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Platform

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ween the United States and
Israel based on a common
commitment to Democratic
values and strategic goals,
not unlike the platform
language from 1988.
In a concession to
historical developments,
however, it adds that the end
of the Cold War does not
alter America's "deep inter-
est" in that special relation-
ship.
But there are parts of the
plank that go much further
than 1988. It declares the
United States has the
obligation to act as an
"honest broker" in the Mid-
dle East peace process, and it
chides the Bush administra-
tion for failing to fulfill that
obligation.
It charges the administra-
tion has encouraged one side
to believe it will "deliver
unilateral concessions" from
the other during the talks.
"Direct negotiations bet-
ween Israel, her Arab
neighbors and Palestinians,
with no imposed solutions, is
the only way to achieve en-
during security for Israel

and peace for all parties in
the region," the tentative
language reads.
Unlike the 1988 document,
the new platform state*
unequivocally that
Jerusalem is the capital Cf
Israel and should remain a
undivided city. And it sin-
gles out anti-Semitism for
condemnation, along with
all other bigotry and racism?,
The platform also calls on
the United States to het)
Israel absorb Jews from try .
former Soviet Union. That is
a clear reference to the Busl
administration's refusal to
guarantee $10 billion iii
immigrant resettlement
loans for Israel unless it
stops building settlements in
the administered territories.
Samuel Berger, foreign
policy adviser to the Clinton
campaign, said he wa's
struck by the fact that at the
platform deliberations in
Santa Fe, "there was a grea
deal of unity and very little
discord" over the Israel
plank. It was "the dog that
didn't bark," he said. ❑

NEWS

Czech Town Of Kolin
Recalls Deportations

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FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1992

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Prague (JTA) — Hundreds
of local inhabitants and
guests from abroad gathered
last weekend in the
Czechoslovak town of Kolin,
about 25 miles east of
Prague, to commemorate the
50th anniversary of the
deportations of more than
2,200 Jews from this town
and surrounding localities.
The gathering recalled the
killings as well of the Czechs
of Lidice, a town some 12
miles west of Prague, which
the Nazis burned to the
ground after killing its en-
tire male population of 199
and deporting their wives
and children, on June 10,
1942.
Some 30 Jews were then
taken from the There-
sienstadt concentration
camp and forced, at gun-
point, to bury the Lidice vic-
tims.
Three days after the kill-
ings and deportations from
Lidice, the Nazis rounded up
the Jewish population of
Kolin and sent a transport to
the East, where nearly all of
these Jews perished.
The atrocities were taken
in reprisal for the attack on
May 27, 1942, of Reinhard
Heydrich, Hitler's deputy
protector for Bohemia and

Moravia, who was one of the
chief planners of the so-
called Final Solution to the
Jewish Problem in January
1942.
Mr. Heydrich, who died'
eight days after the attack,
was killed by two Czect
patriots who were
parachuted into Nazi-
occupied Czechoslovakia

The gathering
recalled the
killings of the
Czechs of Lidice.

after a flight from Britain.
Among those who came tci.
take part in the unveiling of
a memorial plaque i*
Kolin's main square and
participate in a service in its
restored early Baroque syn-
agogue were 13 survivors of
the Kolin Jewish commun-
ity, who now live in different
countries.
The first Jewish service to
be held here in decades was-
conducted by Rabbi Andrew
Goldstein of London and
Rabbi Brian Fox of Sydney.
The synagogue building',
built between 1642 and 1696
and since the war used as &'
storehouse, will be the site of
a Jewish museum.

