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Ex-Envoy Hits German Comparison of Holocaust, Beirut
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commented. It is a subject
that is more than difficult
given the past with which
one is to come to terms. It is
made even more compli-
cated by involving the Ger-
mans who have so much
more trouble with their past
than other nations seem to
take as a rule to have."
But rather than try to
come to terms with the
past, which cannot be
done, the diplomat said,
"constant attention must
be paid to its repercus-
sions in the present.
Given that one cannot opt
out of history, that is a
constant task and we are
duty-bound to worry
about the Jews and their
security and about the
state of Israel.
"Regardless whether our
concern is accepted by Is-
, raelis and Jews," Dr. Pauls
insisted, "we are duty-
bound to look on ourselves
as their friends and to be-
have accordingly. This
entails no obligation to
endorse every move an Is-
raeli government makes.
"If we are at all concerned
we must surely tell them,
and even if the advice is re-
jected, that we feel Israel's
policies are not in its own
interest or that of the West.
"We must say it frankly
but with the tact we must
likewise exercise. There are
many ways of putting the
message across; it need not
be cried out in the mar-
ketplace."
Turning to the situation
in the Lebanon, Dr. Pauls
described the invasion as
"act of self-defense aimed at
ensuring the safety of raid-
hit people in northern Israel
after the UN peacekeeping
force in southern Lebanon
had failed for years to do so."
Subsequently, he said,
the course of fighting
went beyond the bounds
of self-defense "but no
matter how much one
may condemn it or feel it
to be wrong, it cannot be
compared with or put on
a par with the Holocaust
the Jews underwent. To
compare the two is an evil
perversion of what hap-
pened then in relation to
what is going on in the
Middle East now.
nothing in common with
what went on in Auschwitz
and the like."
Politically, the diplomat
declared, the bombing of
west Beirut was a mistake
"and must be condemned for
the suffering and death
among a civilian population
the other side held for ran-
som." He added, "Criticism
of Israeli government
policies has nothing to do
with anti-Semitism as such.
But when criticism likewise
oversteps the mark and
bombs on Beirut are com-
pared with the Nazi
Holocaust it is bad and no
longer has anything to do
with justified criticism.
"If others plunge head-
long into this excessive
criticism," he warned, "they
are making a serious mis-
take and completely fail to
appreciate what went on in
World War II. But when the
Germans do so, it is inde-
cent. It is a failure to under-
stand the foundations on
which we must base our
political activity. It is also a
foolish bid to shirk histori-
cal responsibility."
The groundwork laid
for German-Jewish rela-
tions 30 years ago, Dr.
Pauls affirmed, "cannot
alter the fact that these
relations will have to
bear a special burden for
generations to come.
"Thirty years ago, the
Germans re-established re-
lations with the Jews. The
process will continue even
though Mr. Begin may say
today's Germans are guilty
of genocide, or the sons of
fathers who were guilty of
it.
"Such allegations," he
concluded, "need not worry
us. In German-Jewish rela-
tions we may be sure that in
overcoming despair we will
constantly gain fresh hope."
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"The Israeli attack on the
PLO as a fighting force has
Israel, Beirut Events Topic
of Christian Theologians
NEW YORK (JTA) —. A
group of 14 Christian
theologians, most of them
long-time supporters of Is-
rael, issued a joint state-
ment declaring that "the
voices of conscience" calling
for the "establishment of ac-
countability" regarding the
role of Israeli authorities in
the massacre of Palesti-
nians in west Beirut refugee.
camps 'are mixed with a
chorus of cynicism, hypoc-
risy and bigotry."
The theologians, mem-
bers of the Israel Study
Group,_ stated: "The history
of anti-Semitism demon-
strated that the world has
too often remained silent in
the face of atrocities except
when Israel stands accused.
"We have observed that
people who in the case of
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, as in
the case of MyLai and Cam-
bodia and the atrocities
committed by the PLO have
remained silent, are now
stridently raising their
voices in condemnation of
Israel. We have observed
also that little of no criti-
cism has been levelled
against the real perpet-
rators of the massacres, the
Phalangists, a Christian
militia."
tributed to these tragic
situations."
Among those who signed
the statement at the Israel
Study Group's semi-annual
meeting in Weston Priory,
Weston, Vt., several days
ago, were Sisters Rose Ther-
ing and Aim Patrick Ware,
Prof. John Pawlikowski,
Rev. Edward Flannery and
Rev. Isaac Rottenberg.
In a related development,
Jewish and Lutheran reli-
gious and academic leaders
from all over the country
met this week to discuss
anti-Semitism in the wake
of the recent war in Leba-
non, Lutheran-Jewish rela-
tions, and the differing
was in which the two faiths
view major religious and so-
cial issues.
The conference, the fifth
of its kind, was sponsored by
the American Jewish
Committee and the Luthe-
ran Council in the U.S. It
was held- at the Hebrew
Union College-Jewish In-
stitute of Religion in Cin-
cinnati.
New Marker for
`Liberty' Grave
WASHINGTON — A new
tombstone has been placed
on the Arlington Cemetery
Noting that "many of mass grave for the 34
the Jewish sisters and American servicemen kil-
brothers in the U.S. and led on the U.S.S. Liberty
Israel have called , for an during the Six-Day War.
accounting for the mas-
The Liberty, a U.S. in-
sacres in Lebanon re- telligence ship, was de-
gardless of where the stroyed during an Israeli air
blame may fall," the and sea attack off the Sinai
theologicians stated that coast of Egypt. Israel main-
they stand with "our Is- tained that its forces mis-
raeli friends" as • they took the ship for an Egyp-
"endure this painful tian supply vessel.
soul-searching" and at
The new tombstone reads
the same time "we as "Killed — U.S.S. Liberty"
Christians confess our and replaces the old
own sins of silence, hos- marker, which read "Died
tility and indifference in the Eastern Mediterra-
which have so often con- nean."
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