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SERVING NEBRASKA, IOWA Vol. UQ No. 39
Omaha, Neb., Fri., June 10,1983
U.S. ignores PLO violations opting for withdrawal instead WASHINGTON"The •••• .United Slate* is not preventing repeated violations liy the Palestine Liberation Organization of its agreement that permitted it to withdraw from Beirut lout autumn after being under Until siege, the Slate Department has admitted to Congress. Conceding that "violations are not in doubt," a nenior Slate Department official teMified "if 1 had my choice of trying to prove violations or trying for withdrawal and make the violations moot," he sold he would choMe the latter to get the 1'LO force* tit leave "T^jCs what we|re trying to dtf,v- the A&iiiistnM Secre 1 ary-tof State - for I he MWm&tfl Nicholas Volkitw. (old the H«we Foreign Affair* Subcommittee for Europe am) the Middle East. Veliote* was responding to questions from Rep. l^rty Smith (I) Fin) who n>ked him "what does the
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United StatcB intend to do" in the face of "groan viola-, lions" of the agreement worked out by U.S. Special Ambassador Philip Hobih last year and the "massive buildup" of the l'U> forte in tabunon now numbering
IllHMlt 10,000.
Smith noted that Vcliotes had spoken optimistically' early this year that if Israel would withdraw from Lebanon, so would Syria. VeHoles said that "in retros|>ctt, the optimism Syria
would withdraw was on circumstances at the time." He added "The Syrian position began to harden" when Secretary of Stote George Shultjt went to the Middle Kant.
Israel Bonds names guest Andrew Goodman, general chairman for the State of Israel Bond* Lincoln community, announced that Col. Samuel Mor, I'll.I), will speak at the State of Israel Bond communiiy dinner on June 29, at Tifercth Israel Synagogue honoring Ruth and Irwin Goldenlx-rnCol Mor has been on active duty with the Israeli Army for 20 years, and was a member of the Haganah underground defense organization. A veteran officer of the Sinai Campaign of 1956 and the Six Day War of 1967, Col Mor also served in the .Southern Command and the Armored Corps where he was an Intelligence Officer. After the Sinai War, he Col. Mor wan assigned an "Aide de Camp" to the Deputy Chief of Staff, General Itzhak Rabin. In l!)6.r>, he was the military advisor for the United Artist's movie "Cast a Giant Shadow" dealing with the Israel War of Independence. Dr. Mor majored in political science and sociology at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and continued his education at U.C.I..A. where he received his Ph.D. Presently he teaches comparative literature at U.O.L.A. and frequently addresses audiences and leads discussions on Middle Rastcrn, affairs. Reservations can be made by contacting Mr. Goodman at P.O. Hox 81601, Lincoln. Nebraska 68501, or by calling the Israel Hond Office in Omaha at 341 -1177.
AIPAG finds Americans avoid Arab support dmm<*tte tie comtJlU; ency for mitiUml work in the United State* is noifty but diminutive,** find* a report by the American Israel Public Affair* Committee (AIPAC). "The effort to mobilize large numlvor* of American* to th« Arab cause has failed." AIPAC wil] conduct a workshop on politics, <|tii& 2 0 . « l the JowUh Community Center in Omaha, fjeri Kaplan and Robert Kully are cochairmen. In a new 160-page study of The Campaign to Discredit Uracl, AIPAC outlinen the strategy and uictic* uiied by encmie* of ihe Jewish State to undermine support for Israel in America. Focusing on the "artificial constituency" which forms the backbone of support for anti-Israel activity in the United States, the AIPAC publication finds stime major strengths and weaknesses in ihe effort.
