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TEXAS JEWISH POST THURSDAY. MARCH 23. 1978 PQSTQRiAl PAftF
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The Crash of Silence
The awesome dimension of the latest terrorist assault on
innocent Israeli men, women and children evoked
worldwide condemnation of the butchers who committed
the atrocity. Statements by many western government
leaders, including President Carter and Secretary of State
Cyrus Vance, went far beyond statements on previous
terrorist actions which merely “deplored” violence by all
sides. Many of the current statements not only expressed
revulsion but also expressed profound sympathy with the
families of the victims and the people of Israel.
Through all this, however, there was almost total silence
from the leaders of the Christian denominations. This crash
of siience was, to put it bluntly, a sign of total insensitivity
and indifference to Jewish lives lost at the hands of wanton
killers. The silence was all the more chilling and appalling
because many of the silent Christian leaders are so facile,
so glib in sounding off with high-minded and high-blown
phrases about improved Jewish-Christian relations,
Jewish Christian dialogue, ecumenism and Vatican Two.
It seems perfectly reasonable for these leaders to talk
about a new understanding, the suffering of humanity, and
the need to show compassion in strictly academic and
metaphysical terms. Yet, in the face of their silence now, it
seems equally reasonable to assume that the suffering of
humanity is one big abstraction to them, else why the
silence about the concrete, specific suffering of the families
of the current victims and the people of Israel whose
anguish and agony is overwhelming? Why the silence
about the bestial terrorist act that obliterated the lives of
innocent people? Where are the words of compassion for
the dead — and the living?
Perhaps these good Christians, these men of compassion
should recall the words of a compatriot, the famous
Christian preacher and poet, John Donne, who wrote some
350 years ago: “No man is an island entire of itself . .. Any
man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in
mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the
tel
11 tolls; it tolls for thee.’
Criminal Must Testify At Hearing
NEW YORK [WNS] -
Boleslavs Maikovskis, a 73-
year-old retired carpenter
has lost his claim that he
does not have to testify at an
Immigration and Naturaliza-
tion ^Service hearing in
connection with charges he
concealed a wartime record
of atrocities in his native
Latvia when he entered the
United States in 1951.
Federal Judge Constance
Motley has ruled that
Maikovskis cannot use the
Fifth Amendment privilege
against self-incrimination
because the deportation
hearing is not a criminal
case. The INS hearing is
expected to resume soon.
100 Year Old in Israel
TEL AVIV [JTA] -
Esther Tragman, who cele-
brated her 100th birthday
last Friday, arrived in Israel
from the Soviet Union. Her
eldest son, 67, who came to
Israel several years ago,
welcomed her together with
her daughter, grandchildren
and great-grandchildren to
begin their new lives.
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Erwin Waldman &
Steve Waldman
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Mopping-Up Operations Continue
BY YITZHAK SHARGIL
TEL AVIV [JTA] -
Israeli forces having achiev-
ed their objectives in south
Lebanon with the occupation
of all terrorist strongholds
along the front, still en-
countered pockets of resis-
tance as mopping-up opera-
tions continued earlier this
week.
Lebanese Christians Elated
Over Events
The Maronite Christian
community in south Leb-
anon was elated over the
Israeli occupation. Subject
to attacks during the past
two years by numerically
superior, heavily armed
Palestinian Moslems and
terrorists, and forced to live
in scattered enclaves, they
greeted Israeli forces as
liberators.
The Chabad Hasidim
showed up in south Lebanon
today in their own version of
a “tank” — a pick-up truck
loaded with presents for the
soldiers. They distributed
tfilin to the troops which the
observant ones donned for
morning prayers.
No contact was made with
Syrian forces at any time
during the Israeli operation
although several terrorists
taken prisoner were said to
be members of the Syrian-
backed A1 Saiqa group. In
addition to taking prisoners,
Israeli soldiers seized large
quantitites of arms and
ammunition, mainly Rus-
sian-made but including
weapons manufactured by
the U.S., France, Japan,
China, Britain and Bulgaria.
Disturbances On The
West Bank
The enclaves have all been
joined into one security
zone in South Lebanon. The
terrorists rockets and mor-
tars have been silenced and
Christians can now live a
normal life and travel freely
between their villages. It
was small wonder then that
they opened their hearts and
homes to Israeli soldiers.
Meanwhile, Israeli secur-
ity forces on the West Bank
and East Jerusalem dealt
with a series of distur-
bances, mainly by high
school students, protesting
the incursion into Lebanon.
Police and students clashed
in East Jerusalem. Two
youngsters were arrested.
High school students in
Sakharov Condemns
Terrorists
NEW YORK [JTA] -
Prof. Andrei Sakharov, No-
bel Peace Prize winner,
issued a letter condemning
the terrorist massacre. The
letter, as released here
today by the Student Strug-
gle for Soviet Jewry and
Union of Councils for Soviet
Jews, declared:
“The world has become
witness to yet another
dreadful crime, the murder
of women and children in
Israel by Palestinian terror-
ists.
just settlement of the
protracted dispute between
Israel and the peoples of the
Arab countries.
