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VOLUME 40 NO. 34
THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1986 16 AV 5746
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jess jawin Lawyers Dialogue
On Page 1 this week you’ll find a story about ongoing discussions Israeli
lawyers have had with their Russian counterparts.
The dialogue is based upon finding a way to discover areas of agreement
which will benefit both sides and, of course, eventually lead to better
conditions for all Jews who reside in the Soviet Union.
Many attorneys believe Russian lawyers are just “rubber stamps” for the
Soviet hierarchy and that they should not be given any equal credentials
with the American and Western system of justice.
The American Bar Association was urged recently by the Conference of
Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations to press “vigorously”
for legal procedures affecting dissidents in the Soviet Union.
Morris B. Abram, who wears several hats in the American Jewish
Community as a distinguished attorney, president of the Conference of
Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and who also serves
as chairman of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry, said he
sympathized with members of the American Bar Association who wanted
to abandon the ABA’s agreement with their Soviet counterparts.
Abram acknowledged that the new 1985 accord and said “if our efforts
prove fruitless, we should not hesitate to terminate the agreement on the
three months notice it provides.”
Abrams advocated, during the three months, to propose tough questions
to Soviet lawyers and demand answers. Among these are the following:
“Why are courtrooms where such cases are heard closed by subterfuge
to Soviet and foreign observers when the law provides for secrecy only for
trials of sex crimes and treasonous offenses?”
“Why can’t Jewish refuseniks denied the right to emigrate to Israel be
represented by counsel in appealing these arbitrary administrative denials
Of a basic right?”___See jess ja win Page 17
Israel Bar Association President
Holds Several Meetings With Chief
Of Russian Lawyers Association
BY JUDITH KOHN
NEW YORK (JTA) - The
president of the Israel Bar
Association held four separate
meetings with the head of a
counterpart Soviet group,
during an American lawyers
convention in New York, it was
disclosed recently.
The meetings between
Menachem Berger and
Alexander Sukharev, president
of the Association of Soviet
Lawyers (ASL) took place
against the background of an
unsuccessful effort by
delegates to the American Bar
Association (ABA) meeting here
to bring an end to a recently-
established cooperation
agreement with the ASL.
The Soviet group has been
strongly criticized by human
rights organizations as a
propagandist for the Kremlin,
and its publications have
included fiercely anti-Zionist
and anti-Semitic writings.
Very General Conversations
Berger said the first meeting
with Sukharev was initiated by
ABA president William Falsgraf,
"and then it continued from
day to day.” The conversations,
he said in a telephone
interview with the JTA, were
"on very general terms,” and
included each issues as Soviet
Jewish emigration and "anti-
Semitism in Russia as
compared to anti-Semitism in
Western Europe and the United
States.” He said the possibility
of establishing some kind of
ties between the Israeli and
Soviet bars was also discussed.
But Berger said he did not
confront the ASL head with
specific instances of anti-
Semitic activities in which the
organization has been engaged,
its copublication, for example,
of the White Book, which
assails Russian Jews who wish
to emigrate, did not come up
in their meetings.
"As a matter of fact, it was a
surprise to me that a person of
his standing would want to
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INDEX FAG t
Canadian Yiddish Group Preserves Language............2
Scharansky Warns Israel In U.S.S.R. Offer..............3
Protest Arab Anti-Semitic Literature.................3
Postorial: Israel Checkmated-Arab Style...............4
Black Hebrews To Be Expelled From Israel.............4
Dallas Doings.................................5
Travel - Singles Scene..........................6
Pornography Must Be Quarantined..................7
Synagogue Services..........................8-18
Delicious Recipes.............................14
Around The Town.............................15
You and Your Health...........................16
Peros-Mvbarak Summit Looms
BY GIL SEDAN
JERUSALEM (JTA) - The
Inner Cabinet’s approval of a
draft agreement with Egypt
increased prospects that a
summit meeting will take place
soon between Israeli Premier
Shimon Peres and Egyptian
President Hosni Mubarak.
The Inner Cabinet voted 8-2
to accept an agreement
hammered out over several
months by delegations from
the two countries. It would
send the dispute between the
two nations over ownership of
Taba, a 25-acre strip of Sinai
beachfront, to international
arbitration.
At the end of the eight-hour
Inner Cabinet session, Peres
telephoned Mubarak to inform
him of the approval. "We shall
see you soon,” he said.
Mubarak was reported to
respond, "Inshallah” (Good
Willing).
