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Bay State Rejects
Palestinian State
BETTE KEVA
Special to The Jewish News
B
oston — A broad-
based coalition led by
Jewish groups was in-
strumental in engineering
the defeat last week of a
resolution introduced at the
Massachusetts state
Democratic Party convention
that would have called for the
creation of a Palestinian
state.
On a voice vote, an over-
whelming majority of the
state's 4,000 Democratic
delegates rejected an amend-
ment advanced by the
Citizens for Participation in
Political Action, or CPPAX,
which supports a slate of pro-
gressive issues.
Instead, the convention
adopted a plank that affirms
"unequivocal support for
Israel, as written in the Camp
David Accords," recognizes
the "legitimate rights of the
Palestinians" and supports
Israel's recent call for Palesti-
nian elections in the
territories.
"One of the cardinal rules
of politics is to ask people to
help, and we have been over-
whelmed by help," said
Leonard Zakim, New
England regional director of
the Anti-Defamation League
Bette Keva writes for the
Jewish Advocate in Boston,
Mass.
of B'nai B'rith. The ADL led
opposition to the amendment.
The CPPAX amendment
called for the creation of an
independent Palestinian
state and for negotiations bet-
ween Israel and the Palesti-
nians' chosen
representatives.
The amendment conflicts
with the national Democratic
Party plank on the Middle
East, which says nothing
about a Palestinian state.
Among the groups endors-
ing the CPPAX proposal was
New Jewish Agenda. But the
group blocked an earlier ver-
sion of the amendment that
would have called for
monitoring U.S. aid to Israel
so that none could be used "to
perpetuate Israel's occupa-
tion of the West Bank and
Gaza."
New Jewish Agenda has
long supported a two-state
solution to the Arab-Israeli
conflict. It helped put forward
a resolution to that effect
before the Democratic Na-
tional Convention last
summer.
Also opposing the CPPAX
proposal was Democrats for
Middle East Peace, an ad hoc
committee that obtained the
support of virtually all of the
leading Democrats in the
state, including Gov. Michael
Dukakis, Sens. Edward Ken-
nedy and John Kerry, and
U.S. Reps. Barney Frank and
Joseph Kennedy Jr.
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Bomb Makers Were
Part Of Israeli Exchange
New York (JTA) — The
three terrorists who alleged-
ly made the bomb that blew
up Pan Am Flight 103 over
Lockerbie, Scotland, have
been identified as having
been released from an Israeli
jail in a 1985 prisoner
exchange.
According to ABC News,
the three men, two Palesti-
nians and an Iraqi identified
as Mahmoud Al-Makoussi,
Tawfik Youssef and Hassan
Hadi Al-Attar, were recruited
specifically for the task by
Ahmed Jabril, leader of the
Popular Front for the Libera-
tion of Palestine-General
Command.
The terrorists, whose
whereabouts are presently
unknown, were arrested in
1976 in Nairobi, Kenya, as
they were preparing to fire
rockets at an Israeli airliner.
The men were smuggled to
Israel, tried in secret in a
short trial and sentenced to
16 years in prison.
The three terrorists, who
were among 1,150 Palesti-
nians who were exchanged
with Syria for three Israeli
prisoners in May 1985, were
reportedly recruited by Jabril
to make the bomb and make
contact with Hafez
Dalkamoni, who is a senior
officer of the PFLP-GC.
Dalkamoni was arrested in
West Germany on Oct. 26. In
his car was found a bomb
similar of the kind later
suspected as the weapon that
destroyed Pan Am 103 on Dec.
21.
CBS News reported in April
that West German in-
vestigators believed a relative
of Dalkamoni placed the
bomb in the suitcase of an un-
witting Lebanese-American
youth, who boarded the plane
in Frankfurt, its point of
departure.
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