THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
18 Friday, July 6, 1919
Fleener Proclaims Innocence,
Backing for Terrorist Tactics
Disco Parties by
I N F I Ni lr i(
NEW YORK — Terre
Fleener, the 24-year-old
San Antonio woman con-
victed in Israel of syping for
the Palestine Liberation
Organization, returned
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On Sunday, a pipe bomb
exploded near the Tel Aviv
City Hall. There were no
casualties or damage. The
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She told a reporter during
her airline flight that she
was more convinced than
ever of the PLO cause and
tactics, saying that terrorist
bombs were the only means
the Palestinians had to win
their cause.
Miss Fleener told suppor-
ters in Texas that she was
innocent and added that she
would hold a press confer-
ence in Washington shortly.
Meanwhile, in Israel, a
military tribunal in Lod
imposed a 15-year prison
sentence on George
Cruzo, a Haifa student,
for planting a bomb near
the Central Synagogue in
Haifa last February.
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sives was placed under a bus
stop bench.
That same day, the first
Jerusalem Conference on
International Terrorism
opened. The five-day con-
ference was addressed by
Prime Minister Menahem
Begin and members of the
U.S. Congress and the par-
liaments of Britain, West
Germany and Italy.
Law to Delay
Rabbinate -
Elections
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A
law postponing the Chief
Rabbinate elections for an-
other year and extending
the term of the present rab-
bis accordingly will be in-
troduced in the Knesset by
Monday, the Cabinet has
decided.
The terms of the chief
rabbis have already lapsed
in fact since the election was
scheduled for the fall of
1977. Sephardic Chief.
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef has
ceased going to his office in
an effort to pressure the
government and the politi-
cal parties into holding new
elections.
There is little chance of
this however, since Likud
and the National Religious
Party have in effect agreed
on a further postponement.
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`Between You
. . . and Me'
Editor-in-Chief
Emeritus, JTA
' (Copyright 1979, JTA, Inc.)
THE WEST BANK ISSUE: There are now about two
million Moslems in the United States. Approximately
200,000 of them are Arabs whose number is constantly
increasing. Their active anti-Israel propaganda is influenc-
ing the entire Moslem community in the country. This
leads, among other things, to the growth of pro-Arab ele-
ments in key positions in a number of major American
churches.
It is no secret that the pro-Israel sentiments which
prevailed among church-goers are markedly declining ij
the Protestant church, especially among denomination
with long-standing involvements in missions to the Middle
East and in church-related groups engaged in aiding Arab
refugees. Decline is also noticed in Catholic and Eastern
Orthodox churches. Public opinion polls show American
Christians to be more sympathetic to Israel than to its Arab
antagonists, but Jewish studies establish that an anti-
Israel and pro-Arab attitude has been much in evidence in
certain segments of American Christianity. This attitude
has especially grown in connection with the issue of de-
veloping new settlements on the West Bank.
It seems to me that American Jewish organizations are
doing little — almost nothing — to make it clear to the
public that "West Bank" is a misnomer; that there has
never been an area in Palestine designated as West Bank,
either by the League of Nations, which held the mandate
over Palestine, or by the British Administration of Pales-
tine.
Palestine had its districts under the British. There
were the Galilee, the Emek, the Sharon, Judea, Samaria
and others. There was even a British district commissioner
for Samaria. In no official document has Judea or Samaria
been identified by the League of Nations or British man-
datory power as "West Bank."
It was only when the Jordanian army occupied Judea
and Samaria at the outbreak of the Arab war in 1948
against Israel that the Jordanian government — to mislead
the world into thinking that Judea and Samaria were not
occupied territory but a part of Jordan — dubbed these
biblical districts the "West Bank," using the pretext that
they are located west of the Jordan River.
The American media fell for this trick. It accepted the
designation "West Bank" and it never found it necessary to
indicate in news datelined "West Bank" that the news was
actually coming from "Jordan-occupied West Bank." In
this, the American press played into the hands of Jordan by
continuously implanting the impression that the "West
Bank" was an integral part of Jordan, and not a territory
occupied by Jordan.
THE LEGAL ASPECT: There may be arguments for
or against Israel's rushing into establishing settlements in
Samaria now before negotiations on the ultimate status of
the area have been initiated. But there is no doubt that the
Israelis are right in objecting to the designation "West
Bank" and to insisting on identifying the area by its real
name which was set in the Bible as Judea and Samaria,
during the thousands of years since biblical times.
In the famous Salitykov-Tshedrin Library in Lenin-
grad — one of the five largest libraries in the world —
which is closed to foreigners and open only to Soviet resear-
chers by special permission — I saw a wall of an excavated
synagogue in Samaria with clear inscriptions in Hebrew
letters etched in the stone. The wall, which is many hun-
dreds years old, is now a conspicuous part of a wall on the
second floor of the library. It is one of the library's proudest
possessions and it testifies vividly to Israel's present claim
on rights in Samaria.
ARAB PROPAGANDA: While confusion prevails in
some Jewish groups over the West Bank issue, Arab and
pro-Arab elements in this country are making headwa:
with their propaganda, fortified by vigorous, active influx
of newcomers from Arab countries, especially students. The
organization of Arab students, which has more than 100
chapters in universities across the U.S. and Canada, boasts
of having more than 10,000 members. There are also 11,000
students from Saudi Arabia and Iran in the United States,
most of whom are strongly anti-Israel.
The chief political voice of the Arab-American com-
munity — claiming to speak on behalf of 1,600 church,
social and charitable groups and 4,000 individuals all over
the U.S. — is the National Association of Arab Americans
which was formed only seven years ago and has its head-
quarters in Washington. It recognizes the PLO as the sole
legitimate representative of the Palestinian Arabs and is
opposed to arms transfers to Israel. Its leaders realize that
Israel is not about to disappear, but they express sympathy
for the PLO's goal of a "secular democratic" state in Pales-
tine to replace the existing "racist, Zionist regime."