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tween American Jews and
Israel and how, in my view,
American Jewry can get in-
volved in the acute social
problems of Israel and how
it can help in solving them."
In these words, Avraham
Burg, the son of Israel's
Interior Minister Yosef
Burg of the National Reli-
gious Party, and a spokes-
man for the Peace Now
movement, described his
10-day speaking tour in the
U.S. under the auspices of
the New Israel Fund, an
organization that descibes
itself as supporting "a net-
work of innovative and
grassroots groups working
for positive social change in
Israel."
In an interview with the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
prior to his return to Israel
this week, Burg, 28, em-
phasized that he came to
speak in America "not in
opposition to the present Is-
raeli government." He de-
fined his criticism of Israeli
policy as "a constructive
criticism."
Burg said that for a few
years now he has been a
supporter of the Peace
Now movement: He be-
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came an active partici-
pant in the movement, he
said, only last year, with
the outbreak of the
Lebanon war. He said
that his decisions to pub-
licly and actively join the
Peace Now movement
and -criticize the war in
Lebanon were not op-
posed by his family.
"My father and I share
the same points of depar-
ture and the same aims," he
said. "We only differ over
the ways of achieving them.
-Ours is a very democratic
family."
Burg, who graduated
from a yeshiva high school
in Jerusalem and who
wears a yarmulka, said that
he decided to join Peace
Now and not the two reli-
gious peace movements pre-
sently active in Israel — Oz
VeShalom and Netivot
Shalom — because by join-
ing the secular Peace Now
movement "I can serve as a
bridge between religious
and secular Jews in Israel."
He said that the religious
peace movements operate
only among religious Jews,
while the Peace Now
movement embraces people
with various viewpoints
and life styles who support
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Burg said that the
struggle of the Peace
Now movement is not a
struggle on behalf of the
Palestinians. "This is a
struggle on behalf of our-
selves for our own image.
The fact that presently
there is not a peace
movement among the
Palestinians equal to our
movement does not mean
that there will not be one
in the future."
Burg said he believes that
American Jewry — "the
leader of world Jewry" —
should speak up against any
improper actions by Israel
on the West Bank. "If
American Jews think that
actions against the
minorities in Israel are not
right, and that the same ac-
tions can be taken against
Jews living as minorities in
other countries, then they
should get up and protest," -
Burg said.
"The view that anybody
who criticizes Israel is an
enemy is nonsense. A con-
structive criticism can help
to a large extent," he said.
Red Cross Visits Israelis
Captured by Terrorists
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Two
Israeli soldiers taken pris-
oner by a terrorist group in
Lebanon last summer were
visited by an International
Red Cross representative
this week, for the first time
since their capture.
An IRC spokesman in
Geneva confirmed that the
agency's representative in
Damascus delivered food
parcels and mail to Nissim
Salem and Yosef Gross.
They are held prisoner by
the Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine-
General Command, a radi-
cal breakaway faction of the
Palestine Liberation
Organization headed by
Ahmed Jibril. _-
The IRC said it was not
the agency's policy to report
publicly the state of pris-
oners or the conditions
under which they are held.
But it confirmed that the
two men were visited by a
doctor in addition to the IRC
representative and were
given news of their families.
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According to Burg, there
are many religious Jews in
the ranks of the Peace Now
movement.
The first proof that Salem
and Gross were alive was
contained in video-taped in-
terviews released by the
Jibril group to the Austrian
government and televised
in Israel this week. The IRC
spokesman told Israel Radio
that the prisoners would be
visited again but no date
has been set. He said the
IRC would report officially
to the Israeli authorities
and the prisoners' families
would receive letters from
the men through the IRC in
Damascus.
Bruno Kreisky, who res-
- igned last week as Chancel-
lor of Austria, had sent a
personal envoy, Herbert
Amry, to Lebanon to
negotiate with the PLO and
with Jibril's group for the
release of the eight Israeli
soldiers they hold prisoner
between them. The six who
are held by El Fatah, the
main faction of the PLO,
have been visited regularly
by the IRC and films of them
have been shown on Jordan
Television which is also
seen in Israel.
The two soldiers held
by Jibril, both 21 years of
age, have not been seen
or heard from since their
capture. But Jibril finally
agreed to hand over the
first video-tape inter-
views to the Austrian
emissary. One of the
soldiers spoke in English
and the other in Hebrew.
Both said they were
being "properly treated."
Meanwhile, Secretary of
State George Shultz dis-
closed that he has met with
the families of four Israeli
prisoners held by the PLO
who asked him to intervene
for their release as part of a
POW exchange with Israel.
Premier Menahem Begin
thanked Shultz for meeting
the families.
Cantors Parley
NEW YORK — A delega-
tion of cantors from Conser-
vative synagogues in the
Detroit area is attending
the 36th annual convention
of the Cantors Assembly of
America in New York this
week.