"cdriP" lirgettlriy«)rr>6rntion» withwithhashns been accompanied by lt'teptlttii'tMt"Xliti~'tKfi'P' In geltJri«*«)h)6rntidn» lieen accompanied has found it partialextehitivir businewi interests (.'renter sophistication in p larly difficult to rcctiit Arab- in the Arab world to piny n anti-Israel ideology. Thin American* of Arab descent more active role in infill- new nppromh is, according -••• largely Ixcause lhi» pop- em ing U.S. Middle East to AIPAC, "aimed quite ulation in not nttroctc<l to policy-muking. This pro- •precisely at the underlying organizations sympathetic vides levels of access and fi- reasons that Americans nancing that would other- support Israel and is deto the PLO and Syria. Indeed, those who hove wise be difficult to achieve. signed to turn the public Hut it Una also resulted in and elite image of Israel joined anti-Israel organizations may \K as few an 2.5 an incongruous alliance be- from positive to negative." percent of ArabAmerinmi>. tween two inherently in- It employs a "polished and In addition, Israel's delruc- compatible groups — the more effectively targeted set torn have had only limited corimrations and the radi- of themes" focusing attensuccess in building coali- cals — which AIPAC sees as tion relentlessly on events tion* with non-Arab group*. n )>/iMr weakness in Ihe nnti- and situations which put Isand there is a dispropor- IHMCI campaign. As a par- rael in a negative light. tionate representation of tial solution to this diFor example, to undermore inilil/mt and extreme lemma, the report discloses mine the perception of Isthat some corporations have ofganirati'inii and individbegun to provide'extensive rael u« an underdog and deual* in their rank**. pict Israel as Goliath, rather lacking a lnrgr domettfc funding for a few less ex- than David, they redefine constituency, the study treme anti-Israel groups the conflict as ono between find* that the campaign hint who pursue a more sophis- Israel and the Palestinians relied, to a considerable ex- ticated line. rather than Israel and the As a result, these groups Arab states. tent, on the services of foreign agent* and former dip- have been able to achieve Although anti-Israel aclomats paid by various Arab visibility and influence out governments and the Arab of proportion to the limited tivity in the United States League to express the anti- constituencies they repre- "reached a new level of intensity" during the war in Israel message in an Amer- sent. The AIPAC study finds Lebanon, according to ican idiom. It has also been successful that this recent innovation AIPAC, the campaign to pj
Israel in in thetheraelrael political activity in the bydiscredit discredit Israel political United States "seems to United States and ah alphahuvc heen a rather dismal lulicnl directory of the acfailure," in spite of the most tors.1 favorable climate for antiThe directory provides Israel propaganda in background information on memory. organizations and individCiting favorable public uals who are active in the opinion polls, Congressional effort to weaken the bonds elections, and increases in iK'tween the United States aid to Israel, AIPAC con- and Israel, who seek to encludes thai the campaign'H hance U.S.-ArnU relations greatest wenknosn "seems to at the expense of Israel, or lie the lack of a large and who perform paid services mainstream American •con- to Arab governments purstituency committed to Ktiing these goals. their cause," as well as "the The American Israel strong and natural bond be- Public Affairs Committee is tween the United States and the only American organiIsrael and the much larger zation registered to lobby numbers of citizens . . . who Congress on legislation afvalue and work to protect fecting IBMCI. AIPAC is this bond between our supported by private donacountry and the -Jewish tions from more than 40,000 State." members. The third in a series of monograph* analyzing various aspects of the U.S.-Israel relationship, Tbc Campaign to Discredit Israel contains both an analysis of recent anti-Is-
Tbe Campaign to Discredit Israel is available for $6.00 from the American Israel Public Affaire Committee, 444 North Capitol Street, N.W., Suite 412, Washington, D.C. 20001.
Nicaragua forces Jewish community into exile The Sandinint Government of Nicaragua has forced the 50-rnember Jewish community into exile, confiscating Jewish-owned property and taking over the synagogue in Managua, according to the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rjth. Rabbi Morton M. Rosenthal, director of the League's Latin American Affaire Deportment, modi! tbe disclosure' in an article prepared by him for publication in the API. Bulletin, the agency's'national publication. Rabbi ttownthal, who tail visited Nicaragua shortly before the Sandinists came to power in 1079, said the government of Nicaragua has been unresponsive to ADL appeals to end "the«« human rights violations" and permit tbe-return of the Jews to their country. ; The forced exodus of the Nicaraguan Jewish community —- numbering alxmt 60 — took place after the Somora regime «•* overthrown. Their muter was'effected, the article Mid, by subtle and liirrrt threats or by forcible meas-
Despite the departure of the Jewish community, Rabbi The case of Isaac Stavuky, a textile engineer, who was Roscnthal said, anti-Semitism still exists in the country. out of the country at the time of the Sandinist victory, was In July, 1982, he said that a Managua newspaper, Nuevo cited as an example, Mr. Stavisky, the article said, was Diarin, which often reflects government policy, published advised that ho should not return to his country "for his articles that were filled with virulent anti-Semitic stateown safety because he and his brother-in-law were consid- ments such OH a reference to "synagogues of Satan." The Sandinists hove also converted the synagogue in ered enemies of the revolution." , .'...• The pretident of the Nicaraguan Jewish community, Managua Into a children's social club, covering exterior Abraham &orn, was jailed after the' Sandiniit victory. Stars of David with propaganda posters and adorning the "Corn," IUbbi-Ro»enthal wrote, "who was then 70 years inside walls with anti-Zionist propaganda. Nicaraguan Jews, according to the article, cite the long old, was falsely accused of stealing land and was forced to and close relationship between the Palestine Liberation Orsweep streets during the two weeks of his confinement." Six months later, he wen( on, Snhdinjsts summarily ganization andthe Sandinists as a source of their problems, ousted him from hit factory mid took it over. The<8andinThe article described how the P.L,'O. has provided iits told factory worker* to threaten to bomb, his car if he weapons, training, money and even fighting,men for the returned. Mr. Gom was. quoted iis Aflying that Carlos Ar- 'Sandinist battle against the Somoza regime, ItquoteaJorge gueilo, currently. Minister of Juitiw. confiscated his bank'.- Mandi, a Sandinist spokesman, in an interview in Q Kuwaiti account^nd "then kicked me^out of my home."' , ;."'•••'•• ••••'«' 'newspaper in 1979. < ures.