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- Standard Club Notable in Detroit History • Jews Who Cower from Caricature by Shakespeare 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. (Continued on Page 5) 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 THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review Commentary, Page 2 Censorship and Press Control by UNESCO Under Nefarious Influences Editorial, Page 4 of Jewish Events Copyright (g) The Jewish News Publishing Co. VOL. LXXVIII, No. 26 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, SOuthfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $15 Per Year: This Issue 35c 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- (Continued on Page 6) 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- Center Supplement ment for the 60 F-15 warplanes it has purchased from the U.S., the Israeli Foreign Minister replied, "We oppose the arms race Cultural, social and sports 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 Community Center are out- lined in a special supplement comes from "many sources and many countries. If we cannot inserted in this issue of The stop it we are eager to maintain the qualitative balance of Jewish News. 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. (Continued on Page 5) (Continued on Page 12) 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 (Continued on Page 13)