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Negev Bedouins protest
land seizure legislation
by Barbie Zelizer
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Several
thousand Bedouins, joined by
Israeli Arabs from Galilee,
demonstrated outside the Knesset
Monday night against government-
sponsored legislation that would
expedite the seizure of Bedouin
lands in the Negev needed for the
construction of two U.S.-financed
air bases.
The lands involved cover some
40,000 acres east of Beersheba. The
government-sponsored bill denies
the Bedouins the right to appeal
the confiscation in order to avoid
prolonged legal procedures. It
allows them the right to challenge
the government’s compensation
offer, however.
The government maintains that
the right of appeal needs to be
waived because construction of the
air bases must begin immediately if
they are to be completed within the
three-year period stipulated in the
Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty. The
airfields will replace those in Sinai
that Israel will yield when it
withdraws from the peninsula.
Both the coalition and Labor
MKs agreed that construction
should begin as soon as possible,
which means that the Bedouin
lands must be expropriated
without delay. But the Labor
Alignment believes that the matter
can be resolved without new
legislation. The Bedouins’ chief
concern apparently is denial of the
right to appeal.
Justice Minister Shmuel Tamir
met with representatives of the
Labor Alignment’s Knesset
faction. Both parties agreed to
begin ^negotiations over the
princifAtt upon which the new law
is base# The Bedouins would be
represented in those negotiations
either by a mutually agreed to
negotiating committee or through
binding arbitration that would
resolve the issue within a three-
month time limit.
Tamir noted that the
government would be willing to
amend three aspects of the new
law: it would delete the article
stipulating that the Knesset’s
Foreign Affairs and Defense
Committee could apply the law to
other lands; it would include
public figures in the negotiating
committee; and it would allow
appeals against the legal aspects of
the legislation as well as compen
sation
While these proposals were
being discussed, the demonstrators
outside the Knesset called for a
halt to the “Judaization of our
lands."
—PLO Contacts—
Continued from page f
views through the various
countries that have contact with
the Palestinians. But, he stresses,
“the U.S. does not negotiate
indirectly with the PLO.”
Carter also stressed that "There
will be no change in our position
on Security Council Resolutions
242 and 338...We believe that the
resolutions are the lynchpins to the
whole matter” of a comprehensive
peace in the Middle East. He
appeared to be referring to recent
reports in Israeli newspapers that
the U.S. was contemplating an
amendment to Resolution 242
which would make it more
palatable to the Palestinians.
Carter was asked about a recent
interview with President Carter’s
special envoy to the Middle East,
Robert Strauss, in the magazine
U.S. Mens and World Report in
which Strauss was quoted as
saying that within 60 to 90 days he
expects moderate. Palestinians to
be taking part ip the peace talks.
The State Department spokesman
replied, “The Ambassador
(Strauss) is not careless with his
remarks. If he has good reason to
believe it, then there is an excellent
prospect that it will happen.”
—Dilemma
Continued from page I
philosophically, while on a daily
basis it remains a nagging source of
discomfort.
How should an American Jew
react when his elected leaders tell
him that it is not in the American
interest to support Israel to the
degree that he himself would
like? What does a Jewish
parent tell a child who
wants a Christmas tree because
friends have Christmas trees and
they look so pretty? Or for that
matter, to take the opposite case,
when his son or daughter tells him
that he wants to live in Israel
because only in Israel can a Jew
fully realize himseli? Does such a
question pose a challenge to the
authenticity of the parents’ own
sense of Jewish identity?
These, and a myriad other
smaller day to day confrontations,
pose the same question.
How do you reconcile two great
aspirations—to be a full and equal
partner in American society while
remaining a cohesive and
distinctive Jewish community
within that society? Is a synthesis
possible? Or only a patchwork
compromise? To overcome the
competing influences in the life of
the American Jew that he may yet
define himself positively as a Jew
with an eternal bond to the Land of
Israel—that is the challenge that
American Jewry faces in the years
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Herman Loewe
Herman M. Loewe, 71, of
Altamonte Springs, Fla., formerly
of Atlanta, died Monday, July 30,
while attending a convention of the
Southern Nurserymen Association
here
Graveside service was held
Wednesday, Aug. 1, at Crest Lawn
Memorial Park with Rabbi Fred J
Davidow officiating.
Mr. Loewe was a manufacturers
representative for garden supplies.
Survivors include his wife, Mae
Gottlieb Loewe; daughters, Mrs.
Allen Fetter of Atlanta, Mrs. John
Cox of Jacksonville, and Mrs.
Meyer Drucker of Spartanburg,
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asked by the Center to find a
historian to be jointly appointed
by the department and the Center,
recommended Marcus. The
Center, which is partially funded
by Arab governments, said Marcus
was not qualified, a claim that was
disputed by the history
department The department said
Marcus was a qualified scholar of
great promise. Marcus never
participated in the public dispute
S.C.; brother, Arthur Loewe of
New York City, and five grand
children.
Mrs. Dina Saul
Mrs. Dina Saul, 84, of Natanya,
Israel, died Monday, July 30.
Funeral service was held
Tuesday, July 31, in Israel.
Mrs. Saul was a native of
Lithuania and a former resident
of Atlanta for 25 years.
Survivors include her son,
Charlie Saul of New York City;
daughter, Mrs Rella Sloman of
Atlanta, and six grandchildren.
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The AJCommittee has been
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programs department, headed by
Ira Silverman, last March
proposed guidelines for American
colleges and universities receiving
funds from foreign sources,
especially Arab countries. The
Center reportedly receives about
$100,000 a year from Arab
governments.
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