Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1982-08-26

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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.
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