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ZJIAY// Serving Columbus and Central Ohio Jewish Community for Over 60 Years \V7/\i~? LIBRARY,'OH JO H-l.STOrt JCA.L. .&OG&fr\. ;. • 1'982- VELM/i AVE* :; CQL3, 0, 4321 1 .. . , EXCH ... VOL.60 NO.34 AUGUST 26,1982-ELUL 7 Devoted to-American .and Jewish Ideals. Identities 01 Soldiers Buried In Damascus TEL AVIV (JTA)-The . Israel Defense Force is trying to clear up the mystery of the identity of Israeli soldiers buried by the Jewish community of Damascus last month, whose names, as reported by the Syrians to the International Red Cross, have proved to be those of soldiers still living and serving with the Israel army in Lebanon. The army spokesman has said that eight soldiers are reported as still missing from fighting on the eastern sector of the Lebanon front. The men, officially assumed- to be prisoners of the Syrians, include six members of ground troops and two members of a Phantom jet crew shot down on July 24. The eight do not include the driver, of a water tanker . which strayed by error into Syrian-held territory two weeks ago and who is presumed to have been captured by the Syrians. The army, spokeman pointed out that the foreign press and television reported last month that the Damascus Jewish community had buried four Israeli soldiers in the Damascus Jewish cemetery.; The Syrians gave the Red Cross the names of three of them—but upon in- vestigaion these proved to be the names of three living soldiers currently serving with the Israel Defense '' Force. V The army is now trying to clear up the mystery of how the Syrians obtained these names and the identities of the soldiers buried in the Damascus cemetery. The ( army is also trying to find out what happened to the other men listed as missing. Gallup Poll Discloses Few Changes In American Attitudes Toward Israel Terrorist Weapon Found PARIS (JTA)—French police sources revealed last week that one of the weapons which was used in the terrorist attack on Goldenberg's restaurant in the heart of Paris' traditional Jewish quarter last week had been found. The Polish-made "WZ-63" submachinegun was found in the Bois de Boulogne in western Paris. Fingerprints have been found on the weapon, and French police are currently checking with several west European countries trying to establish the identity of the attackers. Grocery Store Owner Arrested ROME (JTA)—Police officials in the village of Terni have arrested a local grocery store owner for "slandering a foreign state" after he placed a sign outside his shop saying "Zionists are not welcome here—we are for the Palestinians." The incident which incited the store owner to place the sign occured after Israeli tourists from the nearby village of Piediluco, where six Israeli athletes are participating in the International Canoeing Championship, ventured into the shop to purchase several bottles of mineral water. In the store they confronted the owner who was reading a newspaper with an anti-Israel slant on the situtation in Beirut. The Israelis defended the Lebanon action saying "We are fighting a war of defense, not aggression." After the Israelis purchased their water and departed, the store owner said he "discovered" that two liquor bottles were missing and he was sure it was the Israelis who had taken the bottles. American attitudes toward Israel have changed very little in the past year, despite the misgivings Americans have expressed on the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. This is a major conclusion of an analysis by the American Jewish Committee of a poll conducted for Newsweek Magazine by the Gallup Organization and reported in the Aug. 16 issue of Newsweek. The analysis was done by Geraldine Rosen- field of AJC's Information and Research Department. The poll, which was based on telephone interviews with 752 adults on Aug. 4 and 5, contained three questons whose answers were compared with answers to the same questions in a survey conducted a year ago. When asked if they had - become more sympathetic or less sympathetic in the past year, 32 percent of the respondents in the current poll said they were more sympathetic, an increase of Anti-Israel In France, Greece, W. Germany PARIS (JTA)-There has been an increasing display of anti-Israel sentiments here, in Greece and West Germany in recent weeks among Jews and non-Jews who have been angered by Israel's invasion into Lebanon and others who oppose the policies of the government of Premier Menachem Begin. ; In Paris, a group of 60 prominent physicists, including many Jews, have called on scientists throughout the world to cut off their relations with Israeli scientific institutions, while also appealing to Israeli scientists to protest the actions of the Begin government in Lebanon. At the same time, a prominent Jewish law professor and scion to one of France's best known Jewish families recently deliverd a blistering attack against Israel for its invasion into Lebanon and against the Jewish State's traditional policies toward the Palestinians; In Greece, members of the Parliament have charged that the country "is being turned into a center of anti- Semitism," a charge denied by an official spokeman for the Greek government,, according to a broadcast' monitored by sources of the World Jewish Congress. Meanwhile, in Munich, some 1,000 German and Arab demonstrators rallied last week against Israel. There were no incidents reported. LONG TIME FRIEND OF JEWISH NATIONAL FUND ACCEPTS POSITION Yenkin To Be Honored At JNF Blue Box Brunch Fred Yenkin, a long time friend of the Jewish