28 Friday, August 1, 1981 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Ad Condemns Mexican Bias NEW CADILLAC? MEXICO CITY (JTA) — The Central Jewish Committee published in a local daily, Excelsior, a statement condemning a large number of pro-Arab and pro-Palestinian articles and cartoons in other local media which the statement called "open poisonous" against Israel and opposed to - Jewish rights to Jerusalem. The statement said one of the journalists is a Com- munist member of the Mex- ican Parliament, Graco Ramirez, who accused Is- rael of "genocide" against the "Palestinian people in Lebanon" and demanded that the Mexican govern- ment halt oil shipments to Israel. Similar declarations were published by the local branch of the Arab League and a group of Mexican lef- tist politicians, intellectu- als and writers supporting the "just cause" of the Pales- tinians. SEE OR CALL ANDY BLAU in BIRMINGHAM at CRISSMAN CADILLAC RES 661-9146 CALL BUS MI 4-1930 1350 N. WOODWARD, BIRMINGHAM " If you're not wearing it, sell it. You can't enjoy jewelry if its sitting in your safe deposit box. Sell it for immediate cash. We pur- chase fine gems, Diamonds and Gold Jewelry. A service to private owners, banks and estates. Call 642-5575. est. 1919 30400 Telegraph Road Suites 104, 134 Birmingham, Mi. 48010 (313) 642-5575 LAWRENCE M. ALLAN _ President GEMOLOGIST r61 DIAMONTOLOGIST CONDENSATION OF AN OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES By the President of the ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA IVAN NOVIK The time has come when the basic problem that plagues the peace of the Middle East must be addressed. One of the major obstacles to peace is the Covenant of the terrorist Palestine Liberation Organization which calls for the elimination of the Jewish State. Israel does not advocate the demise of any Arab nation. Israel has no quarrel with the people of Lebanon; however, Israel cannot ignore the threats and actions of violence directed at her by the PLO and the PLO cannot claim immunity for its actions. We have appreciated and applauded the words of disapproval that you and Secretary Haig have voiced against terrorism and the PLO in the past. The time has now come for concrete action. 1. The Government of Lebanon cannot turn its back on its own respon- sibilities. As a sovereign nation, it has an obligation to itself, its neighbors and the cause of peace to take such action as will eliminate bloodshed and violence. Lebanon must no longer tolerate the presence of PLO terrorists in its midst. We urge you to voice public support to the Government of Lebanon and encourage it to remove the PLO as an important step to avoid further conflict. 2. The PLO is responsible for the violence and destruction in Lebanon, in Israel and throughout the world. Its most effective supporters are the Soviets and Saudi Arabia. The Saudis have already announced that they will provide 20 million dollars to compensate the PLO for the loss of its facilities in Lebanon. This is the "moderate" friend of the U.S., who de- mands that we provide it with our most sophisticated and secret arma- ments. Until such time as Saudi Arabia dissociates itself from the PLO, the U.S. must refuse to provide it with F 15 enhancements and AWACS. 3. The PLO stands guilty before the world by its inhuman and cowardly use of civilians as a shield to protect its terrorist activities against Israel. The placement of PLO bases of operation in the midst of heavily popu- lated areas must be condemned. 4. We urge you to condemn and repudiate the PLO Covenant as a document calling for the liquidation of the State of Israel and as a manifesto of global anti-Semitism. 5. The U.S. has properly assumed a policy-position wherein it refuses to "recognize" the PLO. But non-recognition is no longer a sufficient answer. The U.S. must now publicly condemn the PLO as an instrument of genocide and world-wide anti-Semitism, quite apart from being an organization sub- ject to Soviet dictates and controls. It is inconceivable that PLO representa- tives should be allowed to operate freely in the U.S. Capital, in New York and other cities espousing programs of violence and hate repugnant to everything we stand for as Americans. We believe and, indeed, urge that PLO offices in the U.S. be shut down and their occupants expelled. Zionist Organization of America Detroit District SIDNEY SILVERMAN, Chairman Executive Comm. IRVING LAKER, President LOUIS PANUSH, Chairman Public Affairs Comm. Economy Causes Exodus of Jews from Religious Freedom in Spain By MICHAEL FOONER (Copyright 1981, JTA, Inc.) Joseph Bensadon settled in Spain 25 years ago, emig- rating from Morocco which had been the homeland of his family for generations. He prospered and raised a family here, but now he thinks he may emigrate again, to Israel. In this he seems to reflect a growing conviction among leaders of the Jewish com- munity of Spain, despite its achievement of religious freedom and rights to an ex- tent undreamed of through- out Spanish history. The community is well aware that in place of the dis- crimination and officially sanctioned mob violence of ages past, Spain today pro- tects Jews' religious free- dom and institutions as a matter of national law, and is about to extend official recognition to basic pro- visions of rabbinic law. Paradoxically, leaders of the Jewish community are wary of where they go from here. They are appreciative of the present democratic regime's enlightened prac- tices regarding Judaism and the support of the King, Juan Carlos, but they say they must weigh the effects of world conditions to which Spain is particularly sensi- tive. . Maurice Hatchwell, a former president of the Jewish community of Madrid, and head of an internationally active cement company, sum- marizes the position of three points: the eco- nomic problem, political uncertainty, the "pet- rodollar syndrome." "The petrodollar syn- drome is probably the point of greatest anxiety to the Jewish community," he said at an interview in his Mad- rid office. "The present re- gime has unfortunately knuckled under to OPEC blackmail. Spain is cut off from normal relations with Israel, which might other- wise be of great economic benefit and receives no compensating advantages from the Arabs." On the economic front, the 1960s showed strong economic development, fol- lowed by faltering in the 1970s, with no plan for cur- ing economic ills in the 1980's yet visible, he said. With unemployment run- ning close to 13.5 percent the country is in deep trou- ble, and it's a contributory factor to political instabil- ity. The political uncertain- ties that exploded publicly Rabbis' Patron NEW YORK — Talmudic scholar and Jewish philos- ophy professor Joseph B. Soloveitchik has ordained 1,400 rabbis in his 40 years at Yeshiva University. His total of ordained stu- dents is believed to be the most of any sage in Jewish history. society, much less than, say, in France or even the United States. But despite the undeni- able satisfactions of Jewish life in Spain today, commu- nity leaders feel they have to keep options open, and the most prominent option is migration to Israel. This is not theoretical. The, President of the Jewish community, Joseph Bensa- don, says two of his grown. children have already set- tled with their families in Israel, and the third is likely to make the same choice as soon as he is old enough. It's a trend among the community's youth, he says. Jews of Bensadon's gen- eration, having become es- tablished in Spain, cannot as easily pick up and go, but they expect to or are consid- ering it as inevitable unless conditions substantially change. Nevertheless, he says, the community as a whole is stabilized because in-migrants from less fa- vored countries have been offsetting the departures. with the abortive ,coup d'etat attempt in February, and which are now seen as running deep within some part of the Spanish estab- lishment, are being watched by the Jewish community as a future threat to the gains they achieved in the past decade. "The lessons of Ger- many and some Iron Cur- tain countries are vivid," Hatchwell said. "When extremism takes over, whether from the right or from the left, anti- Semitism is virtually a knee-jerk consequence." But, he added, for Spain this is a national problem far more than a Jews' prob- lem, if only because the Jewish community is so tiny, estimated at about 12,000 in a population of 38 million. 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