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Students inWashington Several Jewish college students from Omaba were among the 800 from around the country who went to Washington recently to lobby In behalf of Soviet Jewry. Among the group meeting with Rep. Hal Daub were from left, Mtndy Welasr, Joel Rubin, and Sarah Ross. Seated la Jonatboa Daiteb.
Three speakers to address Washipgton Missinn members By Ellen Gordman serving in the Congress together. Federation Staff Torn Dine is the executive director of the Tom Dine, Senator Carl Levin and Mark ' American Israeli Public Affairs Committee. Talisman, three of the most dynamic Ho has been named by Wnshingtonian speakers in Washington, D.C., will meet Magazine as one of the one hundred most with the participants on the 1033 Men's influential people in Washington. Mark Talisman is executive director of Minion to Washington. "Everyone who heard these men on last the Council of Jewish Federation's Washyear's Mission will agree they arc eloquent ington Action Office. He will be the guest and informative speakers," said Bob Kully, ipeaker at the closing emion. "Last year Mr. Talisman told the group Mission chairman. "I am very pleased that the participant)! on this Mission will be able that we do moke a difference by coming to Washington and meeting with government to hear what they have to nay." Senator Levin will be the guest speaker officials," said Mr. Kully. "He said that at the Monday evening dinner. He will be each official who meets with the group must joined by his brother, Sandy, who is the submit a written report of the briefing and newly elected representative from Mich- the questions that are asked. This infor(continued on page 2) igan. They are currently the only brothers
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By Joseph Polakoff WASHINGTON - The Palestine Liberation Organization has had an understanding with three successive U.S. Governments during the past decade under which Yassir Arafat's mainstream group, Fatah, "wouldn't harm Americans," the Wall Street Journal has reported in an extensive report following its two-year study or U.S.-FLO relations. In a followup to that report, State Department sources have acknowledged to this reporter that "practical" arrangements exist with the PLO. An added ingredient is that former President Jimmy Carter, while embarking on his 17-day Middle East tour to obtain what he described as an attempt to obtain the latest data,on evenU there, said he wanted to see Arafat or other representatives of the PLO. While President, Carter sought to induce the terrorist organization to enter into open dialogue by advocating a "homeland" to the Palestinians on the West Bank and.Gaza with the implication East Jerusalem would be their capital, and offered to water down the U.S. view of UN Security Council Resolution 242 that underpins the Camp David agreement signed by the U.S., Egypt and Israel. Just before leaving on his tour, Carter was "warmly welcomed" by Secretary of State George Schulte at the State Department for n briefing on the area's git: .x^ation, the Department said.. -'•••<-• ' The Wall Street Journal's report of more than 3,000 words was by David Ignatius who was the Journal's correspondent for two yean in the Middle East and served in Washington. Ho was the newspaper's observer at the recent Palestine National Council's meeting in Algiers. His report was headlined: .''Mideast Intrigue; PLO Operative, Slain Reputedly by Israelis, Had Been Helping U.S." It has long been known that the PLO and governments in Washington had understandings on "security matter*." However, the Journal's report is the most detailed on the alleged relationship since the departuro of the PLO forces from Beirut under an agreement engineered by the U.S. and the orders issued to U.S. Marines in Le-
Editor's Note; The following article contains opinion of Ibo author. Information for the article was obtained o n a press mission to Paris and Israel, eponsored by the United Jewish Appeal and the American Jewish Press Association. A subsidy was provided also by the Jewish Federation of Omaha. I By Morris Mallno / Someone standing on a Paris street comer could accurately speculate that every 12th passerby is Jewish. j This is because out of the estimated 700,000 Jews of France, a total of 400,000 reside in central Paris and the suburb*. ., . / The growing Jewish population is one factor for the pol> / iticians to consider, another is the new activism of the Jews. | There is bound to be a confrontation involving the Jews ' and the French government in August. / At that time, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, / end Cultural Organization (UNESCO) will meet in Paris / to discuss the history, of Palestine. / The Jewish community fully expects that Yassir Arafat I will attend and thot'the French government will make come official recognition of his visit. Arafat's visit also is expected to attract PLO gunmen who seem to room Paris et Will and engage in violence against Jewish targets. ' ' . , The Jewish community has forcefully stated its case against official French recognition of Arafat and has mode it known that thousands of Jews will take to the streets to protest any such move on the part of the French govern- Jean-Lou i t Bianco, (left) secretary general o f Elysoes Palace, the equivalent of the French White ' merit. French officials who spoke to members of the UJA/AJPA House, and Jacquo Attall, special advisor to Presiduring a press mission lost month, stated categorically that dent Mittorand, greet Jewish editors daring a recent they hadriointention of greeting Arafat or any other PLO press mission to parts. The floor to celling tapestry in the background la typical of tbe artistic treasures leader. However, this information was provided on "deep back- decorating French government offices.
