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editor repeatedly make two
points.
First, that Jews should ex-
amine and condemn Israeli
atrocities in Gaza and the
West Bank before levelling
accusations of war crimes
against an aged, peaceful
citizen of a distant country.
Coming at the heels of the
December expulsion of
Hamas leaders in Israel, Mr.
Zuroff's visit was dominated
by this sentiment.
Second, that this "crusade
of hate" reflects the par-
ticularly nasty Jewish traits
of self-righteousness and
vengefulness that violate
the Christian spirit of love
and forgiveness. This point
may reflect the fact that
roughly 95 per cent of the
Icelandic population belong
to the Evangelical Protes-
tant Church. Still, these
comments and others less
polite are the most public
expressions of anti-Semitism
Iceland has experienced in
decades.
The Mikson case has,
however, forced Icelanders
to face a past that has until
now rarely been discussed
outside academic circles.
Owing to the country's
geographic location and po-
litical isolation, Icelanders
experienced World War II
and the Holocaust mostly as
a distant noise.
During the pre-war years,
however, Jews fleeing Nazi
persecutions were repeated-
ly denied entry here and
turned away, some put on
ships bound for Germany.
The country's only experi-
ence with Nazi war
criminals came in 1947,
when the government went
to great lengths to secure the
release of an Icelander serv-
ing time in a Norwegian
prison for having been a
Gestapo informant.
Iceland's current reactions
to Mr. Zuroffs allegations
suggest that history may re-
peat itself. Public support for
the government's reluctance
to address the matter was
broken only recently when a
feminist member of Parlia-
ment, Ingibjorg Solrun
Gisladottir, called for an in-
dependent investigation and
challenged Icelanders to face
their international respon-
sibilities. So far, hers has
been the only public voice of
dissent.
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United States Presses
For Syrian Visas
Washington (JTA) — The
United States will push the
Syrian government to en-
sure that Syrian Jews are
being granted visas to leave
the country, a high-level
State Department official
told members of Congress
this week.
In testimony before the
House Foreign Affairs sub-
committee on Europe and
the Middle East, Edward
Djerejian, the assistant sec-
retary of state for Near East
and South Asian affairs, said
the United States was "now
following up to determine if
the pace of giving exit visas
can be increased."
During his recent trip to
the Middle East, Secretary
of State Warren Christopher
raised the issue of Syrian
Jewry's freedom to travel
outside the country with
Syrian President Hafez
Assad.
Since Oct. 20, Syria has
almost entirely stopped
allowing Jews to leave the
country, reversing a 6-
month-old policy of permit-
ting free travel abroad for
Jews.
Mr. Djerejian, responding
to a question from Rep. Ben-
jamin Gilman, R-N.Y., said
that Mr. Christopher had
received "a very clear recon-
firmation of Assad's decision
to allow Syrian Jews total
freedom of travel."
Approximately 2,850
Syrian Jews received pass-
ports and exit visas between
April 1992, when Mr. Assad
lifted the travel restrictions,
and October, Mr. Djerejian
said.
But since mid-October, he
said, "only a few Syrian
Jews a week have received
exit permits," and
"approximately 1,000 have
applications still pending."
Mr. Djerejian said the
State Department is con-
cerned that so few Jews are
being granted exit visas, ad-
ding that "we will follow up
both here and in Damascus
to help assure that what
President Assad told the sec-