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by Israel's neighbors in
the Levant and Fertile
Crescent, which Jennings
ignored.
The Syrian rights record
is one of "widespread and
systematic torture ...
Iraq? "Political killing
and torture continue,
denial of due process,
detentions ..."
On Dan Rather's show
the same night, film
smuggled out of Iraq
showed high officials of
the regime in acts of in-
timate brutality against
Shiite prisoners ...
No one is even moved to
deny the charges. Victims
and victimizers alike
know the way of their
world, even if others in
the West do not.
There are obligations to
truth and realism invited as
commitments by diplomats
and the media, which should
also be embraced by our
State Department. Regret-
tably, it becomes necessary
for editorials like the one in
New Republic to be a part of
the struggle for justice and
truth. Fortunately, the vital
facts have not been totally
hidden. ❑
featuring
PROFESSOR MOSHE LAZAR
speaking on
THE GOLDEN AGE
OF SPAIN
Sunday, March 1, 1992
9:30 11:00 a.m.
NEWS
Government Reacts
To Mossad In Canada
Toronto (JTA) — Norman
Spector, former chief of staff
to Prime Minister Brian
Mulroney and the first Jew
to be named Canada's am-
bassador to Israel, electrified
the House of Commons Ex-
ternal Affairs Committee in
Ottawa this week with rev-
elations of how the govern-
ment reacted to allegations
of Mossad espionage opera-
tions in Canada.
Mr. Spector, a 42-year-old
Montreal native whose ap-
pointment has been attacked
by major Canadian Arab
organizations, told the legis-
lators that he government
was deeply disturbed by
claims that the Israeli spy
agency Mossad was active in
Canada in 1990.
It not only summoned the
Israeli ambassador to
Canada but "invited" the
deputy director general of
Mossad to come here to ex-
plain the conduct of its
agents, Mr. Spector said. -
He said both Israeli offi-
cials were called into the of-
fice of the undersecretary of
external affairs and told "in
no uncertain terms" that
their agents should not be
operating in Canada.
Canadian suspicions were
aroused in the fall of 1990
after former Mossad trainee
Victor Ostrovsky published
his co-authored tell-all
memoirs, By Way of Decep-
tion, in which he claimed,
among other things, that
Mossad had a stash of more
than 1,000 stolen, blank
Canadian passports.
Mr. Ostrovsky also claim-
ed that two Mossad agents
visited him at his Ottawa
home that summer to de-
mand that he not release his
book.
The publicity surrounding
the Israel government's
subsequent failed attempts
to suppress his memoirs
Wined Mr. Ostrovsky's book
into a best seller by Cana-
dian standards, selling
48,000 copies here.
Although there was no
proof to back up Mr. Ostrov-
sky's• claims, the Israelis
were called in "just on the
basis of the allegations" and
"because of the potential se-
riousness of the activity and
because of the difficulty of
having proof in those areas,"
Mr. Spector said.
Svend Robinson, a member
of Parliament for the opposi-
tion New Democratic Party,
said he would ask the com-
mittee to investigate Mossad
operations here.
"If the ambassador was
called in and a senior
Mossad official was called in
from Israel, we can only
assume that there must
have been some significant
basis for that decision," Mr.
Robinson said.
"I think Canadians are en-
titled to know what the
Mossad was up to in Canada.
Certainly, Mr. Spector's
evidence ,raises a number of
very serious questions that
the external affairs com-
mittee will have to pursue."
Mr. Spector, who formally
assumed his ambassadorial
post on Feb. 1, replacing
Michael Bell, was accused of
"pro-Israel, anti-Arab bias"
last month by James Kafieh,
president of the Canadian
Arab Federation.
But the Palestine Libera-
tion Organization, which
maintains an information of-
fice in Ottawa, observed that
Mr. Spector's "performance
and not his religion" would
settle the issue.
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