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Janssen still supports PLO
AMSTERDAM (JCNS)— Back in Holland two days after her
release from an Israeli jail, following the granting of a pardon from
President Itzhak Navon of Israel, Ludwina Janssen, 26, declared
that she would continue to “support the struggle of the Palestinian
people.”
Janssen, a sympathizer of the Popular Front for the Liberation
of Palestine, who was arrested at Bcn-Gurion airport on the eve of
Rosh Hashana in 1975, was sentenced to six years’jail for spying
and aiding terrorist groups.
According to Jerusalem officials, she was released as a gesture
of goodwill to Egypt, the United States, and Holland.
Swastikas mark bomb site
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PARIS (JCNS) Heavy damage was caused to a flat and a
shop in Paris last week when two powerful charges of plastic
explosive blasted them. No one was injured. Nazi slogans and ;
swastikas had been daubed on both premises. The flat was the
home of Jean Legrand. a former officer and a prominent member
of the anti-Nazi resistance during the Second World War.
Pope’s visit prompts study
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NEW YORK (JTA) Leaders from the Polish-American and
Jewish communities in the United States plan a joint study of the
origins of anti-Polish and anti-Jewish attitudes in some segments
of American society, it was announced following a day-long
consultation late last month at St. Mary's College in Orchard
Lake, Mich The interethnic dialogue was stimulated by the
announcement that Pope John Paul II would be visiting this
country.
French Anti-Semitism on rise?
PARIS (JTA)—Both the French Communist Party and
France’s "New Right” were accused Tuesday of anti-Semitism.
Two left-wing French writers, Alain de Sedouy and Andre Harris,
who published a book on “The Jews of France,” last week accused %
the French Communist Party and its leader, Georges Marchais, of
trying to whitewash the Soviet Union’s official state-imposed anti- ;|
Semitism.
At the same time, a right-wing philosopher, Bernard-Henry
Levy, accused the New Right of trying to revive “the anti-Semitism
of fargone days "and erasing the memory of the Holocaust and Nazi
crimes.
Carter affirms pledge to Israel
NEW YORK (JTA) President Carter declared last week that
Israel has a right to defend itself “against terrorism from the north
or against her neighbors from the east or the south” and pledged
that “this government and this President will never abandon
Israel." He also expressed “great concern and disgust at a growing
clamor around the world that Zionism is the same as racism." That
Carter added, is “an outrage and a disgrace to human beings."
U.N.’s PLO estimates low
TEL AVIV (JTA) Israel’s chief of military intelligence, Gen.
Yeshayahu Saguy, has charged that .the United Nations has
understated the number of Palestinian terrorists active in the area
under its control in south Lebanon, claimed that there are now
Cuban military units all over the Middle East, that new Soviet
weaponry has been introduced into the region and that Jordon is
converting its ground and air forces from defensive to offensive
capabilities.
At a meeting with the foreign press corps here Tuesday. Saguy
said that according to Israeli estimates there arc between 500-700
terrorists in the territory controlled by the United Nations Interim
Force in Lebanon (UNIFII.) but UNIFIl. admits only that there
are more than 200.
Dayan, Young meet in N. Y.
NEW YORK (JTA) Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan of Israel
and Andrew Young, the former U.S. Ambassador to the United
Nations, met for a half hour here last week to discuss the events ol
recent weeks. Following the meeting, Young told reporters that
they had "revised” their old friendship I he meeting, in Dayan's
suite at the Regency Hotel, was arranged at Young’s request.
Yehuda Blum, Israel's Ambassador to the UN. was also present
Speaking to reporters after the meeting, Young described his
talk with Dayan as “friendly" and said it dealt largely with his
plans. He told Dayan, he said, that he did not blame him or Israel
for the events that brought about his resignation Irom his l V
post
Is Jewish leadership
failing young adults?
by Alon Ben-Meir
Those who are involved in
Jewish communal life on a day-to-
day basis are the first to admit that
the American Jewish community
faces a crisis of identity. Increasing
numbers of our young adults are
reaching for a new ideal, a new
sense of purpose, and a new
mission, but after despairing
efforts, most all but abandon the
search.
Although existing Jewish
organizations attempt to gather
many of these “wandering souls”
into their fold, they offer neither
the consistent purpose nor the
means to maintain the young
adult’s involvement. Instead of
being offered meaningful and
satisfactory participation, our
young adults are fed a diet of
warmed-over, flat, slogans and
cliches; they are informed of the
need for solidarity; they are told to
respond generously to our chronic
financial ailments; and finally,
they are exhorted to heed the call
when a crisis looms on the horizon.
They are led to see what the
Jewish organizations’ self-
appointed leadership wants them
to see, and then are asked to
approciate and applaud the
organizations’ accomplishments.
Certainly, our young adults have
been told everything and nothing.
However, they have seldom been
asked to voice thpir own views.
They have rarely dared to make
their grievances known, and even
more rarely, have their views been
listened to even when solicited.