National Fund, has accepted the position of Honorary Chairman of this year's Annual Blue Box Brunch to be held Sunday, Oct. 17, at the Hilton Inn East. Annette Tanenbaum,. Brunch chairperson and last year's honoree, stated, "Mr. Yenkin has always been a dedicated Zionist and a supporter of the vital work of the Jewish National Fund. We are proud that he has accepted this position." Yenkin has supported the local Jewish agencies and Israel by serving on numerous philanthropic organ ization boards as well as being a past president of the Columbus Federation. He has recently returned from a VIP tour to Israel sponsored by the Jewish Agency. Last year, Yenkin wrote a letter to the Jewish National Fund Council President, Martin Hoffman, stating, "There has been a life-long attachment by me to the JNF, since the days when I was 10 or 12, selling Blue and White flowers at the Deshler Hotel (downtown) and later when we had to raise vast sums of money to settle and rescue Jews who managed to survive the horrors of concentration'camps." And, he added, "Some very important borders, established in Fred Yenkin 1948 after armistice, were established where they remain because JNF money bought that land. ..." "All members of the Columbus community are invited to attend this year's Blue Box Brunch to enhance the vital land reclamation work of the JNF and help honor Mr. Yenkin, a person dedicated to Israel," stated Mrs. Tanenbaum. To secure a reservation, Blue Boxes totaling $18 (Chai) or more per person may be turned into the JNF office or checks may be mailed, payable to the Jewish National Fund, 2700 E. Main St. Col. 43209. For additinal information, call the JNF office, 237-1397. three percent over the 1981 poll. Those who said they were less sympathetic to Israel totaled 41 percent in the current poll an increase of four percent over 1981. A similar question was asked concerning attitudes toward the Palestinians. In the current poll, 28 percent of the respondents stated they were more sympathetic to the Palestinian position than they had been a year before. This was an increase of six percent over the 1981 poll. At the same time, .40 percent of the current poll stated that they were less sympathetic to the Palestinians, an increase of four percent over 1981. The third question in which a comparison was made with the 1981 responses had to do with whether or not the United States should favor a Palestinian state. In the current poll, 37 percent of respondents said yes and 45 percent said no. This represented an increase of six percent for those who believed in favoring a Palestinian state, and an increase of one percent for those who were against it. The AJC analysis noted that despite a somewhat greater increase in the yes votes, "those who say no exceed those who say yes by eight percent. Two questions directly related to the current situation in Lebanon were juxtaposed in the current? poll and elicited what would appear to be some conflicting responses. In answer to a question as to whether they approved or disapproved of Israel's sending its military forces into Lebanon, 60 percent of the respondents said they disapproved, while 30 percent approved, and 10 percent said they did not know. However, when asked if the Israelis were justified in sending troops into Lebanon to stop the rocket attacks on Israeli settlements and to remove PLO forces from Lebanon, 47 percent of , respondents said they were justified and 41 percent said they were not, "One must assume," Ms. Rosenfield stated, "that 13 percent of those who disapproved of Israel's "military action in Lebanon Nevertheless considered it justified." Another question in the v ^ poll asked what the United^.* States should do concerning - the Israeli incursion into Lebanon and gave a choice of six possible actions. Twenty-seven percent of respondents opted to suspend military aid to Israel for the time being; 16 percent voted to support Israel's actions; another 16 percent would pressure the Israelis . diplomatically;.still another 16 percent would permanently cut off aid to Israel. Ms. Rosenfield noted that • recent press reports on these figures had lumped together the 27 percent that wanted io suspend military aid for the time being and the 16 per- - cent that wanted to cut if off permanently and had stated that "45 percent felt the US should suspend or cut off military aid to Israel." She stated that the use of the 45 percent figure was "misleading." The final question in the poll, asked whether t:he United States should talk directly to the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people. Of the respondents, 48 percent said yes, 42 percent said no and 10 percent did.not know. Two Historians Rap Begin JERUSALEM (JTA)- Two noted historians sharply attacked Premier Menachem Begin for what they said was his excessive use of .the term "Holocaust" for political purposes. Shmuel Ettinger of the Hebrew University and Prof. Yisrael Guttman of the Yad Vashem Institute held a press conference here in front of Yad Vashem to protest Begin's frequent use of the term. The press conference coincided, with the end of a one-week hunger strike by Holocaust survivor, Dr. Shlomo Schmeltz- man, who was protesting the war in Lebanon. He conducted his hunger strike outside the gates of Yad Vasham. Early Copy Deadline .-:,.:.;.-; ■'■,;.:.'-;'-i'.':.. :'■/;■;. ;-. .'.:-.<,. News copy deadline for the Sept. 9 issue will be Thursday; Sept. 2 at 12 noon. The Chronicle off ice will be closed;Monday, jSept. 6, in observance of Labor Day. M
