Prof. Andrei Sakharov, Nobel Peace Prize winner, issued a letter condemning the terrorist massacre. The letter, as released here today by the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry and Union of Councils for Soviet Jews, declared:
“The world has become witness to yet another dreadful crime, the murder of women and children in Israel by Palestinian terrorists.
“Our hearts are filled with pain and sympathy for the victims of this crime and for their families. This crime was perpetrated just two days after Yasir Arafat was received in the Kremlin by the most senior leaders of the Soviet government, and at the time and in circumstances that there appeared, at last, the possibility of a just settlement of the protracted dispute between Israel and the peoples of the Arab countries.
“These peoples are beginning to realize who is their enemy and who is their friend. But it is precisely this which does not appeal to the terrorists or to their protectors. Shame on the organizers, and shame on those who inspire them to their common crime! Shame on the murderers of children”
Last Sunday Sakharov led a demonstration in Moscow to protest the PLO attack.
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