THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Israel Non-Committal Over
U.S. Invasion of Grenada

JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Israel has taken an uncriti-
cal posture over the U.S. in-
tervention in Grenada.
there has been no official
disclaimer here of remarks
by Ambassador Meir
Rosenne in Washington last
week which were inter-
preted as an implied state-
ment of support for the in-
tervention.
Cabinet sources noted
that the envoy had not spec-
ifically referred to Grenada
in his praise of American
firmness against Soviet ag-
grandizement, but by the
same token there was no
dissociation from the am-
bassador's words or their
timing.
A Cabinet source re-
marked that Israel was
among the Western coun-
tries most positively dis-
posed to the intervention, at
the same time, though, the
Cabinet did not think it fit
to issue a formal statement
of support — and preferred
to make do with Rosenne's
remarks which were appar-
ently not coordinated in ad-
vance but were basically
endorsed after the fact.

Although he did not
specifically mention the
military operation in
Grenada, Rosenne said:

"I would like to congratu-
late the United States of
America for the courage and
the determination with
which this country fights
against subversion, against
Communism," at a recep-
tion in his honor sponsored
by the Republican National
Committee at the
Sheraton-Carlton Hotel.
"I think by doing that you
render a service not only to
this part of the world but the
world at large."
Meanwhile, a spokesman
for Mapam demanded to
know on whose behalf
Rosenne, implicitly praised
the U.S. invasion of Gre-
nada.

Mapam MK Yair Tza-
ban said the envoy's
statement should be
checked to see if it was
authorized, and by
whom. Rosenne did not
refer specifically to the
invasion of Grenada, but
his praise of the U.S. war
against international
Communism in the im-
mediate aftermath of the
event was understood as
support for the invasion.

According to Mapam, a
component of the Labor
Alignment, Rosenne's re-
marks damaged Israel's in-
ternational position in the
free world and harmed
Diaspora Jewry.
"As somebody who de-
nounced Soviet interven-
tion in Czechoslovakia and
Afghanistan, I cannot pos-
sibly be silent in the face of
this adventurous step by
President Reagan which
renews the dangerous days
of the cold war," Tzaban
said.
He also stressed the
"Jewish aspect" of the issue.
He observed that "some 80
percent of the Jewish people
live in three centers of in-

ternational tension" — Is-
rael, the U.S. and the USSR.
"Therefore, we, together
with other countries, must
condemn any attempt by
any of the superpowers to
violate international law or
to suppress boldly the right
of small peoples for inde-
pendence," Tzaban said.

In Jerusalem, while the
Israeli government had
no official comment on
the U.S. invasion of Gre-
nada it was praised by
Mordechai Ben-Porat, a
Minister - Without -
Portfolio, as a move to
"protect the democratic
and free world."

Ben-Porat, a rightwing
hardliner and former
member of the defunct
Telem faction founded by
the late Foreign Minister
Moshe Dayan, told a group
of Canadian radio and tele-
vision reporters that the
U.S. incursion into the
133-square mile island
state was comparable to
American action in Leba-
non.
In a related development,
Joseph Zoldan, national
commander of the Jewish
War Veterans of the USA,
in a telegram to President
Reagan supported the Ad-
ministration's decision to
send troops to Grenada.
JWV believes this action
was necessary to protect hte
1,000 Americans living on
the island.

Theresienstadt Recalled

Detroiter Emil Feiner,
who served as the master
electrician for the city of
Frankfurt before being im-
prisoned by the Nazis dur-
ing World War II, recently
detailed the circumstances
surrounding his two-year
term in the Theresienstadt
concentration camp.
Feiner, now an electri-
cian living in Southfield, is
a former president and the
current vice president of the
Bnai Brith Pisgah Lodge.
In his report, Feiner de-
scribes the layout of the
camp, the daily activities of
the prisoners and elabo-
rates on his family's release
from Theresienstadt in
1945. The events which led
to his immigration to
America are detailed by
Feiner:

Konstanz) to remove the
stars (identification badges
worn by all Jews).
"I and my dear wife,
Johanna and son Joel, four
years old, were permitted to
go on this transport to Swit-
zerland since I had worked
as an electrician in There-
sienstadt. We were in
Theresienstadt from June
7, 1943 to May 1945 and re-
ceived the papers to come to
America two years later.
We arrived in New York on
June 2, 1947. Three months
later I moved with my fam-
ily to Detroit and worked as
an electrician for the Hud-
son Motor Co."

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