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War Criminal Walter Reder
Release Sought by Kreisky

ROME (JTA) — Chancel- liberty" and has only a little
lor Bruno Kreisky of Au- more than two years of his
stria has urged the release sentence to serve.
of Austrian war criminal Kreisky said the Aust-
Walter Reder, a former SS rian government made an
Colonel who has been im- official request to the Ita-
prisoned in Italy since 1945. lian authorities last March
In a letter to his fellow to allow Reder to return to
Socialist, Bettino Razi, sec- Austria. He appealed also
retary of the Italian on humanitarian grounds,
Socialist Party, Kreisky citing Reder's illness and
noted that Reder is pre- physical disabilities. He
sently detained at Gawta suffers from arteriosclerosis
prison under "Ponditional and one forearm and most of
his stomach have been re-
ANN
moved by surgery.
SINCE 1959

Kreisky's letter re-
ferred as well to political
reasons to free Reder. His
return to Austria, he
wrote, would counter the
efforts by extreme right-
wing groups to transform
Reder into a martyr.

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Reder's military
supioriors, condemned for
the same war crimes, have
long since been freed.
Kreisky pointed out, noting
that Reder is the last Aust-
rian war prisoner still being
held in Italy.
He urged Rail to "sen-
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We, the undersigned, desire publicly to dissociate ourselves from the
sentiments expressed in a statement issued by some local Jewish spiritual
leaders on the eve of the Yom Kippur observance. We are especially distres-
sed that a group of rabbis had recourse to the general media to publicize
their view and in so doing contributed to the further stimulation of anti-
Israel as well as anti-Semitic feelings on the part of the general population.
We share the pain and anguish suffered by the innocent victims in the
Lebanese camps and call on the government of Israel to do everything in its
power to determine the identity of those who were in the least degree
responsible.
At the same time; we urge restraint and patience on the part of the
Jewish community until the completion of the Israeli government's investi-
gation. We feel it is morally wrong to call for the resignation of Israel's
Prime Minister and Minister of Defense before culpability is fixed. Fur-
thermore, such a call constitutes interference with the democratic process
by which Israel elects it officials and encourages the exploitation of the
present crisis by political elements hostile to the elected government.
We reiterate our support for the resolution adopted unanimously by
the Public Affairs Committee of the Jewish United Fund of Chicago on
September 25, 1982, which expressed confidence in the state of Israel to
conduct an impartial investigation into the causes of the tragic events while
pointing up the silence on the part of the governments of the world and the
media concerning the ravaging of Lebanon and the Lebanese people by the
PLO during the past 10 years, as well as their readiness to throw the entire
blame for the slayings at the Shatilla and Sabra camps on Israel rather than
on the actual perpetrators of the slaughter.

In one synagogue in New York, an address by one of the Protest Rabiner (a term
coined about them in Theodor Herzl's time) was especially aggravating for Yitzhaq
Ben-Ami, author and historian whose "Years of Wrath, Days of Glory" recalled the
history of the Vladimir Jabotinsky activities as a genesis to the Likud in Israel, and the
early years of Menahem Begin's role in Israel's history. Ben-Ami was roiled by what
Rabbi Gunter Hirshberg of Cong. Rodeph Sholom preached in his sermon, and he
responded in a letter:

What you did in your sermon was to indict a large, possibly the largest,
segment of the people of Israel (80 percent) who, by and large, up to a few
weeks ago, gave the policies of Menahem Begin their support. You pre-
judged a government and people by agonizing from the pulpit over the
decline of the "beautiful Israel," thus implying that the majority is "ugly
Israel." You indicted before any impartial verdict was arrived at as to who
is responsible for what happened in the Palestinian camps where the PLO
murderers were based, hid their weapons, and left a nucleus of .active
terrorists (who are still there) and from which trouble and bloodshed will
_ still come.
What happened did happen; as to who is actually responsible (regard-
less whether Arik Sharon takes the blame on himself, which he should, as
the top defense official of the country), the jury has not even convened.
What you did was to align-yourself with a politically motivated Labor
leadership which will live to regret identifying itself with Marxist-pro-PLO
elements, non-Jews and Jews alike, in Israel and abroad, as it did when
disseminating the Deir Yassin accusation. (Incidentally, I hope you read
that chapter in my book.)
What you did is to introduce a century-old ideological Zionist conflict
into a current controversy involving a possible limited error by some army
commanders that otherwise excelled themselves under very difficult condi-
tions in a complex operation .. .
What you told your congregation is that we Jews are different — if not
actually "chosen" — to live and function on higher planes than the rest of
mankind. You are creating an intellectual dilemma which leads nowhere,
or worse, to destruction.
Above all, let's admit to reality: Israel and Israelis are like all other -
people! They make mistakes. Sometimes very* bad ones: LaYon (Ben-
Gurion) affair; the Rabin/Yadlin/Histradrut corruption; the political-
military mistakes of Golda Meir, Dayan (Yom Kippur, 1973). Some mistakes
cost hundreds of Israeli lives. Others damaged Israel's image. I'm sure you
would not want to confuse the congregation with all these events, and
others; acts committed, precipitated, carried out by the same "beautiful"
ideologues, who today flagellate themselves, atoning for "Israel's sins," in
the center of Tel Aviv or on the Op-Ed pages of the New York Times, the
"beautiful" Haaretz and Labor's Jerusalem Post.

There is much to be recorded about the recurring agonies. Jewish critics have been as
guilty in the fanning of prejudices against Israel as have the embittered in the media.
Ammunition has thus been provided for Israel's enemies, for a revived anti-Israel
Arab League, perhaps also as has been intimated in the declining American friendship
for Israel. If the latter is true, then the public relations image in and out of Israel in
support of Israel must change. The ablest in the friendly ranks must act. If concessions
are due, let them be planned and explored.
As always expressed, the sooner Israel's forces get out of Lebanon the happier. If the
Lebanese are unable to end fratricide, it need no longer be Israel's responsibility that the
peace in that unhappy country is delayed. And Israel, if it is to remain an arsenal state
because only in strength can she survive, then the means for such survival is the
providing responsibility of all Jews.

IJA Study Details Soviet Ineffectiveness

LONDON — A study of
the Soviet response to the
Lebanese
crisis says
"Strong in words of support
for the Palestinians and the

Arab cause, Moscow proved
noticeably weak in deeds."
The crisis "demonstrated
clearly the USSR's continu-
ing inability to influence

significantly events in the
Middle East."
The study, published by
the World Jewish Congress'
Institute of Jewish Affairs
in London, also suggests
that "Perhaps a major cause
of Soviet restraint was Mos-
cow's desire to improve rela-
tions with the Reagan ad-

ministration, specifically to
attain agreement with the
U.S. in the field of arms
limitation."
The author of the study,
Dr. Howard Spier, assistant
editor of the "Soviet Jewish
Affairs," examines the de-
velopment of Moscow's re-
sponse during the crisis.