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- FORESTS that bear your name Long after you have gone, forests in Israel renewing themselves in the cycle of sea- sons, will keep your memory ever green. When making your Will, provide that a forest in Israel be planted in your name or in that of someone dear to you, handing down your last wish from generation to generation. 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. ( MANNY CNODNOW'S BETTER BUSINESS EQUIPMENT CO A bequest to the J.N.F. is a bequest to the entire Jewish people, linking the name of the Testator with Israel in perpetuity. 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Material, will not be returned unless a stamped, self-addressed envelope is enclosed. 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