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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Middle East Situation Uncomplicated

By JOAN CAMPION

(Editor's note: Joan
Campion has written a
biography, play and
novel about the great
Slovakian Jewish
heroine Gisi Fleis-

chmann, 1894-1944. Ms.
Campion is also the
editor of the newsletter
"Human Concerns,"
which attacks bigotry in
all its forms. For a sample
copy of "Human Con-

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The Middle East situa-
tion has become so crusted
over by considerations of
geopolitics and oil, and so
involved in propaganda,
that it is difficult for the av-
erage person to remember
what is involved here.
There have always been
Jews in what is now Israel,
from the time of the first
Hebrew conquest of the
land, through the worst and
most inimical rules, right
down to the present. The
Arabs, by contrast, are
comparative newcomers,
beginning their expansive
thrust into the area only in
the Early Middle Ages. At
no time was there ever an
independent Arab nation in
the region; only the Jews,
ancient and modern, have
ever built a state here.
Significantly, like the
Christian New Testament,
the Moslem Koran contains
passages that can serve as
fuel for anti-Jewish actions.
Furthermore, while it is
true that not all Arabs are
Moslems these days, most
look back on the great con-
quering century from 632 to
732 CE as evidence of Arab
superiority over other
peoples, including Chris-
tians and Jews.
In the late 1940s, the
United Nations decreed
the establishment of the
modern state of Israel, a
decision which the Arabs
continue to try to get the
present day United Na-
tions to effectively re-
verse.
The simple fact is that no
one has ever made it clear to
the Arabs that they must
share, any more than any-
one ever made it clear to
Hitler that his butchering of
Europe's Jews would be
frowned upon.
So, although Arab na-
tions have all of the Middle
East except for one little
sliver, although their por-
tion contains the over-
whelming preponderance of
the mineral wealth of the
region, although they can
have peaceful access to their
holy places in Jerusalem
any time they choose to es-
tablish normal relations
with Israel, all of this does
not satisfy them. Such is
their hatred for their
Jewish neighbors that noth-
ing will do but the extermi-
nation of the Jews.
To that end Arab ex-
tremists have fought four
wars, murdered innocent
schoolchildren, sportsmen
and Travelers, and held the
world to ransom for oil.
Unfortunately, the world
has shown itself all too
ready to be held to ransom.
The great historical immor-
ality of anti-Semitism re-
mains strong in the West-
ern world even after the
Holocaust, just as it does
among the Arabs.
It is time for those who
wish evil to Israel to
realize that the Israelis
are not going to go away
quietly. For the first time
in Jewish history, these

people have the means to
defend themselves. If Is-
rael is pushed into a fight
to the death, chances are
that both the Soviet
Union and the United
States will be drawn in.
The probable conse-
quence will be the end of
all life on earth.
Anti-Semites should
therefore realize that the
choice is either life with the
Jews, or death with them.
This consideration may
help to alter the thinking of
a few such hate-ridden indi-
viduals.
The rest of us, mean-
while, can do nothing more
useful for peace and for the
human future than to insist
that our government make
clear to the Arabs, and to
the rest of the world, that
Israel has an irrefutable
right to exist, and that the
Arab world must come to
terms with this fact.

German Court
Reverses Ruling
in Nazi Case

BONN (JTA) — A West
German court has reversed
the conviction of a neo-Nazi
activist who had been sen-
tenced to 10 months impris-
onment for distributing
pamphlets alleging that the
Holocaust never occurred.
The court, in Celle, Lower
Saxony, ruled that denial of
the Holocaust does not con-
stitute an offense under
West German law, although
the judges conceded that
such behavior was an as-
sault on the honor of Jews.
The ruling nullified the
conviction of neo-Nazi
Edgar Geiss by a lower
court in the town of Stade.

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