Enrichment of Jewish Cultural Values in `Judaica' of WSU Press Commentary, Page 2 THE JEWISH NEWS A Week1N Review Is There a Road to Peace and What Are the Obstacles to Be Hurdled? of Jettitsh Events Editorial, Page 4 Copyright ,o) The Jewish News Publishing Co. VOL. LXXIX, No. 25 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $15 Per Year: This Issue 35` August 21, 1981 Propaganda on AWACS Sale Shadows OK for Israeli Jets Senior Housing Planned for Jewish Center Site Zoning approval by West Bloomfield Township will enable Jewish Federation Apartments to proceed with plans for site development at Maple and Drake roads, adjacent to the Jewish Community Center. The approval will pave the way for a commitment of $4.3 million in funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Announcement of progress in planning for a new three-story structure to house senior citizens was made by Jack A. Robinson, president of Jewish Federation Apartments; Joseph H. Jackier, president of United Jewish Charities, which acquired the land for communal purposes years ago; and George M. Zeltzer, president of the Jewish Welfare Federation, of which the Apartments and Charities are member agencies. Although planning for the apartments is not yet com- pleted, HUD and West Bloom- field approval will permit Jewish Federation Apartments to move ahead with the next ph- ase, Robinson said. Toward that end, Samuel Hechtman, JFA past president, has been named chairman and Sheldon P. Win- kelman co-chairman of the agency's building committee and Nicholas Pastor and Asso- ciates hired as architects. Hechtman played a prominent role in construction of JFA's Prentis Towers in Oak Park, and Winkelman is vice SAMUEL HECHTMAN president of the agency. Robinson said a fall ground breaking is anticipated, with occupancy in the fall of 1982. It is expected that the existing Jewish Federation Apartments waiting list will serve as a base for admission, so those who already have applied for admission to the Oak Park facility do not have to reapply. Those who wish to submit an application for the first time may call the JFA office. An application blank will be mailed out. Mandell L. Berman and Dr. Conrad L. Giles chair a commit- tee which has been developini; a ry aster plan for the Maple-Drake site for the use of those Federation agencies most concerned with geriatric services. JFA is the first to receive West Bloomfield's zoning approval. Other agencies involved are the Jewish Com- munity Center, Jewish Home for Aged and Sinai Hospital. WASHINGTON — Extensive propaganda surfacing this week in the U.S. urging Congressional approval for the sale of Airborne Warning and Control Systems aircraft to Saudi Arabia has tempered the announcement that the Reagan Administration has lifted its embargo on sending F-15 and F-16 fighter-bombers to Israel. In addition to a lengthy opinion piece in Newsweek magazine written by an American with business ties in Saudi Arabia, a 16-page publication supporting the sale was distributed to Washing- ton opinion makers -by a Washington lawyer who is counsel to the Saudi Embassy. The pamphlet, printed on glossy paper and containing color photographs and maps, was distributed to members of Congress and the press by Frederick Dutton, who served President John Kennedy as a White House aide. His office said 7,500 copies of "Why Saudi Arabia Needs AWACS" have been distributed. Dutton is registered as a Saudi agent in the United States. The pamphlet cited Israel's June 7 bombing of Iraq's nuclear reactor in Baghdad, and noted that an Israeli strike at Saudi oilfields would not involve a much longer flight. The pamphlet disputed statements by Israeli officials that the AWACS could be used to scan and photograph Israel's defenses on behalf of such Arab enemies as Iraq. The pamphlet contended that the AWACS radar equipment could not take "photos, see tanks or other ground targets, detect low-flying planes beyond 200 miles or collect electronic data. The pamphlet said the AWACS' only function would be to detect air or naval attacks on Saudi Arabian oil installations in time for Saudi planes to provide an effective defense. - Two Republican Senators, speaking at the national convention of Hadassah in New York, told the delegates they would continue their opposition to the sale of AWACS to the Saudis. The two were Sen. Bob Packwood (R-Ore.) and Sen. Alfonse D'Amato (R-N.Y.). President Reagan will send Congress on Monday the informal notification of the AWACS sale. But State De- partment spokesman Dean Fischer said last Friday that the 50-day period in which Congress may reject the proposed sale will not actu- BONN (JTA) — The opposition Christian Democratic Union ally start until after Con- (CDU) has charged that four German neo-Nazis, trained by the Pales- tine Liberation Organization in Lebanon had the help of the West gress returns from its sum- German Embassy in Beirut despite the fact that they had criminal mer recess in September. records and were wanted by the authorities. U.S. Secretary of State Ale- Carl-Dieter Spranger, the CDU expert on interior policies, xander Haig made the an- charged that the Social Democratic government of Chancellor nouncement on Tuesday of re- Helmut Schmidt was guilty of "dangerous neglect" in dealing _ sumption of aircraft deliveries with recent revelations of military cooperation between West to Israel after meeting in Los German neo-Nazis and the PLO. Spranger said that the annual report of the Federal Service for Angeles with President Reagan Domestic Security disproved the reply by Interior Minister Gerhard and Defense Secretary Caspar Baum to the charge in a key detail. That detail, Spranger declared, was Weinberger. Baum's assertion that the four neo-Nazis had established that they had Haig said that the cease-fire no criminal records and received help from the embassy in Beirut on across the Israeli-Lebanese that assurance. border has brought a "positive Baum confirmed that an unspecified number of German neo-Nazis new element" to the Middle received PLO military training in an Al Fatah camp near Beirut and German Embassy Aided PLO-Trained Neo-Nazis (Continued on Page 5) Arab Myth of Deir Yassin Answered By YITZHAQ BEN-AMI YITZHAQ BEN-AMI (Editor's note: This article is excerpted from Ben-Ami's book, "Years of Wrath — Days of Glory," to be published in New York in October by Robert Speller and Sons.) Flora Lewis' uncalled for resurrection of the Deir Yassin myth (New York Times, Aug. 7, 1981), brings to mind the initial "horror story." On Sunday,morning, April 11, 1948, I flinched when I read the newspaper headlines in New York: "Jews Attack Village of Deir Yassin. Massacre of Civilians Reported. Irgun and Sternists Accused." According to the New York Times, Deir Yassin was a "peaceful village" whose "civilian population" had been "massacred by terrorists." I knew Deir Yassin well from the late 1920s and 1930s. As early as 1929, Arab marauders from the village of Kalandia had attacked Motza, a Jewish settlement founded in 1894, while Arab bands from Deir Yassin and Lifta cut off the Jewish relief force that tried to reach it. The Makleff family, one of Motza's oldest and most respected families, was massacred. In 1936, when I commanded an Irgurr defense position in Givat Shaul, one of Jewish Jerusalem's suburbs, we thwarted constant attacks on our homes from Deir Yassin. We disinterred our "illegal" weapons every night and waited, while the Jewish supplementary police repulsed infiltrators again and again. (Continued on Page 6) (Continued on Page 12) Bar-Ilan Med. Research Fund Created by Lakers An important research fund has been established at Bar-Ilan University by the Laker family of Detroit. The Sarah and Harry Laker Science Research Fund will be used to support Bar-Ilan's extensive medical research, a program currently undergoing great ex- pasion. Announcement was made by Dr. v sk Leon Fill, vice president of the univer- sity's American Board of overseers and a member of its global board of trustees. Sarah and Harry Laker have long been active in the business and communal affairs of Metropolitan De- (Continued on Page 7) THE LAKERS