• 14 Friday, May 11, 1981 -t THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Bias Evident in Church, Press Treatment of Lebanese Christians 5 LBS. OF MATZO If I Can't Beat Your Best Deal By FRANKLIN LITTELL Margolis Household Furniture 6 Mile, 1 Blk. W. of Schaefer ARNOLD MARGOLIS INTERIOR DECORATOR SERVICE MATTRESS SALE Featuring: Beauty Rest by Simmons and all other national brands Furniture and Bedding •SCHOOLFIELD •SELIG •SIMMONS •SEALY •SERTA 'SPRING AIR •LA-Z- BOY •STIFFEL LAMPS • KROEHLER •AMERICAN •BURLINGTON • BASSETT •BARCALOUNGER •LANE •UNIQUE 13703,W. McNichols 342-5351 Hrs.. Mon thru Sat. 9:30 til 5:30 National Institute on the Holocaust This column has re- peatedly called attention to the importance of the de- struction of the Christian communities in Lebanon. They are under the guns of the Syrians, who invaded the country to incorporate it into "Greater Syria," and the assaults of the PLO, who were driven out of Jordan when they failed in an as- sassination attempt on King Hussein. If one were unaware of the persistent anti-Jewish and anti-Israel bias of many of the church bureaucrats, he would be • astonished at the indif- ference of such persons to the Syrian and PLO attacks on Lebanese Christians. But the bias is clear: when the Israeli military counter-attacks against PLO terrorist nests in Lebanon, they fill the heavens with their outcries. When the Syrian-PLO mili- tary forces bombard Chris- tian- villages that have re- sisted Muslim takeover of their homes, the church bureaucrats are strangely silent. Lebanon, a province of 50% O F F!* SUMMER'S HERE AT HAMILTON PLACE DUE TO TREMENDOUS DEMAND THIS HAMILTON PLACE ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME SPECIAL OFFER HAS BEEN... EXTENDED TIL SATURDAY MAY 23rd. ONLY! *Initiation Only — Full Memberships • Open Seven Days A Week • Separate Exercise Facilities & Co-Ed Nautilus • FREE Aerobic Dance Classes • Indoor & Outdoor Pools • Indoor & Outdoor Jogging Tracks • Six Tennis Courts - Full Gymnasium • Indoor & Outdoor Dining HAMILTON PLACE ATHLETIC CLUB Call 646-8990 or drop in anytime between 9:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. 30333 Southfield Rd. (between 12 & 13 Mile Rds.) FRANKLIN LITTELL the Holy Muslim Empire for centuries, achieved inde- pendence in 1946. The con- stitutional balance of sub political communities — Sunni, Shiite, Maronite, Jacobite, Melkite, etc. which made a short-lived republic possible was at best precarious. The fatal flaw was permitting such com- munities to recruit and equip private armies, a flaw from which other republics might draw reasonable con- clusions concerning para- military camps and forma- tions. In Lebanon, the Chris- tian communities signed -their own death warrant when they refused to join the 1973 Yom Kippur at- tack on Israel. They had for years mouthed the traditional anti-Zionist, anti-Israel — and even openly anti-Semitic — slogans against the Jews. But their officers had too good sense to allow the Lebanese army to join the military offensive. As I predicted at the time, they have been punished: Lebanon was plunged into civil war, the Syrians in-1 vaded with massive forces, the Lebanese army has been reduced to impotence, and only a small strip on the Is- rael border in the south has been able under Major Saad Haddad to preserve some semblance of a "Free Leba- non." The UN Assembly, to- tally controlled by an al- liance of Communist and Arab League representa- tives, has of course bent every effort to get formal condemnation of those Christian communities that still resist the takeover. The news services, with their customary blindness to the basic issues, even when on occasion some re- porter attempts a balanced report, always blackens the Christian defenders of their homes. They are "rightw- ing" (negative!) forces fight- ing presumably "progress- ive" (sic!) Syrian and PLO armies. Even the recent` bombing of Beirut and Zahle, in which many civi- lians were killed by Syrian artillery, apparently cannot stir the compassion of either church bureaucrats or sophisticated journalists. The Christians are "militia" opposing the Sy- (Continued on Page 15)