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VOL.66   NO.3
JANUARY 21,1988-SHEVAT2
Devoted to American
and Jewish Ideals.
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Gaia Unrest Triggers Questions For U.S. Jews
Rabbi Bradley Bleefeld Presides
Over Rabbinic Cabinet Luncheon
Rabbi Bradley Bleefeld presided over the El-Al
luncheon in Jerusalem at the King David Hotel for the
Rabbinic Cabinet of Israel Bonds. The National Rabbinic Cabinet of Israel Bonds met last week in Jerusalem to assess the political and economic conditions
of Israel in 1988. .'■'%.}).■ ^   :    ji,
NEW YORK (JTA) - As
violence in the Gaza Strip
and West Bank continues to
pit Israeli soldiers against
Palestinian youths, American Jews are- examining
their relationship to Israel to
an extent perhaps not seen
since the Lebanon War.
Quietly and with some discomfort, American Jews are
heard asking:
Is it a duty to defend Israel's actions when it is "set
upon" by the news media? Is
it fair for diaspora Jews to
criticize Israel? Must all
criticism of Israel be kept
"in the family" and not
shared with the non-Jewish
majority? And will, images
of unrest erode support for
Israel, or even lead to anti-
Semitism?
"The concern is compar
able to what is was during
the Lebanon war and the
Pollard (spy) affair," remarked Martin Raff el,
director of the Israel Task'
Force of the National Jewish
Community Relations Advisory Council. He said he
based his evaluation on the
dozens of calls he has received from local community relations councils.
He said "the primary complaint — beyond the events
themselves, the loss of live—
is with media coverage,
which many feel has been
excessively harsh."
"I also think there's some
real frustration at speaking
out," he said.iBecause the
situations in Gaza and the
West Bank "are ugly, and
the Israelis themselves have
said that not all situations
BEHIND THE HEADLINES
Deportation Policy Rooted In British Mandate Laws
TEL AVIV (JTA) - There
is more than a little irony in
Israel's policy of deporting
Palestinian troublemakers.
Nineteen have been expelled from the administered territories during the
past two years and deportation orders were issued
against nine others recently.
The legal basis derives from
the British Mandate's defense emergency regulations
of 1945.
The irony lies in the fact
that those very same regulations were applied to deport
members of Haganah and of
the dissident underground
Irgun and Stern gang to such
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places as Kenya and the Seychelles before Israel was
founded.
Many of the Israel leaders**'
now deporting Palestinians
were once members of Haganah, the Irgun orthe Stern-
ists. , ■■'.
On the diplomatic front, Israel's expulsions have elicited uniform condemnation
from its Western friends and
allies. It is based on the
Geneva Conventions, expe-
cially the Fourth Convention
of 1949 on the rights and obligations of occupying powers,
which states that deportations must not be carried out
from territories occupied
during war.
Israeli officials and experts on international law
point out that the relevant
text—paragraph 49—refers
to the mass deportations of
populations from territories
of another nation captured in
war.
Foreign Ministry legal expert Ronni Sabel stresses
, that neither the West Bank
nor the Gaza Strip can be regarded as "foreign . territory" and that there is no
question of "mass deportations/'The expulsions apply
only to a relatively few agitators and ringleaders.
An Israel Defense Force
spokesman further narrowed it down to "particularly disruptive individuals" in "exceptional circumstances, when previous
means have proved insufficient to stop activity
presenting  a  clear  and
present danger to the security or public safety of the region."
Sabel observed that the
differentiation between
"mass deportations" and the
expulsions ordered by Israel.
has been borne out of the International Red Cross and
prominent international
legal experts.
It has also been upheld by
numerous rulings of Israel's
Supreme Court
Moreover, the court rulings extend the safeguards
of due legal process to
potential deportees. They
may appeal the expulsion
orders to a military board of
review and, if unsuccessful,
to the high court itself.
Sabel and other Israeli jurists also maintain that Israel
is not "deporting" individuals in the generally
accepted meaning of the
word.
Rather, Israel is transferring West Bank residents
(who still hold * Jordanian
passports and are governed
by Jordanian law), administered by Israel in a territory
not incorporated into Israel,
from one part of what Jordan still considers its territory to another part of that
territory across the Jordan
River.
According to Sabel, refusal by Jordan to accept
such individuals would be
illegal, because iio country
may, under international
law, refuse to accept its own
citizens deported from £jp-
other country.
have been handled with utmost restraint," how to
interpret the unrest publicly
is "difficult and complex."
A case in point is Los
Angeles, where, according to
Steven Windmueller, there
are "certain frustrations"
among some Jewish leaders
with Israeli policy in the administered territories. But
because so much of the local
But that reasoning has
dangerous pitfalls. It can be
interpreted as implying that
the West Bank remains a
part of Jordan, a view that is
anathema to Israeli right-
wingers.
If Israel has to incorporate
the West Bank, as the right-
wing parties demand, it
would be deporting its own
citizens, and Jordan would
have the legal right to refuse
to accept them.
To resolve the dilemma,
Israeli officials say the political echelon must seek a
compromise between the
demands of the Defense
Ministry and the military
authorities, who stress
security with little regard
for Israel's image around
the world, and those of the
Foreign Ministry, whose
prime concern is diplomatic
relations.
- In addition to the nine
Palestinians under deportation orders, there are
presently about 5<) in administrative detention, according to sources in the
IDF.
This, too, is a holdover
from the British Mandate,
which allows preventive arrests and detentions for up to
six months without formal
charges.
Other punitive measures
allowed are restricted movements and bans on travel
abroad for persons classified
as "political subversion
activists"
coverage of the unrest is
negative — Windmueller
calls the Los Angeles Times'
coverage "very harsh" —
most leaders have agreed
not to air those frustrations.
Windmueller, executive
director of the Community
Relations Committee of the
Jewish Federation Council
in Los Angeles, said that
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Sandra Dubin (left) and Bonnie Greenball have
teamed upto chair the Fifth Annual Mother-Daughter
Day at the Jewish Center on Sunday,March 13.,
Sandra Dubin, Bonnie Greenball
To Co-Chair Mother-Daughter Day
Sandra Dubin and Bonnie
Greenball were selected to
be co-chairwomen of the Leo
Yassenoff Jewish Center's
fifth annual Mother-Daughter Day. They, along with
their committee, have
already begun working on
the event, which is scheduled
for Sunday, March 13.
Dubin is communications
director for Action for Children and consultant for
Jewish Family Service.
Greenball is a senior at Bexley High School. The two
have been working on the
Mother-Daughter Day Committee for the past four
years.
"It is a celebration year
for the program. For Bonnie
and me, it is a particular
milestone — a chance to
team up during this, her senior year. It is a kind of bittersweet experience," said
Dubin.
Greenball agreed. "It will
definitely be a nostalgic year
for my mom and me, but we
hope it will be special for
everyone. We are really ex-
citedabqut this year's event,
especially the fashion
show!"
Because this is the fifth annual program and many felt
there was a need for a
change, the traditional program has been slightly
altered. Plans include a luncheon, a series of new workshops and an all-new fashion
show concept.
Mother-Daughter Day is
an award-winning program
for girls in grades 7-12 and
their mothers. For further
information, contact Jodi
Small at the Center, 231-2731.
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