30 Friday, November 1, 1980 FIRESTONE JEWELRY Wholesale Diamonds & Jewelry ' -Remounting Jewelry & Watch Repairing, THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Moderate Palestinian Editor Defites PLO Stance By GIDEON WEIGERT and among the inhabitants of East Jerusalem. People JERUSALEM — There live in fear. If they don't can be no doubt about the subscribe to the slogans enee ■ tension in the West Bank from Beirut and Damascus • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • and toe the "official line," • they are branded as REMOTE CONTROL • • "traitors" to the Palestinian cause and their lives could • be endangered. • If one meets a Palestinian who openly defies the call DIAGOOlkt. • for a "secular, democratic • state in all of Palestine" and • advocates Israel's right to • exist in recognized and se- • cure borders, it means one is • seeing an unusual, almost • • unique phenomenon. • In , addition,. the same • • dares to say • Palestinian • openly that the PLO Na- • • Charter should be • tional • modified in such a way as to • from it all refer- • eliminate • ence to the use of "violence • and armed struggle to de- • • stroy the Zionist existence." • • • If „ the Palestinian • organizatictns forming • • the PLO wish to return to • • the West Bank, they • • should "change them- • • selves into political par- • • ties which seek to attain • THE HASTINGS • SM 1961 • their aims by peaceful, • COMPUTER SPACE COMMAND® GET OUR • legal means only." • 2500. Simulated Walnut finish The extraordinary per- • (SM 1961W). In White Finish LOW, LOW • sonality behind these ideas • (SM19611X) New PRP Circuit PRICE is Mohammed Abu Shil- • Cable Ready. He was born in -.t baya. Yehudia village (now • near Lydda Airport • Yahud) in the early 1940s. His fam- ti _ ir i.i _m_ Es __. TELEpHoNE ELECtRIC • ily fled during the War of Liberation from his native ANSWERING TYPEWRITERS village to the West Bank. MACHINES FARBERWARE ' He finally settled in East Good until Nov. 30 - . - Slifig. 1st Jerusalem as a teacher and • writer. Known to the Jor- EUREKA VACS CROSS PENS CALCULATORS I. • danians as active in the rad- ical "Ba'ath" party, oppos- ing the Hashemite regime, Abu Shilbaya spent years in Jordanian desert concen- tration camps. LINCOLN TOWERS, SUITE 111 In 1971, his first book on • • 15075 W. 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He also went on record as the first Palestinian courageously to advo- cate that payment of compensation should not only be made by Israel to Palestinian refugees but also by the Arab coun- tries to Jewish refugees who had to leave their na- tive countries after the establishment of Israel. Today Abu Shilbaya workS as a journalist. His "Sawt el Jamaheer" (the Voice of the Masses) weekly was a short lived venture in 1973, though he was the first Palestinian editor to call in his pages for mutural understanding and com- promise, advocating the foundation of an Israeli- Palestinian "Peace Party." Today, one of the editors of the Arabic "Al Anba" Jewish Youths Beaten in France PARIS (JTA) — Two Jewish schoolboys were at- tacked and seriously beaten up last week in Marseilles. Police arrested two of the four assailants and said the incident was the result of a street fight. But local Jewish sources said the boys were beaten up because they wore yar- mulkes and were openly as- serting their Jewishness. Two of the attackers are of Algerian origin. Police sources said the two Jewish youths, aged 16 and 17, were leaving the Jewish high school, Yav- neh, in one of the city's working class districts when they got into an argument with four other boys. They rapidly came to blows and one of the Jewish boys was badly beaten and had to undergo surgery for a fractured jaw. In another incident, a Jewish doctor's car was blown, up on a Paris street. The doctor said he had re- ceived no threats and has no enemies. Police said they have no clues. daily, Mohammed Abu Shilbaya continues his writ- ings on the Palestinian problem. As in the past, Abu Shil- baya speaks with optimism and conviction about the "many deep social changes which have occurred among the Palestinians in the occupied areas during the last 13 years, as a result of their daily mixing with Is- raelis." He believes that in the wake of this develop- ment, new classes among the inhabitants have emerged, especially the workers and the women, who are looking forward to two things; a really democratic regime, and the possibility of taking over from the traditional "semi-feudal Arab lead- ership." His political line, which he 'has been preaching for over a decade now, callS for- the establishment of a tri- party federation between Israel, the Palestinians and Jordan — later to merge into a Middle East Federa- tion to include Egypt. Ac- cording to him the "secular — democratic" plan (a la PLO) will only lead to a bi- national state and "more wars, like in Cyrpus." He says frankly: "What we want is a Palestinian state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. As to Jerusalem, an Arab and an Israeli municipality with a roof organization combin- ing both, some sort of a `Greater Jerusalem Coun- cil,' later to become the capi- tal of the above mentioned Federation." A five year interim re- gime should be set up and U.S. supervision, he says. Two years later, ree elec- tions to a Palestinian gov- ernment should take place, that government then entering into negotiations with Israel over all out- standing problems. But again and again he calls for a "complete mutual cessation of acts of violence; the modification of the PLO National Charter so as to guarantee Israel's secure and recognized permanent borders, and in return, Is- rael's recognition of a peace- ful Palestinian state in the areas." A Letter from Wiesel To a Jewish friend in France: My friend, I feel your pain and I share your anger. The explosion at the synagogue on Rue Copernic has been heard throughout the United States. Those who murdered innocent people on Simhat Torah, in Paris, attacked us all. For the first time since Auschwitz and Treblinka, Nazi murderers set out to kill Jews — only because they were Jews. You have been told by the French people that "We are all Jews." And we are grateful to them for this act of solidarity. Nevertheless, numb with outrage and hor- ror, we must ask: why? How could whis happen? Perhaps we are beingitold something by events; something we have been afraid to under- stand. When the cynical rhetoric of the United Nations, -day after day, tells us that "Zionism is racism." ‘. When Israel's right to exist is continually challenged . . . When nearly a hundred books have been published in a dozen languages calling the massacre and burning of six million Jews "a lie" and "a hoax." . Then perhaps these "new" Nazis may feel they are following a trend — that they have some claim, however twisted, to legiti- macy. Is it not time for people of good conscience, everywhere, to recognize the face beneath the mask? To recognize that even pass- ive assent to intellectual ra- cism leads the way to open anti-semitism and murder? How else explain the re- surgence of organized Nazism all over the : world? You have your Nazis and, ELIE WIESEL apparently, we — all of us — have ours. But these disci- ples of Hitler must be de- nied even the semblance of support. They must be de- nied the dignity of dialogue. They must be cast out from civilized society. In attack- ing‘you, my Jewish friend in France, the killers have is- sued a N,v a rn ng to all of us. As Pastor Martin Niemol- ler, the German theologian, said: "First the Nazis went after the Jews. but I was not a Jew, so I did not object. Then they went after Catholics, but I was not a Catholic, so I did not object. Then they went after the Trade-Unionists, but I was not a trade-unionist, so I d not object. Then they cams. after me, and there was no one left to object." Perhaps the killers think we have forgotten our his- tory. I write this letter to as- sure you — and them — that we have forgotten nothing. 1988 Delivery TEL AVIV (ZINS) — Is- rael expects to produce a prototype of its second- generation fighter aircraft, the Lavie," by 1984. But the first plane is not expected to be delivered to the Israeli air force until 1988.