French Minister
Is Under Fire
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Paris (JTA) — French For-
eign Minister Roland Dumas
has come under criticism for
championing a pledged do-
nation to a local hospital in
his constituency that was
revealed as coming from the
family of Syria's defense
minister.
Mr. Dumas had trumpeted
the donation to a hospital in
his constituency during his
re-election campaign in Dor-
dogne, in southwestern
France.
He announced that a pri-
vate foundation had agreed
to buy the hospital a
scanner, at a cost of approx-
imately $1.65 million.
It was later revealed that
the source was the Tlas
Foundation, headed by the
daughter of Syria's Defense
Minister Mustafa Tlas.
Mr. Tlas is known in Jew-
ish circles as the author of a
blood- libel book, The Mat-
zah of Zion.
The issue has become
somewhat of a controversy
in the wake of news reports
saying that the Tlas family
is suspected of involvement
with drug-smuggling and a
perception that Mr. Dumas
is taking advantage of their
financial help in his re-
election bid.
Legally, however, there is
nothing wrong with a for-
eign institution sponsoring
medical equipment for a
French hospital.
The president of the Tlas
Foundation is Nahed Ojjeh
Tlas, Mustafa Tlas'
daughter and widow of the
Saudi billionaire Akkram
Ojjeh, also of Syrian origin.
According to French press
reports, Nahed Ojjeh is a
close friend of Mr. Dumas.
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Ms. Ojjeh acknowledged
that her foundation, based in
Lichtenstein, apparently for
tax reasons, had proposed to
pay for the medical scanner.
But said she was
"scandalized by the political
exploitation of the informa-
tion."
Mr. Dumas also has been
criticized in the past by some
who say he is pro-Arab and
sympathizes with the
Palestine Liberation Organ-
ization.
As a lawyer, Mr. Dumas
defended the Greek Catholic
Bishop Hilarion Capucci, ar-
rested in Israel in the early
1970s after being caught
gunrunning for Palestinian
terrorists.
Jewish leaders refrained
from any comment over the
latest development.
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