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VOL. 54 NO. 9
FEBRUARY 26, 1976 - ADAR 1 25
els Conference On Soviet Jewry Calls
iet Union To Let Jews Emigrate Freely
BRUSSELS — Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the
militant Jewish Defense League, is carried from
Brussels' Palais des Congress by Belgian police after
he attempted to force his way into the World
Conference on Soviet Jewry. Later, Rabbi Kahane was
taken to the Brussels airport by the police and expelled
from the country.
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BRUSSELS (WNS) -
"Let My People Go," was
the theme as 1200 persons
from 32 countries gathered
here for three days at the
Second World Conference on
Soviet Jewry. • The
conference concluded) with a
call for the Soviet Union to
implement the Helsinki
Declaration, to respect its
own constitution and laws
and "recognize and respect
the right of Jews in the USSR
to be united with their
brethren' in the land of
Israel, the-Jewish historic
homeland." The .conference
Report Syria And Jordan Are Moving
Toward Establishing A Federation
By Tuvia Mendelson
JERUSALEM (JTA) ~ -
"Well informed West Bank
sources" say that Jordan
and Syria are moving
toward the establishment of
a federation to be known as
the "United Arab State"
consisting of two
autonomous regions having
a combined central
government, a unified army
and command and a joint
parliament that will meet
alternately in Amman-and
Damascus. The sources
were quoted in an article
published in the Jerusalem
Post Feb. 17 by its Middle
East correspondent Anan
Safadi. According to the
writer, the federation will be
proclaimed upon completion
of discussions that the
sources say have been going
on for eight months. These
discussions are related to the
integration of the policies
and economies of the two
countries and are aimed at
drafting a joint constitution
that will seek to reconcile the
differences inherent in the
' socialist regime in Syria and
,- the Jordanian monarchy, the
Post said. Other matters
that have to be settled, the
- sources said, are the
presidency and the location
of the capital of the
projected federation. Under
the plan, Syria and Jordan
will each become an
autonomous region of the
/•United    Arab . State."
' President Hafez Assad will
continue to be chief of state
of Syria and King Hussein
Will continue to rule in
Jordan. But the West Bank
informants who, according
to Safadi have close ties with
Amman, said "Hussein has-
indicated mat he is prepared
to be second in command to
Assad.
The new federation will
come into being by next June
"unless unforeseen devel¬
opments cause difficulties
between the two countries,"
the informants told the Post.
Hussein and Assad are
scheduled  to  meet  next
month before the Jordanian
rulerleaves on ah extensive
trip - abroad - that will-take
him to the U.S., Mexico,
Japan and Australia.
Observe"* s here,
commenting on the report,
, said Hussein may be willing
to enter into a federation
with Syria even to the extent
of deferring to Assad in
order to guarantee the
political survival of his
(Continued on page id
Senate Adopts Foreign Aid Bill;
Defeats Anti-Israel Amendment
By Joseph Polakoff
'WASHINGTON (JTA) -
The Senate Feb. 18, debating
the foreign aid authorization
bill, rejected by a 79-8 vote a
move to ban assistance to
Israel if its armed forces
attacked Lebanon. The
amendment by Sen. James
Abourezk (D. S.D.) to the bill
was supported by one other
Democrat,- Lee Metcalf of
Montana, and six Repub¬
licans. The leaders of both
parties, Hugh Scott (R. Pa.)
and Mike Mansfield (D.
Mont.), opposed the
Abourezk amendment. In
arguing for the amendment,
Abourezk declared that "if
we continue to furnish arms
to Israel, eventually we will
force Lebanon to go to
somebody else for, military
assistance . if the ytiew
government in Lebanon
wants to keep its credibility
with the people." He said
that "we drove Egypt,- other
Arab states and the Pales¬
tinians into militancy" and
by providing Israel with
weapons the U.S. is, asking
"increased militancy of
Lebanon."
Sen Jacob K. Javits (R.
N.Y.), supported by Sen.
Henry M. Jackson (D.
Wash.), in opposing
Abourezk, -declared that the
intent of the South Dakotan's
amendment would lead to
the destruction' of Israel.
"Unless Israel gets U.S.
assistance," Javits said,
"she will be extinguished.
All that nonsense we hear
that (Yasir) Arafat is a
moderate is our invention
not his." Javits quoted
Arafat, the leader of the
Palestine Liberation Organi¬
zation, as saying "You can
have peace on my terms."
Javits said by this Arafat
means the destruction of
Israel. Javits pointed out
that the Arab terrorists used
innocents in the Palestinian
camps in southern Lebanon
(CONTINUED QN PAGE 10)
presidium also decided "to
hold consultations at the
earliest possible date with
the i convening bodies and
others about the appropriate
means and structure to
conduct and coordinate" the
campaign on behalf of Soviet
Jewry. While stressing the
need for Jewish emigration
from the Soviet Union, it
called for freedom for
religious practices by Jews
within the USSR as well as
the right to develop their
cultural heritage and
language. The conference
provided a forum to focus
attention on the problems of
Soviet Jewry. Divergent
views were expressed
although the mofe militant
delegates carried the day
over moderates.
