WHITI3YFREE PRESS, WEDNESDAYJNY7, 1988, PAGE 7 PAGE SEVEN. APARTHEID IN ISRAEL For the last several weeks, the evening news bas contained draxnatic footage of clashes between defiant Palestinian.youths - throwing stones and botties at sonie of the best trained troops in the world. We have watched as envoys from the United Nations :ý and other international agencies have been rebuffed by the à -... Israeli gvrnent as they tried to bring some ealm and reason k to a desperate situation.9 If you think back over the last few years, you ve seen it al.... ..:ý before ...but it wasn't Israel - it was a country that Israel con- demned, as severely as everybody else - South Africa The parallels are both strïing and shocking. In. both* countriesa large population is denied most'of the normal rights of citizenship and is confined to separate enclaves. They receive substandard education, substandard sanitation and substandard housing and much of what they do get is provided through international humanitarian agencies. Their leaders are either in prison or in exile and due process of law is ail too frequently replaced by the end of a gun barreI. The onlyobvious difference between Israel and S. Africa is that black S. Africans constitute a huge'majority. Palestinans are now only a minority. But in abodrcntxteJws h carved a homland on the edge of the Arab world are very much like the Afikaaners who settled and conquered, the southern tip ____________________________________ of "the black continent. Both have only a foothold and both defend that foothold with a combination of messianic zeal and blind racism. They fbel threatened by the sea of colored faces and respond with a policy of containment. Both countries turn their backs on the world and refuse to consider either pleas or thrçats fromn allies and enemies alike. While the S, African situation is rooted in* centuries of occupation, Israel will'clebrate only its fortieth, birthday this year on May l4th. Israel was born out of terrorism - its leaders have been the leaders of Îhe Haganah, the Irgun, and the Stern gang, the Jewish guerilla, terrorist, and assassination groups ,.Who wrested Israel froni British administered, Palestine. The b'ornbing ofJerusalem's King David Hotel in July 1946 with the loas 'of almost a hundred lives was no différent from the Pales- tinfian atrocities. of recent years. To a terrorisýt, the end justifies the means. The stubbornness of Israel in ignoring the United Nations is eseilydisturbing. The birth of Israel, after aIl, Was the resuit of United Nations initiatives to provide a homeland for displaced European Jews at the end of the Second World War. But the United Nations wanted a Palestinian state created at the.same time to address Palestinian aspirations for their own self-governed homeland. In the bloodshed that followed only one new state emerged - Israel The Palestinians in the eyes of the United Nations were the original refugees, the UN's refugee commission was set up to deal with their care and resettlement - forty years later the "temporary" camps stili eist, the population bas côntinued te OUTDOOR SKAT1NG R1NK WN DOWNTOWN WHJTBY, JANUARY 1923 grow and very few have been resettled. They are refugees in On Jan. 5, 1923, mayor Richard Norman Bassett opened this outdoor skating rink on their own land. Israël has refused to consider the only reasonable'solution - Brock Street North between Heard's garage and Turansky's grocery store. Lt was provided by a searae idepnden Paestnia naioh.IroicalytheJoeeph Heard and Fred Maundrell, president of the Wihitby Amateur Athletic Aýeociation. In ex-terrorists who run srael don't think the PLO can be truted. tesmeVh ik iesre saveeal adn hitbyArchives photo But they won't trust moderates aither - a Palestinian news- paper editor on the West Bankwas arrested* for simply calling 10 YEARS AGO on the Israeli government te begin negotiations with thePLO. rmteWdsayJnuy25198dio fth With one of the mostefficient and well disciplined armies in foiteWesdyFJanuaR 5 9EdSiofh the world, Israël bas kept the Palestinians and their Arab allies Plans for a $6 million Camp X museuni were unveiled at the Wihitby Municipal Building at bay for forty- years. Like S. Africa, Israel bas repeatedly tôday. ignored international borders in its pursuit of the enemy. It bas* Sir William Stephenson, 'The Man Called Lntrepid," bas been granted the freedoni of the bombed or raided selected targets as far away as Tunisia in its Regin ofDurhanm City of Oshawa and Town of Whitby. efforts te destroy the Palestine Liberation Organization. But as* Enclosure of teAhCek o ne osrcin ileal the tont ntalse* with the African National Congress in S. Africa, the PLO gains sewers in'the core area. new strength and determination with each attack. The cost of eliminating flooding problenis on Pringle Creek could cost $5 million, says the But unlike S. Africa, Israël bas usually had a large measure Central Lake Ontario Conservation Authority. of international support - up until now. srae's heavyhanded response to the current flots in the Palestinian refugee camps 25 YEARS AGO bas been condemned aven by the, United. States, sraells from the Thursday, January 24,1963 edition of the staunchest ally. Many Jews both in srael and around the world WHITBY WEEKLY NEWS are shocked by the bloodhed and violence. a Author Leslie MeFarlane spoke in support of Canadian television at t.he insmen Civic Like S. Afficani whites, Israelis -fail to, recognize the Night, Jan. 22. legitimate- aspirations of a people whom they have displaced. a W.C. Town'Funeral Chapel. bas as ked Town Council for a $5,000 subsidy of its What is- now. Israel used to be Palestine. By sheer force and ambulance service. sher nmbes, he ewshav relacd te frme Molen 'Barry Goode is the new presidentof the Henry Street High School student council. majrity. Wens the Lesagvemme epla hormerMoPal .estnan*W hitby's Dupont plant. injected about $800,000 inte Whitby's economy in 1962 through they are forcing thein froin the land of their forefathers.- wages, taxes and purchases froni local suppliera. Lt is o longr vpryclear hat Lsael relly waTe Ltbs 0 YAS G