NEWS

ISRAEL ADVOCACY CENTER

Zionist Organization of America
Metro Detroit District

THE PEACE PROCESS CONTINUES. BUT DO THE
ARABS EXPECT THE UNITED STATES TO "DELIVER"
ISRAEL?

President Bush said: "Peace will only come as a result of direct negotia-
tions. Peace cannot be imposed from the outside."

But are the actions of the Administration consistent with the words of the
President?

— The United States ignored Israel's request to hold the
negotiations in the Middle East which is where the conflict
exists and where it must be solved.

— The United States arbitrarily scheduled the date for the
negotiations in Washington without advising Israel in
advance or before Prime Minister Shamir approved the
date.

— The United States has offered detailed proposals even
before the agenda had been finalized between Israel and
the Arabs, the parties directly involved in the negotiations.

Israel is serious about peace. For 43 years it has waited for the moment
when the Arabs were willing to begin the process.

But negotiations do not mean capitulation. Flexibility does not mean Israel
and its people should jeopardize their security. Peace does not require Israel
to sacrifice its vital interests.

As Israel and its Arab neighbors proceed in the tedious and difficult road
of negotiations, the American Jewish community and all friends of Israel
must, at the same time, speak with one voice in support for the loan
guarantees for Israel as a matter of highest priority.

Write to President Bush, The White House, Washington, D.C.

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1991

Many Stunned
By Kahane Verdict

New York (JTA) — The ac-
quittal of El Sayyid Nosair
in the murder of Rabbi Meir
Kahane was a surprise to
almost everyone involved in
the trial, including his own
lawyer.
It has angered the late
Jewish Defense League
founder's supporters, some
of whom have vowed to exact
revenge.
Rabbi Kahane's son, Rabbi
Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane,
pledged that Mr. Nosair
would be haunted by
Kahane followers until his
death.
"We vow that El Sayyid
Nosair will not see a day
without fear until his very
last day," the younger
Kahane, who is director of a
group called Kahane Chai,
said after the verdict was
announced Saturday eve-
ning.
Mr. Nosair, an Egyptian-
born Moslem, was acquitted
by a jury of nine women and
three men of murdering
Kahane on the night of Nov.
5, 1990, while he was giving
a speech at a hotel on the
East Side of Manhattan.
He was also found not guil-
ty of attempting to murder a
postal officer who allegedly
attempted to prevent Mr.
Nosair from leaving the
murder scene.
But the jury did convict
Mr. Nosair on lesser charges
of assault and weapons
possession.
The verdict stunned many,
who had assumed it was an
"open and shut" case.
Mr. Nosair's own attorney,
William Kunstler, had told
the New York Times, in an
interview before the verdict
was returned, that he ex-
pected the jury to be
deadlocked or to come back
from four days of delibera-
tion with a guilty verdict.
"It was just so open and
shut that Kahane was
murdered by Nosair," said
Rabbi Avi Weiss, president
of a direct-action group
called the Coalition for Jew-
ish Concerns. "I can't pin-
point it, but there is the
sense that the District At-
torney's office was no match
for Kunstler.
"I'm not at all arguing
conspiracy, but this is the
second time that New York
authorities have failed in
high-powered cases regar-
ding Jews," Rabbi Weiss
said. "It makes you
wonder."
The rabbi was referring to
the fact that a single youth
was arrested in the murder

of Yankel Rosenbaum, the
Australian scholar attacked
by a gang of black youths
during the riots against
Jews last August in
Brooklyn's Crown Heights
section.
Abraham Foxman, na-
tional director of the Anti-
Defamation League, said he
finds the verdict "bizarre,
totally inconsistent."
Mr. Foxman, no advocate
of Kahane's but one of the
few non- Kahane supporters
to attend his funeral in
November 1990, said that
"to find Nosair guilty of
assault and possession, and
not of murder, boggles the
mind."
Speculating that a deal
may have been cut among
the jurors, he called for a
special investigation by the
appropriate authorities into
the apparent inconsisten-

"I never expected
justice from an
American court."

Rabbi Kahane's son

cies. But Mr. Foxman said
he did not suspect a govern-
ment conspiracy.
"This was one big surprise
for everyone," said state
Assemblyman Dov Hikind,
D-Brooklyn.
Mr. Hikind is coordinating
a campaign of adver-
tisements and rallies to push
for maximum sentences for
each of the four counts of
assault and weapons posses-
sion of which Mr. Nosair was
found guilty.
Mr. Hikind said $25,000
has already been pledged
toward the campaign.
Mr. Nosair's sentencing by
New York State Supreme
Court Judge Alvin Schles-
inger is scheduled for Jan.
2 9 . The maximum
sentences, run consecutive-
ly, could total 36 years
behind bars.
Mr. Hikind said he is also
trying to have federal
charges brought against Mr.
Nosair for breaching the
civil rights of Rabbi Kahane
and the two bystanders who
were wounded in the inci-
dent.
The president of the Jew-
ish Community Relations
Council of New York said
that the case should not be
closed.
Kenneth Bialkin called on
"state and federal officials to
launch a meticulous review
of the evidence and the way
law officials handled the
case, in order to ascertain

