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St. John Exposes Arab Propaganda in Detroit News
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dence (and also the other
three Arab-Israeli wars), I
acquired considerable
firsthand evidence that the
Arab leaders were the ones
who encouraged and in
many cases actually or-
dered their people to flee to
neighboring Arab coun-
tries, with the promise of a
share in the spoils after the
Israelis were driven into the
sea.
In any discussion of the
Middle East, what should
not be forgotten is the
long list of atrocities
committed by the Pales-
tinian terrorist move-
ment in which innocent
people, often foreigners
remote
from
the Puerto Rican pilgrims at
Palestinian-Israeli scene, Lod airport (1972); the
have been mercilessly murder of the U.S. Am-
slaughtered. The PLO bassador and two other
boasts that it was respon- diplomats at Khartoum
sible for planting bombs (1973); the infamous
in London stores, thus hijacking of the Air Fr-
endangering the lives of ance airbus to Entebbe
thousands of shoppers (1976); murdering 47
(1969); murdering a German, Swiss and Is-
Greek child in Athens raeli passengers by blow-
(1969); the massacre of ing up a Swiss plane in
Shepherd Refutes Biased Article
(Editor's note: The fol-
lowing letter was sent to
the Detroit News by John
H. Shepherd, president of
the Jewish Community
Council of Metropolitan
Detroit.)
By JOHN SHEPHERD
To the Editor:
In an op-ed article in the
Detroit News on'June 1,
1978 John M. Peters makes
a number of statements that
need correction. His rewrit-
ing of history should not go
unchallenged.
Israel has not been the
premier military power in
the Middle East since its in-
ception as Mr. Peters
claims. During its war of in-
dependence in 1948, Israel
fought a vastly superior
equipped and trained Arab
force from four countries.
The ill-equipped infant
state of Israel was not
helped by the United States'
total arms embargo placed
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We remind Mr. Peters
that Israel accepted the
1947 United Nations par-
tition plan despite its
checkerboard nature
and security problems.
The Arab states unanim-
ously rejected it and
proclaimed war. Every
war since then has been a
result of Arab aggres-
sion. Territories oc-
cupied by Israel as a re-
sult of those Arab-
instigated wars have
been kept to ensure sec-
urity for Israel's citizens
and to avoid repeats of
past Arab mobilizations
on Israel's borders. In
addition, secure borders
are needed by Israel in
order to prevent Palesti-
nian terrorist infiltration
which has caused hun-
dreds of civilian deaths
and injuries.
The terrorist bombings in
Jerusalem of a bus in which
six teenagers were killed
and the attack of a bus on
the Tel Aviv-Haifa road in
which 37 people were mur-
dered by the PLO are two
vivid reminders of the
PLO's plans for Israel. Is-
rael has repeatedly called
for negotiations with the
Arab states to determine
secure borders for all. We
remind Mr. Peters that it
was Sadat who abruptly
broke off peace negotiations
in January. To say territo-
rial expansion is an historic
goal of Israel is nonsense.
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on the Middle East in 1948.
It must be noted that Is-
rael received no military
grants from the U.S. until
1974. In comparison, U.S.
military grants to the Arab
states totaled $369.3 mill-
ion frOm 1946 to 1973.
Furthermore, in 1975, the
Arab states held a three to
one edge over Israel in com-
bat aircraft and tanks, a
nine to one edge in artillery,
five to one in armed forces
divisions and 12 to one in
SAM batteries. These are
not the statistics of a "pre-
mier military power." It is
estimated, based on recent
trends, that the gap bet-
ween Israeli and Arab
military strength has
grown since 1975, in the
Arabs' favor.
In 1956, President Nasser
of Egypt nationalized the
Suez Canal. For eight years
prior to that, Egypt closed
the Suez Canal to Israeli
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shipping despite the fact
that the United Nations
Security Council on Sept. 1,
1951 ordered Egypt to open
the Canal. The UN was un-
able to curb Egypt or to en-
force its decisions. Egypt
also blockaded the Straits of
Tiran, vital to Israeli ship-
ping and security. In Oc-
tober 1956, Nasser entered
an alliance with Jordan and
stepped up fedayeen attacks
on Israel. Israel, with the
support of Britain and Fr-
ance, moved against Egypt,
capturing Gaza and Sinai,
which she later was pres-
sured into returning.
The noted columnist Wal-
ter Lippman wrote at that
time: "To ignore the Egyp-
tian raids and to treat Israel
as if it were the aggressor
and Egypt as if it were the
innocent victim ... was a
grave mistake in policy, in-
defensible in principle and
in fact entirely unrealistic
and impracticable."
So much for Mr. Peters'
rewriting of the history of
1956.
In Mr. Peters' article,
an Israeli is quoted on the
cause of the 1967 war.
Any intelligent person
knows that the Arabs in-
stigated the 1967 war.
The fact is that in the
years since 1967 Israel
has not partially nor to-
tally annexed the West
Bank. This contrasts with
Jordan's illegal annexa-
tion of that territory in
1948 which event the
Arab states have never
recognized.
In conclusion, the United
States supports Israel be-
cause it is the only democ-
racy in the Middle East, in a
world that has too few.
That, in and of itself, merits
continued U.S. support. The
only country that came
close to Israel as a democ-
racy in that region was
Lebanon, before the Pales-
tiniani started the Civil
War and Syria invaded that
country. Israel will not let
that happen to her nor
should the United States
allow it. •
Mr. Peters revises history
to suit his particular bias.
When one is young, God
forgives his stumblings;
when one is a man, God
weighs his works; when one
grows old, God waits for his
repentance.
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mid-air (1970). It is a hor-
rible history of the
slaughter of the innocent,
with one of the most re-
volting the commandeer-
ing of two buses on the
'Eel Aviv-Haifa road in
March.
When the widely circu-
lated Detroit News carries
an article in which one of
the murderers is charac-
terized as "a very nice girl, a
very, very good girl", one re-
calls what Humpty Dumpty
said in "Alice in Wonder-
land":
"When I use a word it
means just what I chose it to
mean."
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Page 2)
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