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 Dan Sandberg 353-6699 BUCKLES ikITIMITED FREE BUCKLE! WITH EACH PURCHASE OF $30 OR MORE HAND CRAFTED TOOLED LEATHER BELTS $8 & $10 BUCKLES BUCKLES $4 EACH 3 PEARL SCISSORS "THE BUCKLE LADY" OTHER BUCKLES AT $5, $6, $8, $10 and up OVER "1,200" DIFFERENT STYLES LARGEST BUCKLE DISPLAY IN MICHIGAN 2240 COOLIDGE On Sunday, a pipe bomb exploded near the Tel Aviv City Hall. There were no casualties or damage. The 5 ELKS. N. OF 11-MILE BERKLEY• MI 48072 545-6885 Monday thru Saturday 10.6= Free Parking home this week after serv- ing 20 months in an Israeli prison. 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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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OSCAR BRAUN ' S Boris Smolar's BIG 14K-GOLD CHAINS CHARMS • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • —• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • - : • • • DISCOUNTS PHONE Corner Buckingham, 8 Blocks E. of Greenfield ANSWERING Hours: Mon. to Sat. 10 a.m. to 4:40 p.m. • OFF MACHINES $ 11 69" • OFF • • ••••••••••••••••••••• ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• • • 40% • 40% • `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."