ISRAEL ASKS U,S, TO SAVE THE KURDS

The Israel Foreign Minister David Levy called on the U,S. and other interested countries to do more to stop the Iraqi attacks against their own Kurdish population, Levy was most critical of the coalition far remaining idle when so many innocent people were being killed or starved to death by Saddam Hussein each day, Levy said that the matter was not, as the Americans said, an internal one. It could be compared to the Allies in the Second World War trying to defeat Hitler, but stopping to advance when they had reached the German border, Several hundred Jews of Kurdish origin, some dressed in Kurdish national costume, held a protest rally outside the Prime Minister's office at the same time as Secretary of State Baker was to meet with Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir; Photo shows: The picture shows a group of protestors outside the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, They say not enough is being done to help the Kurds. The woman in the centre of the picture is the Labour member of Knesset Shoshana Arbeli-Almozlino, herself of Kurdish origin.