Thus, our most gifted young
adults, who are expected one day
soon to assume the reins of Jewish
communal life, have become
increasingly alienated and
disenchanted.
Contemporary Jews live in a
unique time Never before in our
history have two Jewish centers
existed simultaneously. In the
past, there was the biblical state of
Israel and then, the Diaspora:
thus, Jews never had conflicting
emotions or loyalties. Presently we
are pulled in opposite directions by
two major centers of attraction:
Israel and the Diaspora (especially
the Jewish community in the U S ).
The years following the creation
of Israel were filled with anxiety,
fear, and uncertainty, all of which
supplied the Jews with a raison
d'etre to rally behind Israel. Yet,
those of us who in 1948 were either
little children or were just being
born, could neither experience the
same anxieties nor comprehend
the extent and meaning of that
era’s unfolding events. How would
we?
Granted, a small segment of our
young adults has followed in their
fathers’ footsteps because they
were taught to take their rightful
place in the Jewish community. A
few more, out of idealism or
sympathy, became marginally
involved in Jewish affairs. Yet, the
majority of young adults remain
virtual and emotional strangers to
the whole drama of our people.
They have heard the tragic story
retold in bits and pieces, and it
mostly remains something that
happened to somebody else. They
have learned much more about
Israel’s failure to cope with its
socioeconomic problem than
about its accomplishments in the
technological, scientific,
industrial, and military fields, but
in either case, the facts neither
affect nor engage them very much
These young adults are, in a
word, aloof, and not only because
their myopic elders cannot—or
will not — give them moral
sustenance. Remember they are
part of a larger generation that
protested the Vietnam War, that
demonstrated against the spread of
nuclear weapons, and that engaged
itself in the struggle for civil rights.
Their generation is no longer
impressed with military might and
has become acclimated to the idea
of perpetual crisis. They are a
Jewish generation that has been
faily well integrated into the
mainstream of their respective
countries of residence and that has
experienced very little overt anti-
Semitism.
Is it any wonder, then, that their
experiences seem so much more
real and exciting to them than the
stale rehash of their elders’ ancient
woes?
I say we have failed these young
adults because we have failed to
offer them a new sense of direction
and purpose. We have failed to
include them effectively into our
communal life because we are
afraid of changes that they might
wish to bring, and above all,
because we have become more
complacent than ever before.
We are in the process of losing
an entire generation—a generation
that yearns for a new sense of
mission and challenges and that
has not yet abandoned all hope
Unless we hear its cry of despair
and ourselves sound the alarm, we
stand to lose much more than a few
lost souls.
Resolutions 242, 338 are
focus of Middle East talks
Here are the texts of two United
Nations resolutions that are the
focus of the talks in the Middle
East. Resolution 242 was adopted
on Nov. 22, 1967, after the 1967
War. and resolution 338 was
adopted Oct. 22, 1973, after the
197 3 Middle Fast War:
Resolution 242: The Security
Council, expressing its continuing
concern with the grave situation in
the Middle East.
Emphasizing the inadmissibility
of the acquisition of territory by
war and the need to work for a just
and lasting peace in which every
state in the area can live in security
Emphasizing further that all
Member States in their acceptance
ol the Charter ol the United
Nations have undertaken a
commitment to act in accordance
with Article 2 ol the Charter.
I. Affirms that the fulfillment ot
Charter principles requires the
establishment of |ust and lasting
peace in the Middle East which
should include the application of
both the following principles:
i) Withdrawal of Israeli armed
forces from territories occupied in
the recent conflict:
ii) Termination of all claims or
states of belligerency and respect
for an acknowledgement of the
sovereignty, territorial integrity
and political independence of
every State in the area and their
right to live in peace within secure
and recognized boundaries free
from threats or acts of force:
2. Affirms further the necessity,
a) For guaranteeing freedom of
navigation through international
waterways in the area;
h) For achieving a just
settlement of the refugee problem;
c) For guaranteeing the
territorial inviolability and
political independence of every
State in the area, through
measures including the establish
ment ol demilitarized zones;
3. Requests the Secretarv
General to designate a Special
Representative to proceed to the
Middle last to establish and
maintain contacts with the States
concerned in order to promote
agreement and assist efforts to
achieve a peaceful and accepted
settlement in accordance with the
provisions and principles in this
resolution;
4 Requests the Security General
to report to the Security Council
on the progress of the efforts of the
Special Representative as soon as
possible
Resolution 338: The Security
Council.
1. Calls upon all parties to the
present fighting to cease all firing
and terminate all military activity
immediately, no later than 12
hours after the moment of the
adoption of this decision, in the
positions they now occupy;
2. Calls upon the parties
concerned to start immediately
after the ceasefire the implementa-
t i o n of Security Council
Resolution 242 (I9b7) in all of its
parts,
3 Decides that immediately and
concurrently with the cease-fire,
negotiations start between the
parties, concerned under
appropriate auspices aimed at
establishing a just and durable
peace in the Middle East
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