The Dally Collegian Thursday, April 29,1976
Israeli
Syrian
By JERRY SCHWARTZ
Collegian Staff Writer
There is a “thin, red line”
beyond which Syria should
not go in its dealings with
Lebanon, the Israeli consul
general in Philadelphia said
yesterday.
Emannuel Shimoni,’’on
campus yesterday, saicf that
the recent incursion of a
branch of the Palestinian
Liberation Organization into
Lebanon was “in fact a
Syrian intervention by
proxy.”
“We will not interfere with
the domestic problems of a
neighboring country as long
as our security is not
threatened. We have watched
painfully our patience has
been tried,” he said.
Shimoni said he could not
reveal what the Syrians
would have to do to force the
Israelis to take action. He
said the situation in Lebanon
concerns the Israelis
because, “It is one thing
Emanuel Shim on i
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wary
invasion
having a fence-sitting
Lebanon to pur , north;' it
would be very difficult having
a hostile, active border.”
Shimoni said the war in
Lebanon is a “classical case”
which proves that “the in
stability of the Mideast is not
necessarily the result of the
Arab-Israeli conflict. The
chief element is the
Palestinians rather, the
terrorists who foster in
stability wherever they are.” '
The area’s future stability
will depend on the creation of
defensible borders for Israel,
Shimoni said.
“It makes a tremendous
difference if the boundary is
30 miles from Beersheba or 5
miles from Beersheba.
Israel’s ultimate - security
must be based on, among
other things, defensible
borders,” he said.
Although he said the
Israelis were willing to
discuss the return of some
conquered land to the Arabs,
t -i •- •*
sai'?
Shimoni said all borders will
not return to the lines that
existed before the 1967 Six-
Day War. He said Israelis
willing to. abandon set
.lements which have since
been built in the conquered
lands, providing that an
acceptable pdace treaty is
written.
If and when the settlements
are ceded, Shimoni said the
Jews may decide to stay,
"We don’t accept the
concept that Jordan must be
Judenrein (free of Jews) any
more than we accept the idea
that Israel shoud be
Arabrein,”he said.
Shimoni defended Israel’s
treatment of the Arabs within
its borders, claiming that
there is no official
discrimination in Israel. “We
Israelis will be judged from a
moral point ,of view by the
way we treat our minorities,”
he said.
Still he said many
minorities in Israel are
dissatisfied, citing the
election of a Communist
mayor in Nazareth and the
riots that followed in Arab
villages. He said that the
Jews and Arabs in Israel
could “live in happy
coexistence” if there were no
conflict between Israel and
UN policy called racist
By EVE MARKOWITZ
Collegian Staff Writer
The. United Nations has
degenerated into a voicepiece
for certain power groups,
Israeli Consul General
Emanuel Shimoni said;to a
HUB audience last night.
He said the current prin
ciple ,at the United Nations
seems to be that “things are
never so bad that they can’t
be made worse.,”
“We have seen the head of a
terrorist organization, with a
holster at his hip, being given
’red carpet treatment,”
Shimoni said.
He.said that it should be “a
t matter of concern for all
people in the civilized world”
when the General Assembly
of the United Nations adopts a
resolution that Zionism is , a
form of racism.
Zionism, Shimoni ex
plained, underlies the “law of
return” instituted in 1948,
when; Israel became an in
dependent state. Israel was
established in, the Jews’
ancient homeland to receive
Jews who chose to emigrate
after the Nazi genocide' of
World War 11, Shimoni said.
“Israel was to be the one
places’ in the world in which
Jews might not be a
minority,” he said.
Shimoni said that since
the Arab countries,
Shimoni, who is ending a,
tour of duty in Philadelphia
that began in 1972, termed his
position as “a public relations
job,” and said he also serves
as a listening post for the
Israeli government. He said
he has not been asked to
report much information to
Jerusalem'on the elections,
which he said “doesn’t really
effect policy or planning on a
day-to-day basis.
“But the average Israeli is
very conscious of the
significant role the United
States plays in the Mideast”
he said. They look at each of
the candidates and decide if
they are good for Israel or
bad for Israel. There is much
coverage of the United States,
much more than of any other
country in the world.”
Shimoni said the United
States’ backing of Israel was
based, not on the support of
the American Jewish com
munity, but on the “basic
interests of' the United
States **
“Let’s no kid ourselves. We
know we’re a good customer,
in terms of repayment,” he
said, noting that there is also
an ideological tie with Israel
that would prevent the two
countries from drifting apart.
1948, the Arab-Israeli conflict
has existed because of
terrorist efforts to “un
dermine the credibility, and
indeed, very physical
existence of Israel.”
They chose to undermine
militarily through war,
economically through
blockades and pressure on
Third World allies of Israel,
and politically by trying to
isolate Israel from the United
Nations, Shimoni said.
