fateful Lebanon con-
flict should at least recognize
that justice is a duty.
This is something that the
Vatican should be predestined
for. Since the visit to Rome of
Golda Meir over 10 years ago —
when her meeting with Pope
Paul VI led to mutual ill feeling
- -- there have been serious and
AXEL SPRINGER
encouraging attempts to im-
prove the relationship and to dissolve both historical and
present tensions.
John Paul II has done more in this direction than ot er
popes before him. In Auschwitz he recalled that the Jewish
people could trace their origins back to Abraham, "the
father of our faith."
Yet still the Vatican does not recognize Israel. It is
argued that consideration for the Christians in the
Arab countries would not allow such a step to be
taken. This argument may be convincing when it is
seen solely in terms of Vatican diplomacy. If, how-
ever, one applies moral standards to this re-
fusal, expediency seems to outweigh the Christan-
ethical preCepts in a way that is problematical. This
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Sparkling with constantly reiterated assurances to Israel that he insists upon its security, President
Ronald Reagan nevertheless aroused strong opposition to his new proposals for what he termed an
approa_ch to a lasting peace, in his televised Middle East policy address Wednesday evening.
The Israeli Cabinet, meeting early Thursday morning, rejected the plan on several grounds, primarily
the insistence upon a freeze on settlements'.
While the opposition Labor Party is yet to act on the issue, it became evident in advance that the
Reagan proposals stirred near unanimity in Israel, primarily because there has been little if any support
from Arab quarters on the issue of Israel's protective status on the border with Jordan or recognition of
Israel by the Arabs.
_
The Reagan plan emerged, in the Israeli view, as unworkable because the proposed Jorda-
nian linkage with the administered territories was not substantiated, Israeli leaders having only
a few days earlier suggested that Jordan is already the Palestinian state.
Nevertheless, the Reagan opposition to a Palestinian state as such was in itself viewed as a positive
note because it deflated the repetitive talk about Palestinianism.
Major in the opposition to the Reagan proposals is his reference to Jerusalem. While he emphasized the
undisputed fact that Jerusalem is and cannot be a divided city, he proposed negotiations on its status.
The Israeli declaration, supported by Jewish attitudes everywhere, is that the status of Jerusalem is
not negotiable. On that score the Reagan statement fell flat at once.
. There is the possibility, it is viewed in some quarters, that the Reagan policy may tend
accomplish what some enemies o
Israel hope for — a split in Jewish
ranks because there are some sen-
timents among Jews opposing ex-
tension of the settlements prograp...-
But even this is deflated because Ali7
From JTA and media dispatches
Israel Labor Party ranks there
NEW YORK — Tributes from throughout the world have been
dominant sentiment rejecting th .
received by Zionist organizations in tribute to Dr. Nahum
pressures against settlements and
Goldmann, the fiery and often controversial Zionist leader who died
the intention to harm Israel on that
Sunday in West Germany. He was 87.
issue.
A partial list of the Jewish organizations which officially
mourned his death included the American Section of the World
The Reagan plan was preceded by a
Zionist Organization Executive, the
letter to Menahem Begin explaining it.
Conference on Jewish Material
It outlined exactly what was to be in his
Claims Against Germany, the World
proposals.
Jewish Congress, the Memorial
Foundation for Jewish Culture, the
It created anger when its contents
American Jewish Congress and the
were revealed. Thereupon the President
American Jewish Committee.
sent another, additionally explanatory
Dr. Goldmann was buried
letter, and he hastened the announce-
Thursday on Mount Herzl among the
ment that he would speak Wednesday
founders of the state of Israel.
night.
He had planned originally to de-
According to a hospital
liver his address a week or two later.
spokesman, Goldmann came to
President Reagan's linkage of Jordan
the small Bavarian village of Bad
Reichenhall for a cure. He was
and the administered territories was
hospitalized a week before his
taken in Israel to be a new American
NAHUNI GOLDMANN

World Tributes Mourn
Death of Dr. Goldmann

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Menahem Begin Responds to a French Jewish Critic

MENAHEM BEGIN

JERUSALEM (JNI) — The following excerpts respond to a letter from Marek Halter, noted Jewish painter and
author living in Paris, which was reprinted in Maariv on Aug. 18. In his original correspondence, Halter denies Israeli
Prime Minister Menahem Begin the right to speak in the name of all the Jewish people since, Halter feels, Begin
emphasizes Israel's need for security to the exclusion of what Halter considers her equivalent need for moral standing.
Begin replied: "I was happy to read that you were saved from the Nazis, but I was not pleased by the announcement
that after you grew up and matured, you stayed in the Diaspora. It is general knowledge that you could have made aliya to
Israel after the establishment of the state . . . Apparently you prefer to live on foreign soil . . . So be it."
Begin continued, "From me, the Prime Minister of the democratic Jewish state, you deny the right to say anything
about you, while accepting for yourself the right to determine why someone was elected to be prime minister of a state of
which you are not a citizen. Hence comes your knowledge as to which Israelis 'understand the interests of the state.' From
this sentence it is clear to me that, in your view, the Prime Minister of the Jewish state is not among those who understand
its interests. You apparently understand them better than I do. Good luck to you, sir.
"And now to the matter itself . . . I did not, as you wrote, show a lack of good manners towards President
Francois Mitterrand. The simple truth is that our friend Mr. Mitterrand — and I continue to call him a friend —
committed a terrible and shocking sin against the Jewish people everywhere. I heard his words in Hungary
with my own ears: 'I did not agree to Oradour in France and I will not agree to Oradour in Beirut.' .. . The ugly
anti-Semitism now raging in France, as it raged in the days of Dreyfus, results from awful talk about Oradour
in Beirut.
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FRANCOIS MITTERRAND