A proposal to exchange Arab terrorists for Syrian Jews held virtual captives In that country may soon be brought up in the Knesset, It was learned today. The proposal was made at a symposium on Syrian Jews discussing their plight and ways to rescue them. According to Dov Barnea, one of the participants this was a realistic bargaining point which the Arabs might accept.
Dr. Benjamin Halevi, a Gahal MK and member of the Knesset Foreign Affairs Committee, said he would present the proposal in the form of a motion at the next meeting of the committee. Another proposal was made to inform the Syrian authorities that persons held responsible for torturing Imprisoned Jews would be brought to Israel to face trial “like Adolf Eichmann.” Eichmann, the Gestapo official In charge of the mass deportation of Jews during World War II, was kidnapped In Argentina by Israeli agents In 1960 and was tried and executed as a war criminal in Israel the following year.
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