“These peoples are begin-
ning to realize who is their
enemy and who is their
friend. But it is precisely
this which does not appeal to
the terrorists or to their
protectors. Shame on the
organizers, and shame on
those who inspire them to
their common crime! Shame
on the murderers of chil-
dren!”
“Our hearts are filled with
pain and sympathy for the
victims of this crime and for
their families. This crime
was perpetrated just two
days after Yasir Arafat was
received in the Kremlin by
the most senior leaders of
the Soviet government, and
at the time and in circum-
stances that there appeared,
at last, the possibility of a
/
Sakharov led a March 12
demonstration in Moscow to
protest the PLO attack.
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Nablus and Ramallah refus-
ed to attend classes and
tried to demonstrate but
their teachers persuaded
them to remain inside the
school buildings.
Demonstrations erupted
in several places after school
hours. Passing vehicles were
stoned on the main road in
Ramallah. A police van
drove some of the youths
back to their homes without
the need to use force.
Disorders were also report-
ed from Jenin, Tulkarem
and Halhoul. There was no
trouble in Gaza where Arab
workers returned to their
jobs in Israel after re-
maing at home. But
most West Bank workers
did not show up for work,
creating difficulties in indus-
try and agriculture.
In Israel, all leaves were
cancelled as reinforced po-
lice patroled the streets and
shoreline on the alert for
possible retaliation by ter-
rorists for the Lebanese
operation. Police called on
the public to be on the alert
for suspicious-looking par-
cels or any movements that
might arouse suspicion.
How USSR Inspired
The Terrorist Raid
BY MAURICE
SAMUELSON
LONDON [JTA] - Evi-
dence that the Soviet Union
may have inspired last
weekend’s terror attack by
units of the Palestine Liber-
ation Organization emerges
from the record of Yasir
Arafat’s visit to Moscow last
week when he met Presi-
dent Leonid Brezhnev, Pre-
mier Alexei Kosygin and
Foreign Minister Andrei
Gromyko.
At each public meeting
with Arafat, the Soviet
leaders strongly urged the
PLO to stop its own internal
bloody feuds, in which a
number of Palestinian lead-
ers have been killed, and to
concentrate on its struggle
against Israel. The Soviet
leaders also threw their full
weight behind the criticism
of Egyptian President An-
war Sadat’s peace policies
which are believed to have
prompted the wave of
internal PLO killings.
There is an even more
intriguing link between
some of Arafat’s own re-
marks in Moscow and last
Saturday’s raid. On Sunday,
a Palestinian statement in
Beirut, quoted by the Iraq
news agency, said that the
raid was carried out in
memory of Kamal Adwan
and other PLO chiefs killed
by an Israeli counter-terror
squad in Beirut on April 13,
1973.
Arafat Supplies The Link
Two days before the raid,
Tass, the Soviet news
agency, published a long
interview with Arafat, in
which he compared the
latest inter-Palestinian kill-
ings with the killing of
Adwan and other PLO
leaders by the Israelis five
years ago.
Zionist and imperialist
circles, and Arab “lackeys,”
were striking at the Pales-
tine revolution by various
methods, he said. One was to
involve it in clashes with the
Jordanian and Lebanese
authorities; the others were
“the physical elimination of
Palestinian leaders” and
incidents such as that in
Cyprus on Feb. 18 where
Palestinians murdered a
leading Egyptian, Youssef
el-Sabai, editor-in-chief of
the semi-official Egyptian
newspaper A1 Ah ram.
The most important tasks
of the Palestine resistance,
Arafat concluded, were “the
further strengthening of
national unity, the strength-
ening of the front of
staunchness and rebuff, and
a resolute struggle against a
capitulatory settlement.” He
also called for stronger links
between “all fighting pro-
gressive forces in the Arab
world and the socialist
countries led by the friendly
Soviet Union.”
Judging by Palestinian
and Arab delight at Satur-
day’s raid, by Egypt’s
embarrassment, by the
threats that more are on the
way, and by the fear of
Israeli reaction which it has
provoked, it was designed to
serve precisely the goals
which Arafat, with full
Soviet encouragement, pro-
claimed in Moscow.
Magazine Director Elected
BY MICHAEL SOLOMON
MONTREAL [JTA] -
The director of the maga-
zine, Ici Quebec, which
recently created a furor in
Quebec’s Jewish community
for publishing articles in its
February and March issues
considered anti-Semitic, has
been elected president of the
Montreal branch of the
nationalist St. Jean Baptiste
Society.
Jean Marie Cossette was
chosen by acclamation pres-
ident and declared the
offending articles, one of
which called Zionism “the
cancer of humanity,” and
another article insinuating
that Israelis poisoned their
own oranges, represent the
policy of the publication.
When asked by one member
of the Society to dissociate
himself from the, Cossette
refused, saying he was
proud to be running Ici
Quebec. He added that it
was not up to him to defend,
justify or condemn the
articles.
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