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. PEARL SCISSORS BUCKLES UNLIMITED NOW OPEN Farmington Mich. Store 35171 Grand River 1 2 blk. E. of Drake Rd. across from Bob Saks Olds Drakeshire Shopping Plaza 474-0055 PEARL SCISSORS "THE BUCKLE LADY" BUCKLES $45o EACH 3 for $12.50 OVER "1500" DIFFERENT STYLES LARGEST BUCKLE DISPLAY IN MICHIGAN 5 BLKS. N. OF 11-MILE 2240 COOLIDGE BERKLEY. MI 48072 545-6885 Monday dwu Saturday 10-6 — Free Parking You've tried dealers... now try an AUTO BROKER OUR LOW 9FOCi.5 0r4 ts10,1 ct0. Readers Forum U Materials submitted to the Readers Forum must be brief. The writer's name will be withheld from publication upon request. No unsigned letters will be published. Materials will not be returned unless a stamped, self-addressed envelope is enclosed. 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- * * * 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. Nim'S sugpfki56 loUP, Christian Group Continues Fight sell you an '81 CUTLASS or MONTECARLO At Dealer's Invoice 1'11 1 LOW5 134.ocK TRY ME!' PROFE55\0\41,t. 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Gabriel Glantz * 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 * * * 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 * * * 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 currently being recom- mended by the Reagan Ad- ministration are fully im- plemented. The analysis comes from a survey of federation so- cial service and health agencies just completed by the Department of Alloca- tions and Planning of the Federation of Jewish Agen- cies of Greater Philadelphia (FJA), reported by Dr. Er- nest Kahn in the latest issue of the Jewish Expo- nent. Kahn is director of the department. The FJA reported the possibility of a "worst case" 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.