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Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, November 6, 1970
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New 90-Day Cease Fire Period Appears Like 1 . ma-tast
UNITED NATIONS—Summary
call for a continuation ol the
Cease-Fire in the Middle East
seemed in the wind Thursday as
the United Nations Security
Council called upon the parties
involved to agree with another
90-day cessation of hostilities.
The resolution apparently
called upon Israel to overlook
Egypt’s missile deployment and
to return for Jarring talks.
These were obtrusely begun
90 days ago under the strange
arrangements of Jarring as an
intermediary, but the two
principals expressing views
without being in the same room
—or meeting each other forth
rightly.
After a few hours of such
hanky-panky, the Israeli ohief
of negotiations had returned to
Jerusalem for instructions. He
never returned because of the
unfurling of activity On Egypt’s
part for deploying missiles.
The possibility was at first
doubted, seemingly by the
United States, but after visual
proof in photographs taken by
the U. S. as well as by Israel
the State Department called
upon Eypt to halt this violation
of the Cease-Fire Agreement.
What took place was a blatant
revelation of Russia’s all-out ef
forts to secure wholesale dom
ination of the area.
In the United Nations vote,
the resolutidn was overwhelm
ingly passed by the Arab block.
ThC United States and Israel
voted against the measure.
Both Egypt, Israel and Jor
dan had previously expressed
desires for the extension, but
with specific qualifications. It
was not immediately clear if
these strings-attached would be
satisfactory to opposing views.
Left-Wing
With Pro
NEW YORK (JTA)—A group
of fifty black Americans lashed
out at U. S. support of Israel
and expressed their solidarity
with their “Palestinian brothers
and sisters.’ Many of them, sup
porters, sympathizers arid well
known activists in the left-wing
movement, demanded “that all
military aid or assistance of any
kind to Israel must stop. Imper
ialism and Zionism must and
will get out of the Middle East.
We call for Afro-American soli
darity with the Palestinian peo
ple’s struggle tor national lib
eration and to regain all of their
stolen land.”
A number of signatories were*
identified as members of the
Socialist Workers Party, a
Blacks Shock Country
■Arab Declaration
Viewing the Chagall Synagogue «t the HUaaaah-Hebrew University Medical Center last week la
Jerusalem were these Georgians: UJ3. Senator and Mrs. Herman Tnlraadge; Edward Bson of Atlanta;
Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Steinberg of Augusta and Mrs. Herman R. Kaminsky of Fitzgerald. Mrs. Eton
and Mr. were in the group bat were not on the spot to get in the picture. (See Tour
Story on Page 16 and HadauMh Donor Story on page ».)
Trotskyist organization which
expresses the most virulent anti-
Zionist, anti-Israel views in the
left-wipg movement Several
other signatories are leaders in
the civil rights movement, in
cluding Phil Hutchings, former
chairman of tbe Student Non-
Violent Coordinating Committee •
(SNCC); the Rev. Albert Clea-
gue of Detroit; Robert Williams,
who returned recently from sev
eral years of exile in Cuba and
China after fleeing his home in
Monroe, N. C., where he was
involved in organizing the self
defense of the black commun
ity there; Florence R. Kennedy,
a New York attorney; and Flor
ence Beal, a leader of the Third
Wcrld Women’s Alliance.
The venomous attack on Is
rael and Zionism by the group
which calls itself "Committee
of Black Americans for Truth
About the Middle East,” appear
ed in a half-page advertisement
in the New York Times. The
statement expressed solidarity
with the three major Arab guer
rilla groups and singled out an
anti-Zionist group within Israel
as proof that anti-Ziohism exists
even among Jews. The group
singled out is the Israeli Social
ist Organization,
popularly abroad as “Matzpen”
(Compass). This particular
group calls for the dismantling
of the Israeli state and hews to
the line of the Democratic Pop
ular Front for the Liberation of
Palesine which is led by Dr.
Nayef Hawetmeh. In recent
months one of the leaders of
Matzpen, Arie Bober ,an Israeli,
has been touring the United
States under the sponsorship of
a group whose list of sponsors
include Noam Chomsky and
whose secretary is Berta Lang
ston, a member of the Socialist
Workers Party, The Committee
of Black Americans stated that
they are not anti-Jewish. “We
are anti-Zionist and against the
Zionist State of Israel, the out
post of American imperialism
in the Middle East,” they de
clared. “Zionism is a reactionary
racist ideology that justifies the
expulsion of the Palestinian
people from their homes and
lands, and attempts to enlist the
Jewish masses of Israel and
elsewhere in the service of im
perialism to -hold back the Mid
dle East revolution.”
