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about the affair.
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argued that nothing she had
said, especially on religious
matters, was really so
outrageous. On the contrary,
she was merely representing
views that most secular
Israelis would
wholeheartedly endorse.
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On the other hand, Shas,
the consensus now had it,
was behaving with typical
treachery and caprice. "It
had no problem betraying
Yitzhak Shamir in March
1990," one columnist fumed,
"and has none undermining
Yitzhak Rabin now." Its at-
tempt "to make political
capital" out of the Aloni flap
was essentially "a new form
of blackmail" designed to
"squeeze compensation" out
of Mr. Rabin in the form of
more power or more money
for its institutions.
Moreover, since Aryeh
Deri could soon be indicted
for the misappropriation of
funds, observers are sug-
gesting that the current
commotion is Shas's way of
signaling Mr. Rabin of
what's to come unless he
manages, somehow, to
forestall that indictment.
The bottom line of the af-
fair has yet to be reached. '
But at the very least it's
clear that the honeymoon is
over. Mr. Rabin hit the
ground running and got the
country's juices going again.
But the moment he stoppc
to take a breath, the old
litical shtick rushed into
the vacuum. His fledglil
coalition is already crea
ing, and it's far from ch.,
how he's going to save
This much seems certai.
though: if it comes down to is
battle between the sophistic
Sephardi sages and the
acerbic Ms. Aloni, even the
making of peace is going to
look like a piece of cake. ❑
News
Canada Rejects
Luitjens Appeal
Toronto (JTA)
Jewish
organizations here are
pleased with last week's
decision by Canada's
Supreme Court to reject a
bid by convicted Dutch Nazi
war criminal Jacob Luitjens
to appeal a denaturalization
order.
The Sept. 10 ruling
removes the last hurdle
before a deportation hear-
ing, which will be held on
Oct. 13 in Vancouver.
The court did not explain
its ruling, but revocation of
citizenship is not usually
appealable under Canadian
law.
Mr. Luitjens, a 73-year-old
retired University of British
Columbia botany instructor,
was stripped of his Canadian
citizenship last November
by a Cabinet order after a
federal court ruled in Oc-
tober that he had knowingly
concealed his past Nazi ties
when he immigrated to
Canada in 1961 and again
when he applied for citizen-
ship 10 years later.
That ruling set in motion
efforts to send Mr. Luitjens
back to the Netherlands,
where he was tried in absen-
tia in 1948, convicted of
"aiding and abetting the
enemy in time of war" and
sentenced to life imprison-
ment.
—
Mr. Luitjens was a former
member of the Dutch Nazi
party and the Landwacht, a
paramilitary unit which
assisted the Gestapo in
rounding up Jews and
resistance fighters in oc-
cupied Holland. Mr. Luitjens
could be the first person
deported under the new
extradition treaty between
Canada and the Nether-
lands, which went into effect
last December.
In 1981, the Dutch
government requested that
Mr. Luitjens be returned to
The court did not
explain its ruling.
Holland, but Canadian
Justice Department officials
ruled that the Canada-
Netherlands extradition
treaty of that time did not
cover the crime of collabora-
tion.
To date, Canada has suc-
cessfully completed only one
war crimes case. In 1983,
Albert Helmut Rauca of
Toronto was extradited to
West Germany to stand trial
for the murder of 11,585
Jews in the ghetto of Kaunas
(Kovno), Lithuania. Mr.
Rauca died before the case
could be heard.