Black Leader Recalls
By REV. CHARLES
KENYATTA
(Editor's note: Rev.
Kenyatta, a former aide
to Malcolm X, is a com-
munity activist living in
Harlem. This article was
originally published in
the New York Amster-
dam News.)
Despite the hoopla some
alleged "black leaders"
have created (and the press
has fanned), Jews and
blacks are closer to each
other than to anyone, par-
ticularly more so than are
blacks to Arabs.
Because when you're
talking history, you must
remember what Arabs did
to blacks: the slave trade.
Or you can reflect on Mal-
colm X's 1964 trip to Egypt.
At that time, Nasser made
promises to Malcolm about
getting the question of
blacks in the U.S. on the
human rights agenda at the
United Nations, as did
many other nations.
He did not.
And that's not just past
tense. Look today at the Is-
raeli government and con-
trast it with countries like
Iraq or Syria. Israel is a
democracy.
,
Its Arab neighbors are
dictatorial, one-party
states where the press
and courts are held
under thumb, while
non-Moslems are subject
to thumbscrews.
The measure of black-
Jewish relations is history
and friendship — not the
politics, emotionalism and
bigotry of the moment.
And what is Jesse
Jackson doing rabblerous-
ing abroad when 35 million
blacks in this country cry
out for human rights and
nationhood?
And who, for years, has
supported the black rights
movement with dollars in
our treasuries and bodies on
the marching line?
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TEL AVIV (JTA) —
Greek Cypriot police are
keeping a close watch on
Palestinian terrorist ac-
tivity in Cyprus where the
Palestinians have repor-
tedly set up a maritime
training base to prepare re-
cruits for sea-borne ter-
rorist assaults on Israel.
The Greek Cypriots are
said to have asked the
Lebanese authorities to ex-
change information on the
movements of Palestinians.
But, according to the re-
ports, the terrorists enjoy
freedom of movement in the
Turkish zone of Cyprus.
The base's existence was
disclosed by an Arab ter-
rorist recently captured by
the Christian militia in
south Lebanon, Maariv re-
ported.
Costly Program
NEW YORK (ZINS) — In
a recent article, the New
York correspondent for
Haaretz, Yuval Elizur,
called for Israel to re-
organize its system of
shlikhim (emissaries) in the
U.S.
He wrote. that the World
Zionist Organization sends
137 shlikhim to the U.S.,
and that there are an addi-
tional 30 sent by the Aliya
Department and Jewish
National Fund.
He said the costs of sal-
ary, housing, offices and
travel can total $50,000 for
each representative, or a
total cost of between $5-$6
million for sending repre-
sentatives to the U.S. alone.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Arafat Says His 'Armies'
Will 'Liberate' Jerusalem
LONDON (ZINS) —
Yasir Arafat has claimed
that his "armies" will "lib-
erate" Jerusalem in an
interview with "Eight
Days," the Arab-financed
weekly magazine which
began publishing in London
six months ago. The PLO
leader was asked what he
saw as the solution to the
"big problem" of Jerusalem.
"I don't see it as a big
problem," he replied.
"Zionist propaganda por-
trays this as a big problem.
Jerusalem is an Arab city. It
was an Arab city and will
remain an Arab city. Its oc-
cupation will not last long."
Asked "who is going to lib-
erate it?" he replied: "My
armies. Sooner or later, to-
gether we will enter
Jerusalem." .
The interviewer, Colin
Chapman, editor-in-chief of
"Eight Days," asked
whether Arafat thought
that the Jews in Israel could
accept living in a secular
Palestinian state. "I don't
care what they think," he
replied.
He said that he had begun
to feel that there was a
change in Israeli society.
"Some of the Israeli people
have joined in our struggle.
They are in our ranks. We
have to seee that what has
started as a small move-
ment will develop to be a big
movement."
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