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IN OUR 47TH YEAR OF SERVICE TO THE DALLAS-FT. WORTH JEWISH COMMUNITY
VOLUME 47 NO. 9
THURSDAY, MARCH 4,1993 11 ADAR 5753
28 PAGES $.75 PER ISSUE
JESS JA WIN: Interview with Shamir
(Ed. Note: Following a visit to New York and Miami,
Former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir visited Dal-
las Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. He spoke to the
Board of Governors and members of the Dallas District
Zionist Organization of America Tuesday evening at a
special dinner meeting.
Wednesday he was scheduled to address the Dallas
Council on World Affairs at a luncheon meeting.
Besides visiting other leaders and dignitaries following
that meeting, Shamir was scheduled to speak to a com-
munity-wide meeting at Temple Emanu-El at 8 p.m.
Nearly 1200 people had paid $10. each for tickets to the
Emanu-El meeting which was sponsored by the Dallas
Jewish Community Relations Council of the Jewish Fed-
eration of Greater Dallas and the Dallas District ZOA.
Following is an interview with Shamir and the Texas
Jewish Post which preceded the Tuesday night dinner
held at the Westin Hotel).
TJP: How would you appraise the current relationship
between the United States government and Israel?
SHAMIR: Well, I think the relationship is excellent I dont
see any obstacles for the continuation of cooperation.
TJP: How would you describe your relationship with
•m JESS JAWIN P. 12
60 Rockets Lobbed into Israel;
* *
No Casualties are Reported
By Hugh Orgel
TEL AVIV, (JTA) - Hezbollah
forces in southern Lebanon fired
more than 60 Katyusha rockets
and mortar bombs into norhtem
Israel and the Israeli-controlled
south Lebanon sucurity zone, but
no casualties and only minor
damage resulted from the week-
end barrage.
Israeli forces and their allies,
the South Lebanon Army, re-
sponded with a helicopter gun-
ship attack on enemy rocket
launcher sites and an intermittent
artillery attack.
Army and government sources
said their response to Hezbollah
was restrained, because they did
not want to escalate the tense situ-
ation. Hezbollah attacks have been
stepped up during the last two
weeks.
Maj. Gen. Yitzhak Mordechai,
head of the Israel Defense Force’s
Northern Command, visitied a kib-
butz on the western sector of the
mu ROCKETS p. 24
Mubarak Sends Adviser to Israel
To Help Get Peace Talks on Track
By Gil Sedan
JERUSALEM, (JTA) - Egyp-
tian President Hosni Mubarak, in
an apparent effort to take a more
active role in the Middle East peace
process, sent his senior adviser,
Osamael-Baz, to Israel on Sunday.
El-Baz met with Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin and reports said the
two discussed issues ranging from
a possible Rabin-Mubarak summit
to further proposals to resolve the
ongoing crisis of the Palestinians
deported by Israel to Lebanon.
El-Baz’s visit came three days
for the United States and Russia
announced they would co-sponsor
the ninth round of the Middle East
peace talks in April.
The deportation issue continues
to present an obstacle to resuming
the talks, although there are signs
that a solution is in the works.
Israeli sources said that an undis-
closed personal message el-Baz
carried from Mubarak to Rabin did
not deal with the deportation issue.
However, reports from Cairo indi-
cated the opposite, saying the Egyp-
tians are pushing for a plan under
which all of the deportees would be
back by June.
The Egyptian plan calls for their
return in three stages, all within the
next three months and with most
deportees returning to Israel before
resumption of the talks.
Egypt wants to present its Arab
partners with an affirmative Israeli
response to the proposal.
According to the same sources in
Egypt, Israel would also promise
not to resort again to the use of
deportations, and it would agree to
accept back some deportees who
had been expelled in the past.
Israel’s position thus far has been
that deportations are no longer a
part of standard policy, but rather a
deviation from the policy. How-
ever, Israel refuses to renounce
deportations in principle.
There was no confirmation of an
Israel Radio report that el-Baz dis-
cussed with Rabin a possible sum-
mit with Mubarak.
