I UP FRONT
New Killings Raise The Level
Of Violence Inside Israel
.
GIL SEDAN
Special to The Jewish News
he 29-month-old in-
tifada, which lately
had seemed to be win-
ding down out of sheer
exhaustion, was galvanized
into new fury this week,
after a dishonorably
discharged Israeli soldier
gunned down a group of Pa-
lestinian laborers near
Rishon le-Zion, south of Tel
Aviv.
The unprovoked shooting
early Sunday morning, in
which seven Palestinians
died and at least 10 were
wounded, has confronted
Israel with alarming situa-
tions on three fronts.
To begin with, the
reignited intifada swiftly
escalated to the levels of its
earliest and most violent
days, requiring the sudden
massive deployment of
Israel Defense Force troops.
To make matters worse,
the rioting swept like
wildfire from the ad-
ministered territories into
Israel proper, where stone-
throwing youths took to
the streets and Israel's
700,000 Arab citizens went
on a general strike.
And finally, Jordan was
unexpectedly caught in the
vortex when violence linked
to the Rishon le-Zion slay-
ings erupted among Palesti-
nians, who comprise 70 per-
cent of the Hashemite
kingdom's population.
Although Jordan remains
technically at war with
Israel, Israelis rely heavily
on the stability of King Hus-
sein's regime to keep the
eastern border quiet.
The IDF was well prepared
for renewed large-scale
disturbances in the ter-
ritories.
This time, however, it was
not the local intifada leader-
The events in
Jordan were also
disturbing for
Israeli officials.
ship trying to fire up waver-
ing spirits. The masses took
to the streets spontaneously
in anger, frustration and
hatred.
On Tuesday, two Palestin-
ians were killed and 46 were
wounded in the West Bank
and Gaza Strip as clashes
continued despite a military-
imposed curfew. Acting
Prime Minister Yitzhak
Shamir warned Israeli
Arabs who engaged in
violent protests that they
had "passed the limit of
what is allowed."
For the most part, Israelis
seemed to understand the
reason for the outburst of
hostilities.
Shamir and Foreign Min-
ister Moshe Arens condemn-
ed the Sunday killings, but
tended to play down the
significance of the rioting.
Shamir predicted it would
end "within hours or days."
Indeed, most experts
agreed that the present
wave of violence would sub-
side soon. But the situation
is likely to remain explosive,
and the Palestinian leader-
ship will do everything it
can to exploit it for political
gains, they said
In East Jerusalem, local
Palestinian leaders began a
weeklong hunger strike to
focus world attention on the
Palestinians' plight.
They succeeded to a
degree, judging by the angry
reception President Chaim
Herzog got in Stockholm
during his state visit to
Sweden and Finland this
week.
Herzog, in fact, led the
nationwide denunciations of
the Sunday massacre by the
21-year-old Jew in Rishon le-
Zion, a town seven miles
west of Tel Aviv.
In a special announcement
issued shortly before he left
for Scandinavia, the presi-
dent called the shooting "a
Rock-throwing youths take to the streets.
loathsome crime against in-
nocent Arabs."
Faisal Husseini, a leading
Palestinian activist, urged
the U.N. Secu ity Council to
convene imiliediately to
place "occupied Palestine"
under international protec-
tion and to establish an
international commission to
investigate the Rishon le-
Zion murders.
The suspect emptied three
magazines from a Galil
assault rifle into a crowd of
Arab construction workers
Sunday morning because,
police said, "his girlfriend
left him."
Shortly thereafter, at least
six Palestinians were killed
and more than 600 wounded
in confrontations with the
IDF in the territories. To
date, at least 15 Palestinians
have been killed and hun-
dreds more have been
wounded.
At one point, early in the
violence, there were reports
that the IDF had "lost con-
trol" of the Gaza Strip as
residents flooded into the
streets in defiance of a
curfew clamped on the area.
In the Gaza strip alone,
Palestinians said five were
dead and reports had been
received of more than 700
casualties admitted to the
main hospitals. Twelve IDF
soldiers were slightly
wounded and two received
treatment in Soroka
Hospital in Beersheba.
But for many Israelis, the
most immediate concern was
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outlined his plans for a new
United States, with separate
regions for Jews, blacks,
Asians, Cubans, Mexicans,
American Indians, Puerto
Ricans, Italians, French-
Canadians and Greeks.
This map, reproduced by
the Anti-Defamation
League, first appeared in a
newsletter of the National
Association for the Ad-
vancement of White People,
which Duke founded.
States, and has been trans-
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cluding Russian, Arabic and
Mandarin Chinese.
'ROUND UP
Oswego Artifacts
Sought For Museum
Oswego, N.Y. — The
Oswego, N.Y., Department
of Promotion and Tourism is
conducting a nationwide
search for memorabilia, ar-
tifacts and remembrances of
the World War II refugee
camp at Fort Ontario in
Oswego —the only American
haven for refugees from the
Holocaust during World War
II.
Nearly 1,000 refugees who
fled the Holocaust were pro-
vided with a safe haven in
the Great Lakes port city on
eastern Lake Ontario.
Emigrating from 17 coun-
tries in Europe and North
Africa, they arrived Aug. 3,
1944, under a presidential
order by Franklin Roosevelt.
Today, volunteers are
working with the city to con-
struct a Safe Haven Museum
as a living monument to
those who found a haven
from terror. The museum
will feature artifacts,
photographs of the camp and
its residents, and audio and
video tapes of recollections.
Those with information
about the refugee camp
should contact Willard
Schum, Safe Haven Muse-
um, do R.D. B, Box 62,
Oswego, N.Y. 13126.
Thank The Fish
For This New Find
Jerusalem (JTA) — Pro-
fessor Shlomo Grossman of
Bar-Ilan University has
discovered a way to make a
gelatin from fish extract
that will meet kashrut stan-
dards.
Gelatin, used as a
stabilizer in a variety of
foods, is normally extracted
from animal bones, skin or
horns.
Often it is the only doubt-
ful ingredient in a food
otherwise permitted by
observant Jews, because
there is no way to ascertain
that the animal was kosher
or was slaughtered in a
kosher manner.
But any fish with fins and
scales is kosher, and there is
no halachically prescribed
method of killing the fish.
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East Germany Airs
Holocaust Film
Genocide, an Academy
Award-winning documen-
tary produced by the Simon
Wiesenthal Center, became
the first Holocaust film to
air in East Germany when it
was shown during Holocaust
Remembrance Week last
month.
Narrated by Elizabeth
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