banon to forbid Israelis to pursue into Marino-controlled zones suspects of attacks on Israeli troops or to cooperate with Israel in ferreting out suspects in the area, The Journal said that "according to a top U.S. official, 'the U.S. had reason to believe that the Israelis knew'" that Ali Hassan Salameh, described as the operative regarded as Arafat's American channel, was "secretly helping the U.S." Ignatius reported the Salameh connection, "which amounted to a backdoor channel between the U.S. and the PLO, is one of the most intriguing tales to emerge from the conspiracy-laden Middle East. It ; illustrates the complex intelligence operations undertaken by the U.S., the PLO, and the Israelis in this region. It also shows bow, on occasion, U.S. and Israeli interests can differ sharply. "The implications of the Salemeh story are especially delicate now, when Mr. Arafat is exploring new links to the U.S. through President Reagan's peace initiative, and when U.S. officials ere publicly questioning whether Israel is obstructing American policy," Ignatius reported. "But this article," he said, "isn't based on any 'official leak' by the U.S., Israel or any PLO or other Arab faction. This reporter first heard a bare outline of the Salemeh story more than two years ago and has assembled the details in bit* and pieces since then." Salameh was killed in a car-bomb explosion in Beirut on Jan. 22,1979. "One of the most notorious PLO terrorists during the early 1970s," Ignatius reported, "he had helped plan the seizure of Israeli athletes at the 1972 summer Olympics in Munich." Arafat said "we have lost a lion," and Admiral Stansficld Turner, then the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, briefed President Carter on the incident, Ignatius said. Senior Carter Administration officials, Ignatius reported, "say that despite Mr. Salnmeh's terrorist background, President Carter 'expressed concern' at his death." "The reason for President Carter's dismay was that for over five yeans, Mr. Salameh, with Mr. Arafat's apparent approval, had been providing the CIA with intclli(continued on page 2)
ground" with the understanding that officials would not be quoted. .• -. The Jewish community believes otherwise. "There is much to compel the French authorities to go through with euch a meeting . . . the French economy is suffering the pangs of recession similar to other Western nations . . . the French depend upon their arms sales to Arab countries," one spokesperson stated. So it would appear that come August, tho French government might find itself in an embarrassing position — offending its large Jewish population on one hand, or offending some of her best customers on the other. Jews taking to the streets in Paris is a relatively new sight in French life. h As sociologist Edgar Morin explained: < / Historic Christian religious anti-Semitism diminished .sharply with the French revolution of 1789 which gave equal righta to all Jews. / The Napoleonic era ushered in the first Jewish communal, structure, tho Consistoire, which maintained the Jewish community as a religious body without political entity. ' [ Waves of immigration from Germany, Eastern/Europe swelled tbe ranks of Jews only for the country to lose fully one-third of its Jews during the Holocaust. After World War II, classical anti-Semitism disappeared and immigration gained force in the late 1950s and 1960s with Jews arriving from Tunisia, Morocco, and Algeria. According to Mr. Morin, the problems of Israel with the Arab world now account for the new anti-Semitism, or antiZioniBm, OB it is calledThere are laws against anti-Scmltiam in France, but none against anti-Zionism. In recent years, terrorists have run" amuck throwing (continued on page 5)