When these methods failed
to destroy Israel, he said,
Israel’s enemies “did the next
best thing they tried to
blacken Israel in the minds of
people of the world with the
worst possible 1 name
racists. ■ *
As to .whether, Israel was
racist in practicing genocide
agai'nst its non-Jewish
citizens, Shimoni replied that
the question was
ludicrous Israel’s native
non-Jewish population has
been “reduced”' from 200,000
to half a million since
statehood.
Stressing that the term
racism has been unfairly
applied to Israel, Shimoni
said that a Jew is no better
before the alw than any other
Israeli citizen who may not be
Jewish.” i -
Shimoni said that Israel
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House passes vet
By MARK GRIFFITH
Collegian Staff Writer
Veteran benefit increases
moved closer to final ap
proval yesterday when the
House voted to add $l.B billion
to fiscal 1977’s Veterans-
Administration (VA) budget.
Dwayne Fagan, second vice
president ot the Penn State
Veterans Organization
(PSUVO), said' vets should
push for the passage of an
additional amendment, to be
introduced by the end of this
week, which would add $5OO
million more to the VA
budget.
The passage of yesterday’s
amendment may have' paved
the way for the passage of the
additional amendment, which
has already been' passed by
the Senate, Fagan said.
Fagan and Bob
Daiighenbaugh, chairman of
PSUVO’s Legislative Affairs
Committee, had just returned
from Washington, D.C.,
where they have been in
volved in a last minute at
tempt to aid the passage of
the amendments.
depends on the United States
to maintain the balance of
power in the Mid East and to
promote peaceful negotia
tions. ,
"Maintaining the balance
of power” would require the
United States to continue to
help Israel militarily,
Shimoni said.
' “This is not so that we can
win the next war,” he said.
“Israel would like very much
to avoid the next war.”
If Israel acquired even one
fourth the weapons the Arab
states possess, it could
convince the Arabs that they
can’t win the next war either,
he said.
Israel’s use - of nuclear
weapons is highly im
probable, Shimoni said: “We
will not be the first to in
troduce nuclear weapons into
the Mid East.”
Shimoni said U.S. aid
wouldn’t lead to “another
Vietnam” because Israel
ddoes not request American
soldiers.
“Not a single American has
been asked to fight for Israel
and not a single American has
died for us,” he said.
Obstacles to be overcome
include the budget conference
committee, which will at
tempt to iron out the dif
ferences between the House
and Senate versions, of the
fiscal 1977 budget, will be the
first obstacle for the amend
ments’ sponsors to over
come. Then, authorization
and appropriation bills, will
have to be drafted, introduced
and passed before veterans
will be able to benefit from
the. budget increases', he
added.
The major areas of con
centration for veterans af
fairs in Washington, Fagan
said, are the extension of the
delimiting date and the
continuation of the Veterans
Cost of Instruction Payment
(VCIP) program.
The delimiting date is the
date when a veteran’s
educational benefits ex
pire currently 10 years
after his date of discharge.
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used in existing atomic 'Stratton, Wilson and other and Development
Sower SantT experts at an American Administration is’bulldog
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Alamos Scientific ference contradicted the reactor, so called because.
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that the worst accident it is design reference accident reactors
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probably could never Stratton told UPI. which are cooled by water
Exm ’ “This has been kind of under high pressure the
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University? said the time, and I, think we are atmospheric pressure.
Divers 'monopolize' in water
About 100 certified scuba
divers will sink or swim this
week as they attempt to break
a 300-hour Guinness record of
playing Monopoly un
derwater. !
The Nittany Divers Club
will begin its -underwater
Monopoly game in the
Natatorium’s diving well
today and will finish May 16,
17 days- later (about 400
hours).
The-VA budget amendment
passed, yesterday allocated
$6lO million for the extension
of the delimiting date.
The VCIP program pays
participating colleges and
universities a set amount for
every veteran enrolled. The
money, received by Penn
State is used to maintain the
Veterans Affairs .Office in
Boucke.
In other action, Barry.
Lasky defeated Chuck Allen
for the position of fourth vice
president in charge of
membership - 20-12. - Lasky
replaces Carl Lepping, who
had to resign before the
, normal end of his term
because of his re-entering the
armed services at the end of ..... .
Spring Term. Fagan added that a good
Also, PSUVO will hold a showing at Impact Day will
block party May 15, the last aid the passage of necessary
Saturday before the end of the veterans legislation,
term. The party, which will) Interested vets can sign up at
run from 3. p.m. to 11 p.m., the PSUVO table in the HUB
will feature five live bands- tomorrow and Monday.
Dave Prutzman, president
of the club and manager of
the. event said' that . the
members are waterproofing
the actual Monopoly .game
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two pieces of unbreakable to the public 24 hours a day.
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J the Red Cross Water Safety
Prutzman said the Nittany Program and to the Penn-
Divers'Club hopes to out-play sylvania Association for
the University of lowa club, Retarded Children for water
which is currently attempting activities.
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