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Four Israeli generals call fpr end to status quo
LaVonne Curtis earns ADL award . The first reelpiMit of the newly-created Alperstein •ward, an Anti-OefaiiiatioD League honor for a regional office employee, is LaVonne Curtis, ADL secretary in the Omaha office. Announcement of the national award for otttatanding performance by ADL staff was made by Abe Fonnan, national director. The Alperstein award, funded by Nettie and Al Alpersteih of Washington, D.C., indndea a caah stipend of $500 for two office employeea, one in the New York office and one regional winner. The critaria for the award includes commitment and dedieatioii, job performance, eooperation, oojnpatiMlity and attendance and punctuality. In 1984, the Omaha Jewiak Coounnail^ honored Mn. Cnrtis on her 26ft nmhmmn wfth ADL.
'Political motivations' invalid for conversion NEW YORK (JTA)-Besponding to a stateitient by Mubarak Awad that he will CODvert to Judaism in order to ra-«ntar Israel, the laaders of Reform Judaism's rabbinic and congngattanil arms said in a letter to Reform rabbis that "axtraneous motivatiaiu, political ^notivatiana, are not suffidflBtiMMn" for caoversioii to thajlawiah faith. Tha iattar was aignad by RabUAlanndtrM.SchinJler, ptiMmt, Union of MnMtican Habww CQMI*fatkMUi Rabtil tttgMH U^ inaa. pmidaat, Ctntral Coonmioa of Anwrieaa ^lUbbiK and lUbhi Joaeph B. Olaaar, eneotive vica it, CCAR. The ftOl of the letter, mailed to 1,600 Reform rabbis in the Uidtaii Statas and Canada, JMMB
be proved at the end of a long period of instruction." The Law of Return, a statute of Israel's Knesset,' grants all bom Jews and converted Jews the right to
WASHINGTON (JTA)- Agmon, formerly Israel's During their first public ap- Air Force Attache in pearance in the U°itd Washington. States as members .of the All four agreed that mainnewly-formed Council for taining the status quo will Peace and Security, four Is- lead to an ever-growing deraeli generals (Reserve) generation of the situation brought to Washington a in Judea, Samaria and message that "from a mili- Gaza. , tary point of view, terWhile the group favors a ritorial compromise is preferable to continuing the "land for peace" option, status quo in the occupied they maintain that these can be achieved only if peace territories." At a press conference here arrangements included sevunder the auspices of the eral essential elements. American Jewish Congress, These are: Major General Aharon 1) A transition period Yariv (Res.), former director preceding the creation of of military intelligence and whatever Palestinian entity advisor on terrorism to in Gaza and the West Bank Prime Minister Golds Meir, territories is worked out in speaking for his three mili- negotiations. tary colleagues, said that 2) Demilitarizing the territhe group came to the tories from which Israel United States in order to would withdraw. discuss with the American 3) An Isrseli military Jewish conmiunity the secu- presence and early-warning rity aspects of territorial stations at key points. compromise. "With such guarantees in At the same time, he said, place," General Yariv said, it was essential that Ameri- "Israel could quit the terricans understand that very tories assured of greater— specific artangements must not less—military security be ip place.tflsriaeiik to than it enjoys today." Brigadier General Agmon agree to territorial com(Res.), an Israel Air Force promise. Joining General Yariv pUot, and squadron comwere Major General Uri Orr, mander during the Yom former Chief of Staff of Is- Kippur War, added that in rael's Centrsl Command; any land-for-peace settleBrigadier General Ephraim ment, Israel should have Sn^, former head of the "free access to patrol the Civil Administration for skies over the Palestinian Judea and Samaria; and entity, for both surveillance Brigadier General Yoram and training purposes."
In introducing the Israeli generals, Robert K. Lifton, president of AJCongress, recalled that the American Jewish Congress had been the first U.S..Jewish group to adopt a public statement last September—before the riots broke out in Gaza and the West Bank—urging that a territorial compromise following an international peace conference was Israel's safest course to follow. He added: "During recent visit to Israel we learned that a large number of highranking retired Israeli military officers now believe Israel's military security itself is jeopardized by holding on to the territories and ruling an increasingly restive Arab population. To advance this view, they have formed a new organization called the Council for Peace and Security, which is headed by General Yariv. "We have invited four of their repi^aantatives, all military comnumden with extensive combat experience, to speak to American Jews directly and via a closed-circuit satellite broadcast with Jewish leaders in 21 dties." Major General Uri Orr (Res.), former chief of staff of the central command, which includes Judea and Samaria, emphasized the
demographic threat to Israel, evidenced by the growing Palestinian Arab population in the territories, now numbering nearly 1.5 million. He pointed out that if this population were granted the right to vote, "Israel's Jewish character would be threatened. "But if they were barred the right to vote." he added, "Israel's democratic character would be jeopardized. That is why 1 beiieve the problem facing Israel is one of demography, not geography. The issue is the growing Arab population that surrounds us, not'the line we withdraw to when we give up land for peace." Brigadier General £!phraim Sneh (Res.), head of Israel's dvil administration in Judea and Samaria from 1986 to 1987, said Israel's armed might was such that "our forces coukl still defeat any combination of Arab countries in battle. "We have not come to oar condaainM tnemae of battle fatigua.^' he said. "Our raadintaa to fight for Israel haa not baan eroded. "Some of the generals in this room have fought seven wars to defend Israel's survival," he said. "The task now is to save the next gaoeration from having to fight more wars. This ia our basic purpose."
Related Story on Page 5 iminiipHita to laraaL Mubai>' •k Awad, a naturalised Amarkan dCizen bom in Jeraaahm, waa deported from lanat after hia inwal of an aspulsiim order was denied by the Israel Supreme Court. The UAHC is composed of more than 800 Raform synagogoaa in the United States and Canada. The CCAR is the organisation of Reform rabbis in North America.
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