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Sharon’s plan spurs U.S.
to restate settlement stand
by Joseph Polakoff
TSPs Washington correspondent
WASHINGTON—Israelis were
reminded by the State Department
May 27 that their control over
“occupied territories” is not in
accord with United States policy
and “settlement activity” on the
West Bank continues to be an
“obstacle to peace.”
A Department spokesman,
Charles Redman, was asked about
a report that Israel’s Trade and
Industry Minister Ariel Sharon
plans a 150 acre industrial park in
the area of an Arab village lOmiles
south of Hebron and also about
British Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher’s statement at the close of
her four-day visit to Israel that,
“We must consider an alternative,”
to the Palestine Liberation Organ
ization. Thatcher was the first Brit
ish prime minister to ever visit the
Jewish state.
The Washington Post said that
Sharon “unfolded a map” in the
village of Dir Razah and “on camera
told an aide he wanted the area
enclosed in a few weeks and road
construction to begin immediately
thereafter.” The village of 1 50 peo-
PARIS (JTA)—The government
has ordered a full-scale investiga
tion into the granting of a doctoral
degree by Nantes University to a
candidate whose thesis claimed that
the gas chambers were a figment of
“Jewish imagination” and the
Holocaust in fact did not occur.
Alain Devaquet, minister of higher
education and scientific research,
demanded an administrative and
university investigation of the
procedures which allowed the the
sis to be accepted and gave it top
grades.
The author is Henri Roques, a
retired 65-year-old agricultural
engineer and amateur historian.
He submitted his thesis to the Paris
Sorbonne and several other major
universities, all of which rejected it.
But Nantes University appointed
an academic jury which examined
the 371-page work, pronounced it
excellent and granted Roques an
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Ariel Sharon
pie, the Post said, is “perched on an
outcropping of rocks in the harsh
hills.” The park is to “provide jobs
for the area’s Jewish settlers,” the
Post added.
“Sharon’s plan,” the Post said,
“has also generated controversy
within the cabinet of (Israeli) Prime
Minister Shimon Peres, with some
Labor Party ministers complain
ing the September 1984 National
Unity Coalition agreement limited
new Jewish settlements to six and
that it also would deplete funds
needed for new development towns
academic degree.
Devaquet told a parliamentary
commission that the government
was “deeply disturbed by the alle
gations tending to deny the exist
ence of gas chambers and of the
Nazi Holocaust policies.”
The episode was brought to the
ministry’s attention by 60 Nantes
University faculty members who
protested acceptance of the thesis.
Asked about the report, Red
man said, “We continue to believe
settlement in occupied territories is
an obstacle to reaching a just and
lasting peace.”
Redman sidestepped Thatcher’s
comments regardingthe PLO. She
made her statement after being
urged by eight Palestinian leaders
that the PLO has to be involved in
the peace process. The solution,
she indicated, was “some sort of
federation” between Jordan and
the occupied West Bank and Gaza.
She also suggested mayoral elec
tions in the West Bank and Gaza to
establish leaders whom Palestinian
Arabs would support. While in
Washington a month ago. Defense
Minister Yitzhak Rabin said that
in the last elections in 1976 the
PLO intimidated the voters in order
to have only PLO sympathizers
win.
Without directly touching on
Thatcher’s comments, Redman said,
“We have long said we would wel
come increase in Arab control and
a reduction in Israeli control over
the day-to-day life of Palestinians
in both the West Bank and Gaza.
As a practical matter any new
arrangement to be successful would
require acceptance by all the con
cerned parties.”
Washington policy on Israeli
control over East Jerusalem, the
West Bank, Gaza and the Golan
had not changed since the Six-Day
War, contending that Israel is to
withdraw from them except for
insubstantial changes. The U.S.
does not recognize Jerusalem as
Israel’s capital nor unified Jerusa
lem as being under Israeli sover
eignty. The territorial issues remain
matters of disagreement despite
the close strategic relations that
now exist between the two countries.
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