42 Friday, June 15, 1984 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Jewish terror Continued from preceding page JON'S LA COUPE SALON ANNOUNCES O CREATIVE, HAIR DESIGNER & COLORIST 5562 Drake Road West Bloomfield, Michigan 48033 (313) 661-1880-1 Start Sooner . . . Look Better Longer Angela i' ' < Specializing in hair, facial and body care Electrolysis European facials Waxing Acne Treatments Make-Up Lessons Couperouse Treatments Tues.-Thurs. Only Aromatherapy The 'Sports 100' with so much dash, so much style that Seiko's done it twice: for him, for her. While you're admiring the racy look, note the step second hand, day/date function, and - very important - water-resistance to 100 meters. Next year's design news now from Seiko Quartz. _Sunset Strip . 29536 Northwestern Highway Southfield, Michigan 48034 , (313) 357-4000 ancestral .territories of the Jewish people was an act of God, the Finger of the Al- mighty at work. It would be sinful, not politically mis- taken, or a security slip, but positively sinful, for us to have permitted the undoing of such a divine act." Who, however, can con- trol messianic ardour once unleashed? A good part of Gush Emunim's zeal and energies went into settle- ment activities; one part supported the elitist view that the various benighted governments of Israel were to be circumvented, and at times treated as a hostile force. Rabbi Moshe Levinger was from the outset iden- tified with this latter ap- proach, while at the same time being in the forefront of settlement activity. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was the moving force in the estab- lishment of Kiryat Arba, on the outskirts of Hebron. For this purpose he exploited the personal tensions be- tween then Minister of De- fense Moshe Dayan and his main rival for Labor Party leadership, the late Yigal Allon. Allon became the patron of Kiryat Arba. Several years later the Gush settlers of Ophra simi- larly exploited the rivalry between Labor Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Defense Minister Shimon Peres to get the former to support their new settle- ment at Ophra, while the latter became the patron of Kadum-Kedumim. Sophisticated exploita- tion of party infighting "progressed" to actual con- frontation, at times even physical confrontation, with the government and the army. In 1980, elements in the Gush which were in the forefront of attempts to push settlements into the very heartland of the Arab population set up a settle- ment at Rujeib, near Nab- lus. Arab appeals to the High Court that some of the lands at Rujeib were illeg- ally confiscated were ac- cepted, and the court or- dered the settlement to be removed. Premier Begin dithered for some time before he agreed to execute the court order; some Gush hotheads urged physical resistance to any army unit that would dare to remove them. Earlier, Rabbi Levinger had established a fait ac- compli by sending in Gush women and children, in- cluding his wife and 11 chil- dren, to occupy Bait Hadas- sah in Hebron, as a sign of the determination to renew Jewish settlement in the center of that town. This at- tempt was declared illegal by Begin, but nothing was done to remove the Gush squatters. Gush penetration into Hebron has since extended to other buildings which were originally owned by members of the Jewish community who had been massacred by the Arabs of the town in 1929. (The motif of vengeance for the mas- sacre was not absent from Levinger's justification for the spread of settlement in the heart of Arab Hebron.) More recently, Levinger was the moving spirit in persuading the govern- ment, which is on the verge of bankruptcy, to announce grandiose plans for the takeover and reconstruc- tion of the Arab shuk of Hebron, which was torched WZO may print Sokolow diaries London (JTA) — The World. Zionist Organization (WZO), is considering pub- lishng the diaries and pri- vate papers of Nahum Sokolow, one of its most gifted thinkers and dip- lomats, according to Sokolow's grandson, Joseph Raziel. The diaries, covering Sokolow's activities over 40 years until his death in 1936, are mostly lodged in the central Zionist archives, Jerusalem. by Gush vigilantes in retal- iation for the murder of yeshiva student Aharon Gross a year ago. That kil- ling was also the trigger for the massacre of Arab stu- dents at the nearby Islamic College. The extremists in the Gush constantly cultivated an atmosphere of being the only true patriots in an Is- rael where the government (even a Likud government, with its heart in the right place ideologically) could not be trusted to look to the country's best interests. Are the settlers and Gush leaders preparing for possi- ble lean years if a Labor government is ushered in after the July 23 elections? Labor leader Shimon Peres has already said that a Labor-led government would not dismantle a single settlement. Shifra Blass takes his words at face value and believes that at worst there will be a slow- down in settlement but not a total halt. Changes sought in Canadian anti-hate laws Ottawa (JTA) — Mark MacGuigan, the Canadian Minister of Justice, has an- nounced three proposals for amendments to the Cana- dian anti-hate propaganda laws with the goal of greater success in prosecuting vio- lators. The first change would remove the word "wilfully" from the criminal code sec- tion which states that any- one who wilfully promotes hatred against a group is guilty of violating the law. At present the prosecution must prove that a defendant specifically intended to promote such hatred, which has proved to be almost im- possible to do. The second proposed change is that the defen- dant, rather than the pro- secutor, will be made re- sponsible for proving that the defendant acted under criminal code provisions de- fining legal actions. Another change would eliminate a requirement that provincial attorneys- general must give consent to prosecution of such de- fendants. Anti-hate laws have been on the books in Canada for the past 14 years. But be- cause of the need for the prosecution to prove wilful intent and the defenses available to defendants, no prosecution has succeeded under those laws and attorneys-general have been reluctant to approve such prosecution.