~ In a keynote address, Sen
Frank Church (D. Idaho), a
- ranking member of the
Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, called on the
- U.S. government to support
the cause of Soviet Jews with
all its available diplomatic
and political means.
Church at a press
conference took issue with
' Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D.
Wash.) who sent a message
' to Brussels that "we shall
not retreat" from the
Jackson Amendment linking
U.S. trade benefits for the
USSR' with Soviet emigra-
• tion policies. -Church, who
supported the Jackson
Amendment, said that it
resulted "in fewer Jews
being allowed to .leave;
practically, we have thus
lost ground." Church said
U.S. support for Soviet Jews
should be based on moral
pressure being brought to
bear on the Soviet Union.
Israeli Premier Yitzhak
Rabin in a message to the
conference said that "The
present leadership in the
Soviet Union has taken the
first appropriate steps by
recognizing in principle the
right of Jews who so wish to
emigrate     to     Israel."
' However, he said, "we will
not reconcile ourselves to the
continuing policy of intimi¬
dation and suffering inflicted
on very many who seek
permission to emigrate, so
as to intimidate others from
emigration. We, the Jewish
people, will forever stand
firm in our support of the
religious and national rights
of our Soviet Jewish
brethren."
The delegates to the
conference included 350
American Jews and  non-
Jews. Rabbi Alexander M. ■
Schindler, chairman of the
Conference of Presidents of
Major American Jewish
Organizations, urged both an
international drive to permit
the free emigration of Soviet
Jews and a call to the USSR
to allow the revival and
revitalization of religious
and cultural life for those
Jews who wish to remain in
the Soviet Union. He said the
latter could not be done
unless the Soviet
government permitted
Western Jewish scholars and
teachers to come to the
USSR to help create new
centers for training rabbis,
educators and teachers to
assure the survival of Soviet
Jewry.
About 550 Soviet Jews, now
living in Israel, attended the
conference. The conference
opened with 35 Soviet Jews,
led by former Red Army
Maj. Grisha Feigin
marching in waving a blue
flag with a gold Star of David
which Feigin said was the
flag of Soviet Jewry. He
presented it to Mrs. Meir. A
group of Soviet Jews, who
recently left the Soviet
Union, told a press
conference that conditions -
have worsened in the USSR,
anti-Semitism is increasing
and the authorities are
cracking down harder than
ever before on would-be
emigrants.
Christian delegates to the
conference from the United
States,  Britain,  Ireland,
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NEW YORK (WNS) — The Polish government has
been asked to make full payment of all pensions and
other insurance claims to Polish Jewish survivors of
the Holocaust now living outside Poland. The request
was made by the American Federation of Polish Jews
in a memorandum presented to Vitold Ttomcrynsky,
the Polish Ambassador in Washington. The Federation
also asked that it be indemnified for Jewish property in
Poland which was expropriated by the government. It
also called on Polish authorities to preserve and
restore Jewish cemeteries, permit the collection of
Jewish religious and secular relics and allow them to
be taken out of the country, and to permit free access
to all historic records on Polish Jewry. The Federation
also asked the Polish government to honor its promise
"to hand over to the World Federation of Polish Jews
one of the prison huts in the former Auschwitz camp so
that it could be arranged as a memorial shrine to Jews
martyred in that camp."
NEW YORK (WNS) — The people of Israel have sent
46,000 pounds of relief supplies to the earthquake-
stricken people of Guatemala. The supplies were flown
aboard an Israeli Boeing 707 and two Israeli-built
Araya Stol aircrafts. One of the Aravas, which was
being delivered to Guatemala by Israel Aircraft
Industries, was loaded at Teterboro Airport in New
Jersey with medical supplies donated by IAI.
Meanwhile in Washington, B'nai B'rkh announced it
was gathering funds, supplies and volunteers for
Guatemala. Richard Holxer, of Panama City,
chairman of B'nai B'rith's International Council, said
that Guatemala's small Jewish community has
reported no deaths "but widespread loss of material
possessions." Max Trachtcberg, president of the
B'nai B'rith lodge in Guatemala City, said the quake
had severely damaged communal institutions, some of
them beyond repair. A campaign for Spanish-speaking
physicians to go to Guatemala has been organized by
Perry Shertz, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., chairman of B'nai
B'rith's Disaster Relief Committee, and Irving I.
Gerson, of Metairie, La., who has headed B'nai B'rith
hurricane relief driyes. In Los Angeles, Jack pu
Weiler, chairman of the Amerieaa Joint Distribution
Committee* presented a $10,000 ChecK en behalf of his
organization to the Guatemalan' Consul .General for'
relief of the earthquake victims. He also volunteered
the service of JDC relief workers to aid the earthquake
.victims,. ,
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