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. - 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.