THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
18 Friday, March 20, 1981
West Bank Statistics Issued
With regard to educa-
tion, the number of for-
mal classes in Judea and
Shomron has risen from
4,388 in 1967 to 7,457 in
1979. In the same time
span the number of
pupils grew from 141,735
to 253,826.
Since 1967 there has been
a steady rise in the standard
of living of the Arab popula-
tion on the West Bank. For
example, 79.2 percent of the
population now has electric-
ity in their dwellings corn,
pared with only 23.1 per-
cent in 1967. Also, the
number of automobiles and
electric refrigerators has
risen considerably.
JERUSALEM (ZINS) —
A report issued by the
Prime Minister's office
shows that in the West
Bank provinces of Judea
and Shomron there are now
68 Jewish settlements with
a population of 17,400. In
the last three years new
industrial plants were es-
tablished giving employ-
ment to 1,200 persons, 60
percent of whom are Jews
and 40 percent Arabs.
The report further reve-
als that the present Arab
population on the West
Bank is 700,080. Some
40,000 Arabs from the area
now find regular employ-
ment in Israel proper.
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Hospital Clarifies Employee's Letter
you missed.
After the thunderous si-
lence of the churches at the
time Israel was resisting
aggressors in the Six-Day
War, a group of us — includ-
ing Carl Hermann Voss —
founded "Christians Con-
cerned for Israel" precisely
because work like that of
the ACPC was needed. By
the time of the Yom Kippur
War we had built up a net-
work of sufficient strength
so that — by spending 10
days full-time on the tele-
phone — we were able to
enlist Christian participa-
tion in pro-Israel rallies all
over the country.
The successor to CCI is
the National Christian
Leadership Conference
for Israel. We have re-
cently enlisted the staf-
fing of a superb man,
Isaac C. Rottenberg, and
are working diligently to
combat the rising tide of
anti-Semitism and anti-
Israel propaganda at
large and in some of the
church bureaucracies.
We are also developing
positive programs, one of
them being to build up a
network which can re-
spond with real political
clout when various
forces are pushing to sell
Israel down river.
I hope that all old friends
of the work of the American
Christian Palestine Com-
mittee will recognize and
Raymond H. Kahn,
support the work of its suc-
Director of Research
Henry Ford Hospital
cessor: the National Chris-
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tian Leadership Conference
for Israel.
Editor, The Jewish News:
The Feb. 6 edition of the
Jewish News carried a let-
ter to the editor prompted
by the withdrawal of an
Arab ethnic guidebook from
the Detroit Public School
system. The writer, Dr. A.
Khalifa, felt that this action
is oppressive to the Arabic
people. He identified him-
self as our employee, which
is factually correct but
irrelevant to hi's views on
this issue.
Dr. Khalifa's manner of
signing his letter implies
that his opinions are repre-
sentative of the philosophy
of Henry Ford Hospital.
While the hospital supports
the right of every employee
to express his or her per-
sonal opinions, we do not be-
lieve that any employee has
the right to use the name of
the hospital to lend cre-
dence to his or her views.
Dr. Khalifa is speaking only
for himself in his letter, not
for Henry Ford Hospital.
Henry Ford Hospital pro-
vides patient care, educa-
tion and research programs
that serve patients regard-
less of race, religion or
creed. We are vitally con-
cerned, as are other Detroit
area hospitals and em-
ployers, in preserving the
harmony of the people of
many backgrounds who live
and work together in our
neighborhoods.
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Prdtest Needed
on _Saudi Arms
Editor, The Jewish News:
If indeed, the United
States proposes to give
Saudi Arabia air-to-air mis-
siles "that give one poorly
trained Saudi pilot the abil-
ity to wipe an Israeli squad-
ron out of the sky," as
William Safire states in the
New York Times, some-
thing must be done at once
to dissuade our government
from carrying out its pro-
posed action. The Jewish
community must take the
strongest action possible.
I should think that the
first step would be to or-
ganize a committee led by
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Sales to Saudis
Are Attacked
Editor, The Jewish News:
Congress approved some
two years ago the sale of 62
F15 fighter planes-to Saudi
Arabia. That approval came
after the Carter Adminis-
tration gave written
pledges that the warplanes
would be equipped only for
the defense of Saudi Arabia
and its oil fields and they
would not be given attack
capabilities that would
threaten Israel.
Now the Saudis demand
that the planes be provided
with that extra equipment
that would allow ground at-
tacks at a greatly extended
range — a range that would
reach to all of Israel.
Secretary of State Haig
wants to breach the
promises 'made to Con-
gress and Israel and give
in to those Saudi de-
mands. The excuse given
for violating those sol-
emn pledges is that it is
needed to counter the
Soviet threat in the
region.
But certainly these
planes so equipped will not
make Saudi Arabia a match
for the Soviets. But what is
certain is that it will pro-
vide a nation which twice in
the past six months has
called for a Jihad (a holy
war) against the Jewish
state, with 62 virtually un-
stoppable weapons capable
of reaching and devastating
all of Israel.
Sidney Silverman, president
Zionist Organization of
America — Detroit District
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ously absurd. Jewish people
may bear striking
similarities but they are all
distinct individuals whose
characteristics are never in-
tegratable into one cats
gory. Therefore, whatev,
Jewish people say or ,do or
think are simply behaviors
and nothing else imagina-
ble can determine their true
identity.
Douglas H. Ruben
Western Michigan
University
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2 More Voices
from Holocaust
Editor, The Jewish News:
Referring to the article,
`Voices from the
Holocaust' Warns Against
Becoming Accomplices of
the Executioner" (Feb. 27,
1981), I must agree with the
statement, "It was not until
the war was Aver that the
survivors recognized their
error: the world had known
and had remained silent."
There were some voices
that were against the evil
philosophy of Adolf Hitler,
but very little. Two humans
were the late Protestant
minister Dietrich Bonhoef-
fer and the late Pope Pius XI
(1922-1939) who refused to
see the dictator in Rome and
left the city as a protest
against the presence of the
internationally recognized
mass murderer.
He openly declared his
support for the persecuted
Jews when he said, "How
can any Christian be an op-
ponent of the Jews? No
Christian may have any
connection with anti-
Semitism since spiritually
we are all Semites."
Melvin J. Melanson
Catholic League for
Religious Civil Rights
Stereotype
Questioned
U.S. Cuts Hurt
Philly Jewry
Editor, The Jewish News:
As a followup to my letter
of Feb. 6, I would like to
state that traditionally
there has always been a
misperception of Jewish
people.
It began several centuries
ago around the Hellenic
period when ethnic labels
then assigned to people dur-
ing ceremonial rituals were
thought to improve expla-
nations and predictions of
behavior.
ancient
the
Soon
ritualism became a common
social • practice. And labels
became impersonal
categories used for defining
racial and ethnic groups
much as we might
categorize plants and ani-
mals according to phylum
and kingdom.
Consequently from this
practice there emerged a
grossly deceptive
stereotype that all
Jewish people act alike.
This stereotype is obvi-
PHILADELPHIA (JTA)
— Thousands of Jewish
residents of Greater
Philadelphia in all age
groups will be significant'
affected if the budget a
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ministration are fully im-
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The analysis comes from
a survey of federation so-
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The FJA reported the
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impact of $7 million lost to
its social agencies alone.
Other reductions could
occur, in the FJA's con-
stituent health and educa-
tion agencies.