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U.N. debates Golan issue
UNI F ED NATIONS (JTA) The Secretary of the Arab League,
Chedli Klibi, urged the General Assembly Monday to impose
sanctions on Israel for annexation of the Golan Heights.
Addressing the emergency special session dealing with Israel’s
Golan move Dec. 14, Klibi warned that if the international
community failed to take punitive measures against Israel, th^
Israelis might annex other territories.
When the Assembly began its debate last Friday, Ambassador
Yehuda Blum of Israel said the meeting was a “phony emergency
session.” He called on Syria to begin direct negotiations with Israel
“to achieve agreed settlement on all the outstanding issues.”
Diplomats here said the Assembly session would probably conclude
with a harsh anti-Israel, anti-U.S resolution.
Tree planting festivities planned
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Some 200,000 people will attend this
year’s tree planting ceremonies on Tu B’Shevat next week. The
festivities this year will be larger than in the past, at dozens of
planting scenes throughout the country. The central ceremony will
take place in Jerusalem, at an area between the new neighborhood
of Ramot and the Arab neighborhood of Shuafat.
Haig keeps promise
GENEVA (JTA)—US. Secretary of State Alexander Hatg, who
held talks here last week with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
Gromyko, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, in response to a
question, that he had raised the issue of Soviet Jewish Prisoner of
Conscience Anatoly Shcharansky just as he had promised to do
when he met with Shcharansky’s wife, Avital, in Jerusalem three
weeks ago.
Haig also told the JTA that he also discussed the issue of
human rights in the Soviet Union and the emigration of Jews who
wanted to leave the USSR but were prevented from doing so. The
secretary indicated that he raised the issue of emigration and the
plight of the refusniks in the context of reunification of families.
Ben-Ellssar replaces Arens
JERUSALEM (JTA) Eliahu Ben-Elissar, Israel’s first
ambassador to Egypt, was elected Tuesday by his Herut Party as
chairman of the prestigious Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense
Committee. He takes over from Moshe Arens who has been
appointed ambassador to Washington
Food exports near billion mark
TEL AVIV (JTA) Exports oLisraeli processed foods and
agricultural products are edging up to the billion dollar-a-year
mark, buyers and visitors to Israel’s filth Food Week are being
told
Exports of processed foods are expected to reach about 340
million dollars this year, with another some 500 million dollars
being earned by exports of fruit and flowers, with the main
emphasis on citrus exports.
Medical history in Israel
TEL AVIV (JTA) A 27-year-old Israeli woman, who was a
boy for the first five years of her life, has recently given birth to her
second child, a doctor at Kaplan Hospital in Rehovot confirmed
recently. Doctors said it was possibly the first case in medical
history of a sex-changed person giving birth. Her first baby was
born three years ago and, like the second bom a few weeks ago, was
delivered by Caesarean section.
The unidentified woman was born with male sexual organs and
named and registered as a boy. But soon after birth his parents
noticed some unusual features and doctors established, after
checks, that the infant had a full set of female internal organs. A
first operation made her into a girl at an early age, with a
supplementary operation performed at age 16. ITte woman
married seven years ago and conceived after receiving hormone
treatments.
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Headline
reaction
Editor:
When 74 people are killed in a
tragic accident, I am appalled to
see a headline in The Southern
Israelite as insensitive as the one
written on Jan. 22 stating “Air
Florida crash takes 5 Jewish lives.”
To report on this tragedy
without even a word mentioned
about the other 69 people who died
leaves me cold. It is an insult to
your readers to think that we are
only interested in the loss of Jewish
lives, to the exclusion of all the
others involved in this tragedy.
Mavis Wener
We are no less saddened by the
loss of all 74 crash victims than is
Ms. Wener. However, TSI was not
reporting on the crash—that had
been fully done by other media.
The role of a Jewish newspaper is
,i to report and reflect the news as it
affects the Jewish community. The
loss of five Jewish persons
(actually it was later reported that
there were at least eight) from the
Washington area—which was not
reported in the general media—
comes within that role. —Editor.
