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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
British Labor Party Approves
PLO, Seeks a 'Secular' State
LONDON (JTA) — The
last shreds of friendship be-
tween the British Labor
Party and Israel have been
destroyed by public televi-
sion over the Beirut mas-
sacres.
At its national conference
in Blackpool on Sept. 29, the
party was not satisfied with
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an official resolution de-
manding a Palestinian
state and PLO participation
in negotiations in exchange
for recognition of Israel.
Against the leadership's
advice it went even further
by recognizing the PLO as
the sole legitimate repre-
sentative of the Palestinian
people and calling for a
democratic secular state of
Palestine. In accepting this
wording, it ignored those
who pointed out • that this
was the PLO's euphemism
for the dismantling of the
state of Israel.
The party also ignored
those who said that this
was a slap in the face to
the opposition Labor
Party in Israel and a
death blow to the tradi-
tional comradeship be-
tween the two parties.
The only consolation for
Labor's dwindling pro-
Israeli remnant is that
THE. LEBANESE TRAGEDY: AN OPEN LETTER TO THE MEDIA
The Jewish community, in general, and the people of Israel, in particular, have been
shocked and distressed by the senseless massacre at the Shatila and Sabra refugee
camps in Beirut. However, the media reaction to this tragedy has been so blatlantly out
of focus as to comfound rather than enlighten the American public.
Israel's military operation in Lebanon has been morally justified and strategically
warranted. It was designed to defang the murderous PLO, which apart from the
constantly menacing peaceful Israeli towns and villages in northern Galilee, had sacked
and obliterated Christian populated Lebanese towns and villages, murdering some
100,000 Lebanese,Christians and Shiite Moslems, exacerbating tribal and religious
tensions and destroying the infrastructure of the government of Lebanon to a point
where it had neither the power nor the capacity to govern. The overwhelming majority
of the people of Israel fully backed the "Peace for Galilee" operation as fully compatible
with Israel's legitimate self-defense. The vast PLO arsenals uncovered by the Israeli
forces in Lebanon — enought to equip an army — revealed the magnitude of the PLO
conspiracy and shattered the notion that the PLO had "changed its spots" and is
becoming increasingly "peaceful" and "political." The expulsion of the PLO terrorists
from Beirut, which some in the media portrayed as a "triumphant evacuation," could
not have been achieved without the I.D.F.'s (Israel Defense Forces) push into Beirut to
seal off possible excape-routes and forcing Yasser Arafat to bow to Ambassador
Habib's interminable but skillful negotiating stance — to get the PLO out.
Throughout the Lebanon operation, the Israeli government and the I.D.F. have persis-
tently stressed and invoked the concept of "the purity of Israeli arms" and upheld the
moral imperative to spare civilian life at all costs. It is, therefore, all the more
distressing, that in spite of these rigidly applied rules of military conduct, a tragedy had
occurred, which gave rise to allegations of the government's and the I.D.F.'s complic-
ity in the Beirut massacre.
A full and impartial investigation has now been authorized to uncover all the facts and
place the blame and the responsiblity where they belong. However, until all the facts are
in, the media's insatiable lust for "scapegoats" and its penchant for sweeping accusa-
tions and, indeed, indictments are reminiscent of the McCarthy era in its ugliest.
Amidst this orgy of self-righteous condemnations, it is worth recalling that Israel had
smashed a Soviet-sponsored center for international terrorism, had unmasked and
thwarted a PLO conspiracy of such dimensions as to threaten America's vital strategic
interests in the Eastern Mediterranean and, finally, Israel has given Lebanon an
opportunity long denied to re-establish central governmental authority and to blend the
dissident factions into a unified society and a democratic state oriented towards
Washington rather than Moscow.
Together with Jews everywhere and, indeed, all humanity we mourn those who
perished at the hands of Lebanese assassins and hope that those guilty of this heinous
crime will be apprehended and brought to justice.
IRVING LAKER
SIDNEY SILVERMAN
President
Chairman, Executive
Committee
Zionist Organization of America
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Labor Party conferences
have a history of adopting
maverick resolutions on
foreign affairs which are
safely consigned to the
dustbin once the party has
to assume the responsibility
of government policy.
On the Middle East, the
most outstanding case was
perhaps that in 1944 when
the party called for an all-
Jewish Palestine and ad-
vised the country's Arabs to
leave while Jewish refugees
from Europe flooded in.
Within a year a Labor
Foreign Secretary, Ernest
Bevin, brought Britain into
armed conflict with the
Jews of Palestine.
Hussein, Arafat
Hit U.S., Israel
NEW YORK (JTA) —
The policies of the United
States toward Israel were
strongly criticized by King
Hussein of Jordan and
Palestine Liberation
Organization chief Yasir
Arafat in separate inter-
views.
Hussein, in an interview
published in the interna-
tional edition of Newsweek
magazine (but not in the
domestic edition), accused
the Israeli government of
responsibility for the mas-
sacre of Palestinian civi-
lians at the Shatila and
Sabra refugee camps in
west Beirut. He charged
that it was an Israeli plan to
encourage a "negative reac-
tion" to President Reagan's
peace initiative outlined on
Sept. 1. He said Israel
"created the atrocities"
using American arms and
aid.
Arafat, in an interview
Sept. 26 on the CBS-TV "60
Minutes" program, charged
the U.S. with complicity in
the massacre of the Palesti-
nians at the refugee camps.
"What has been done in Be-
irut and in Lebanon was not
an Israeli aggression," the
PLO leader said. "This an
American conspiracy
against the Palestinians."
Genscher Invites Shamir
to Visit Bonn in January
NEW YORK (JTA) —
West German Foreign
Minister Hans Dietrich
Genscher extended an offi-
cial invitation to Israeli
Foreign Minister Yitzhak
Shamir to visit Bonn next
January. The invitation
was made Tuesday in the
course of a meeting in New
York between the two
foreign ministers.
According to an Israeli
spokesman Shamir ac-
cepted the invitation. The
spokesman said that
Genscher noted that in
January he will assume the
presidency of the European
Economic Community
(EEC) and that he said, that
IDF Faction
Urges Pull-Out
TEL AVIV (JTA) — A
group of anti-war reserve
officers and soldiers calling
themselves the Yesh Gvul
(There's a Limit) organiza-
tion, have presented a peti-
tion signed by 1,000 persons
demanding the recall of all
Israeli soldiers from Leba-
non.
The petition, which the
organizers said contained
the signature of 150 Israel
Defense Force officers, said:
"There is no military solu-
tion to the Palestinian prob-
lem . . . we swore to defend
the state of Israel and not a
new order in a country
which is not ours."
he will also receive Shamir
in that capacity.
The meeting between
Shamir and Genscher, who
are both attending the cur-
rent session of the UN Gen-
eral Assembly, was held at
the UN Plaza Hotel and
lasted about 60 minutes.
According to the
spokesman Genscher
told Shamir that the new
West German govern-
ment, headed by Chan-
cellor Helmut Kohl, is in-
terested in "continuing
the friendly relations be-
tween the two countries."
Shamir also expressed Is-
rael's interest in improving
the ties between the two na-
tions and said it is essential
that "the dialogue between
the two countries will con-
tinue."
Shamir and Genscher
also discussed the situation
in Lebanon and the future
prospects for peace in that
country.
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NEW YORK — The Is-
rael Aliya Center for North
America will start recruit-
ment campaign in the
United States and Canada
to fill vacancies within the
tax department of the Israel
Treasury Ministry.
Moshe Shechter, director
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