Shamir Denies Shin Bet Charges
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
o PITTSBURGH *P PENNSYLVANIA VOL. 25, NO. 21 - THIRTY-TWO PAGES "A seeing eye, a hearing ear, and all deeds written... " Thursday, July 10, 1986, Tammuz 3, 5746 ETHICS OF THE FATHERS Shamir denies Shin Bet charges Some airports No knowledge abet terrorism of slayings, --Netanyahu ex-PM claims JERUSALEM, (JTA) - Deputy JERUSALEM, (JTA) - Binyamin Premier Yitzhak Shamir broke his offi Netanyahu, Israel's Ambassador to cial silence on the Shin Bet affair by the United Nations, claimed that the contradicting everything former Shin Palestine Liberation Organization uses Bet chief Avraham Shalom said of duty-free shops and stands at several Shamir's knowledge of events sur European airports to pass along wea rounding the capture and subsequent pons, explosives, money and docu unexplained deaths of two Arab bus ments to terrorists for attacks on civil hijackers while in the custody of Shin aviation. Bet police in April, 1984. " Shamir, who was Prime Minister at the Netanyahu made the charge in an inter time of the occurrences and therefore the view published in Maariv. He said terror authority to which Shin EJet was solely ists made use of the PLO facilities to responsible, dis-j smuggle explosives avowed any knowl-1 into or oat of the Day of the Dolphin edge or irregularities countries, without until eight months i having to pass ago. In an extensive through security interview published checks. He did not in Yediot Achronot, | name the airports or Shamir, who is For- | the countries. eign Minister and According to Neta leader of Likud, nyahu, terrorist maintained that in B. Netanyahu attacks on airlines the highest echelons Y. Shamir have decreased of government "nobody knew." sharply since the U.S. air strike against Libya last May 14. His statements flatly contradicted the statement by former Shin Bet chief Avra ham Shalom that he had acted with He said there has been a parallel "authority and permission" in every aspect improvement in airline security and that of the case. Shalom offered that defense in U.S. airlines were approaching Israel for applying for a Presidential pardon when he help to improve security measures. resigned as head of Israel's internal secur- Netanyahu said the Western nations are ' ity services two weeks ago, after being beginning to .understand that civil airlines accused by former Shin Bet operatives of are a link between countries "and when the ordering the hijackers to be killed and terrorist virus infiltrates one of them," it engaging in an elaborate cover-up, includ WAVING down one of Israel's new Dolphin anti-submarine helicopters aboard a endangers all the airlines." ing perjury at two subsequent quasi-judicial missile boat of the navy is a naval crewman. (Religious News Service Photo.) inquiries. Shamir has vigorously opposed any 12th consecutive year form of investigation on grounds that a probe of Ship Bet activities would seriously compromise State security. But the For Disabled Israeli vets frolic eign Minister has himself been implicated indirectly in the charges brought against By IRIS M. SAMSON, News Editor Shalom because he headed the Likud-led government in April, 1984. You would think they'd be bitter. chairman Sandy Kushner, the program is Carol Adelsheimer and her husband, He told Yediot Achronot that he first Assembled were 10 men completely supported through the efforts of and women, Harry, have been involved with the pro learned of alleged irregularities in the han private individuals. Working in tandem young and old. Some were missing gram for the past 12 years, and have dling of the bus hijackers last October 29 with Beit Halochem, "House of Warriors", limbs; others had suffered severe themselves hosted four veterans over the from Reuven Hazak, former deputy chief the organization that helps rehabilitate burns, paralysis, loss of eyesight or years. of Shin Bet. Hazak was one of three senior wounded Israeli soldiers-Americans hearing-yet each was proud of the con "Last year 1 was co-chairman, so this operatives dismissed by Shalom who filed arrange to host veterans in cities around tribution he or she had made for their |Complaints against him with former Attor the-U.S. (Continued on Page 30, Col. 1.) country. ney General Yitzhak Zamir. Asked how he Who are these extraordinary people? as Prime Minister could not have known Disabled Israeli veterans, a group who about such serious charges, Shamir rep came here through a 12 year old program lied, "I wasn't the only one who didn't begun by Sylvia Robinson and continued know. Nobody knew." 'nrough the generosity of Pittsburghers. 