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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Begin Defends Settlement Policy Before WZCongress
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Premier Menahem Begin
addressed the closing ses-
sion of the 30th World
Zionist Congress last week.
His speech was, in effect, a
defense of his government's
settlement policies which
were sharply criticized by
Labor Party leader Shimon
Peres.
Begin spoke in a moder-
ate, non-polemic vein. It
was his first public appear-
ance outside the Knesset
since the death of his wife,
Aliza, on Nov. 14. The Pre-
mier, who had just ended
the 30-day mourning
period, accepted condo-
lences on behalf of the Con-
gress delegates from Ivan
Novick, president of the
Zionist Organization of
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America. He was warmly
received by the thousands of
delegates and guests in the
Binyanei Ha'ooma conven-
tion hall and his speech was
interrupted many times by
applause.
Begin offered rebuttal to
charges by Labor Party
leader Shimon Peres that
the government's settle-
ment policies were leading
Israel toward a "military fu-
ture" and that continued
rule over more than a mil-
lion Arabs could make Jews
eventually a minority in
their own country.
According to Begin,
peace cannot be achieved
by giving up parts of
"Eretz Israel." If any
foreign power were to
control the hills west of
Jordan Valley, life in Is-
rael would become
"hell," he said. "Our right
to Eretz Israel is totally
linked to national secu-
rity," he declared.
Begin maintained that
demographic forecasts have
proven wrong. The number
of Arabs in what he termed
the land of Israel decreased
in the past 15 years whereas
the Jewish population grew
by one percent annually, he
said.
"True, the Arab minority
in Eretz Israel is big. But
the Jewish majority is also
very big — nearly two-
thirds," Begin observed. Ac-
cording to the 1981 census,
5,213,000 people live in Is-
rael proper and the occupied
territories of whom
3,320,000 or about 64 per-
cent are Jews.
The Congress ended on an
uncertain note. No consen-
sus was-reached on the
fiercely controversial issue
of the government's settle-
ment policies and inter-
party wrangling over the
composition of the new
World Zionist Organization
Executive continued to the
very end.
Leon Dulzin, who ran
unopposed, was unanim-
ously re-elected chair-
man of the WZO Execu-
tive which, it was agreed,
will be composed of 35
members. There was
some reshuffling of
portfolios but the final al-
locations were not com-
pleted when the weary
delegates wound up the
Congress at dawn Friday
with the singing of
Hatikva. It was supposed
to have ended Thursday
night.
The issue of settlement
policies came to a head
when the Labor Zionists
and the World Confedera-
tion of United Zionists,
comprising a majorityof the
plenum, approved a resolu-
tion pointing to the dangers
of increasing Jewish set-
tlements in the heavily
Arab-populated regions of
the West Bank and Gaza
Strip.
The Congress presidium
refused to accept the resolu-
tion and a "good-will" sub-
committee made up of dele-
gates from all of the major
parties went to work to try
to reach a formulation ac-
ceptable to all. But after
laboring for two days, the
Congress declared that it
"could not reach consensus
on the settlement subject."
It approved instead a
general resolution express-
ing hope for the establish-
ment of peace "based on se-
cure and defensible borders,
a peace that will allow blos-
Israel Lifts Restrictions
on Palestine Nationalists
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JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Israeli military authorities
on the West Bank have
lifted restrictions imposed
more than two years ago on
three prominent Palesti-
nian nationalists alleged to
have been members of the
-. National Guidance Com-
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lawed as a front for the
Palestine Liberation
Organization.
The three men who had
been confined to their home
towns and denied the right
to travel elsewhere on the
West Bank or abroad are
Bashir Bargouti, editor of
the Communist periodical
Ataliya; Samikha Khalil,
chairman of a welfare
organization in El Bireh;
and Ibrahim A-Tawil, the
former mayor of El Bireh
deposed by the Israeli
authorities. Bargouti has
been living in Ramallah.
The Israeli authorities.
said the men were origi-
nally put under town arrest
for "security reasons" and
cited "security reasons" in
their decision to lift the re-
strictions. The three were
warned by the military that
if they reverted to "their old
ways" they would be sub-
jected to new restrictions.
Tawil told reporters that
the restrictions were lifted
because of pressure on Is-
rael by the United States.
Seventeen other reputed
members of the National
Guidance Committee along
with several journalists and
other Palestinian activists
remain under town arrest in
various parts of the West
Bank.
Fanatic Vandals
soming and creativity" in
the territories.
Congress sources con-
firmed that Premier
Menahem Begin's per-
sonal intervention
helped secure one Execu-
tive seat for Aharon
Abu-Hatzeira's Tami fac-
tion although on the basis
of its Knesset strength it
sent only 18 delegates to
the Congress, five short
of the minimum neces-
sary for representation
on the WZO Executive.
Abu-Hatzeira reportedly
threatened to pull his
three-man Sephardic-
based faction out of Be-
gin's coalition govern-
ment if Tami was denied
a place on the Executive.
Similarly, Mizrahi re-
tained its three seats on the
WZO Executive despite the
fact that the National Re-
gligious Party with which it
is affiliated dropped from 12
to six seats in the last Knes-
set elections. Mizrahi repor-
tedly was prevailed upon to
relinquish its youth aliya
department portfolio and
settle for the less prestigi-
ous hasbara (information)
department.
Delegates at the conven-
tion included Annette Mes-
kin, president of the
Greater Detroit Chapter of
Hadassah.
JERUSALEM (ZINS) —
A fanatical religious group
calling itself "Keshet" has
spray painted its name in
red in recent months on the
graves of the late Israeli
President Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
and his wife and Benjamin
Zeev Herzl, the memorial
museum dedicated to the
freedom fighters who died
in Acre Prison and a memo-
rial for Israeli soldiers at a
soccer field.
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