2 Friday, October 19, 1919
THE DETROIT 1Eition NEWS
Pu rely Commentary
Whoever Expresses an Opinion in Matters Involving the
Security of Peoples and Justice on Earth Must Learn
the Facts, as Lessons of Homework Shown in Major Issues
By Philip
Slomovitz
Speak Your Minds Now, Ye Candidates, to Show Whether You've Done Your Homework Properly
John B. Connally has earned his spurs. He gets the medal for honesty in politics, and
as a lesson-provider for other candidates. He seems to have learned from Jesse Jackson
who has revealed himself as a guy seeking the role of a diplomat without doing his
homework on a shuttle tour of an area he was totally ignorant about. That's what
Connally did: he didn't even read the newspapers properly.
Connally should be given a banquet by other candidates, honoring him for teaching
them - the lesson that the ears must hear what the mouth says and the mind must learn
facts.
There is a safe bet that Max Fisher's face must have turned red when he read what
Connally said in his speech at the National Press Club in Washington Oct. 11. The
eminent Detroiter hosted the Texan here some months ago, but apparently he did not
advise him on the state of affairs in the_ Middle East. So, Connally became an ally of
Castro, Arafat, Jesse Jackson and their ilk in the judgment of Israel's isolation from
justice. Good for you, John B. Connally! Now other candidates will be cautious. To the
credit of the others, let it be said that most of them have already indicated they know the
score.
Realistic Arabs Not Misled
by the Jackson Demagoguery
It has become apparent that Jesse Jackson has not
misled anyone. It is doubtful whether Arafat himself fell
prey to the sensationalism of a self-appointed visitor whose
oratorical skills are acknowledged but whose inability to
read facts and to listen to realities has been so evident.
Even Arafat's associates have let it be known that they
won't submit to "concessions" — and the conceding would
have commanded the erasing from the PLO covenant of
every portion calling for Israel's demolition.
He even annoyed the Arabs.
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A report from Jerusalem quotes Salim Tamari, profes-
sor of sociology at Bir Zeit University, near Nablus: "He
(Jackson) didn't do his homework. He got his geography
mixed up." He was referring to the confusing way in which
the American black leader was referring to the Lebanese
situation as well as the internal Israeli.
Perhaps a NYTimes editorial analysis, reflecting on
Arafat, has some bearing on the issue:
As Prime Minister Begin showed by avoiding
them, and as Mr. Arafat proved in long discussion
with them, the problem between Israel and the
Palestinians is not their refusal to talk to each
other. Where turf, sovereignty and legitimacy are
contested, who talks to whom and where are
questions of the highest potency. Mr. Arafat
probably could not hold the Palestine Liberation
Organization together if he recognized Israel and
thus ceded land that many of his followers covet.
For just that reason, Israelis fear to negotiate with
a group that embodies all the historic Arab hostil-
ity to the very idea of a Jewish state in their midst.
When former Ambassador Young ridiculed and
violated the American policy of- not negotiating
with the PLO until it recognized Israel's right to
exist, he was promoting a deal that ignored still
irreconcilable claims. His friends have now
learned with their amateur diplomacy what pro-
fessionals have known all along' neither side can
yet approach that deal. By again eliciting nega- -
five replies, they probably did more harm than
good.
A fact to be emphasized is there is a lessening of silence
on the issue that was created by the stupidities of a black
delegation comforting terrorists and befriending a group
that could be as destructive of black rights as of Jewish.
People are not hushing the issue, and neither are the blacks
who recognize the injustice that was perpetrated against
themselves. Blacks with a conscience are as outraged by
what has occurred as are Jews. That's now on the record.
Learn from the ant, ye office-seekers!
This is only one of the major developments affecting human needs that sparks the
news. In the black-Jewish issue which has been unnecessarily inflamed, there is relief in
the attitudes of men like Bayard Rustin, Vernon E. Jordan Jr,, Rev. Benjamin L. Hooks
and others who have spoken. The occurrence that was triggered in support of the PLO
was scandalous. It is being repaired and the leaders in wiping out errors are the rational
who know the meaning of friendships. So be it!
It was logical to advise President Carter and Vice President Mondale not to seek
mediators' roles in this incident. Blacks have begun to repair the damage; Jews will
never abandon adherence to justice.
Meanwhile, the panicked speak in terms of Israel support diminishing the J
being disillusioned with the Jewish state. There is more than this side to the question.
Jews are not collapsing because there are antagonists everywhere. There will be clarifi-
cations and the unity of the People Israel will not be destroyed. It won't be very long
before this will be fully clarified.
that should occupy the attention of the people most
threatened. Jews have always been in the lead fighting the
menace, as indicated in the KKK role reported from Vir-
ginia. Where are the others, blacks and Catholics?
This is the curse to decency that should occupy the
demagogues who found a cause in Beirut, without doing
their homework to ascertain that cause, without paying
attention to their own problems in this country.
