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WANTED Herman Miller and Knoll Furniture 1940s-1970s Heart Association gip American WERE FIGHTING FOR `CUR LIFE NOVI DYSAUTONOMIA VACANT LAND SITES • INDUSTRIAL • OFFICE • RETAIL Jonathan Brateman Properties 474-3855 Advertising in The Jewish News Gets Results Place Your Ad Today. Call 354-6060 82 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1991 Help meet the needs of Dysautonomic children. Dysautonomia Foundation Inc. 3000 Town Center, Suite 1500, Southfield, MI 48075 (313) 444-4848 Jerusalem (JTA) — Jewish extremists, flouting the au- thority of the elected leader- ship in the West Bank, con- tinued to make violent forays into Arab townships and villages over the weekend, despite appeals by the security forces not to take the law into their own hands. The situation posed a dilemma for Defense Min- ister Moshe Arens, who ap- peared to have convinced the Council of Jewish Mayors to reject vigilantism as a re- sponse to the road ambushes and other terrorist acts perpetrated by Arabs of late. The problem is that the so- called "action committees" that are responsible for the violence no longer accept the authority of the Council of Mayors, the elected repre- sentative body of Jewish set- tlers in the administered territories. They demand that Mr. Arens negotiate with them instead of the mayor. The action committees ap- parently are governed by re- ligious injunctions pro- claimed by militant rabbis who influence Orthodox, ultranationalist settlers to bypass their recognized leaders. For the first time since Jewish settlement in the territories began, there is no single, officially recognized body in charge. Mr. Arens is unwilling to negotiate with a welter of ad hoc groups. But the only alternative to an all-out con- frontation between the Israel Defense Force and the settlers is an understanding between the two parties. An understanding is possible only if the IDF can convince the settlers that it can best cope with the grow- ing number of Arab terrorist attacks. There was speculation here that another "senior minister" would mediate between Mr. Arens and the militants, but no indication who that minister might be. High on the list of settler demands is legal action against leaders of the Pales- tinian intifada. The settlers have protested against the apparent immunity given Palestinian leaders such as Faisal Husseini and Hanan Ashrawi. Ms. Ashrawi has been ser- ving as spokeswoman for the Palestinian delegation engaged in bilateral peace talks with Israelis in Madrid last month and most recent- ly in Washington. Jews from Kiryat Arba and Hebron, associated with the late Rabbi Meir Kahane's extremist Kach movement, ranged through the neighboring Arab village of Si'ir, smashing windows, solar heaters and one car, local residents re- ported. The Arabs complained that the settlers fired shots during their rampage. In Nablus, local residents said that Jews fired shots at houses and cars in the Rafidiya neighborhood. Four cars were reportedly damag- ed. The anti-Arab Kach movement, ousted from the Knesset several years ago for its blatantly racist plat- form and program, seems to be behind the incursions. At the other end of the po- litical spectrum, about 5,000 members of the Peace Now movement formed a human chain in Silwan, an Arab enclave in east Jerusalem, to protest the recent takeover of Arab houses by Jewish settlers there. The settlers have received backing from the Israeli government, but the courts must still issue a final ruling about the legal validity of their claims. Neo-Nazi Is Convicted Vienna (JTA) — An Austrian provincial court sentenced Walter Ochensberger to three years' imprisonment for neo-Nazi activities, provoking an out- burst from the startled defendant, who had been ac- quitted of the same charges at three previous trials. Mr. Ochensberger publishes a newsletter called Sieg (Victory), which he distributes mainly outside of schools. It alleges that the Holocaust never occurred, that gas chambers never ex- isted. Nevertheless, it took near- ly nine hours of delibera- tions before a jury in Feldkirch, a small city in Vorarlberg province, near the Swiss border, convicted the neo-Nazi. The problem in this and the earlier trials was the jury's reluctance to impose the mandatory five-year prison sentence. C