2 January 9, 1976

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Purely Commentary

By Philip
Slomovitz

Incredibility Predominates and Fantasy Makes the
Anti-Israel Lie the Rule in Poisoning the Jewish Vic-
tims . . . Threat of Destruction. Placed on Record

Let There Be an End to Terror and Condoning Murderers

Algeria grants asylum to murderers . . . In New York PLO terrorists boast cf being
the perpetrators of the horrible crime at the TWA terminal . . . In the United Nations
a pistol-toting terrorist taunts the diplomats and gets a rousing welcome to the society
of nations which has become a negation of civilization.
But newsmen and editorial writers pontificate and advise Israel to behave.
"Jews be nice" has again become a motto. "Bend a little," Israel is told. "You are
belligerent" has become a common phrase addressed to Jews and Israelis in the interna-
tional forums.
Meanwhile terror begets terror, murderers have become statesmen, the menace that
began with anti-Jewish propagandists has turned into a calamity for mankind.
Even if PLO merely boasted about responsibility for the horror at LaGuardia Air-
port, the guilt is evident. The murderous PLOs are acting with the encouragement of the
Arab states. They are financed by the exorbitant billions derived from gullible Western
nations. The PLO may try to deny guilt, but the language of those claiming guilt is that of
the PLO in its threats to Israel's existence.
Even worse is the manner in which religion is being degraded. It is in the name of
Islam that threats of war and destruction are leveled at Israel. The menacing Jihad, the
holy war waged by the Muslims against Jewry and Israel, is proof of the inhumanity
linked with the fanaticism of beasts who have - acquired power from those they would
destroy and who do not hesitate to use that domination to the horror of innocently victim-
ized people.

Aim to Destroy Israel
Again Placed on Record
It's on the record again: the Arab aim to destroy Israel.
PLO spokesman Farouk Kaddoumi told it to Newsweek. It
is true that the views expressed may be interpreted as being
only those of the PLO, but not a single leader or state has
yet rejected any of the expressed intentions to demolish the
Jewish state.
Incredible as these views, too, may sound, they nev-
ertheless are on the record. In the Newsweek interview
Kaddoumi said among other things:
Q. Is there any open, democratic society in the

Arab world today comparable to the one you want to
establish?
A. Any Arab state is more democratic than Israel
by definition.
Q. But the only two genuine examples of multin-
ational democratic states in the Middle East — Cy-
prus and Lebanon — haven't exactly proved widly
successful, have they?
A. The problem comes from American interfer-
ence. In Cyprus the CIA backed the coup against Presi-
dent Makarios. And in Lebanon it's the same thing.
(U.S. Ambassador G. McMurtrie) Godley did such a
good job in Laos and he is trying to do the same in
Lebanon. Besides, it is not simply Christians and Mus-
lims fighting. It is national forces against Fascist
forces, against the Phalangists.
Q. Are you saying that if Israel withdraws to its
pre-'67 borders and recognizes the national rights of
the Palestinians to a separate state of your own, the
Palestine Liberation Organization would be pre-
pared to accept the reality of Israel's existence?
A. No, I am saying that the Israelis have two
choices: to let all the Palestinians return to their land
and have this democratic state we propose, or to live in
this so-called state of Israel without letting the Palesti-
nians return. If they choose the latter, they will surely
die and we will surely win.
Q. But even if you win, won't the agony of both
Palestinians and Israelis be an awfully high price to
pay?
A. The Israelis say they never forgot Palestine for
centuries. Why should we forget in 25 years? I will give
my people 100 years until we return to our Jaffa and
Jerusalem . . . We grow stronger every day. My Arabs
are getting billions of petroleum dollars. The future is
mine, so why should I worry? I want to go home and I
am sure that we can find a formula for peaceful coex-
istence, (but) this Zionist ghetto of Israel must be de-
stroyed . . . We will unite the whole region in one
state, not just Palestine. I bet you.
Under such conditions, what hope is there in the imme-
diate future? How can the menace be overcome? To what
degree can Israel, Jewry and their friends battle for isolated
Israel's right to exist?
The situation becomes worse when views like those of
the PLO, fantasies like Assad's and similar threats to the
very life of a small community of 3,500,000 (which includes
some 600,000 Moslems and Christians) gains a hearing in
the highest places, in foreign ministries, in universities and
are even poisoning the minds of young college students.
And when these facts are presented and the appeals for
justice reiterated, there is heard anew the old Hitlerian an-
swer that what is said by Jews is Jewish propaganda: what
the Arabs like Assad and Kaddoumi say is sacrosanct. A
few more who are insulted by the Big Lie had better wake
up to the truth that a great menace is encircling the world.

Amazing Incredibility
History undoubtedly will judge some of the new
forms of diplomacy as insanity. Attitudes like Hafez al

The guilt in condoning the terror is as apparent as the source of the trouble. Even
the White House could exercize greater restraint in chastising Israel. The leaks
about diplomatic exchanges became cause for despairing differences and controver-
sies between friends. The press, instead of adhering to consistency in defending a
small nation whose very existence is at stake because of murderous threats from
terrorist gangs, gives courage to the beasts who do not hesitate to inject their hatreds
into peaceful communities like the United States.
The time is long past for coddling bestialities. The time has come for freedom-loving
people to end the needling of Israel in the process of asking the endangered Israelis to
submit to judgment by a group bent upon destroying the little state.
If murderers are to be given authority to be judges over Israel, they will soon be
judging the very people who elevated them to judgeships.
Terrorism that began with the PLO in Munich at the Olympic Games, at the Lydda
Airport, in the farming communities of Israel, now is a menace to the entire world. This
can not end as long as there is blindness towards the major target of the beasts: the Jew.
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When will the democratic countries, the free press, those with power to act, come to
their senses in dealing with the menace financed by the oil-rich who seem to dominate
mankind?
Let them start with Justice to the ,Jew and then there will be Justice for Mankind.