Traditionally, Jews will continue to fight the KKK or
any other hate group, wherever it may be. Will the other
targets of bigotry be consistent to the cause, or will defec-
tors from realism clothe themselves in mantles of bigotry of
another sort in a foreign land?
Zionism and Jewish Sovereignty:
the Only Hope for the Stateless
JACOBO and RISHA TIMERMAN
Zionism is fulfillment of Prophecy and hoped for the
homeless.
What could a man like Jacobo Timerman do, having
been expelled from the land to which he had given the best
years of his life. He needed a place where he could have
citizenship. Zionism provided the solution. Israel gave him
statehood.
On his arrival in Israel, in a matter of hours after his
expulsion from Argentina, he made a deeply moving
statement. He said:
Libertarian Sleepers Awake:
"During my 21/2 years imprisonment I dis-
covered- the full meaning of Jewish solidarity.,
the Ku Klux Klan Is Everywhere!
Especially the Jews in the U.S., the American
The free air of this community was temporarily pol-
Jewish Committee, and the Anti-Defamation
luted last week when several Ku Kluxers, in their hate
League of the Bnai Brith.
garb, made an appearance at a local automobile plant. They
"Only a Jew can save a Jew, others can only
were rid of quickly. But their mere sight was enough of a
help. But only. Jews will fight to save Jews," he
warning to certain elements to stop encouraging similar
said.
terrorists in the Middle East and to attend to their duties at
"I'm emotionally moved, after the nightmare of
home of exposing and possibly destroying the KKK
Argentina, by being allowed to become a citizen
menace.
of Israel," he continued.
The three Ks raised their ugly heads again in many areas
"When I arrived in Rome I phoned Jerusalem
of this land and they are arrogant.
requesting to be allowed to become a citizen on
The KKK reportedly vexed the U.S. Navy with disrup-
arrival. I did not want to wait. This Ithink is very
tive racial incidents on combat ships, and the old cry of
important, that a Jew who has been deprived of
freedom of speech apparently has given the hatemongers
his citizenship and expelled from his country
opportunities to spread their poisonous programs.
doesn't have to go around the world, begging to be
KKK leader Bill Wilkinson seems to have succeeded in
allowed in and to receive citizenship," Timerman
staging recruiting rallies for the Klan and the Bnai Brith
said.
Anti-Defamation League, according to a story from Vir-
"I hope that our brothers and sisters in places
ginia Beach, Va., has described Imperial Wizard Wilkin-
like Russia understand this point," he continued.
son's group as the most heavily armed and most potentially
"We do not need to find refuge, we do not need
violent of the half-dozen resurgent KKK groups in the
shelter anywhere else in the world. We can be free
South. These elements are said by ADL to be rapidly grow-
men, citizens in Israel."
ing.
"Today, with the state of Israel, we do not need
These are the emerging threats to American liberties
the aid of philanthropic societies like the one that
took my grandfather from Russia to Argentina
instead of to Israel."
This is dramatic. It is history-making. It is proof of the
significance of the Zionist ideal. It is an admonition to Jews
everywhere, and to the noble defenders of that ideal in
Christianity, never to abandon the dedication to the great
aim for freedom and justice as symbolized in the Zionist
aims.
Paul Paray: In Memoriam
Paul Paray could not possibly be forgotten by anyone
who had even the most limited acquaintance with the great
musician.
He stood out as a personality, as a leader among men,
as a man with a social conscience.
As symphony conductor,
as composer, as one who in-
spired musicians, he was
among the geniuses in his
field.
And he will be recorded
among the most courageous
in the era of Hitlerism.
Whenever he sensed dis-
crimination, he protested.
When efforts were made
by the Nazis to control the
podium, he rebelled.
Paray's brave retorts to
the pro-Vichy and pro-Nazi
elements in France, his in-
troducing of Jewish musi-
PAUL PARAY
cians as participants in co _ n-
certs he directed became symbols of pride for him and his
wife who were threatened by the Hitler codes. Their joint
actions became causes for pride on a world scale, not merely
as a symbol of resistance in their native France.
He emerged the victor and will be listed among the
fearless who would not tolerate Nazism or any other form of
bigotry. -
Therefore, his memory is blessed.
Three Nobel Laureates Aid
Yeshiva U. at Major Dinner
Three Nobel Laureates were among the guests at
a dinner honoring 50 benefactors, donors of $1 million
or more to Yeshiva University and its Albert Einstein
College of Medicine, held at the Hotel Pierre in Man-
hattan. Dr. Norman Lamm, second from right,
president of Yeshiva University, welcomes, from left,
Dr. Isidor I. Rabi of Columbia University, Dr. Roslyn
S. Yalow of Riverdale, recently appointed to Yeshiva
University and Albert Einstein College of Medicine-
affiliated Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center,
and Dr. Arno Penzias of Bell Laboratories in New
Jersey. Each of the Nobel Laureates is an honorary
alumnus of Yeshiva University.