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PAGE 4 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE January 15. 1982
The Southern Israelite
The Weekly Hew\p*per lor Southern lewry
litibliihed 1925
Vida Goldgar
Editor and Publisher
(iambi Jo Eaton
Assistant Editor
Luna 1-tfvy
Copy Editor
L eonard Goldstein
Advertising Director
Esc hoi A. Harrell
Production Manager
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ERA, yes!
It appears to be now or never for the Equal Rights
Amendment in Georgia. The issue is expected to be brought to a
vote in the General Assembly early next week.
Opponents of the amendment, the very vocal and well-
organized STOP ERA faction, have spread a lot of
misconceptions about what ERA is all about.
A pamphlet prepared by the American Jewish Committee and
the National Council of Jewish Women, two of a number of
Jewish organizations which have been fighting for ratification,
sums up inequities in Georgia law which have the effect of leaving
a wife legally unprotected and dependent upon her husband’s
generosity.
The Equal Rights Amendment is incredibly simple. Section
one reads. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or
abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
Section two gives Congress the power to enforce, by appropriate
legislation, provisions of the article. Section three provides for the
amendment to take effect two years after the date of ratification.
That’s it. It does not mean that women and men are the same;
only that the law cannot treat them differently solely because of
their sex. ERA applies to government action, not to private action.
The Southern Israelite fully supports passage of the Equal
Rights Amendment and urges readers to do the same. Time is
running out.
It may be too late to write your state legislators but there is still
time for a phone call A message can be left at the state capitol, 659-1100.
LESSON FORJNED/W
murder - t ibera tioai
TERROR = PATRIOTISM
QUER/LLA - FREEDOM
fiqhter x
Vida Goldgar
Neither sleet nor snow
As I write this, it is midnight Wednesday. Outside
my window in the Admiral Benbow Inn, a few cars
move carefully up Spring Street and ease gently into
Peachtree.
Last night the view was
different. Spring Street’s fourlanes
were part of the city-wide parking
lot that was Atlanta. In the lobby,
dozens of shivering souls waited
hopefully for rooms. For most, the
wait was to no avail. Throughout
the night, the Benbow lobby, like
other hotels and public buildings,
was shelter to those who had abandoned autos in the
massive mess. The bar did a land office business and
the kitchen staff kept food coming in a yeoman effort
to serve the stranded
I was one of the lucky ones. I had a room.
Newspapering is like show business, it must go
on At first reports of the oncoming storm, I booked a
couple of rooms so at least a few of us would be
within walking distance a long walk—of the office.
Other staffers headed home. Some made it
eventually- others found shelter with friends.
Whether they would make it back Wednesday was
questionable Leonard to the rescue. He had chains
for his car and started our private taxi service. Even
so. not everybody made it in.
It’s Thursday morning, now An hour to final
deadline. The printer has assured us he would get the
truck in from Monroe on time. How, I don’t know.
Statement
Seven out of 12 of us have struggled in over the new
snow. Many of us are doing jobs we haven’t done
before. I even did some typesetting and managed to
make the job of correcting errors harder by hitting all
the wrong keys on that complicated critter I’ve been
vowing to learn for years. Maybe now I’ll do it If you
find more than the usual typos, blame me
All in all, this is by way of letting you know that we
did our durndest. It gives me an opportunity, too, to
thank the loyal staffers who made it through the sleet
and snow, even gloom of night We hope the mailmen
can do the same.
on Golan
Following is ihe text of the
lormal statement on the Golan
Heights Law submitted by Israel's
United Nations ambassador,
Yehuda Blum, to Secretary
General Kurt Waldheim, and
incorporated in the latter's official
report to the Security Council on
January I, 1982.
The permanent representative of
Israel to the United Nations
presents his compliments to the
Secretary General and with
reference to the latter’s note
verbale of 21 December 1981
concerning Security Council
Resolution 497 of 17 December
1981 has the honor to communicate
the following:
Ever since Israel’s estab
lishment in 1948, Syria has
regarded itself as being in a state of
war with Israel. It sought to
prevent by force Israel’s
establishment before 1948 and
having failed in that, attempted
with other Arab states to destroy
Israel Between 1948 and 1967
Syrian tanks and artillery on the
Golan Heights repeatedly
bombarded the northern part of
the country and harassed its
population
The Golan Heights Law —
5742/1981 was enacted almost 15
years after the Six-Day War of
June 1967 which Syria and other
Arab states forced on Israel
Both before June 1967 and ever
since, Syria has repeatedly rejected
Israeli offers to negotiate peace It
has also refused to accept Security
Council Resolution 242 (1967)
which affirms the right of every
state in the area to live in peace
within secure and recognized
boundaries.
Instead Syria opened yet
another all-out war against Israel
in October 1973. In the wake of that
aggression Israel again sought to
obtain full and durable peace with
Syria. In its quest for peace Israel
withdrew considerably from
territory captured in its defensive
operations in the Yom Kippur War
of October 1973 as well as those of
1967. Despite all this, and in
disregard of Security Council
Resolution 338 which calls for
negotiations for the establishment
of peace, Syria has refused to go
beyond agreements on a cease-fire
and a disengagement of military
forces.
This Syrian position has placed
the Golan Heights and its
inhabitants in a limbo; if left to the
policies of the present Syrian
government, there would be no
peace with Israel for generations to
come
It is preposterous that a state
should be permitted to unleash
repeated acts of aggression with
the aim of conquering and even
destroying a neighboring country
and then having been repulsed
should be perfnitted to invoke
international law in a selective and
distorted manner and to find fault
with legislation which seeks, in the
absence of peace or even of
negotiations aimed at reaching
peace, to normalize the situation in
the area in question
This Syrian attitude would
appear to violate Article 2(2) of the
Charter which states that "All
members in order to insure to all of
them the rights and benefits
resulting from membership shall
fulfill in good faith the obligations
assumed by them in accordance
with the present Charter "
In the view of the government of
Israel, recent Syrian acts and
declarations have made it urgently
necessary to bring to an end the
anomalous situation regarding the
Golan Heights. The government of
Israel could not wait endlessly for
Syria to begin to show political will
to make peace and agree on secure
boundaries. Israel cannot be
expected to maintain indefinitely a
military administration merely to
accommodate Syria’s interest in
persistent conflict. It is therefore
greatly regretted that the Security
Council should have passed a
resolution which ignores this
background.
The Israel legislation in question
does not in the slightest manner
diminish the rights of the local
population including of course,
their property rights and their right
to education and religious worship
according to their traditions. All
these are fully safeguarded.
The government of Israel wishes
to reiterate that is is willing now as
always to negotiate unconditionally
with Syria as with its other
neighbors fof a lasting peace in
accordance with Security Council
Resolutions 242(1967) and
338(1973). I he Golan Heights Law
does not preclude or impair such
negotiations.
The government of Israel
expresses the hope that any further
consideration by the Security
Council of this matter will focus
constructively on the attainment of
peace through negotiations
between the states directly
concerned and on the prevention
of the threat or use of force.