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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, July 1, 1983

Diaspora Can Criticize Israel
Internal and External Policy

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JERUSALEM (JTA) -
Rabbi Richard Hirsch, the
director general of the
World Union for Progress-
ive Judaism, asserted here
that because of the distinct
and unique relationship be-
tween Israel and world
Jewry, the Diaspora has the
right to express its views on
Israel's internal and exter-
nal policies.
Addressing some 500
delegates attending the
opening ceremony of the
22nd international confer-
ence of the Reform move-
ment Tuesday, Hirsch said:
"Do Diaspora Jews have a
right to participate in this
debate? Do we, as a world-
wide religious movement
have a right to take sides in
this conflict between the
schools of Zionist thought? I
submit that we not only

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have a right, but an obliga-
tion, both as individuals
and as a movement."
According to Hirsch, "if
Diaspora Jews have the
right to speak out in inter-
nal policies affecting the
fate of Argentinian Jews
and Soviet Jews, do they not
have the right to speak on
issues affecting the Jews of
the Jewish state?" He said
the issue was not only polit-
ical but profoundly centered
on religious tenants.
"We have before us two
conflicting concepts of
holiness," Hirsch said.
"There are some reli-
gious Jews who profes-
sing love of the holy land
and obedience to God,
fan the flames of religious
fanaticism, violate the
civil liberties of minority
groups, advocate rule by
force and prevent the
evolution and conditions
leading towards com-
promise.
"We call their version of
Judaism a perversion. Their
love is blind, their mes-
sianism false, and the
zealotry dangerous. Their
deeds defame the holy faith,
desecrate the holy one, and
defile the holy land."

Judea, Samaria
See Land Rush

JERUSALEM (ZINS) -
Continued Israeli settle-
ment in Judea and Samaria
over the next two years will
block any return of those
lands to Arab sovereignty,
Israel's Deputy Minister of
Agriculture Michael Dekel
told a recent radio inter-
view.
Dekel said 30 private
builders are now active on
the West Bank and "the
Arabs are actually lining up
to sell their land" because
they are no longer fearful of
PLO reprisals.
If the tempo of building
continues, Dekel said, there
will be 100,000 Jews living
in Judea and Samaria by
1985.

Alignment Retains Mapam

TEL AVIV (JTA) - The
Mapam Party decided by a
narrow 17 vote margin to
remain part of the Labor
Alignment.
The nearly 1,000 dele-
gates to the party's ninth
convention were split
evenly on the issue. The
vote was 515-498 in favor of
continuing the alliance
with the Labor Party.
A Labor Party spokesman
welcomed the decision, say-
ing it ensured a united cam-
paign to oust Likud from
power in the next Knesset
elections. But Labor dove
Yossi Sarid said he regret-
ted it.
He believed separate lists
in the next elections would
have revitalized both par-
ties and offered a better
Labor alternative to the
present government.
Some veteran Mapam
leaders agreed with Sarid,
among them Victor Shem-
tov, Chaika Grossman, Gad
Yativ and Binyamin Yasur.
Shemtov, Mapam's secre-
tary general who had cam-
paigned hard for a separate
list to offer "fresh ideologi-
cal thinking to attract new
voters," said he would no
longer serve as faction
chairman.
Mapam, which is gener-
ally well to the left of Labor
on many issues, has long
complained that its views
were neglected by the much
larger Labor Party. The
question at hand however
was whether the objective to
unseat Likud would be bet-
ter served by a single list of
Alignment candidates or
separate Labor Party and

Sharon Sues
Time Magazine

Mapam lists in the next
elections.
A single list was favored
by such Mapam veterans as
Meir Ya'ari and Yaacov
Hazan and their view pre-
vailed, but only barely.

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A New Oleh

CAPETOWN - The
chairman of the South Afri-
can Zionist Federation for
the past 41/2 years, Itz Kal-
manowitz, has announced
that he will make aliya at
the end of 1983

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NEW YORK (JTA) - At-
torneys for former Israeli
Defense Minister Ariel
Sharon filed a $50 million
libel action against Time,
Inc. in federal court here
last week, charging that
"false, defamatory and
libelous" material relating
to Sharon was published in
the Feb. 21, 1983 edition of
Time magazine.

The complaint refers to
an account in Time alleging
that Sharon visited the fam-
ily of Lebanese President-
elect Bashir Gemayel in Be-
irut a day after Gemayel
was assassinated last Sep-
tember to "discuss the grave
need to take revenge
against the West Beirut
Palestinians and
encouraged the (Christian)
Phalangists to perpetuate
bloodshed among them."

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