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'All that the name implies."
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fanfare, the United States
and Israel last month
signed a new Memorandum
of Agreement extending for
another five years their
1979 accord designed to
promote Israeli defense ex-
ports to the United States.
That first document, signed
by then Defense Minister
Ezer Weizman and Defense
Secretary Harold Brown,
did not actually result in
very many Israeli sales to
the Pentagon.
But Israeli officials are
hoping that this new
agreement will pave the
way for increased sales,
especially in some high-
technology warfare
capabilities which Israel
has developed in actual
battlefield conditions.
They conceded that the
Administration still refused
to give Israel what it really
wanted —namely, the same
preferential treatment
NATO countries receive in
promoting their military to
the United States. But still,
Israeli bids for U.S. con-
tracts will now have a better
chance of success.
President Reagan and
Prime Minister Yitzhak
Shamir share a common
political interest in stres-
sing the positive in the
American-Israeli relation-
ship. In terms of generating
votes back home, such talk
is important. Thus, both
men in recent days have in-
sisted that U.S.-Israeli ties
are better today than ever
before. The obvious implica-
tion, of course, is that their
policies and actions are the
reason why. Neither has an
interest in publicly com-
plaining about certain prob-
lems in the overall relation-
ship, although everyone
recognizes they still exist.
With Mondale's victory in
Pennsylvania and his
mounting count of commit-
ted delegates to the party
convention in San Francisco
in July, the debate will in-
creasingly shift from within Washington in recent days
the Democratic camp to be- sharply contrasted ele-
tween the Democrats and ments of the ongoing debate
the Republicans. In the in Israel.
process of seeking Jewish
Peace Now activist Mor-
support, the struggle will be dechai Bar-On, a retired
intense.
colonel and former aide to
Even Defense Secretary the late Moshe Dayan, was
Caspar Weinberger seems on an unusual joint lecture
to be getting involved. He tour with Palestinian pro-
signed a memorandum on fessor Nafez Nazzal of Bir
April 1 urging the Chair- Zeit University. Bar-On's
man of the Joint Chiefs of earlier partner on the tour,
Staff and other military including their- visit to De-
commanders to commemo- troit, was ousted Halhoul
rate this year's Holocaust Mayor Mohammed Milhem.
Memorial Week from April But Milhem was forced to
29 to May 5 by organizing return to Amman, Jordan,
special prayer services and because of a sickness in his
other ceremonies for the family.
soldiers. This is the first
For his part, Bar-On ex-
time a U.S. Defense Secre- pressed hope that Labor will
tary has taken this step, defeat the Likud on July 23,
which was the brainchild of although his views are de-
Rabbi Arnold Resnikoff, the cidedly more dovish than
U.S. Navy Chaplain who either the mainstream of
was in Beirut during the Labor or even Peace Now.
Oct. 24 bombing of the Thus, Bar-On would be pre-
Marine headquarters there. pared to accept a PLO state
But even as the major on the West Bank and Gaza
focus of attention will be on if that is what the Palesti-
the elections in both the nians there wished to have.
United States and Israel,
The other Israeli visitor,
there is no shortage of other Yaacov Meridor, Minister of
problems confronting both Economy and Inter-
countries — problems departmental Coordina-
which will remain on the tion, had no such hopes.
active agenda irrespective Whereas Bar-On was ex-
of who wins the elections.
tremely gloomy about the
Certainly, the danger of direction of Israel's
the Iran-Iraq war spilling economy, Meridor was
over to other countries in rather optimistic.
the region is very much on
In a meeting with report-
the minds of senior Ad- ers at the Israeli Embassy
ministration officials. They on April 11, he predicted
are very nervous about that the Jerusalem Eco-
America's reduced credibil- nomic Conference next
ity in the Persian Gulf in month will prove to be the
the aftermath of the set- most important economic
backs in Lebanon. That's meeting in Israel's history.
why Assistant Secretary of He said Israel had the
State for Near Eastern and potential of increasing
South Asian Affairs high-tech exports from the
Richard Murphy led a current level-of $1 billion a
high-level delegation to the year to $10 billion in a de-
Middle East this past week.
cade. And that, he said,
Israel, too, faces many would make Israel indepen-
problems, especially on the dent of additional U.S. eco-
economic front. It must also nomic assistance. "We'd be
worry about the Palesti- home free," he said.
nians, the West Bank and
Still, that day seems a
Gaza. Two Israeli visitors to long way down the road.
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BY RABBI MARC
TANENBAUM
"Heroic, resolute, charit-
able." These three words are
on the motto of the city of
Amsterdam, Holland. They
were bestowed on this beau-
tiful city's coat-of-arms by
Queen Wilhelmina in
March 1947, in acknow-
ledgment of the resistance
of many Dutch Christians to
the Nazi campaign begun in
1941 to destroy the Dutch
Jewish population.
Last week, an important
conference of the Vatican
and the International
Jewish Committee for
Interreligious Consulta-
tions took place in Amster-
dam, and that tragic history
hung heavy over all the de-
liberations. The Vatican
delegation, led by Dutch
Cardinal Jan Willebrands,
joined the Jewish leaders in
visits of homage to the Anne
Frank House and to the
magnificent Portuguese
Synagogue.
Those two shrines sym-
bolize the glory and the
tragedy of Dutch Jewry.
The majestic Portuguese
Synagogue, now a Dutch
national monument, was
constructed in 1675 and
symbolizes the religious
and civic tolerance of Hol-
land. Sephardic Jewish ref-
ugees, who fled the Spanish
Inquisition, were welcomed
in Holland where they were
soon granted equal citizen-
ship and full religious lib-
erty. In that atmosphere of
freedom, Jews became a
significant force in enrich-
ing the Dutch economy and
culture.
By 1940, when the Nazis
invaded Holland, there
were 140,000 Dutch Jews.
Despite the heroic revolt of
Dutch people, the Nazis
succeeded in deporting
110,000 Jews to death
camps. Today there are only
27,000 Dutch Jews living.
When we left the Anne
Frank House, a Dutch
rabbi, who was saved by a
Christian woman, said, "We
are a damaged people, and
we will be damaged for a
long time to come."
The Vatican and Jewish
leaders in Amsterdam last
week worked long and hard
to find ways to prevent such
human damaging from ever
happening again.
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