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Full Text | ZJIAY// Serving Columbus and Central Ohio Jewish Community for Over 60 Years \V7/\i~? LIBRARY,'OH JO H-l.STOrt JCA.L. .&OG&fr\. ;. • 1'982- VELM/i AVE* :; CQL3, 0, 4321 1 .. . , EXCH ... VOL.60 NO.34 AUGUST 26,1982-ELUL 7 Devoted to-American .and Jewish Ideals. Identities 01 Soldiers Buried In Damascus TEL AVIV (JTA)-The . Israel Defense Force is trying to clear up the mystery of the identity of Israeli soldiers buried by the Jewish community of Damascus last month, whose names, as reported by the Syrians to the International Red Cross, have proved to be those of soldiers still living and serving with the Israel army in Lebanon. The army spokesman has said that eight soldiers are reported as still missing from fighting on the eastern sector of the Lebanon front. The men, officially assumed- to be prisoners of the Syrians, include six members of ground troops and two members of a Phantom jet crew shot down on July 24. The eight do not include the driver, of a water tanker . which strayed by error into Syrian-held territory two weeks ago and who is presumed to have been captured by the Syrians. The army, spokeman pointed out that the foreign press and television reported last month that the Damascus Jewish community had buried four Israeli soldiers in the Damascus Jewish cemetery.; The Syrians gave the Red Cross the names of three of them—but upon in- vestigaion these proved to be the names of three living soldiers currently serving with the Israel Defense '' Force. V The army is now trying to clear up the mystery of how the Syrians obtained these names and the identities of the soldiers buried in the Damascus cemetery. The ( army is also trying to find out what happened to the other men listed as missing. Gallup Poll Discloses Few Changes In American Attitudes Toward Israel Terrorist Weapon Found PARIS (JTA)—French police sources revealed last week that one of the weapons which was used in the terrorist attack on Goldenberg's restaurant in the heart of Paris' traditional Jewish quarter last week had been found. The Polish-made "WZ-63" submachinegun was found in the Bois de Boulogne in western Paris. Fingerprints have been found on the weapon, and French police are currently checking with several west European countries trying to establish the identity of the attackers. Grocery Store Owner Arrested ROME (JTA)—Police officials in the village of Terni have arrested a local grocery store owner for "slandering a foreign state" after he placed a sign outside his shop saying "Zionists are not welcome here—we are for the Palestinians." The incident which incited the store owner to place the sign occured after Israeli tourists from the nearby village of Piediluco, where six Israeli athletes are participating in the International Canoeing Championship, ventured into the shop to purchase several bottles of mineral water. In the store they confronted the owner who was reading a newspaper with an anti-Israel slant on the situtation in Beirut. The Israelis defended the Lebanon action saying "We are fighting a war of defense, not aggression." After the Israelis purchased their water and departed, the store owner said he "discovered" that two liquor bottles were missing and he was sure it was the Israelis who had taken the bottles. American attitudes toward Israel have changed very little in the past year, despite the misgivings Americans have expressed on the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. This is a major conclusion of an analysis by the American Jewish Committee of a poll conducted for Newsweek Magazine by the Gallup Organization and reported in the Aug. 16 issue of Newsweek. The analysis was done by Geraldine Rosen- field of AJC's Information and Research Department. The poll, which was based on telephone interviews with 752 adults on Aug. 4 and 5, contained three questons whose answers were compared with answers to the same questions in a survey conducted a year ago. When asked if they had - become more sympathetic or less sympathetic in the past year, 32 percent of the respondents in the current poll said they were more sympathetic, an increase of Anti-Israel In France, Greece, W. Germany PARIS (JTA)-There has been an increasing display of anti-Israel sentiments here, in Greece and West Germany in recent weeks among Jews and non-Jews who have been angered by Israel's invasion into Lebanon and others who oppose the policies of the government of Premier Menachem Begin. ; In Paris, a group of 60 prominent physicists, including many Jews, have called on scientists throughout the world to cut off their relations with Israeli scientific institutions, while also appealing to Israeli scientists to protest the actions of the Begin government in Lebanon. At the same time, a prominent Jewish law professor and scion to one of France's best known Jewish families recently deliverd a blistering attack against Israel for its invasion into Lebanon and against the Jewish State's traditional policies toward the Palestinians; In Greece, members of the Parliament have charged that the country "is being turned into a center of anti- Semitism," a charge denied by an official spokeman for the Greek government,, according to a broadcast' monitored by sources of the World Jewish Congress. Meanwhile, in Munich, some 1,000 German and Arab demonstrators rallied last week against Israel. There were no incidents reported. LONG TIME FRIEND OF JEWISH NATIONAL FUND ACCEPTS POSITION Yenkin To Be Honored At JNF Blue Box Brunch Fred Yenkin, a long time friend of the Jewish National Fund, has