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U.S. team to question trio
of Israelis in Pollard case
by Yaacov Ben Yosef
Special to The Southern Israelite
JERUSALEM—The American
investigating team which will probe
into the Jonathan Pollard spy affair
arrived in Israel Wednesday to
question Rafael Eitan, the ex-opera
tions chief in the Mossad and the
former aide to prime ministers on
counter-terrorism. Eitan reportedly
was the man who headed a top-
secret unit in the prime minister’s
office which supervised Pollard’s
activities.
In addition to Eitan, the American
team will question the two diplomats
who returned to Israel soon after
Pollard’s arrest. They are Ilan Ravid,
a deputy science attache at the
Washington embassy, and Yosef
Yagur, the science attache at the
New York Consulate-General. They
were reportedly Pollard’s contacts
in the United States.
Meanwhile, other dramatic news
was occuring in Israei having to do
with relations between Israel and
Syria. One Israeli newspaper, Yediot
Aharonot, reported Monday that
tensions exist between the two
countries over Israel’s wish to
continue to fly reconnaissance
missions over Lebanon. On Nov.
19, in what the Israelis now acknow
ledge privately was at best a mis
understanding, and at worst, an
Israeli mistake, the Israel air force
shot two Syrian MiG 23s out of
Syrian skies. Israeli pilots, providing
cover for a reconnaissance mission
over Lebanon, said later the two
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M iGs appeared to be coming directly
at them.
The full story of the tension
between the two countries has been
kept from the Israeli public view
because of military censorship. Indeed
in Tuesday’s morning Israeli news
papers not one word of those tensions
was reported. Ze’ev Shiff, the noted
military commentator for Ha’aretz,
reported last week that, in the
wake of the downing of the two
Syrian planes, Syria took steps
aimed at “readiness”—without further
elaboration.
Israeli officials have made some
public statements in the past few
days in an apparent signal to Syria
that Israel realized the Nov. 19
incident was an unfortunate error.
The Israelis seem eager to have
Syria rule out any kind of military
reaction, however small.
The IDF had other problems as
U.N. in historic vote
condemns terrorism
by Kevin Freeman
UNITED NATIONS (JTA)—
The United Nations voted unani
mously on Dec. 9 to unequivocally
condemn “as criminal all acts,
methods and practices of terrorism
wherever and by whomever com
mitted, including those which
jeopardize friendly relations among
states and their security.”
The historic vote, the first time
the world body has approved a
universal declaration on terrorism,
received the support of Israel after
it had abstained, along with Burkina
Faso, formerly Upper Volta, when
the Assembly’s legal committee voted
on the draft resolution last Friday.
“The adoption of this resolution,
even with its shortcomings, gives
the responsible members of this
body additional backing to wage a
renewed campaign against inter
national terrorism,” said Israel’s
ambassador to the UN, Binyamin
Netanyahu, in a speech prior to the
General Assembly vote Monday.
Netanyahu applauded the condem
nation of terrorism “wherever and
by whomever it is committed saying,
“This is something we have fought
for, called for, and insisted upon
throughout the debate on this
issue. . . It is the essense of Israel’s
policy against terrorism.”
In addition, the Israeli ambassador
welcomed the resolution’s call on
states to prosecute or extradite
terrorists, and to implement the
international conventions against
terrorism. The resolution seeks that
all states prosecute and extradite
terrorists.
“There are important advances,”
Netanyahu said, “But their real
meaning will only be assessed by
how far the international community
will pressure offending states to
comply.” He charged that some
states supporting the resolution in
the General Assembly, such as Libya,
Syria, Iraq, and South Yemen,
“defend” and “encourage” terrorists.
Netanyahu expressed disapproval
over attempts by some members of
the General Assembly to link
terrorism to “a struggle for self-
determination. Somehow, we are
told by the terrorists and their
apologists, if you are fighting for
that goal, the systematic murder of
civilians is not terrorism,” the Israel
envoy said. “This is nonsense.”
According to Netanyahu, a grave
injustice is thus committed against
those who fight for “genuine freedom
and do not engage in terrorism. We
have no objection in principle to
such struggles. Indeed we ourselves
engaged in such a battle for indepen
dence. Those who truly fight for
national freedom respect all human
freedoms.”
well this week. Fire of an unidentified
cause broke out at the Mavo Shilc
Artillery Corps base near Ma’ale’
Ephraim on the West Bank ear'/
Monday morning while soldi* ,s
were asleep in their sleeping bags.
Eight soldiers were killed and ano her
seven injured. Senior military men
quickly ruled out terrorism as a
possible cause for the fire. It appeared
to be started either by a candle or a
cigarette left burning.
The incident occurred at 1 a.m.
in a 30-meter-long prefabricated
building once used by American
engineers who were building a road
on the West Bank. At the time of
the fire there were 84 Israeli soldiers
asleep in the building’s 16 rooms.
On a far happier note, the Central
Bureau of Statistics announced
Monday that inflation was likely
to be around 1 percent for November,
the lowest recorded monthly inflation
rate since 1977. For the past three
months inflation has been steadily
shrinking to more and more accept
able levels, one of the major signs
that the government’s austerity
program, set into motion in July,
has begun to work. Unemployment,
of course, is the large price Israel is
paying for straightening out the
other weaknesses of the economy;
there is fear that some 150,000
Israelis will be out of jobs by
March, a far larger figure than in
recent times.
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