Assad's will not only puzzle: they will be judged like Hit-
ler's ideology that the more a lie is spread the more it
may be believed.
Assad had a fantastic idea when he spoke to New-
sweek's interviewer Arnaud de Borchgrave. He accused
Egypt's President Anwar el Sadat of being in collusion
with U. S. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger,
charging:
. . . Sadat and Kissinger had agreed in advance
that Syria could not be allowed to recapture the Go-
lan Heights. He says that Sadat was in constant
touch with Kissinger during the early days of the
war and concludes that the Egyptian leader assured
Washington of his intention to stick to the pre-war
understanding.
Kissinger, Assad says, then relayed word of the
limited nature of Egypt's attack to Israel, enabling
Jerusalem to concentrate on turning back the Syr-
ian offensive on the Golan. The most far-fetched
part of Assad's conspiracy theory, however, is that
Israel took part in the collusion to end the war in
stalemate.
Such ludicrousness could not be passed off so glibly and
for the first time in his long record of interviews with lead-
ers of the Middle East countries de Borchgrave repudiated
— ridiculed? — Assad's fantasies by declaring:

There appear to be many logical and historic in-
consistencies in Assad's scenario — not the least of
which is that in the midst of the most traumatic mil-
itary reversal of its history, Israel would agree to
play ball with its archenemy, Egypt. Then, too, the
geopolitical situation that resulted from the war
may indeed have been viewed as favorable by Henry
Kissinger, but it seems inconceivable that he would
have blessed in advance an attack on one of Ameri-
ca's closest allies.

What's more, Kissinger and Sadat didn't meet
for the first time until after the war — and only later
did the Secretary of State become Sadat's "friend
Henry." It is hard to imagine two men who had
never met hatching a plot of this magnitude by tele-
phone or by intermediary. Finally, it hardly requires
a sellout by Sadat to explain why Israel concen-
trated its forces on the Syrian front in the war's
early days. The Syrian Army at several points
thrust to within a few hundred yards of Israel itself,
while the Egyptian Army was still separated from
Israeli territory by more than 100 miles of the Sinai
desert.

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It's a blessing that the repeated lie does not always re-
main unscathed, as in this instance.

When Prejudice Is Rampant,
Debunking Is Obligatory

Prejudice is rampant and it often invades the most sa-
cred quarters. Diplomacy is not devoid of it. Consular corps

For Zion's sake will I not hold
My peace,
And for Jerusalem's sake I will not
rest,
Until her triumph go forth as
brightness,
And her salvation as a torch that
burneth.

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have often shown bias. A letter from one who served in Je-
rusalem necessitated correction from Mayor Teddy Kollek,
whose letter, dated Dec. 26, published in the New York
Times Dec. 30, follows:

In his Dec. 23 letter, Evan M. Wilson builds a
far-reaching political argument on the basis of a
nonexisting fact. A plan for a road to be built in 1981
was rescinded some months ago by the same city
planners who had proposed it in a general attempt to
cut down motorways in order not to affect residen-
tial areas in this particular case and to protect the
Anglican Cathedral and the Albright Institute.
(Perhaps it is appropriate to remind your readers
that the Anglican church agreed to demolish its
cathedral in Cairo in order for a road to be built.)

The revision of the plan was done on the recom-
mendation of the Jerusalem Committee, an interna-
tional advisory council of renowned scholars, histo-
rians, theologians, architects, town planners and
artists, at its session in 1970. Whatever Wilson's ar-
guments, Jerusalem is a better city united than di-
vided. This was incidentally clearly stated in the
resolutions of the third plenary meeting of the Jeru-
salem Committee this past week, which noted that
during the past eight years we have administered
the city "conscious of the trust to serve the best in-
terests not only of its inhabitants but of all mank-
ind."

It is strange that Wilson, who as U.S. consul
general witnessed the unprovoked Jordanian agres-
sion in June 1967, should hanker for the days of di-
vided Jerusalem.

It's a great pity that the injection of untruths in seri-
ous issues should poison many minds. Mayor Kollek com-
mendably acted promptly in calling to task a former U.
S. official who should have known better than be a tool
for those who seek to poison American minds against Is-
rael and incidentally against the Jews. There is no end to
distortion of facts, and the need to set the record straight
is endless.

Non-Repentant Echeverria

President Luis Echeverria is unrepentant. The incon-
sistency of denying he is anti-Zionist and then consistently
voting against the Zionist idea at the UN first created a
puzzle and then solidified the forces boycotting tourism to
Mexico. Echeverria created a new credo: pledging his peo-
ple to die rather than apologize. He has thus added to ar
unfortunate situation of making his people the enemies o.
Jewry and forcing Jews to resist with a boycott.

Echeverria is reportedly seeking the UN secretary gen-
eralship as successor to Kurt Waldheim. Will this be an-
other test of the decency in diplomatic ranks if anti-Jewish-
ness becomes a measure of a man's ability and integrity for
a major international post?

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