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Continued from Page 4 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. Glory, tragedy of the Dutch N• ,„ • w "to - „ , 0:11 0- 4 7,4iP. - )%, •\ \ , • \w%.\\,\;•- \\, k, s•s'skv;•.>. n.\\4's•:. sm. , \\\\: Nx44;;N:\ ••••'\.< -••••\ . s.,\\\\ \.\. , •\ \ $i% •• — • • • \‘. • k•• • • • - ■'‘\‘'■%*ks Pg\*4 '%X \•\- •WnWN:n. 4 :wk.,* ft. • \:••,\ \\\,\'''' " . • s ss. • N.;:.•":N•••.k: • • \-\\*\ •••• s,. " 4 * • ‘kY\ s. N' \ — \ • \ • ;,‘ s \ \ \ ‘ ‘,7' .. \ ;\ ". \ 2 . \ s4. 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. Seven Arts feature