Friday, April 19, 1974-15 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Classified Ads Get Fast Results ilideast 'Intellectual' Clovis Maksoud Drings Message to Detroit; But It's an Old Tune With New Lyrics It I-N)r e liaetttecrhr" t than Ireay cei t i s I ;1 but Father has found out the cost is just about the same in • An Invitation to Holiday Worship YOM HAZIKORON and YOM HOATZMAUT (Day of Remembrance) (Israel Independence Day) THE SERVICE WILL FOLLOW THE ESTABLISHED ORDER AS IT IS OBSERVED IN THE STATE OF ISRAEL at Young Israel of Oak Wood . 24061 Coolidge, Oak Park GUEST SPEAKER: MOSES SCHONFELD U.N. correspondent on middle-east affairs Under Auspices: Detroit Israel Bond Committee Sponsored by: Young Israel Congregations of Greenfield, Oak-Woods, Southfield; Religious Zionists of America, Mizrachi Hakotel Chapter & Bnai Akiva. By CHARLOTTE DUBIN The League of Arab States sent a special envoy to the United States to bring a new message of peace and under- standing. But in his address before the Economic Club of Detroit Monday afternoon, Clovis Maksoud brought an old Arab message couched in pretty English: "The existence of Israel as an exclusively Jewish state is an intellectual anachronism served by modern technol- ogy." Some 500 members of the club and their wives, as well as guests from the Jewish and Arab communities, were present at the luncheon, held in the Veterans Memorial Building. One observer noted that this would not be con- sidered a good crowd; Cabo Hall is reserved for drawing- card speakers. IVIaksoud, who was intro- duced by Congresswoman Martha Griffiths as a "Middle East intellectual," has been in this country for three months in an effort to ex- plain the Arab side of the Middle East conflict. He is Soft d spreadable even when ice cold! 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GUARANTEED FRESH WHEN YOU BUY IT— OR YOUR MONEY BACK FROM 0.v ■ sion of Krattco Corporation headquartered at the Arab the oil embargo—as a polit- Information Center of the ical maneuver by the Arab League of Arab States in states—and the decision by the Organization of Oil-Pro- Washington, D. C. Bright (he is senior editor ducing Countries to raise the of Beirut's daily, An-Nahar) price of crude oil. The latter was strictly an and ingratiating (he served as Arab League ambassador economic measure, he said; to India and Southeast Asia the resulting oil wealth is for five years), Maksoud needed to develop "our insti- stressed to his Detroit audi- tutional infrastructure" in ence the importance of bus- "third world" Arab countries. iness contacts with the Arab Maksoud said it will require states and invited the for- $22,000,000,000 in investment in the Arab countries to raise mation of a trade mission. He appealed for an end to the per capital income of the the "misunderstanding" of Arabs to $100. "You have an the past and a new era of ocean of affluence with em- "affection" and "understand- barrassing pockets of pover- ing" between the Arab states ty," he said, "while we have an ocean of poverty with em- and America. barrassing pockets of afflu- But when it came to Is- ence." rael, the story had not (Although Maksoud empha- changed. sized the consensus, the Maksoud spelled out his "communality of destiny," of objection to Israel as a Jew- the Arab peoples, he did not ish state: "That description suggest that the new oil entails discrimination against wealth be used to alleviate non-Jews. I wouldn't feel hu- the plight of the Palestinian manly comfortable when I refugees, whose sorry state see discrimination institu- he blamed on Israel.) tionalized." Maksoud said the October He admitted that discrimi- war "introduced new situa- nation is practiced in "many tions" in the Mideast. While of our Arab countries" but the Arabs did not achieve a "so do you in America." (Sev- decisive military victory, "we eral guests took exception to did achieve a defeat of the the comparison, noting that 196'7 defeat. It became nec- the persecution of the rem- essary for Israel to recon- nant of Jews in Syria is not cile itself to our capacity to comparable to discrimina- be equal." tion practiced in this coun- The second important re- try. But the kind of ques- sult of the war, he said, was tioning permitted at the Ec- that Israel, which had "posed onomic Club luncheon—ques- as a protector of American tions prepared on cards in interests in the Middle East, advance — didn't allow for now showed itself to be in any challenge to the speak- need of American protec- er.) tion." Maksoud went on: "The Maksoud suggested that .Palestinians are saying no the U.S. "exercise its cred- Jew in Israel today, irre- ible leverage on Israel" so spective of the reasons he the latter "would cease to came, no Jew should be dis- conceive of itself as privi- qualified from that area be- leged." He said that the Arab cause he is a Jew. But he states do not consider the should not be entitled to ad- U.S. policy balanced when it ditional privileges because equates a population of 25,- he is a Jew." Maksoud added 000,000 with a country of 3,- that one fact "not well 000,000. However, on this known" is that "many Jews score, he said he was confi- in Israel are Arabs." dent of a new era of under- He held out little hope for standing with the United Mideast negotiations as long States and its "most distin- as Israel sees withdrawal guished secretary of state," from occupied territory and Henry Kissinger. the issue of the Palestinian refugees as items for con- cession. The Arabs look upon Harassed Yeshiva these as "recognized Arab Journal Wins Prize rights," he said. "The word NEW YORK (JTA) — An negotiation is a palatable English-Yiddish journal pub- word to bestow on Israel a lished by a student commit- form of further procrastina- tee for Yiddish at the Flat- tion," he said. bush Yeshiva in Brooklyn, In response to a query on over the strong opposition of the use of the oil embargo the yeshiva administration, weapon, Maksoud comment- has received a first place ed: "If Israel keeps on pro- award in the 50th annual crastinating—and if the Unit- contest of the Columbia ed States doesn't dissociate Scholastic Press Association, itself from Israel's procrasti- an affiliate of Columbia Uni- nation—the oil embargo will versity. The CSPA is the central organization for stu- be an effective option." But, he added, he has rea- dent publications in the son to believe that "the Unit- United States. ed States will not associate Aleichem Sholem won first with Israel's procrastination, place in the annual news- so the question is academic." magazine contest in nation- Maksoud insisted that the wide competition, according oil embargo should be viewed to David Kotz, founder and as simply a "strike weapon" editor-in-chief. The Student that was imposed "as an in- Committee for Yiddish has centive to bring about an end been using the publication in to the blackout with regard a campaign to get Yiddish to the Arab basic position." into the curriculum of the He differentiated between yeshiva.