THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday,•December 4, 1981 69

Americans Do Not Understand: Terrorists Mean What They Say

against the American re-
public, and which intend
to destroy it if they can,
frequently wrap them-
selves in the American
flag. Just as the Nazis
were ostensibly cham-
pions of Germanism and
Greater Germany, so fas-
cist groups in the USA
claim to be authentic
champions of
Americanism.
But the KKK and the
Minutemen and the other
groups of the Radical Right
— carefully to be distin-
guished from genuine con-
servatism — are not cham-
pions of the American re-
public. They leave no doubt
that they intend to change
the Constitution fundamen-
tally and to. eliminate basic
liberties guaranteed in the
Bill of Rights of our present
Constitution.
As the TV dramatization,
"Skokie," and other public
displays make clear, a
number of well-meaning
organizations like the
American Civil Liberties
Union and even some of the

By REV: FRANKLIN
LITTEL

National Institute
on the Holocaust

PHILADELPHIA — The
basic flaw in the thinking of
a number of religious and
academic organizations and
individuals about terrorism
is this: they fail to perceive
that terrorist movements
are engaged in war against
ociety they are attack-

The fuzzy-headedness is
found not among the ter-
rorists but among those who
have taken office with the
promise to defend the con-
stitution of their land
against its enemies, both
foreign and domestic.
Many terrorist move-
ments in fact owe their loy-
.. alty and derive their train-
ing and logistical support
from foreign governments.
This was true of terrorist
movements of both "left"
and "right" in many past
situations, and it is true to-
day.
Indigenous movements '
which have declared war

Jewish defense organiza-
tions simply have failed to
perceive what has been
declared against the repub-
lic and against the lives and
liberties of loyal citizens.
They still talk as though a
public discussion were
being. held, with rational
solutions to be found and
agreed upon by fellow-
citizens. But the terrorists
are not fellow-citizens. They
have declared themselves
out of the public debate, by
both theory and action. The
reasonableness of the
ACLU and the ADL, for in-
stance, is misplaced. What
is needed is some thinking
about how a republic and its
loyal citizens can defend it-
self in a state of war.
The Israelis, all but a
tiny minority of whom
have had to face ter-
rorism realistically, have
handled it with more in-
telligence than those who
still live the the 19th Cen-
tury political world — the
world
before the
Holocaust. They treat the
PLO as it deserves: as an

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enemy at war. And they
manage actions against
the PLO and its allied ter-
rorist governments — at
Entebbe, in the strike
against the Iraqi bomb
factory, in action against
PLO military bases —
with the intelligence and
care that a ruthless
enemy has earned.
In America, relatively
untouched by terrorism and
relatively unmoved by the
plight of our allies in
Europe and the Near East,
one still hears flip criticisms
of actions taken by Egypt,
Turkey and Israel against
those who are trying to de-
stroy their governments
and institute terrorist gov-
ernments.
The sterile sloganizing
about "freedom of speech"
with which self-styled-"lib-
erals" excuse the Nazi and
KKK threats to America is
of a piece. Marching in
para-military units, dril-
ling private armies,
threatening loyal citizens
— these are not "free
speech." They are precisely

what the words mean:
marching, drilling,
threatening.
As a man with common
sense said in "Skokie," the
question is not "how many
lawyers can dance on the
point of a pin." The question
is how to get through the
legal dogmatisms to a little
elemental justice for decent
people, who have the right
to expect that their gov-

ernments will protect their
lives and liberties and pri
vacy.
The terrorists are at war
with Israel and America,
and if they have their way
they will destroy civil liber-
ties and institute terrorist
governments. The terrorists
know it: they say so and act
accordingly. How long will
the appeasement experts
have center stage?

Kohanim Blessing Explained

By RABBI SAMUEL FOX

(Copyright 1981, JTA, Inc.)

The blessing of the
Kohanim is to be rendered
in a full spirit of love and
happiness. It is said that
just being present in Israel
is a source of spiritual hap-
piness.
Thus the rendering of the
blessing applies every day.
In the Diaspora outside of
Israel this feeling is some-
how not complete because of
many concerns that Jews

have in their lives outside
Israel.
Thus the blessings are not
pronounced by the
Kohanim daily outside of
Israel.
However, even Jews who
live outside of Israel are
endowed with certain
spiritual happiness which
brings them closer to the
spirit of the land of Israel.
Thus the blessings are ren-
dered in the Diaspora on
holidays only.

