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IB Av, 6746 Friday, July 29, 1666
Iran-Iraq cease fire fuels concern in Israel By David Landau JERUSALEM (JTA) Israeli diplomats and other analysts here and abroad have been taken by surprise by the sudden cease-fire in ttie 8-ye«r-old I ran-Iraq war. The dramatic announcement from Teheran that it had accepted U.N. Security Council resolution 59S calling for the cease-fire has provoked profound anxieties and apprehenaiveness in Israel.
Mamben of ARTZA ilrepare for SbabbahHi at Iowa Weatan Coauanolty CoUige.
Iowa Shabbaton held for Artza group of 32 By Margo Riekes, chainnan On Friday, July 22, thirty-two participants of "ArtM," tlw Omaha Taen Trip to larael, attended a Shabbaton at Iowa Weatcrn Community CoU^* in praparation for what they are going to do and aee m Is rae|. In addition to mtting to lutow each other Mtter. the studenta had an opportunity to diacuaa refavant Jewiah laauea, for example, tlw individuid'a raUtkMuhip (o hia commimity and to laraal. and to worship to-
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gether. "Thia kind of program serves aa a bonding process for the group that will help ensure the success of the trip," explained Sara Jaffa Justar, Piractor c4 "AltBL"
The Shabbaton was staffed by Mrs. Juater and two chaperones, Mitchell Warren and Sorin Juater. Also in attendance was Michael Brooke, Hillel Foundation director at the Univerail^ of Michigan. Mr. Brooks was brought to Omaha through a grant &am the Eathar K. Newman
Mamorial Fund and conducted the study seasions for the Shabbaton. This retreat waa the final activity before "Artsa" iMvea for laraal on Sunday, July 81. It marked the end of the formal education eapecially designed for "ArUa" partidpanta. The students nave been attending regular atudy aeaainns since February. Studenta commented that th«y ware vary excited and a little nervous about their upcoming jounwy to the Jewiah homeland.
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Jnriakarfanii>>toiaa»d ^•paa dfaignad for youth nmn th« age (rf praaohod Uurottgh coUaga, and for Jawiah adulta, m«r wply iarhiMiairaaRUiiBKlilirK.
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Government officials did little to allay the new-bom fears. Admitting they had not anticipated the new devel^funantf. Cabinet minatera mulled over the strength of the Iraqi arnu'
Israeli and other diplomats at the United Nations in New York ssid the end of the Gulf war will shift regional tensions back to the Arab-Israel .conflict. Within a few years, the analysts 8ald,>Jraq--niay pose a miupr threat to IsIrsq has been officially in a state of war with Israel since 1946, and now posaeaaoa more than half-amilUon well-trained, combatexperienced soldiers. In addition, Iraq used chemical warfare against Iran, which poaee a new threat to Israel. Iran, meanwhile, will be able, (,0 devota mora raaodJKys to Moalam fun-
damentalism in the region once its war with Iraq ends. In Jerusalem, Zeev Schiff, the defense commentator of Haaretx, accused the government of "wasting the eight good years" when Iran and Iraq were locked in mortal combat, and "paralysis of atratagic thinking." Schiff waa implying that Israel should have used the room tha Gulf war afforded it to maneuver for more energetic efforts to reach PMPa tarma with Jordan and the Palaatiniana. Dafanaa Miniatar YiUhak RaUn, mora than any other commoitator, has put the event^ in perspective without slarm or complacency. He agreed with analyats such as Schiff. Uiat Israel "missed opportmiitiaa" in the context of diplomacy with Jordan. But Rabin said the end of the Gulf war would not mean immediate strategic dangers for Israel. For one thing, neither Iraq nor Iran will be in a poaition to deploy their forcaa against IsnM|i fpr montha or years to
AJCongress condemns Falwell statement NEW YORK-ln a 8Ut» ment by the American Jewish Congreaa, Robert K. Lifton, preaident, and Henry Siegman, executive director, oondamoed the taactiona by UM( Rev. Jerry Falwell and oUtara to the film "The Laat Taatptation of Chiiat," aaaarting that such raactiona giva riaa to "bigotry and wtl^iamiTka film, due to be rakaaad in Smtambar li^ Univaraal BtucUoa, la a fieih^fiMiiwl iffowwt f4 tho Hff of Jaaua Chrtat bnaad on the
novel by Greek writer Nikoa Kasantiakia. Soroa Christian groupa have picketed Univaraal Studioa claiming that the picture la an affront to Christian baliah and will create a strain <» JewiahChrlatian raittiana. ThaR«v.Fahni|U«k(hia ont atap further hgr airing that tlw ralaaaa of tha Blm "wlU orvata a wava af antiSamitiom in thia country" becauaa many Chriatiana would blame Unlvaraal'a "Jawlah Isadora" for what ha Odnaidtra a bUqthamaua daftic^on of Chriat.
While acknowledging the fact that films on such sensitive tas^e8 are bound to Upaat aonw people, the AJOongraaa atftamant noted that raaotiana to Dw fifan as wall w tha right to aoraan it u« both tiw axaRlaa of our conatitutlooal righta. "Howavar." aaid JJflon and fjJMrnnn. "thaauitw of oonaUtutional righta by both akiaa in thia diipuU doaa not CNate kcanaa to angaga in bigotry and uaa It < an onortunity for ant aamitlam
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After years of not-verysubtle, nudge-and-wink suggestions by senior policy makers snd othwi here that continuation of the conflict in the Peraian Gulf was essentially to Israel's advantage, Israelis are confronted by the prospect of peace between two battle-weary but battle-hardened regional powers, both fiercely hoetile to the Jewiah state.
emerging triumphant from the crucible of war. It is the Iranians, afterall, who seem to be suing for peace. Premier Yitzhak Shamir spoke of "a new era," and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres ruminated about "two previously preoccupied powers now with time on their hands," which, he seemed to intimate, could only lead to mischief.
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