According to Arab press
reports, Egypt already has
designated Izzat Abdul Latif,
former Ambassador to Sudan,
as its new Ambassador to
Israel. Egypt withdrew its envoy
to Tel Aviv in 1982 during
Israel’s war in Lebanon.
Peres told Mubarak during
the phone call that he, Peres,
was in the same room with
Cabinet Minister Ezer
Weizman; Avraham Tamir,
Director General of the Prime
Minister’s Office who co-
headed the Taba negotiations;
and Mohammad Basyouni, the
Egyptian Charge d’Affaires
Mubarak responded, "A good
collection of people.” He then
asked how Weizman was and
Peres reolied. "He sits like
a pilot seeking the target.”
Peres sent a letter to Mubarak
summing up the status of the
issues between the two
countries.
Possibility Of Government
Crisis Loomed
The possibility of a
government crisis loomed over
the. Inner Cabinet session
Wednesday, but eventually only
two Likud Ministers - Ariel
Sharon and Moshe Arens -
voted against the draft
document, but not because
they objected to it in principle.
Sharon wanted stronger
linkage to the normalization of
relations between the two
countries. Arens said the
wording of the questions posed
to the arbitrators did not give
Israel a good prospect to win
the arbitration.
In Herzliyah, the legal and
military negotiating teams of
the Taba talks reached an
agreement on the procedure of
preparing the map of the area
that will be attached to the
arbitration document. The
issue of the three international
arbitrators was left open, as
the Egyptian delegation
returned home for the Id Al
Adha holiday. The talks are to
resume next week.
Mohammad Abu-Ziad, the
Secretary of the Egyptian
delegation to the Herzliyah
talks, died recently at the
Migdal Daniel Hotel of a heart
attack. He was 34. Attempts by
a medical crew to revive him
failed. Foreign Minister Yitzhak
Shamir sent a cable of
condolences Thursday to the
head of the Egyptian
delegation.
Hotemonger Will Not Be Prosecuted
BY RON CSILLAG
MONCTON, New Brunswick
(JTA) - Malcolm Ross, a
Moncton teacher, will not be
prosecuted for allegedly
promoting hatred against Jews.
After a year-long investigation
by the Moncton police force
and several outside experts,
New Brunswick Attorney-
General David Clark announced
that Ross, the Maritime
Provinces director of the
rightwing Christian Defense
League, will not be charged
under section 281.2 (2) of the
Criminal Code, which makes it
an offense to willfully promote
hatred against an identifiable
group.
Ross is the author and
distributor of several
publications alleging the
Holocaust was a hoax and that
there is a Jewish conspiracy to
seize control of the world.
The complaint against Ross
was filed last summer by Julius
Israeli, a Holocaust survivor
living in Newcastle, about 100
miles north of here. Israeli
alleged that the booklets by
Ross - The Real Holocaust,
Christianity versus Judeo-
Christianity, and Web of Deceit
- willfully promote hatred
against Jews.
Basis Of Clark's Ruling
But Clark ruled that since
Web of Deceit is no longer
available to the public,
prosecution cannot take place.
Clark said, however, that the
booklet, which has been out of
print for five years, did appear
to fall into the definition of
hate propaganda. Clark's ruling
boils down to the fact that Web
of Deceit’s lack of public
availability outweighs its being
hate propaganda.
"The Web of Deceit does
appear to fall within the
category of material that could
reasonably be put before a
court to determine if it was
hate propaganda. However,
Web of Deceit is currently
unavailable to the public and
this fact was fundamental in
our decision that no
prosecution could or should be
commenced,” Clark said in a
prepared statement.
The other books in question
were at best borderline
examples of hate propaganda,
Clark added.
An angry Israeli said in an
interview that he feels "the
refusal to prosecute (Ross) is a
condonement of hate
propaganda in New Brunswick
and is an open permit to Ross
to continue with this type of
activity.” Israeli added that
Web of Deceit is available to
the public in several bookshops
in Moncton and in local
libraries.
Shimon Fogel, executive
director of Canadian Jewish
Congress’s Atlantic Region,
said he would have reached the
same conclusion as did Clark.
"It would not have been in the
best interest of the Jewish
community to prosecute,” he
said, adding that winning such
a case would have been much
more difficult than the cases of
Jim Keegstra and convicted
Holocaust falsifier Ernst
Zundel. Fogel said Ross's books
convey opinion and not
historical truth.
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