ant frnt",-.1 nit ".i,riterf (iv aDttsloiVica rituoYzlicazA giticrticW heir lassin Center of Fur or at Lecture BY CHARLOTTE DUBIN Ten pages in the Collins- Lapierre epic "0 Jerusalem" are devoted to the Deir Yas- sin massacre. Those 10 pages — which have opened old wounds of both Arabe, and Jews—renewed passions on Monday evening, when co- author Larry Collins spoke at tong. Beth Achim. After a lecture on his hook, Collins was asked a flurry of questions on his reportage of the 1948 inci- dent in which Arab villagers were slain by members of the Irgun and Stern Gang. To this day, Arab propagan- dists have used this single incident to brand the Is- ATTENTION PHYSICIANS We ore looking for inves- tors and potential tenants for a modest-sized medical office building to be built in. Southfield Excellent lo- cation live minutes from Providence Hospital, Sinai Hospital and Mt. Carmel Mercy Hospital. Adequate parking space. Investors May participate in design of building. Write Box 1068 The Jewish News 17515 W. 9 Mile Rd. Suite 865 Southfield, Mich. 48075 raelis as murderers. • Defenders of the Irgun counter that it was a mili- tary action and that reports of atrocities have been pure fabrication. Collins and La- pierre were accused of lean- ing over backward to present the .Arab viewpoint. Despite shouts of dissent from a member of the audi- ence, Collins stood his ground. insisting on the ac- curacy of that portion of the book. He said the testimony he used came, with but one exception, from non-Arab sources and that, after ex- haustive research and inter- views, -"we had the unhappy responsibility to print the fact." He added, however, that he considers the incident, in which "100 to 250" Arabs were killed by some 200 Is- raelis "In no way represen- tative of the values of the Israeli people, any more than My Lai represents the values of the American people." The overwhelming mass al Israelis condemned the action at Deir Yassin, said Collins, and the Jewish Agency, to its credit, de- plored the massacre. At that point, Steve Gold- in, a member of the Zion- ist-Revisionists o f Detroit, shouted from the floor that there was no mention of 200 villagers who escaped and were left in peace. The Zionist - Revisionist position, as enunciated by former Ir- gun leader Menahem Begin, is that the massacre oc- curred only when the Israelis were fired upon first. lie said the villagers had ample warning from a sound truck that they should clear out. .■■■■•• Dynamic The Tire People That Know That Care Stop by and let us HELP YOU in making your car SAFE & DEPENDABLE "Dunlop Quality Costs No More" JOE STAMELL'S DYNAMIC TIRE SALES 3026 N Woodward at 131/2 Mils Rood, Royal Oak, Mick. ► um*: 549-7350 Mon.-Thrus. 9-6;• Fri. 9-8: Sat. 9-3; Sun. 10-3 Amid shouts from other members of the audience that he sit down, Goldin yelled, "Why don't you learn Jewish history!" The disruption that fol- lowed was stilled only when Rabbi Milton Arm took the podium to tell Goldin: "You are hurting your own case, Mr. Goldin. You've prob- ably lost for your cause the sympathy of most of the people here tonight." Al- though cards were distri- buted among the audience so that questions could be submitted to the speaker, Goldin and a few others charged later that they had not been given ample op- portunity to speak. Collins said in his re- sponse to Goldin that he had no doubt 200 villagers would have escaped. However, when the Irgun-Stern sound truck preceding the Israelis into Deir Yassin fell over into a ditch, the majority of the Arabs — and the Jews as well — failed to hear the message of warning. This recollection came from the two drivers themselves, Col- lins said. Adding to the tragedy was the fact that "Deir Yassin was one of the few villages around Jerusalem that had never sheltered the gunmen of the Mufti of Jerusalem." The liagana asked the Irgun not to touch Deir Yassin, but the Irgun sought to dem- onstrate their rote in mili- tary defense and went their own way, Collins said. The Irgun leaders, trained in commando fighting, had no preparation for the kind of battle that occured in Deir Yassin, Collins said. They panicked, and the massacre ensued. Four of their own men were killed. Collins insisted that "the standard part of Arab prop- aganda that the Irgun went to Deir Yassin with a pre- ordained plan to murder all the villagers, or as a reprisal for Arab at!acks — is sheer nonsense." Ile said one of the heads of the Arab Information Of- fice whom he interviewed admitted that they had made a terrible error in 1948. They ha d broadcast everything that occured at Deir Yassin so that other Arab states would be aroused and join in • their fight. However. "the only emo- by. 1* l imns tions they inflamed were those in their own country, said Collins. The result was a massacre of the Israelis of Kfar Etzion. In its wis- dom, the Jewish Agency played down that incident so as to avoid a vendetta of unimaginable proportions, he said. Prior to the question period, chairman. Bernard Panush read a letter from a self-described member of the Arab League who praised Collins' book. The letter, which appeared in last week's Jewish News, re- ferred to a campaign of ter- ror against Jews in the U.S. The author suggested that "this fellow speaks ex-of- ficio of the Arab League. I've had less 'friendly' let- ters from the Arab League." He added that he considers the letter-bombs and other terrorist measures as "the last outburst of the Palestin- ian movement," for there is "no other way left to them to influence the course of history." Collins said the Israelis have "demonstrated they were capable of defending their frontiers against infil- tration. "Second, El Fatah was never able to fulfill the fun- damental requirement of a guerrilla organization, that of building an effective base among the Arab populations of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip." Further, "King Hussein's ; iigni in Jordan destroyed terror- ist bases. 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