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Refugees In Somalia
Get Israel Relief
New York (JTA) — Gen.
Mohamed Farah Aideed,
chairman of the Somali Na-
tional Alliance, has accepted
an offer of aid for starving
and homeless refugees from
Israeli philanthropist Abie
Nathan and said he
welcomes humanitarian aid
from Israel and its non-
governmental organizations.
Aideed also invited Mr.
Nathan and representatives
of his Voice of Peace organ-
ization to visit Somalia to
discuss the establishment of
refugee camps there.
Responding to a letter
from Mr. Nathan, Osman
Hassan Ali, adviser to the
general, wrote that the
"Somali National Alliance
has requested (the) interna-
tional community for help to
contain and rehabilitate the
displaced people in Somalia,
and Israel and their non-
governmental organizations
are indeed equally
wholeheartedly invited to
participate in this vital pro-
ject.”
The acceptance seems to
mark a reversal for Somalia,
a Moslem nation which had
recently rejected any aid
from Israel that was iden-
tified by an Israeli emblem,
according to a spokesman at
the Israeli Consulate in New
York.
Somalia, a member of the
Arab League, has had a his-
tory of hostility to the Jew-
ish state.
The Israeli spokesman
could not say who in Somalia
had rejected the aid.
Mr. Aideed is one of
several warring leaders in
Somalia, where he controls a
part of the southern region
that includes the airport and
port. International relief
agencies have been dealing
with Mr. Aideed.
Somalia's longtime leader,
Mohamed Siad Barre, fled
the country in January 1991
and the country has since
descended into a warring
patchwork of feuding fief-
doms.
The invitation to Mr.
Nathan was announced by
the Union of American Heb-
rew Congregations, which
has been coordinating his
efforts to get the organized
Jewish community to con-
tribute $1 million for a tent
city for Somali refugees in
neighboring Kenya.
Fourteen Jewish groups
calling themselves the Jew-
ish Coalition for Somali
Refugee Relief are sponsor-
ing an advertisement in the
New York Times seeking
money for that project.
The Somali invitation will
not interfere with the plans
for the Kenyan tent city,
said Rabbi Eric Yoffie, vice
president of the UAHC.
Rabbi Yoffie welcomed the
acceptance of Israeli and
Jewish help by ruling par-
ties in Somalia. "To the ex-
tent that the Somalian au-
thorities are going to be
positive and authoritative,
that is good. It will make
Abie's job easier," said
Rabbi Yoffie.
He said Mr. Nathan had
been distressed over
published reports of hostility
by the Somalis to Israel.
"He has no desire to offend
them," Rabbi Yoffie said.
"He apprised us of the fact
that there have been some
changes there which appear
to indicate a new attitude
toward his endeavor."
But the country's in-
stability remains a major
issue. The U.S. government
warned Somalia's sparring
warriors that Washington
will not help that country
rebuild unless it accepts a
U.N. peacekeeping force.
Deployment of some 3,500
U.N. troops has been
delayed because of objections
by the various Somali fac-
tions, who fear losing control
of their respective turfs.
Writer's Kin
At Benefit
Moscow (JTA) — Bel
Kaufman, granddaughter of
writer Sholom Aleichem and
an author in her own right,
made her Moscow debut nar-
rating a Jewish oratorio
about the Holocaust.
The event was a fund-
raiser for a Jewish charity,
moving Moscow even more
firmly into the orbit of the
world Jewish community.
Ms. Kaufman, author of
the 1960s novel Up the Down
Staircase, told the story of a
Czechoslovak concentration
camp as rendered by British
composer Ronald Senator in
Holocaust Requiem:
Kaddish for Theresienstadt.
The presentation of the
liturgical oratorio was ac-
companied by drawings and
poems by children of the
Nazi concentration camp,
which were collected into a
book, I Never Saw Another
Butterfly.