A Salute to New
WSU President
David Adamany
Exaggerated
Hussein Role
as Peacemaker
THE JEWISH NEWS
A Weekly Review
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Commentary, Page 2
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Anti-Semitic
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Israel Caravan
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VOL. LXXXII, No. 13
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Israel Change on PLO Pledge
Receives State Dept. Backing
Goldberg Chastizes
Apologetic Leaders
CHICAGO — Former Supreme Court Justice Arthur
J. Goldberg last week condemned American Jewish organ-
izations for their "apologetic behavior" concerning recent
actions ascribed to Israel in Lebanon.
"This behavior is totally out of touch with the feelings
of the vast majority of their constituencies," the former
American representative to the United Nations, who
drafted UN Resolution 242 on Middle East peace, declared
in an address to the Chicago Friends of Bar-Ilan Univer-
sity.
Goldberg said he could
not comprehend "the unjus-
tifiable need" of leaders of
major Jewish organizations
to apologize to the Ameri-
can people for Israel's policy
in connection with the hos-
tilities in Lebanon.
"Israelis promptly
acted in accordance with
their Jewish values by
demanding a full-scal6
investigation of any in-
volvement With the kil-
ling of Palestinian refu-
gees by Christian
militiamen," Goldberg
ARTHUR GOLDBERG
declared.
"Certainly there is reason to be proud of Israel and her
citizens who — in the midst of a campaign against their
sworn enemy, the PLO — are demanding that justice be
done. It is not immoral to fight one's enemy, but it is ex-
traordinary to demand such high standards of one's self
during wartime."
He also scored the "double standard of morality" being
applied to Israel by the world community in connection
with the massacre. Contrasting Israel's standards of mili-
tary behavior with the planned massive killings of civilians
in Dresden and Hiroshima by the Allies during World War
II, Goldberg said, "There is no need for Jews to apologize to
anyone for Israel's behavior."
Goldberg noted that, some 20 years ago, Bar-Ilan Uni-
versity, located in Ramat Gan, Israel, was the first univer-
sity in Israel to award him an honorary degree.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The civil administration on the West Bank announced
Monday that it has withdrawn the requirement that all foreigners seeking work permits
in the territory must sign a pledge to refrain from "any act or the rendering of any
service to the Palestine Liberation Organization or any other hostile organization as
defined by law."
Instead, the text of the pledge has been incorporated into the application for a work
permit which each applicant must fill out and sign.
The U.S. State Department welcomed the Israeli decision, but refused to take credit
for the change.
Department spokesman John Hughes said that the department "welcomes
SHULTZ
what appears to be a moderation" of the earlier directive. The new requirement
would give foreign workers, including teachers, a one-year work permit instead of the three-
month visa they now receive. It carries the stipulation that if the holder of the permit "gives aid or
support to the PLO or other hostile groups, the permit will be withdrawn."
Hughes denied that the change was a "response" to Secretary of State George Shultz' strong attack
on the pledge last week. He said it was "an internal matter" for the Israeli government and that Shultz had
said what he had to say based on what he considered a violation of academic freedom.
"I suppose I speak about it, in part, because I am fundamentally a university man," Shultz said at a
press conference last Thursday, "and the idea of asking people who come to teach and work in a university
setting, which is, after all, a setting where we expect to have freedom of thought and to encourage freedom
of thought, signing an oath is just not the way to go about it."
A spokesman for the Israel Embassy in Washington said Friday that "the pledge that aliens seeking a
working permit in Judaea and Samaria are asked to sign, is certainly not an interference in matters of
academic freedom. -It is a pledge not to support or to assist the PLO or any other hostile organization. In no
way does it interfere with freedom of thought."