Expert on Russia to Speak for Campaign

Prof. Allen Pollack, an
historian, author and
Jewish communal leader,
will be the speaker , at a
gathering of contributors of
$600 or more to the Allied
Jewish Campaign,
Women's Division, 11 a.m.
Dec. 16. The luncheon meet-
ing will take place at the
Standard Club North.
Prof. Pollack is a member
of the executive of the World
Zionist Organization, the
board of governors of the
Jewish Agency and the
board of directors of the
United Israel Appeal.
Born in New York, he was
educated at Columbia–Uni-
versity, the UniVersity of
Stockholm in Sweden and
Princeton University. He
was a Duke Foundation Fel-
low, and under a Ford
Foundation grant was a vis-
iting fellow at the Marx -
Engels - Lenin Institute of
the University of Leningrad
in the Soviet Union.
Prof. Pollack teaches
Russian history, and his
field of academic spe-
cialization is the history
of the Communist Party

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of the Soviet Union and
the role of the Jews in the
revolutionary movement
of Czarist Russia.
He was instrumental in
establishing American Pro-
fessors for Peace in the Mid-
dle East, an organization of
15,000 academics on 500
campuses.
Edie Mittenthal is chair-
man of the Women's Di-
vision Pre-Campaign $600
event. For information, con-
tact the Women's Division
at the Jewish Welfare Fed-
eration, 965-3939.

* * *

Professional Health
Study Breakfast

The Professional Health
Division of the Allied
Jewish Campaign - Israel
Emergency Fund will hold a
study breakfast meeting
9:30 a.m.. Dec. 13 at the
Standard Club North, an-
nounced Division Chairmen
Drs. Marvin D. Siegel and
Joseph M. Jacobson.
The morning's discussion
will focus on the issue of
Jewish survival, through an
examination of current
Jewish concerns, tzedaka

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Green served as chairman
of the Allied Jewish Cam-
paign in 1965 and 1966.
Mrs. Sherman was ap-
pointed co-chairman of the
United Jewish Appeal's Na-
tional Project Renewal
Committee earlier this
year. She is vice president of
the Federation Women's
Division and is serving her
second year as the division's
Campaign chairman.

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PROF. ALLEN POLLACK
(the Jewish view of charity),
the Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion and local needs, Israel
and the role of the United
Jewish Appeal, the Allied
Jewish Campaign, and "the.
bottom line."
Taking up the individual
topics will be Charles To-
bias, Rabbi Irwin Groner,
Dr. Conrad L. Giles, Jane
Sherman, Joel D. Tauber
and Robert H. Naftaly.
For information on the
meeting, call Allan Gelfond
at Federation, 965-3939.

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Green and Sherman
on Project Renewal
Subcommittee

Three couples from Detroit participated in the
1981 National Young Leadership Cabinet Mission to
Israel, Nov. 5-15. They are, from left, Daniel and
Cheryl Guyer, Michael and Marcy Feldman and
Robed and Ann Cohen.

Irwin Green and Jane
Sherman will serve as
chairmen of the Project Re-
newal subcommittee of the
1982 Campaign Manage-
ment Committee, an-
nounced Jay M. Kogan and
Joel D. Tauber, general
campaign chairmen of the
1982 Allied Jewish - Cam-
paign Israel Emergency
Fund. -
Green, a member of the
Jewish Welfare Federation
\Executive Committee, was
the 1981 recipient of Feder-
ation's Fred M. Butzel
Memorial Award for Dis-
tinguished Community
Service. Formerly a vice
president of Federation,

Publicity Receives
National Award

Super Sunday public
service announcements
created for the Jewish Wel-
fare Federation recently
won a national award for
best television advertising
in the 1981 Council of
Jewish Federations' Public
Relations Competition,
Large Cities Advertising
Category.
"Answer the Call" was
the theme of the 30-second
and 10-second public serv-
ice announcements created
by Simons Michelson Zieve,
Inc. to promote Detroit's
Super Sunday telethon last
January. The award-
winning spot announce-
ments, carrying the mes-
sage "Sometimes opportu-
nity doesn't knock . . . it
rings," will be run again on
television to promote the
upcoming Super Sunday,
Jan. 17, 1982, at the United
Hebrew Schools.
Morton Zieve, SMZ's
chairman of the board, is
heading Super Sunday's
public relations committee
for the second year. The
public service announce-
ments were written by
SMZ's Jon Katz and pro-
duced by Todd Bendler,
with direction by Tom
Parasiliti of General Tele-
vision Network and audio
work contributed by Ron
Rose Productions. Harry
Goldstein is the narrator.

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