The best is
yet to come
Editor:
Since 1901 there have been
many Atlanta “balabustas” who
felt a responsibility for securing
land and preparing roads for their
brethren in Israel through the land
purchasing agency—the Jewish
National Fund. These diaspora
leaders, many of whom were
members of the Farband—these
Yiddish-speaking Atlanta Jews—
were and are avid, loyal Jewish
National Fund supporters.
Before there was an official
Jewish National Fund office in our
city, many people were actively
engaged in raising funds for JNF
and they were not interested in
public recognition. Nevertheless,
we do express our gratitude for
their groundwork, which set the
stage for those who followed, and
who made it possible for today's
JNF to proceed with reclaiming
land, building roads, and planting
gardens, groves, and forest, where
once there was only sand.
Our best is yet to come, and in
our annual historian’s publication
we will inform you of the latest
Atlanta Jewish National Fund
developments.
Folks, you ain't seen nothin’ yet!
Rita Levine,
Historian
Jewish National Fund
^April deadline
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extent on what he achieves in his
talks in Washington.
Linowitz suggested that he had
urged Israeli Prime Minister
Menachem Begin to be more
flexible in concessions for the
Arabs and pointed out that the
mayors of Bethlehem and Gaza
have been saying the PLO should
accept Israel’s existence. “If the
parties take into account the
legitimate rights and aspirations"
of the West Bank-Gaza
inhabitants, he said, “the
Palestinians will want to be
involved.” He said that “the
Palestinians are terribly tired of all
this" discussion and would “like to
find a way to improve their lives."
He said “they’re conscious” of the
PLO position and expressed his
“personal view" that “if the right
agreement is fashioned they’ll talk
to the PLO themselves."
“I hate to tell you how many
times 1 had heartburn arguing this
(settlement issue) with Prime
Minister Begin. But he remains
adamant,” Linowitz said about
Israeli settlements on the West
Bank and Gaza. However,
Linowitz observed that he was told
only four more settlements would
be built, but that the problem rests
with the Israeli view that those
established could be “thickened.”
In preparing for results of the
meeting with Mubarak, the White
House and the State Department,
the diplomatic correspondents
from around the world made it
clear that as important as an
autonomy agreement at this stage
is support for Egypt's domestic
problems
The U S. sources said that the
president will recommend an
increase in military aid to Egypt by
$400 million in the foreign aid
budget for the fiscal year starting
next Oct., 1 for a total of S 1.3
billion. Israel’s also is being
boosted by $300 million to $1.7
billion. Neither country, however,
is said to be satisified by the fiscal
increases. Egypt wants parity with
Israel in U.S. aid and is chafing at
the conditions for delivery of
weapons including F-15
warplanes, M-60 tanks and other
equipment of the latest types.
Israel is seeing Saudi Arabia
getting AWACS and enhanced
combat equipment for its F-15s
that lowers Israel’s qualitative
comparison with its Arab
neighbors. Egypt has surpassed
Israel in U.S. economic aid getting
more than a billion dollars a year,
to Israel’s $785 million.
Although Egypt is putting a
billion dollars of its resources into
French aircraft, allowing Soviet
technicians to return to the Nile
Valley, is building five tunnels
beneath the Suez large enough to
permit the biggest tanks to pass
through to the Sinai, and has
reopened its frontier with Libya,
the Reagan administration is
publicly overlooking these factors
and is continuing support for
Egypt
—ISLAM—
Continued from-page 4.
Muhammad had made
Jerusalem his Kibla, the direction
in which one turned for prayer. His
rejection by the Jews led him to
substitute Mecca as his Kibla. The
30-day holiday of Ramadham was
in some ways his substitute for
Yom Kippur.
The parallel between the Jews’
response to Muhammad and Jesus
is obvious. In each instance by
maintaining their faith in a one and
only God, Jews over the centuries
have suffered the consequences.
(Special thanks to Prof. James
Hopewell of Emory University for
his assistance.)
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