accepted the position of Honorary Chairman of this year's Annual Blue Box Brunch to be held Sunday, Oct. 17, at the Hilton Inn East. Annette Tanenbaum,. Brunch chairperson and last year's honoree, stated, "Mr. Yenkin has always been a dedicated Zionist and a supporter of the vital work of the Jewish National Fund. We are proud that he has accepted this position." Yenkin has supported the local Jewish agencies and Israel by serving on numerous philanthropic organ ization boards as well as being a past president of the Columbus Federation. He has recently returned from a VIP tour to Israel sponsored by the Jewish Agency. Last year, Yenkin wrote a letter to the Jewish National Fund Council President, Martin Hoffman, stating, "There has been a life-long attachment by me to the JNF, since the days when I was 10 or 12, selling Blue and White flowers at the Deshler Hotel (downtown) and later when we had to raise vast sums of money to settle and rescue Jews who managed to survive the horrors of concentration'camps." And, he added, "Some very important borders, established in Fred Yenkin 1948 after armistice, were established where they remain because JNF money bought that land. ..." "All members of the Columbus community are invited to attend this year's Blue Box Brunch to enhance the vital land reclamation work of the JNF and help honor Mr. Yenkin, a person dedicated to Israel," stated Mrs. Tanenbaum. To secure a reservation, Blue Boxes totaling $18 (Chai) or more per person may be turned into the JNF office or checks may be mailed, payable to the Jewish National Fund, 2700 E. Main St. Col. 43209. For additinal information, call the JNF office, 237-1397. three percent over the 1981 poll. Those who said they were less sympathetic to Israel totaled 41 percent in the current poll an increase of four percent over 1981. A similar question was asked concerning attitudes toward the Palestinians. In the current poll, 28 percent of the respondents stated they were more sympathetic to the Palestinian position than they had been a year before. This was an increase of six percent over the 1981 poll. At the same time, .40 percent of the current poll stated that they were less sympathetic to the Palestinians, an increase of four percent over 1981. The third question in which a comparison was made with the 1981 responses had to do with whether or not the United States should favor a Palestinian state. In the current poll, 37 percent of respondents said yes and 45 percent said no. This represented an increase of six percent for those who believed in favoring a Palestinian state, and an increase of one percent for those who were against it. The AJC analysis noted that despite a somewhat greater increase in the yes votes, "those who say no exceed those who say yes by eight percent. Two questions directly related to the current situation in Lebanon were juxtaposed in the current? poll and elicited what would appear to be some conflicting responses. In answer to a question as to whether they approved or disapproved of Israel's sending its military forces into Lebanon, 60 percent of the respondents said they disapproved, while 30 percent approved, and 10 percent said they did not know. However, when asked if the Israelis were justified in sending troops into Lebanon to stop the rocket attacks on Israeli settlements and to remove PLO forces from Lebanon, 47 percent of , respondents said they were justified and 41 percent said they were not, "One must assume," Ms. Rosenfield stated, "that 13 percent of those who disapproved of Israel's "military action in Lebanon Nevertheless considered it justified." Another question in the v ^ poll asked what the United^.* States should do concerning - the Israeli incursion into Lebanon and gave a choice of six possible actions. Twenty-seven percent of respondents opted to suspend military aid to Israel for the time being; 16 percent voted to support Israel's actions; another 16 percent would pressure the Israelis . diplomatically;.still another 16 percent would permanently cut off aid to Israel. Ms. Rosenfield noted that • recent press reports on these figures had lumped together the 27 percent that wanted io suspend military aid for the time being and the 16 per- - cent that wanted to cut if off permanently and had stated that "45 percent felt the US should suspend or cut off military aid to Israel." She stated that the use of the 45 percent figure was "misleading." The final question in the poll, asked whether t:he United States should talk directly to the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people. Of the respondents, 48 percent said yes, 42 percent said no and 10 percent did.not know. Two Historians Rap Begin JERUSALEM (JTA)- Two noted historians sharply attacked Premier Menachem Begin for what they said was his excessive use of .the term "Holocaust" for political purposes. Shmuel Ettinger of the Hebrew University and Prof. Yisrael Guttman of the Yad Vashem Institute held a press conference here in front of Yad Vashem to protest Begin's frequent use of the term. The press conference coincided, with the end of a one-week hunger strike by Holocaust survivor, Dr. Shlomo Schmeltz- man, who was protesting the war in Lebanon. He conducted his hunger strike outside the gates of Yad Vasham. Early Copy Deadline .-:,.:.;.-; ■'■,;.:.'-;'-i'.':.. :'■/;■;. ;-. .'.:-.<,. News copy deadline for the Sept. 9 issue will be Thursday; Sept. 2 at 12 noon. The Chronicle off ice will be closed;Monday, jSept. 6, in observance of Labor Day. M |
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