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VOL. LXXVIII, No. 16 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075
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December 19, 1980
ADL Asks U.S. to Decrease
Financial Support for the UN
250 Isolated Detroit
_,ws to Be Assisted
by Project Outreach
The Jewish Vocational Service and Community Work-
shop (JVS-CW) is seeking volunteers for a new program for
handicapped and impoverished Jewish adults living in the
inner city of Detroit.
Community outreach worker Anne Stone identified
more than 250 Jewish indigent adults within the last year.
The majority are aged with physical or mental impair-
ments, living in nursing homes.
JVS-CW is establishing Project Outreach to provide
"significant cultural, social and religious opportunities" to
Jewish inner-city residents.
Mrs. Stone has already initiated outings for some
of these isolated persons, using a JVS-CW van to take
small groups to discussions, small parties and a
synagogue. The JVS Senior Service Corps of senior
citizen volunteers is planning a January party for
these persons at the Morris Branch of the Jewish
Community Center.
In addition, Sam Sobel and Dr. Leonard Arnovitz are
forming a group of male volunteers to make periodic visits
to isolated Jewish residents in Detroit. Mrs. Stone believes
the volunteers will ultimately be assigned to visit specific
persons and homes once-a-month for a half-day.
Persons willing to volunteer, or who have names
of additional isolated Jews within Detroit, can call
Mrs. Stone at the JVS-CW, 833-8100. Rabbi Solomon
Gruskin provided her with the initial list of names.
Mrs. Stone said the program is limited to Detroit be-
cause there are volunteers and agencies who perform the
same function in Oakland County. Project Outreach grew
out of a research project, funded by United Jewish
Charities, to discover if there were a sizeable number of
isolated Jews in Detroit.
To date, Mrs. Stone has interviewed 109 persons. Most
never leave the home where they reside.
"I have found three or four Jewish elderly living in
separate homes on one block," Mrs. Stone said, "but they
don't know the others exist. I want them to get to know each
other and know where they live, so they can walk over and
talk to each other."
She explained that isolated elderly Jews in nurs-
ing homes tend to hide their Jewishness out of fear.
She said the persons she has interviewed have par-
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NEW YORK — The Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith has asked
President Carter to consider a cutback in American financial support of the
United Nations because it is "the world forum for anti-Semitism." The call
came on the eve of a slew of anti-Israel resolutions in the General Assembly.
• In a letter hand-delivered to the White House, Maxwell E. Greenberg,
ADL's national chairman, said that a speech made last week by Jordanian
delegate Hazen Nuseibeh was "the latest in an oratorical campaign of slander
against Israel and the Jewish people, using invective and calumnies reminis-
cent of Der Stuermer."
Asserting that "there could be no greater evidence of the regression of the
UN from the high principles enunciated in its charter than this reappearance
of Nazi canards and slogans in the General Assembly," Greenberg said "the
time has come for America to demonstrate in the most striking fashion that we
will not continue to subsidize actions which violate our sense of decency,
fairness and justice."
MAXWELL GREENBERG
He added that "there is an Orwellian absurdity for our citizenry to help
finance the deterioration of the UN from its lofty ideals and purposes to the mouthpiece for bias and bigotry
which it has become."
Following six days of "anti-Semitic invective" that "no decent society" would tolerate, Israeli
Ambassador Yehuda Blum told the General Assembly last week that Nuseibeh had uttered "the
crudest anti-Semitic slanders."
Nuseibeh claimed an international Zionist conspiracy had controlled the world, that people like Lord
Rothschild controlled the price of gold and "Mr. Oppenheimer in South Africa holds 15 million blacks in
bondage." Oppenheimer, head of the DeBeers diamond cartel, was born Jewish but is a practicing
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Gen. Haig's Support for Israel Recalled
Following Secretary of State Nomination
By JOSEPH POLAKOFF
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Retired Gen. Alexander Haig Jr., named Tuesday by
President-elect Ronald Reagan to be his secretary of state, has expressed himself in favor of
strong U.S. support for Israel both as a strategic ally and as a friend on moral grounds.
He also has endorsed the U.S, commitment by Presidents Ford and Carter opposing U.S.
recognition of or negotiations with the Palestine Liberation Organization until it accepts
UN Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338 and Israel's right to exist.
Haig, who retired last year as supreme allied commander in Europe for the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is certain to face prolonged scrutiny by the
Senate which must confirm his appointment.
Three prominent Democratic Senators — outgoing majority leader Robert Byrd of
West Virginia, Allan Cranston of California and Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts — have
expressed strong opposition to him beacuse he was President Nixon's last chief of staff at the
White House during the Watergate scandals and because of his role in the Vietnam War.
Some Senators dislike the idea of a military officer in charge at the State Department.
However, since Republicans will control the Senate when Haig's nomination is consid-
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ALEXANDER HAIG
Palestine the Myth; Jews the Only Palestinians
ational Institute of the Holocaust
Golda Meir was frequently quoted by
an Semites to the effect that "the Pales-
tii ,3" don't exist. An example was a re-
cent-ibature story in Time magazine, one of
the most viciously anti-Semitic editorials
ever to parade as an informative article.
Readers familiar with the cliches of con-
temporary anti-Semitism were not sur-
prised that the writers placed the state-
ment attributed to Golda in a telling posi-
tion. The story is intended to convey the
impression that Israel's leadership was
(and is) cruelly indifferent to the "suffering
Palestinians."
Now that so many are accepting the idea
of "Palestinians," it might be worthwhile
to ask who they are and where they came
from. It is futile, of course, to confront
Time's article with reasoned arguments.
The writers knew whom they wished to
injure and the editors know where the big
money is piling up these days. But a word
or a phrase used constantly by interested
parties, and finally accepted unconsciously
by unthinking people, can do a great deal of
damage.
Golda Meir knew that, and she also
remembered that only a few years ago
30,000 "Palestinians" — all Jews! —
were fighting the Nazis in the British
Army: their uniform designated them
as "Palestinians." Where then did
these NEW "Palestinians" come from?
"Palestine was a name applied to three
colonial provinces of the Roman Empire.
The word derived from the common nL-
of the Philistines (the Phoenicians, "the
people of the sea"), so often encountered in
the stories about Samson and David. But
before the Romans, "Philistia" applied
only to the narrow strip along the seacoast
that included Gaza, Ashkelon and Ashdod.
The large districts of the land during the
First Temple period (from Solomon to the
Babylonian Exile) were Judah and Israel
(and Edom, Moab, Ammon and Aramaea);
in the period of the Second Temple (from
the time of the Return from the First Exile
to the end of the Maccabean Kingdom), the
land was divided into the districts named
Edumea, Judea, Samaria, Galilee,
Gaulanitis (and Perea and the city-state
federation called the Decapolis). The dis-
tricts in parenthesis are those since World
War II counted in the Hashemite Kingdom
of Jordan. But, of course, in biblical and
Roman times they were part of the equa-
tion.
The Roman emperors, both the pagans
and those after Constantine called Chris-
tians, were determined to break the spirit
of the Jewish people and erase the Jewish
religion and sense of identity. Hence they
introduced the term Palestine (Palastina)
and applied it to three colonial districts.
After Bar Kokhba's revolt was
crushed, the Romans also set up
statues of Jupiter and Venus at the
shrines and renamed Jerusalem —
from which all Jews were expelled —
"Aelia Capitolina." After the Arab in-
vasion and successful conquest of the
land, the Roman districts were reor-
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