The signatories also claimed
that it is the United States which
is responsible for: “tbe slaughter
of Palestinian refugees and free
dom fighters because of its fi
nancial and moral support of the
Hussein government during the
recent Jordanian civil > war.
“America’s support for King
Hussein is consistent with its sup
port of reactionary dictatorships
throughout the world,” .they
contended. ; *,
ST. LOUIS (JTA)—A leading
Negro newspaper man warned
here Saturday night that while
black Americans are general
sympathetic to Israel, a “rising
tide of pro-Arab feeling” rooted
in a variety of causes, is be
coming increasingly evident
amongsegments of black mili
tants, intellectuals and persons
living in the inner cities. How
ard B. Woods, editor and pub
lisher of the St. Louis Sentinel,
presented this analysis i-of the
division at black opinion on the
Middle East conflict to a con
ference of «local Jewish com
munal and student leaders con
vened here by the B”nai B’rith
lational Council, god the
Kkw
Council at St. Louis. The “pop
ular pattern” of most Mack mil
itants, Mr. Woods said, “is to
be anti-establishment Since
they view the establishment as
being pro-Israel, they feel they
must be pro-Arab.” Mr. Woods
said that anti-Israel feelings
among black people in under
developed urban areas
possibly be attributed to “lo
dormant attitude* on domestic
conditions rather than being
based on international situa
tions” Mr. Woods, who was part
of a group of ten publishers of
Negro newspapers that toured
Israel on a ten-day study mis
sion last year, said that “great
masses" of black people have
“an affinity and warmth for the
land” of Israel as “the seat of
Christianity.
But, Mr. Woods added, this
feeling “does not necessarily spin
off to include the Israeli people
and their objectives." He said
that some blacks feel the United
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FLQ-Front De Liberation Du Quebec-Is Racist
Group With Anti-Jewish, Anti-Italian Overtones
Canadian News Letter
By MICHAEL M. SOLOMON
The unprecedented kidnap
pings of British Trade Commis
sioner James R. Cross in Mon
treal, October 5 and of Quebec
Labor Minister Pierre Laporte a
week later by two separate cells
of the militant underground
Front de Liberation 4u Quebec
had stunned and profoundly
angered Canadian Jews from
coast to coast.
The subsequent awesome dis
covery of Pierre Laporte’s tort-
wed body in the trunk of an
abandoned car, the same in
Which he had been abducted a
week before, aroused the unani
mous feeling of horror and re-,
vulsion across all sections of the
Canadian Jewish community.
Laporte was murdered after be
ing kidnapped by the FLQ for
alleged “arrogance shown in ne
gotiations for the release of 23
members of the organization, by
the Quebec valet of Ottawa,
Quebec premier Robert Bour-
assa.”
The FLQ’s dealings are no
novelty for the Quebec Jearn
They have ttyed through the
1962 null-box bombing* in the
rich Westmonnt suburb at Mon
treal where rich English, French
and Jewish businessmen live in
grand style and they leaked
upon the bombings as a matter
of no particular concern for the
Jewish community as a whole.
More over, a good segment of the
Jewish leftist intellectuals and
Jewish student body looked
apo* the FLQ’s exploits then as
aamafking meant “to give a bit
of a shake up to the too apathe
tic fat oats of Westmonnt ”
This time, alas, the situation
looks totally different. The kid
nappings and the grim murder
of Pierre Laporte have funda
mentally changed the old judge
ment. Appalled by the savagery
of the cold blooded execution of
the Quebec Minister of Labor,
Canadian Jews have received a
shock when learning that the
FLQ is “a racist organization
with anti-Jewish and anti-Italian
overtones.” This characterization
of the FLQ was made in the
House of Commons in Ottawa
during the debate on the war
measures act decreed by the Tru
deau government by no one else
• but the Federal Minister of Reg
ional Development, • French-
Canadian and the Prime Minis
ter’s first lieutenant, Joan
Marchand.
Replying to an attack by. Mr.
David Lewis, NDP leader and
member of the House who is
Jewish, who criticized the gov
ernment for imposing war meas
ures in peacetime, Mr. March
and said that: “The FLQ is a
racist organization directed
against Jews and Italians in par
ticular.” Mr. Marchand repeated
the statement on television and
radio afterwards. According to
the Hansard, (the official record
ing of the House of.Commons
debates), Mr. Lewi* remained
silent after hearing Mr. March-
anti’s statement It is interesting
to note that the Minishter of
regional development had been
for many yarns the leader of
Quebec’s trade unions.
Canadian Jewish Congress
leaders bad triad to ranch Mr.
Marchand for further details on
his very important statement
but no contact was made because
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