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U.S. Delegation
Protests Arafat
Geneva — The American
delegation walked out of the
United Nations' Human
Rights conference here last
Friday after the president of
the conference ignored regula-
tions and allowed Yasir
Arafat, head of the Palestine
Liberation Organization, to
speak from the rostrum.
The rostrum is reserved for
representatives of U.N.
member states. The PLO has
only observer status as a non-
governmental organization.
The rules require that Arafat
speak from his seat in the
conference hall.
The bulk of Arafat's hour-
long speech was a tirade
against the alleged inhumane
treatment of Palestinians by
Israeli security forces, which
he claimed exceeded the
depredations of the Nazis.
That line caught the atten-
tion of a reporter from the
West German newspaper, Die
Tagenzeitung, who asked
Arafat at a news conference
after his speech if he could
properly compare the atro-
cities of the Nazis who killed
six million Jews with events
in the Israeli-administered
territories.
After Arafat accused the
reporter of being_ an Israeli
agent, he shouted, "the Nazis
did not break bones and did
not kill pregnant women, nor
did they bury people alive."
The reported burial alive of
four Palestinian youths by
Israeli soldiers last week is
under investigation by the
Israel Defense Force. It has
said that those involved
would be tried and severely
punished.
Also, said Arafat, "even a
Scandinavian ambassador
acknowledged that one can-
not compare the atrocities in
the territories to the concen-
tration camps."
He was referring to Torleiv
Anda, the Norwegian am-
bassador to Israel, who has
since apologized for his
remarks, which unfavorably
compared the behavior of the
IDF in the territories to that
of the Nazis who occupied his
country during World War II.
Agency Moves To End
Absorption Duplication
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Jerusalem — The Jewish
Agency directorate agreed
last week to a proposal to
transfer all responsibility for
immigrant absorption to the
government. The transfer is
expected to be completed
within the next three months.
The transfer, welcomed by
Absorption Minister Yaacov
Tsur as a "historic decision,"
was recommended last Oc-
tober by a committee set up
by the Jewish Agency Board
of Governors to propose ways
to eliminate duplication be-
tween the agency's work and
that of various government
ministries.
A highlight of the commit-
tee's report was its criticism
of the division of responsibili-
ty for absorption between the
agency and the Absorption
Ministry, a situation it said
was both a wasteful use of
resources and confusing to
immigrants.
The duplication in absorp-
tion services has existed since
1952, when the Knesset
passed the Law of Status,
which determined the rela-
tionship of the Jewish Agen-
cy and the World Zionist
Organization to the Israeli
government.
According to the law,
amended in 1975, the Jewish
Agency has been responsible
for an immigrant's absorp-
tion needs, including housing
and employment, for the first
six months to a year, after
which time the Ministry of
Absorption takes over.
Critics of the division of
responsibility include Simcha
Dinitz, newly elected chair-
man of the World Zionist
OrganizationJewish Agency
Executive, and Mendel Kap-
lan, chairman of the Jewish
Agency Board of Governors.
During an earlier satellite
television conference with
American Jewish leaders,
Kaplan said that the transfer
of the funding and operation
of immigrant absorption
centers from the Jewish
Agency to the government
would save the agency an
estimated $30 to $40 million.
Petition Soviets
Boston (JTA) — More than
500 participants at the an-
nual meeting of the American
Association for the Advance-
ment of Science appealed to
the Kremlin and the Soviet
Academy of Sciences for the
issuance of exit visas to col-
leagues who have received in-
vitations to live in Israel.