1988

Peace Now celebrates 10th year

TEL AVIV, April 4 - The Peace Now movement, which began in 1978 as a counterforce to nationalist demands that Israel permanently retain all of the Arab territories it captured in 1967, is celebrating its 10th anniversary this week, at a time when Israelis are sharply divided over the situation in the territories and their future status.

In 1978, 348 Israel Defense Force reserve officers, the nucleus of the movement, signed a letter to then Premier Menachem Begin warning him that the "Eretz Yisrael" (Greater Israel) movement could not bring peace.

In an advertisement published in Israeli newspapers today, Peace Now called for the acceptance of the "land for peace" formula.

Larouche organization fields 16 candidates

NEW YORK, April 5 - Sixteen members of the Lyndon Larouche organization have filed petitions to run on the Democratic ticket in the June 7 Iowa primary for state legislative and U.S. congressional seats.

Racist discourse and anti-Zionist statements and literature are often included in LaRouche campaign rhetoric.

Bonn may resume aid to Syria

BONN, April 6 - West Germany's minister for economic cooperation, Hans Klein, was scheduled to fly today to Syria to discuss the resumption of Bonn's financial assistance to Damascus. The assistance was frozen in 1986.

Bonn continues to ignore calls, especially from abroad, to pressure Damascus to extradite Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner, accused of sending thousands of Jews and others to concentration camps during World War II.

Genocide law coming

WASHINGTON, April 6 The long effort to make genocide a crime in the United States may finally be realized if Congress, as expected, adopts legislation implementing the United Nations convention against genocide this month.

Woman born in camps denied a pension

BONN, April 7 - Miriam Turgeman-Lewald, 44, an Israeli born in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, has again been denied a pension as reparation for her suffering.

District Court judges in the West German town of Celle, site of the camp, ruled that Turgeman-Lewald, who is disabled and seriously ill, could not be said to have lived in Germany since one cannot consider a concentration camp a lasting residence." Thus as a stateless person, she is not eligible for a permanent pension.

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New York City Mayor Edward Koch told reporters April 1 that Jews would be "crazy" to vote for Jesse Jackson, because of the Democratic presidential hopeful's support of PLO leader Yasir Arafat.

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"1988" contains excerpts from Jewish Telegraphic Agency reports selected by, and appearing exclusively in, the Jewish Star.