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IN OUR 45TH YEAR OF SERVICE TO THE PALLAS-FT. WORTH JEWISH COMMUNITY
Texas Jewish Post
VOLUME 45, NO. 45
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1991 30 HESHVAN 5752
24 PAGES $.75 PER ISSUE
JESS JAWIN
Remember The Golan? Never Again!
Jordanian-
Late news from the peace front indicates the Palestinian-lsraeli peace
talks established a base for discussion. Syria is still intransigent while re-
ports say that Lebanon is potential for peace as long as Syria is not breath-
ing down her neck.
Syria is undoubtedly playing a hard-to-get- tough cat-and-mouse game.
She is mainly mono talking with one persistent demand: “Remove from all
occupied territories and that will take care of everything.”
Well, it will not take care of “everything” or perhaps anything from the
Israeli vantage point.
Syria certainly knows the effect her constant shelling of the Israeli
Galilee settlements from her Golan gun emplacements created an Israeli
resolve of “Never aaain.”
Never again was predicated on full memory of babes-in-arms and young
toddlers, as well as older children, being rushed into underground shelters
for safety at night. During these surprise shellings which happened
frequently and consistently, the Syrian strategy was to keep the settlers on
edge, scared to death. The purpose was to diminish their will to live or
fight.
The 1967 Six Days War solved that. Israel lost a treasure of its youth —
citizen soldiers — who scaled the almost impenetrable Golan Heights and
one-by-one knocked out the oppression and offensive.
We were in the Golan within days after the war was over. The military
took us on a tour of the gun bunkers embedded in the rock. Peering through
their sight slits one could easily see how the Israelis were sitting ducks for
the Syrian gunners.
“Never again,” has lasted. It most assuredly is prevalent in the minds of
many today.
General Sharon has not forgotton. Thus, it seems academic that Israel
would want to ensure by physical occupation the “never again” promise
the nation made to itself.
That njight have been the line of thinking when Sharon, now Housing
Minister inaugurated a new settlement at Qela in the Golan.
Possibly Sharon was up in the Golan during the same time we were. May-
be he even visited the same bunker. One striking thing we discovered under
a Syrian soldier’s bunk was a copy of a popular magazine. On the cover was
>m JESS JAWIN 22
Iran's Call for War Against Israel
Protested in Letter to U.N. Chief
Bj Larry Yudelson
UNITED NATIONS
JTA) — Israeli Ambas-
ador Yoram Aridor has
harged Iran with violat-
ng the U.N. Charter by
ailing for an Islamic holy
var against Israel.
In an Oct. 31 letter to
J.N. Secretary-General
lavier Perez de Cuellar,
\ridor pointed to remarks
it the International Con-
ference to Support the
Islamic Revolution of the
People of Palestine, held
Oct. 19 to 22 in Teheran,
under the auspices of the
Iranian government.
Aridor cited the official
Iranian news agency,
which quoted Iranian
President Hashemi Raf-
sanjani as telling confer-
ence participants that
“Iran is even ready to dis-
patch troops to fight
Israel along with the
Palestinians.”
The conference con-
cluded with a 28-point
declaration which called
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Jewish Couples Find Adoption Frustrating.....2-3
Dallas Doings............................... 5
Recipes from Top Manhattan Kosher
Restaurant............................. 12
Shamir at Odds with Levy.................... 17
Synagogue Services....................... 18-21
Around the Town........................... 19
Light Sabbath Candles 5:11 p.m.
Administration Gets High
Marks for Madrid Confab
By James David Besser
Tesas Jewish Post
Washington Correspondent
President Bush may
have declared war against
the pro-Israel community
on the issue of loan
guarantees for Israel
during his September 12
news conference.
OPINION
But last week in Mad-
rid, the administration
may have suggested a
truce, according to the
assessment of pro-Israel
activists here.
Bush received high
marks from Jewish
leaders for his opening
remarks at the Madrid
conference.
“We were very pleased
with the president’s state-
ment,” said Abraham
Foxman, director of the
Anti-Defamation League
of B’nai B’rith. “And we
were pleased with his sen-
sitivity to many of our
concerns.”
Bush, he said, had been
hearing strong voices
from the Jewish com-
munity since his harsh at-
tack on forces supporting
$10 billion in loan guaran-
tees for Israel — an attack
that stopped Congress in
its tracks, but provoked a
surge of anger from the
Jewish community.
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tee CONFAB page It
Peace Fever Seizes Palestinians,
Bearing Olive Branches of Peace
for the “elimination of
the Zionist existence” and
cited “the need for an all-
out jihad (holy war)
against the Zionist
regime.”
Aridor said Rafsan-
jani’s remarks, and
similar statements by
spiritual leader Ayatollah
Ali Kahamenei, violate
Article 2(4) of the U.N.
Charter, which requires
member states to “refrain
in their international rela-
tions from the threat or
use of force” against
other states.
Describing the confer-
ence as “a blatant effort
to undermine efforts to
promote peace in the
Middle East” on the eve
of the Madrid peace con-
ference, Aridor pointed
out that the Palestine
Liberation Organization
was represented by Sheik
Abd el-Hamid al-Sayeh,
tee IRAN page 16
By Gil Sedan
JERUSALEM (JTA)
— Peace fever seized the
Palestinian population in
East Jerusalem and
throughout the adminis-
tered territories over the
weekend.
Crowds, among them
scores of former security
prisoners, marched
through streets bearing
olive branches. Israeli
security forces stood by,
but for the most part did
not interfere.
The Palestinians’ jubi-
lation was over the ap-
pearance of their delega-
tion at tjie Middle East
peace cohference, which
opened Oct. 30 in
Madrid’s Royal Palace.
Although it is officially
a joint Jordanian-Pales-
tinian delegation, the 14
Palestinian delegates re-
presenting the territories
were in the limelight of
the world news media.
For the first time in his-
tory, the Palestinians had
a validated identity.
Thousands at the peace
demonstrations saw it as
the herald of indepen-
dence.
Israeli authorities co-
operated to the extent of
lifting the curfew in Gaza
and removing the road-
blocks that had kept West
Bank Palestinians from
entering Jerusalem dur-
ing the opening of the
Madrid conference open-
ing.
The curfew and the bar-
riers were aimed at the an-
ti-peace element, notably
the Islamic fundamen-
talist Hamas, which ex-
horted Palestinians to
continue the armed strug-
gle.
Clashes between pro-
see PEACE page 21
Arafat Hints At New Terror Wave
If Madrid Peace Conference Fails
Bv Ruth E. Gruber
ROME (JTA) — Yasir
Arafat hinted at a new
wave of Arab terrorism
against American and
European targets if the
Madrid peace conference
ends in failure.
That was how many in-
terpreted the Palestine
Liberation Organization
chief’s remarks in an in-
terview published Satur-
day in the daily Corriere
della Sera. He was clearly
not optimistic about the
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talks, although his inter-
view was given before all
the Arab delegations in
Madrid, including the
Palestinians and Jor-
danians, sat down with
Israel to discuss where
subsequent talks would be
held.
Arafat dismissed the
speeches made by Israeli
Prime Minister Yitzhak
Shamir in Madrid as “the
same old slogans, the old
dreams, the old
language.”
According to Arafat,
Shamir is out of tune with
the post-Persian Gulf War
world.
If the conference fails,
“there will be a great in-
stability in the entire
region. Many problems
for everyone,” Arafat
said.
“Americans and
Europeans would pay a
very heavy price,” he
warned. Asked to ela-
borate. Arafat said,
“Imagine what the extre-
mist groups that operate
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