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...year Jordan's tourist income amounted to more than $35 million-most of it coming from Christians visiting the Old City. Israel's position is equally tough. "Jerusalem is not negotiable," says an aide to Premier Levi Eshkol. At most, the Israelis might agree to internationalization of non-Jewish shrines in the Old City-a solution favored by many Christian leaders...
...that Kiesinger was indeed a close and trusted friend. The paper that Marx founded in 1946 has been on intimate terms with top Bonn politicians since the establishment of the West German Republic. It wields an influence far beyond its 50,000 circulation, most of which goes to non-Jewish readers. The Jewish Weekly has not only served as the uncontested voice of Germany's diminished Jewish population of 30,000 (from a prewar 500,000), it has also played a major role in shaping German policies. It was instrumental in persuading Konrad Adenauer to make financial restitution...
...Olga Wormser angrily pointed out that non-Jews had also been forced by the Nazis to collaborate with their murderers. French Writer David Rousset, a non-Jew who survived Buchenwald and other camps, assailed Treblinka for "abounding in racist formulas. In fact, it (racism) is his central point of view." Others noted that the inmates of the Nazi death camps were usually too weak, too demoralized and too quickly put to death to have much chance of forming revolts. Besides, the Jews were no different from the 6,000,000 or so non-Jewish prisoners who also went quietly...
...comeback, sneered that if the trials were to continue, "war criminals" on the Russian side should be tried too. But Chancellor Erhard and the Bundestag extended the statute. In a moving speech on the site of the Belsen concentration camp, President Heinrich Lübke recalled that many non-Jewish Germans were executed or imprisoned for opposing the Nazi regime. "Their number is many times larger than the number of hangmen. Their death and suffering make us part of the international solidarity of all men and women who fight and die for freedom, and they unite our people...
...Rabbinical Assem bly. Speaking at the Catskills' Concord Hotel to the annual convention of Conservative rabbis, Kelman argued that while in prewar Europe Jewish partners in a mixed marriage customarily abandoned their faith, the opposite is true in the U.S. now. Today, he declared, "a large number of non-Jewish part ners are willing and eager to convert to Judaism...