12, Friday ,October .7, 4977 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS so Study Details the Arab Effort to Re-Define Mideast Struggle - "FIRST FOR A REASON" Oil in Israel? Ha! But Maybe... BY HEIDI PRESS AL KLINE • DALGLEISH CADILLAC 6160 CASS AVE. TR 5-0300 Unlikely things happen when Israel strikes oil. Ron- ald Reagan converts to Judaism, the wife of the head of Gulf Oil joins Hadassah, a little old Jew- ish man from New York, bent on battling City Hall by any means, is regarded as the Meshiakh, and an oleh from Texas discovers the Eleventh Commandment. Never happen in a million years, you say? Screenwri- ter Melville Shavelson makes it all come true in a funny fantasy entitled "The Eleventh Commandment." Published by Reader's Digest Press, "The Elev- enth Commandment" relates the adventure of Jacob Schoenbaum, a feisty, aging Jewish gentleman from New York who's not SOUTHFIELD COUNCILMAN & MRS. JOHN MARCOSKY and Family Need your support for his re-election Tues. Nov. 8th Member Temple Emanu-El Former Couples club president Past treasurer & Board Member Member B'nai Brith Lodge 1374 What's New at the Artisans • Decorative Art Mirror • Contemporary Lucite Frames ART SHOWING in OCT. • Water Colors & Charcoal by Dorothy Broder We repair, refinish, restore almost anything happy unless he's fighting a government bureaucracy, and his daughter, Sonya, and son-in-law Chaim-Har- old Barak-Bernstein of Texas. The story centers around one of Scheonbaum's angry moments when, following his move to Israel with his daughter, he finds that City Hall has turned off his water for non-payment. Determined to fight back, he arranges to have his own well dug. As his Shabat cholent din- ner overcooks on the stove and the drillers prepare to leave after coming up dry, an explosion - rips through the area pouring oil over everything. Schoenbaum attributes the explosion to the over- cooked cholent, however, in a hastily called Cabinet meeting Schoenbaum and Israeli leaders learn that an error at the Dimona nuclear facility caused the explo- sion, exposing a gold mine of an oil well for Israel. Not only is the oil pouring out of this well coming from beneath the Israeli surface, but, miracle of miracles, all of the oil from underneath the oil-riche Arab nations, too. Schoenbaum becomes a celebrity—the minister of consumer affairs—and the word "schoenbaum" is adapted into the language. Its meaning: any wide opening. Former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir is called from retirement, for- mer U.S. Secretary of.State Henry Kissinger is sent to negotiate for America's fuel needs and the Pope receives an Israeli emissary of whom he inquires about increasing the papal fuel supply for the winter. Among the other unlikely happenings: Israel has assets of $12 billion and for the first time .in its history has a problem it can handle: prosperity. France's elegant Maxim's restaurant moves its oper- ation to Israel where crepes suzettes are flamed in - shmaltz and Arabs and the Soviet Union are kowtowing 5 lbs. of MATZO If I can't Beat Your Best Deal Margolis-Household Furniture 30 YEARS at the Same - OLD STAND 6 Mile, SHARPENING the PENCIL 1 Blk. W. of Schaefer ARNOLD MARoOLIS On All Name Brands Furniture and Bedding • SCHOOLFIELD 'SELIG 'SIMMONS •SEALY •SERTA 'SPRING AIR •LA-Z- BOY •STIFFEL LAMPS •KROEHLER 'AMERICAN 'BURLINGTON •BASSETT • BARCALOUNGER •LANE •UNIQUE 13703 W. McNichols 342-5351 Hrs. Mon thrU Sat. 9:30 til 5:30 to Israel in the UN. Kissi- nger works out a deal with the U.S., Israel and Russia whereby the U.S. will get Israeli oil, Russia gets U.S. wheat and Israel gets Jew- ish immigrants from Russia. But the new found pros- perity (Golda becomes a blonde, buys designer clothes and spends time at a health spa to lose weight) starts to backfire. With all the leisure time and debau- chery caused by the import of an Arab harem, Israel finds it is becoming "goyish." What is the solution? In Schoenbaum's case to answer is : God only knows, and that's the key to getting Israel back to normal (?) and world politics back to their familiar vein. The dis- covery of the Eleventh Commandment on the "back side" of an ancient goatskin parchment is the tool that brings about the denouement. To tell it here is to ruin the mystery. Shavelson is clever in his tongue-in-cheek barbs at his characters, at Israel, at the U.S. diplomats and Jew- ish Princesses (what Jewish American Princesses are in other countries). Yet behind _every comedian there is a serious side, and Shavelson hits his audience at the out- set with the following acknowledgement: "The author wishes to acknowledge the existence of the state of Israel." It's a heavy thought at the begin- ning of the book, but only helps to point to the author's sincerity in his love for the Jewish homeland. His love for Israel can also be felt in each incred- ible incident in "The Elev- enth Commandment,' ' an hilarious novel which shouldn't be missed, and God willing, should only come true. NEW YORK—A major study. tracing the success of Arab states in re-defining the nature of the Middle East conflict has been pub- lished by Americans for A Safe Israel (AFSI). The 30-page document details the-efforts waged by Arab leaders during the past 10 years to shift the focus of international atten- tion away from their own refusal to recognize Israel. To achieve this goal, _the inquiry shows they devised as a propaganda _ ploy a "Palestinian" nationalist entity. The report contends Jews were the original and true Palestinians. Before 1948. Zionist groups. publications associations, and songs all used the term "Palestine" in referring to their land. While Arabs rejected the notion of a Palestinian entity. insisting that the land was part and parcel of southern Syria, Jews looked upon "Palestine" as a dis- tinct land. Although the Jews had their own name for the region—the Land of Israel— the Arabs never treated the area with enough attention to give it an identification of its own. The AFSI study details the historic Arab rejection of a separate "Palestinian Arab state" west of the Jor- dan River. noting that the British Mandate had already been partitioned into Palestinian Jewish and Palestinian Arab areas. The report, "The Palesti- nians: A -Political Masquer- ade." is available from Americans For a Safe Israel, 147 East 76th St.. 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