THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Iran Hostages Compared to Israel Situation NEW ORLEANS (JTA) — Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman (13-N.Y.) stated last week at an Israel Bond luncheon in New Orleans that the five- week-old Iranian hostage situation should provide a vivid illustration to Ameri- cans of the kind of crisis Is- rael has repeatedly faced from neighboring Arab states since its inception. Holtzman said, "The Ira- , nian crisis shows us Israel's plight. Americans have been faced with the hostage situation only a few weeks," she said, "while Israel has lived for years with enemies on her borders who daily vow to destroy the Jewish homeland." Holtzman and Coretta King, widow of the late civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., received Israel's Eleanor Roosevelt Humanities Award at the fourth annual All-Israel Fashion Show/Luncheon. Holtzman went on to speak of the Palestinian refugees who, she said, live in campus surround- ing Israel, unable to be- come citizens and un- wanted by their host na- tions. The Congresswo- man cited as a stark example the lack of fi- nancial assistance pro- vided by the "oil-rich Arab nations," saying: "The U.S. has contributed far more towards helping these refugees than the Arab countries who call them brother. The U.S. has contributed $700 million, Saudi Arabia has contrib- uted $33 million, Kuwait $6 million and Yemen $350. What does this tell you about the willingness to use human beings as political pawns?" Mrs. King said that, while there are people who speak about a polarization between the black and Jewish communities, "the bond of solidarity between us is far stronger than the media suggest." She cited the words of Martin Luther King that "we are wrapped in the single garment of de- stiny — not just through history, but an ongoing common struggle for social justice." 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