- Shultz' remarks were made in response
to a quesiton on whether U.S. aid for Israel
is linked with the Reagan Administration's
request that Israel freeze the establishment
of settlements on the West Bank.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Bruce Cashdan, the Israeli
After saying there is no such link, Shultz
official in charge of the Foreign Ministry's office in Beirut
added
that "some of the conditions on the West
at the time of the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps mas-
Bank
are
certainly not a constructive contribu-
sacres, told the commission of inquiry Sunday that U.S.
tion to the peace process," and then he de-
special envoy Morris Draper knew of the mass killings on
nounced the pledge requirement. The State De-
Saturday, Sept. 18 and had urged him to call Defense
partment had earlier last week denounced the
Minister Ariel Sharon to halt the carnage.
Cashdan said that on Saturday morning he had an
pledge requirement as harmful to the Reagan
"excited" telephone call from Draper to the effect that
Administration's "effort to restore momentum
Christian Phalangist units were committing murder in the
to the peace process." Many of the academics,
camps. According to Cashdan, Draper said there was "dis-
mostly Jordanian but some American citizens,
gusting slaughter" and that the Israel Defense Force's
have refused to sign and are being deported.
presence in west Beirut made it responsible for the welfare
When Shultz was asked at his press confer-
of the refugee camp.
ence whether the United States could do any-
Draper told him the Phalangists were butchering men,
thing about the pledges, he replied "I think we
women and children, adding, "I have an officer counting the
should speak unequivocally about it." He re-
bodies at the Gaza Hospital," Cashdan said. He said he
minded the reporters of the period of the 1950s
immediately relayed Draper's call to Jerusalem for trans-
mission to the Defense Ministry.
when some universities required loyalty oaths.
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U.S. Envoy Tried
to Halt Massacre
Israel Scene Caravan at the Jewish Center on Sunday
The Israel Scene Caravan will stop in Detroit on Sunday as part of its
cross-country tour of the U.S. The Detroit visit, to the main Jewish Com-
munity Center in West Bloomfield, is co-sponsored by. Jewish and Chris-
tian groups:
The Detroit Zionist Federation, the Ecumenical Institute for
Jewish-Christian Studies, the Detroit Round Table of the National Con-
ference of Christians and Jews, Hadassah, Jewish National Fund, Asso-
ciation of Parents of American Israelis, Israel Information and Resource
Center, Chug Aliya, Jewish Community Center, Jewish Community
Council, Jewish Welfare Federation, Zionist Organization of America -
Detroit District, Labor Zionist Alliance and the Bnai Brith Hillel Founda-
tion at Wayne State University.
A special students' program will begin the Israel Scene Caravan's
stay at 1 p.m. at the Center. A panel discussion and workshops on Israel
will be featured.
At 3 p.m., the movie "Operation Thunderbolt" about the rescue of
hostages from Entebbe Airport, Uganda, in 1976 will be shown.
At 7:30 p.m. Sunday, a program for general audiences will be
conducted. A film highlighting the Eurovision Song Festival in
Israel will be shown, followed by a panel discussion and question-
and-answer session about Israel. Special displays will be open to
the public throughout the day.
The Israel Scene Caravan is a mobile resource center about Israel,
staffed by young adults who grew up in the U.S. and made aliya to Israel.
The caravan will visit 80 cities in the U.S. during the next year, and
utilizes audio-visual media and displays.
The group discusses such topics as living in Israel, the media and
Lebanon, anti-Semitism, and Zionism in today's terms.
One of the caravan's featured speakers is Steve Leibowitz, a native of
Laurelton, N.Y. Leibowitz is assistant director of the Israel Government
Press Office and a member of the editorial board of Israel Scene magazine.
Since the Israel operation began in Lebanon last June, Leibowitz has
visited Beirut more than 20 times, and at one point his car was seized by
terrorists of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Other featured speakers include Lawrence Rifkin, news editor of
Israel Radio, and singer-guitarist Donna Ackerman. Rifkin, a native of
Hartford, Conn., served with the Israel Defense Forces on the eastern
front in Lebanon during "Operation Peace for Galilee."
STEVE LEIBOWITZ