Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit

one farmer. "You're his boss,
and you have to bring him into
line. I suggest you fire him,"
said another.
Mr. Peres replied that the
media might have misreported
Mr. Beilin's words, and that he
would look into it. "I don't feel
any need to justify myself," he
said. "We've said in the negoti-
ations with the Palestinians
that no Jewish settlements will
be uprooted from the Jericho
area."
"Even in the final status?"
challenged one resident.
"No discussions are yet being
held on the final status," Mr.
Peres replied, and groans came
from the audience.
"I don't know why you have
this attitude. I don't like this
whole tone," Mr. Peres said. He
went back into his visionary
statesman mode, saying the Is-
raeli and Arab negotiators were
discussing great possibilities for
the region — desalination

plants to bring water to the dry
land, and making the Jordan
Valley, on both sides of the bor-
der — the focus of world exper-
iments with desert agriculture.
"I believe we can develop this
area, in cooperation with the
Palestinians and the Jordani-
ans...Whoever is here will be
able to stay. I would plan on liv-
ing here permanently."
During lunch at Moshav
Tomer, Mr. Peres heard more
of the same.
By this time he was re-
sponding quietly, with little an-
imation, seemingly discouraged.
For some reason, he decided to
throw out another of his vi-
sionary ideas. "I don't rule out
the possibility that in the future
this whole area will remain
without any sovereignty at all,"
he said. He did not elaborate.
As Mr. Peres left for his next
stop, one farmer muttered,
"Now I feel even more insecure
than I did before." ❑

France's Chief Rabbi
Defends Students

Paris (JTA) — In a meeting
with French President Fran-
cois Mitterrand, France's
chief rabbi came to the
defense of Muslim
schoolgirls, who the rabbi
said are the victims of an an-
ti-religious trend within the
country.
During his meeting with
Mr. Mitterrand, Rabbi
Joseph Sitruk referred to the
recent expulsion of Muslim
girls from a state-run school
in Nantua, a city in south-
central France.
The girls were expelled for
refusing on religious
grounds to remove their
veils in school. Some of the

The girls refused to
remove their veils
in school.

girls had also refused to at-
tend biology classes for re-
ligious reasons.
According to French law,
pupils at state-run schools
are forbidden to wear re-
ligious garb or insignia.
No incidents were ever re-
ported involving boys wear-
ing skullcaps.
But Rabbi Sitruk came to
the defense of the Muslim
schoolgirls, telling the pres-
ident that the actions taken
against them had been

criticized by "part of the
Jewish community, espe-
cially the young, who wish to
reconcile their Jewish life
and practice with the secular
state-run school."
Rabbi Sitruk told Mr. Mit-
terrand he fears "an in-
creased aggressiveness by
the secular against re-
ligion."
The Jewish leader
underscored his point by
noting that the first day of
the coming school year will
fall on Rosh Hashanah.
"A religion has the right to
express itself as long as it
does not do any proselytizing
and does not ask its
followers to wear specific
signs in an outrageously
visible way," Rabbi Sitruk
told reporters following the
meeting with Mr. Mitter-
rand.
"I think it would be la-
mentable if a country with
such broad ideas as France
would close its doors to peo-
ple who simply want to be
different," said Rabbi
Sitruk.
The rabbi added that the
spread of Islamic fundamen-
talism in France had been
grossly exaggerated by the
media.
Of France's 57.2 million
inhabitants, an estimated 3
million to 5 million people

are Muslim. ❑

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