'he Disabled Israeli Veterans program An Insider's Look brings soldiers who have suffered a dis abling injury of 45% or more here for two weeks. • HOLOCAUST not a 'sacred' subject, by Joel Roteman. Page 2. They come to the U.S. to tour, to taste American life, and to share, in a unique, dose relationship the bonds between Jews • GREENING of Israel now the Diaspora and Israel. through investments, by Joel "We go happily into the armed servi- Roteman. Page 8. ces," veteran Shimon El Ram noted, explaining the group's position. "Service to • STOPPING to explore aliya in our country is so important. We're taught progress, by Margery Meyers. to give to the country, not to take." Page 13. One way American Jews show their appreciation for this selflessness is through • MARKETING moves 'music' THIS year's Israeli vets. Front row, from left: Tuvia Wachsman, Nachman Moshe, 'he Disabled Veteran's program. Headed to PSOear, by Mark Kanny. Page Hanoch Aharoni, Daniela Shitrit, Eli Chazan and Shlomo Givaty. Back row, from left: this year by Carol Adelsheirher and co- 19. Uri Askenazy, Avi Maman, Eliahu Guri and Shimon El Ram. 2-The Jewish Chronicle of Pittsburgh, Thursday, July 10, 1986, Tammuz 3, 5746 'Holocaust is not a sacred subject' By JOEL ROTEMAN, Executive Editor The Holocaust, maintains Dr. Raul Hilberg, profes victims".. "There has been an exter sor of political science at Vermont U. and a key Holo Fortunately, Hilberg nal change in the way people caust scholar, "is not an isolated, sacred subject." Nor explains, sometimes the feel. We are at the end of an paper outlasts the stone. "has it escaped politics," he said in a major address to era of 150 years of confi "Which will last longer-that dence the American Jewish Press Association annual meeting in Western progress. meaningless statue or the Our feeling now is of hel at Brandeis. paper which tells about the plessness. Our basic confi For Dr. Hilberg, author of tragedy of Babi Yar? You dence has been smashed." "The Destruction of the transformed Israel in our gentlemen are the paper." Instead of Vietnam, Jick European Jews," there have eyes. They were victorious Dr. Leon Jick, professor of pinpoints the 1960's War on been "three unique Jewish- but there was much finger- Jewish Studies at Brandeis Poverty. "The student revolt life experiences: emancipa pointing" because of the and chairman of the National was the flashpoint-fulfill the tion; Israel and the Holo great cost incurred. US Holocaust Commission, promise-now!" caust." Jews began groping for both agreed and disagreed Those students of the 60's In 1948, the question was, something more pristine, with Hilberg's assessments. were called radicals-"they according to Hilberg, how more clear and they redisco "When did Holocaust weren't radical; they were could the Germans have vered the Holocaust. "A DR. RAUL HILBERG DR. LEON JICK become a Jewish word?" he romantic, trying to achieve done this. "The general feel handful of Holocaust survi Does paper outlast stone? asked. "The change began an unrealistic dream. Now, ing in the US was, 'Let's get vors at the forefront have with the Eichmann trial and we are in despair and it this stuff over with.' No one rekindled most of the inter are reenactments of the kil million is needed to maintain more especially with the shows in the strength of fun wanted to consider the after est." ling." it with staff and to date only 1967 Six Day War, when we damentalism in religion. effects on the Jews." He cited three examples of Hilberg claims the US $23 million has been faced the possibility that the Despair and all related phen Just a few years later, eve this renewed interest: 1. the Holocaust Council "started pi -Jged. Holocaust wasn't finished; omena are dangerous, for ryone considered the topic of film, "Shoah," a 9'/2 hour under President Carter a ''Jealousy surfaces every that the threat was still pres despair is essential to create the Holocaust a forgotten work by Claude Lanzmann pure political move tied to the day among the various ent." holocausts. Despair was issue. "But in the 1960's, who worked 10 years, with Camp David talks." groups. Everything is a com Dr. Jick feels Vietnam, the Hitler's catalyst. Phase Two of the Holocaust out funds, "who filmed 350 Although a member of the petition for the bucks." Civil Rights Movement also "What we must learn from story began, particularly hours of documentary, with Council, Dr. Hilberg speaks Hilberg asks, "Do we accelerated interest in the the Holocaust is resistance to with the Eichmann trial. out retakes, and with just one -s being an outsider. really need a building? We Holocaust. "In some circles despair and courage to face "In the 1970's, Phase camera"; "All of the decisions are know the period of forgetting it now seems an obsession." the problems. Rabbi Kahane Three began, with wides 2. The Office of Special made by the inner circle of and yet, what ensures There are two risks in this is not the lesson-to become pread coverage in films, Investigations (OSI); and, 3.