The Facts Refute Arab Charges of 'Political Archeology'
By NORMA GOLDMAN
(Editor's note: Mrs. Goldman answers Arab
charges, repeated in a recent nationally-syndicated
Los Angeles Times article, that archeological digs in
Israel are "political," or are destroying Arab ar-
tifacts. A member of the faculty of Wayne State Uni-
versity's Department of Greek and Latin Languages
and Literatures, Mrs. Goldman participated last
summer in the dig at Caesarea.)
Archeologists dig with one objective — to recreate the
historical picture of a site. No national bias, no contem-
porary politics play any part in an archeological excava-
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tion.
Hazor, has explained, it is the job of the archeologist to
treat all the finds with a respect for their historical posi-
tion, whether they are Christian, Moslem, or Jewish. Tes-
timony to this impartiality is the beautiful new Islamic
Museum now open in the city of Jerusalem where the
finds from the Islamic sites are tastefully displayed with
explanatory cards identifying the cultural climate of each
artifact.
No attempt is ever made to diminish or to exploit
one kind of art or another for political purposes. Art
is beyond politics.
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Archeology in Israel is no exception. The interna-
tional nature of the archeological teams and the varied
remains being excavated (prehistoric, Hellenistic, Ro-
man, Jewish, Byzantine, Islamic, or Crusader) indicate
the broad, all-encompassing nature of archeological
exploration in Israel, unlimited by any consideration of
politics.
The charge that Israel is persisting in archeological
investigation for the purpose of justifying its position in
the area is ridiculous. As Yigael Yadin, who has worked
on the Dead Sea Scrolls and at the sites of Masada and
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February 27, 1981
Haig, Shamir Nearing Accord
on Resuming Autonomy Talk
Lebanon's Elias Sarkis
Defies Anti-Israel Bias
By REV. FRANKLIN H. LIITELL
National Institute on the Holocaust
Representatives of 37 Muslim nations met in Saudi Arabia
in January to plan a strategy for destroying Israel. Separated by
generations of warfare, dynastic competition and assassination,
sectarian conflicts within Islam, the one thing that holds them
together is hatred of the "foreign
body" — Israel, a Jewish state —
that dares to be an island in a
Muslim sea.
Voices in the World Council of
Churches and the National
Council of Churches have joined
the Muslim chorus calling for
punishment of Israel the ag-
gressor." Like the propaganda
offices of the Muslim govern-
ments, they say that Israel is the
offender. The Muslim prop-
agandists say among them-
selves and their own people that
Israel's existence is itself the of-
fense.
The church bureaucrats are
more subtle, though their
FRANKLIN LITTELL
theological anti-Semitthm also
demands the disappearance of Israel: it is for them questionable
whether the founding of the nation in 1948, or sometimes the
Balfour Declaration itself, should ever have happened.
For the last few years, whenever matters of detail
arose, the anti-Jewish and anti-Israel contingents centered
down on events in Lebanon. Israel was on occasion carry-
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WASHINGTON (JTA) — Secretary of State Alexander Haig said
Tuesday that he will go to the Middle East at a "reasonably early" date
to follow up on the conversations that Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak
Shamir concluded at a half-hour meeting with President Reagan at the
White House.
"I clearly am anxious to go" to the area to "continue the momentum
on the peace process and conclude the kinds of consultations which
started here last week with Shamir's visit," Haig said. He and Shamir
met with the press immediately after the meeting with Reagan.
Haig also met this week with French Foreign Minister Francoise
Poncet, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and British Foreign
Secretary Lord Carrington to discuss the Middle East.
Shamir told reporters that in his talks with the President he
presented "the most essential and most vital problems" for Israel
and its relations with the U.S. and predicted that the results will
be very fruitful." In addition to Shamir and Haig, the meeting
YITZHAK SHAMIR
with Reagan was attended by White House Chief of Staff James
Baker, Richard Allen, the President's national security adviser, U.S. Ambassador to Israel
Samuel Lewis, Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Ephraim Evron and Chanan Bar-On, deputy
director general for North America in the Israeli Foreign Ministry.
When Shamir was asked for specific information on U.S. foreign aid for Israel in the coming fiscal
year and U.S.-Israeli co-production of manufactures, he replied, "We didn't discuss details of coopera-
tion of the defense establishments of the U.S. and Israel." Shamir observed, however, that in
principle, this cooperation will be very efficient."
He said, "The U.S. is aware of our needs." Asked about the
Reagan Administration's position in favor of strengthening
Jewish Community
Saudi Arabia's military capability by providing extra equip-
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ment for the 60 F-15 warplanes it has purchased from the U.S.,
the
Israeli Foreign Minister replied, "We oppose the arms race
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in the Middle East" and "we regard the supply to Saudi Arabia
programs at the Jewish
as part of the arms race going on." But he added that this supply
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Lenin's Secretary Living Quietly in Israel
By MOSHE RON
The Jewish News Special Israel Correspondent
TE t, AVIV — In one of the homes for elderly people in Herzliya, Beit Shirna, lives the former secretary of Lenin
and Trotsky, Marian Michailowna.
In the Israeli television series, "Amud Haesh" (Fire Column), in which the Jewish national renaissance is shown
—from the Hovevei Zion .movement, the political Zionism of Theodor Herzl in the end of the 19th Century including the
first immigration waves of the Biluim and the Second Aliya (which has established the first Jewish settlements in
Eretz Israel) — there were pictures of the political situation of Russian Jewry, about those who were not influenced by
the national Zionist aspirations, but saw in the socialist solution of the Russian people also a solution for Russian
Jewry.
In the course of this series an interview was shown with Maria Jaffa, who had been Lenin's secretary and had
worked with Trotsky. Owing to her high position with the founders of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, she met her
future husband AdolfJaffa, who took part in signing the Soviet-German Treaty in Brest-Litowsk in 1917 and was later
Soviet ambassador in Berlin.
In 1927, Jaffa had suffered from two heart attacks. He was highly disappointed by the removal of Leon
Trotsky from the party.
Jaffa told his wife: "A person, who is no longer capable of serving his political aims, is better dead." Shortly
afterward her husband committed suicide.
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Georgetown Returns
$600,000 to Libyans
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Georgetown University on
Monday returned to the government of Libya its gift of
$600,000 which that Arab country had contributed over the
last four years to endow a professorship at the university's
Center for Contemporary Arab Studies.
In disclosing the return of the money plus interest of
$41,721 the Jesuit university said it did not want to have
"its name associated" with a country that supports ter-
rorism.
The United States in December 1979 placed ex-
port controls on Libya, Iraq, Syria and the People's
Democratic Republic of Yemen as states "which had
repeatedly provided support for acts of international
terrorism."
These controls were renewed last. December for an-
other year under the Export Administration Act. The State
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