THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
12 Friday, December 21, 1919
Jewish Players Compete in Egypt
By HASKELL COHEN
NEW YORK (JTA) — Re-
lations between Egypt and
the Jewish sports world con-
tinue to improve on a rapid
basis. In Cairo this week
four top tennis players
gathered to participate in a
$100,000 round-robin tour-
nament.
The participants were
Bjorn Borg of Sweden;
Egyptian champion Ismail
el-Shafei; Elliot Telscher,
an American Jew who is ex-
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pected to be one of the finest
single players on the U.S.
1981 Maccabia tennis
squad, and Bill Scanlon, the
former National Collegiate
Athletic Association tennis
champion.
The tourney took place
before a large audience and
Borg, the number one
ranked international
player, took first place and
the $50,000 prize. Shafei
placed second and won
$25,000, Scanlon finished
third for $15,000, and
Telscher won $10,000 for
fourth place.
Borg has participated
both in Israel and in
Egypt and is doing every-
thing in his power to ce-
ment sports relationships
between the two coun-
tries.
A basketball game be-
tween the Israel national
team and the Egyptian na-
tional team is a hoped-for
event for 1980.
Recreation is not the
highest kind of enjoyment,
but in its time and place is
quite as proper as prayer.
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Muslim Jerusalem Campaign
Ignores the Facts of History
Editor, The Jewish News:
The Jewish and Christian
worlds should be worried
about the Islamization of
the Holy Land. Past history
shows that not only have
Muslims taken over Jewish
and Christian holy sites,
but have also forbidden
peoples of other faiths from
entering them freely.
The common phrase that
Palestine is the Holy Land
of three faiths is not strictly
accurate," writes the
British clergyman and his-
torian James Parkes ('Wh-
ose Land?— A history of the
peoples of Palestine,' p.
166). The land which corre-
sponds to its position in the
thoughts of Jews and Chris-
tians is, for Muslims,
Arabia. No particular sanc-
tity of any kind has ever
been attributed to Palestine
as a whole by Muslims.
Jerusalem was never a
Muslim capital. Even the
two Umayyid caliphs who
were most closely associ-
ated with the country,
Muawiyah and Suleiman,
showed no special regard for
it. Muawiyah, who was pro-
claimed caliph in
Jerusalem, made Damascus
the seat of his government;
and Suleiman, who chose
the land for his residence
during the three years of his
rule, built himself a new
capital at Ramleh.
Jerusalem remains
today, the third and not
the first, as in Judaism,
holy city of Islam. Islam's
connection with the Holy
Land is based solely upon
the historical association
of Jew and Christian in
this area. The association
of Jews with the Holy
Land is a historical fact;
the association of the
founders of Christianity
with Galilee and Judea is
a historical fact.
But the association of
Muhammed with the area
rests on one's willingness to
believe that in a single
night, and on a winged
horse, he flew to and from
Arabia in order that he
might then mount a ladder
for a personal view of the
heavens. This act takes
place on the exact spot
where the Temple of Sol-
omon once stood.
There remains no histori-
cal evidence whatever as-
sociating Muhammed with
Jerusalem other than the
early choice and quick rejec-
tion of that city for Mecca as
the direction in which Mus-
lims should turn to pray.
Throughout the Holy
Land, Muslim religious
sites are physically associ-
ated with Jewish and Chris-
tian sites. The Dome of the
Rock and Al Aksa Mosque
are situated on the Temple
Mount; a mosque at the
•
Tomb of the Patriarchs at
Hebron; a mosque was built
within the walls of the
Christian Santa Caterina at
the foot of Mt. Sinai; the
monks at the Church of the
Holy Sepulchre had to
maintain a mosque.
The campaign of Islam
to proclaim the "Year of
Jerusalem" is just an-
other means of trying to
rid Jerusalem of its right-
ful heirs, the Jewish
people, who, even though
discriminated against by
the various occupiers of
the Holy Land, have al-
ways lived there and
have constituted the
majority since the 1890s.
In contrast to Muslim oc-
cupation, freedom of reli-
gion and worship has
reigned unhampered under
Israeli sovereignty and ad-
ministration.
David Elazar
•
Rishon LeZion,
Israel
Teachers' Tributes Sought
with this great project. Let
Editor, The Jewish News:
For the first time in the us, therefore, have the
history of our community, courage to make it a reality.
we now have an opportunity Allen A. Warsen
to erect impressive and at-
tractive monuments on
Pope and Arafat
Jewish communal land.
Exchange Letters
For a long time I have
been advocating the con-
on Palestinians
struction of monuments on
WASHINGTON (HA) —
the grounds of the United Pope John Paul II and
Hebrew Schools on 12 Mile Palestine Liberation
Rd. in Southfield dedicated
Organization leader Yasir
to the memories of the buil- Arafat "have exchanged
der of our Hebrew school several letters during the
system and a founder of the past year," the National
Jewish Welfare Federation, Catholic News Service re-
Bernard Isaacs, and the ported from Rome.
teachers, the pioneers of
According to the report,
Hebrew education in our published on Dec. 13,
community.
Father Ibrahim Ayad, a
These educators deserve Catholic priest who is one of
infinitely more than mere Arafat's advisers, told a
wall-tablets.
press conference at Rome's
I am confident that the cultural center for religious
present and former leaders information on Dec. 11 that
and students of the United "the Pope's last letter, dated
UNITED NATIONS
Hebrew Schools and the four months ago, spoke of
(JTA) — The General As-
leaders of the Jewish Wel- 'Palestinian rights' and of
sembly adopted a resolution
fare Federation will assist the difficulties of the situa-
last Friday condemning
tion in Southern Lebanon."
"hegemonism," including a
The report said that
phrase in the resolution
"Father Ayad, a priest of the
which referred to Zionism
Latin Rite of Jerusalem who
as a form of hegemonism.
ITHACA, N.Y. (JTA) — advises the PLO leader on
The vote was 111 in favor, The first incidence of anti-
international and religious
four against and 26 absten-
Semitic vandalism has problems, said he had sev-
tions. Israel, the United aroused community-wide
eral meetings at the Vati-
States, Canada and Au- concern in this college town
can Secretariat of State in
stralia were the countries of 26,000. Police Chief the months following
that voted "no."
James Herson has assigned
Arafat's receipt of the letter.
The resolution declared two members of his depart-
He noted that the Holy
that the General Assembly ment to head up an investi-
See did not yet see its way
holds that "imperialism, gation of recent swastika
clear to granting Arafat a
colonialism,
neo- smearings in downtown
papal audience.
nationalism, racism, in- Ithaca.
The Bethlehem - born
cluding Zionism and apar-
The Nazi symbol was priest added that the PLO,
theid" are different man- spray-painted on four busi- too, would prefer to wait on
ifestations of the "policy and ness establishments, two of concrete papal action in
practice of hegemonism" them Jewish-owned and on
favor of the Palestinian
which, the resolution said, the walls of Temple Beth-El
cause in the wake of Pope
seeks "to perpetuate un- and a municipal garage. So John Paul's call at the
equal relations and far, no clues or witnesses
United Nations for their
privilege acquired by force." have been found.
'legitimate rights.' "
UN Lashes
Zionism Again
Vandals Strike
Temple in Ithaca