THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Semantics of Terrorism Cloud Moral Issue
By VICTOR BIENSTOCK
in the press between the
Terrorism has become re- words "guerrilla" and "ter-
spectable and terrorists are rorist" (the writer might
received and honored by the well have included "com-
statesmen of the world. Ter- mando") says Lesley Hazle-
rorists, at least of the Arab ton in the October issue of
variety, are not identified as Harper's Magazine, "indi-
murderers of children but as cates abdication of respon-
"guerrillas" or "freedom sibility by the press, and
fighters."
thus by its readers and lis-
Who is responsible for teners and viewers, on the
this growing moral insen- issue of terrorism.
sitivity to the evil of ter-
"This abrogation of the
rorism? An English writer responsibility to distin-
•=7110 has made her home in guish between what is
'lel for the past 20 years justifiable warfare and
pits a large share of the what is abhorrent under
blame on the press and any circumstances un-
other media who have liter- dermines the values of
ally desensitized the world any civilization, but
by their loose use of words especially of one based
— their "solipstitic sloppi- on the ideas of democ-
ness" — their failure to de- racy."
scribe acts of terrorism for
Terrorism, Miss Hazleton
what they are and their reminds us, "does not occur
readiness to pass them off as in a vacuum. It only creates
acts of guerrilla warfare.
more blood, blood and vio-
The increasing confusion lence feeding on them-
selves. And it can never be
condoned, let alone jus-
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It is difficult not to accept
Miss Hazleton's indictment
of the press when she cites
chapter and verse, giving
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Danny Kaye Will Be Cited
at NY Jabotinsky Centennial
Republican Army gun- to fight terrorism. She
men as 'terrorists' and to fears the moral
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Palestinian gunmen — standards of the Israeli Entertainer Danny Kaye
in the same broadcast — people will be eroded.
will be one of the featured
as guerrillas'."
"Terrorism is a matter of performers Nov. 11 at the
She tells us that the New neither tactics nor strategy Jaboti4sky Centennial
York Times "has adopted for Israelis," she explains. Dinner in New York.
this same invidious means "It is a moral issue and the
Kaye will also be cited by
of distinction according to condoning of terrorism ap- Israeli Prime Minister
political respectability parent in the world press in Menahem Begin with the
rather than action: when recent years is seen as an Jabotinsky Centennial
the Arab mayors were at- erosion of the moral Medal at the dinner.
tacked in early June, the standards of what we call
Dr. William Haber and
Times used the correct civilization."
Joseph Handleman are
word, 'terrorists' at a time
She recalls with dismay among the 100 persons
when it has been calling that the bomb attacks on
selected to receive the
Palestinian terrorists the West Bank Arab mayors
Jabotinsky awards.
`guerrillas.' "
"announced a pattern for
DANNY, KAYE
Other participants in the
Too many members of the the future, one in the mak-
press, the writer charges, ing for some time but sup- artistic program include:
"have become moral pressed from consciousness Sherry Lansing, president
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brace at least those values could still be avoided: a pat-
without which no civiliza- tern of Palestinian ter- musical celebrities Dustin
tion worth caring for will rorism countered by Jewish Hoffman, Orson Welles,
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endure. The words are still terrorism until the thin line Otto Preminger, Roberta
there, but the values that between terrorism and Peters, Jan Peerce, Lee
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rapidly disappearing. And and all terrorists, whether zin, and Cantors Joseph
this has been one of the ter- Palestinians or Jews, be- Molovany and Zvee Aroni.
Prime Minister Begin
rorists' greatest successes.
come blood brothers."
will make the only speech of
"Together with the ac-
She concludes with the
tions of the United Nations warning that for the world the evening.
Security Council, the role of to remain blind to Palesti-
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Terrorism, says the
writer, is known to be il-
legitimate while guerrilla
warfare against an oc-
cupying power or re-
pressive regime is "a
legitimate recourse of
oppressed peoples de-
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clearly distinguished by
the actions involved," she
points out, "and by ignor-
ing this distinction and
calling terrorism 'guer-
rilla' warfare, the world
press is legitimizing ter-
rorism and elevating it to
respectability."
American editors and
most correspondents in the
Middle East would find it
difficult to refute Miss
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that the legitimization of
terrorism "extends even to
adopting the language of
terrorists."
She cites as an example
"the sheer obscenity of read-
ing that the PLO 'claim cre-
dit' for an attack. Not 'takes
blame' or even 'accepts re-
sponsibility.'
"This distortion of the use
of language," she argues,
"leads to a distortion of
thought. Our words define
and limit our thoughts and
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