The two leaders met in Cairo half
a year ago, shortly after Rabin as-
sumed office.
The El-Baz visit was arranged
Saturday through telephone calls
between Rabin, Foreign Minister
see MUBARAK p. 24
Kuwait Rejects U.S. Request
To End the Secondary Boycott
By Larry Yudelson
NEW YORK, (JTA) - Despite a
direct request from U.S. Secretary
of State Warren Christopher, Ku-
wait reportedly has refused to drop
its boycott of companies doing busi-
ness with Israel.
The Wall S treet Joumal reported
last week that the emir of Kuwait,
Sheik Jaber al-Sabah, was not re-
sponsive to requests to lift the boy-
cott made by Christopher, who was
in Kuwait as part of his first trip to
the Middle East.
David Harris, executive vice
president of the American Jewish
Committee, said in a statement that
the emir’s refusal is “both an insult
to (Kuwait’s) ally liberator and
friend, the United States, and coun-
terproductive to the achievement
of peace in the troubled Middle
East.”
Following the Persian Gulf War,
Kuwait had pledged to repeal the
laws institutionalizing the Arab
League’s secondary blacklist of
foreign companies that invest in
Israel, purchase Israeli products or
have owners with “Zionist convic-
tions.”
Evidence that Kuwait has not
kept its pledge is contained in fig-
ures compiled by the U.S. Com-
merce Department, which tallies
requests made of American com-
panies to provide information re-
garding their dealings with Israel.
Under U.S. anti-boycott legisla-
tion, American firms must report
all such requests for information to
the Commerce Department.
In fiscal year 1992, more of those
requests were received from Ku-
im BOYCOTT p. 27
Purim: Where the Irrevocable Decree Meets the Irresistible Plea, There God is Hiding
robes, very weighty
with big clout, stands
Haman, the tyranni-
cal vizier determined
to totally rule or to-
tally ruin.
Haman does not
fear God. As a pa-
gan, he believes that
blind necessity rules
everyone and every-
thing. By casting
lots, he believes that
he has tapped into
Irving Greenberg
and sackcloth is
Mordecai, a mar-
ginal man, whose
bestdeed (saving the
king from an
assassin’s plot) has
gone unrewarded
and appears to be
forgotten.
In his corner is
Queen Esther. In
Persia, queens are
paraded like prize
horses, picked for a
By Irving Greenberg
NEW YORK, (JTA) - The word
“Purim” is a double entendre, “Pur”
(plural=purim) means a Iol Some-
what like dice in “Monopoly,” lots
are markers which are cast in order
to get directions.
In this usage, pur refers to chance,
luck, the unpredictable — for, the
lot can fall on any number, any day,
any alternative. But pur also means
fate, a sealed inescapable outcome.
Which is the true meaning of the
word and of the holiday? This is
the drama of Purim.
In one comer, wearing royal
inexorable fate — i.e., been given
the one right day on which he can
destroy the Jews.
In the other comer, wearing ashes
night and quickly forgotten.
Ahash verosh has not thought about
Esther lately. His last words to her
probably were “don’t call me, I’ll
call you.” He has not called her for
thirty days.
The showdown is generated by
Haman’s unlimited lust for power.
Not content with being raised to the
rank of first minister, Hainan has
allowed (encouraged?) all the court
to bow and scrape before him.
His tyrannical urge is so out of
control that when one person
(Mordecai) does not bow down,
Haman goes into a murderous rage.
He determines to kill every last
Jew, the people of Mordecai. The
genocide will frighten everyone else
into total submission. The loot will
cement his standing with the king.
see PURIM p. 24
Index
State of Art Holocaust Museum Opens In LA..........................................2
A Time to Remember Syrian Jews.............................................................A
Joe Brodsky, Dallas Cowboy Coach Talks About His Running Backs...A
Washington Watch........................................................................................4
Dallas Doings.................................................................................................5
'Choices-' The Musical at JCC March 13, 14, 21.....................................6
Purimand Recipes.................................................................6,14,15, 17,28
Synagogue Services...............................................................................22, 26
Around the Town.......................................................................................-23
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