Jewish Unity Is Expressed for Solidarity With Israel

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Solidarity with Israel in the present crisis was resolved as an expression of unity by
Metropolitan Detroit Jewry, in action taken last Thursday.
The solidarity statement appears in a full-page advertisement on Page 13 of this
issue.
The statement declares that for Israelis this is the hour when the years of terrorism
which they have suffered from the presence of the PLO in Lebanon appear about to end.
"We know and are anguished that many innocent people in Lebanon have
suffered death and injury in the process. We are mindful that had prompt action
been taken when the PLO first occupied Lebanon and subverted the peace and
freedom of that country, the current military action would not have been under-
taken."
The statement recognizes that the United States is "working hard to find a fair and
just solution to the problem. This will ensure for the people of Lebanon the benefit of
self-government and assure the security . of the people of Israel."
Signers of the statement "strongly endorse President Reagan's call for the removal of

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all foreign forces from Lebanon, a secure northern border for Israel and the restoration of
Lebanese sovereignty. Such a solution to the current crisis offers, in our view, the best
hope for encouraging a continuation of progress in the search for permanent peace in the
Middle East."
The statement was issued following a meeting with communal leaders convened by
Avern Cohn, president of the Jewish Welfare Federation, and David Lebenbom, presi-
dent of the Jewish Community Council.
Functioning as an ad hoc task force, the leadership group has developed a variety of
cooperative actions. Participants, in addition to Judge Cohn and Lebenbom, include:
Martin Adelman, Norman Berkely, Maurice Binkow, Elaine Block, Gerald Cook, Goldie
Eskin, Dr. Conrad Giles, Rabbi Irwin Groner, Rabbi Israel Halpern, Thomas I. Klein, Sol
Lachman, Dr. Sheila Lampert, Arnold Michlin, Robert Naftaly, Norman Naimark, John
Nemon, Dr. Alan Reisman, Rabbi Stanley Rosenbaum, Evelyn Sandweiss, Rae
Sharfman, Jane Sherman, Norma Shifrin, Sidney Silverman, Irving Tukel and Harold
Zucker.

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Commentary, Page 2

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Unity Steeped
in Compassion
Emphasizes
Determined
Will to Stand
by Israel
in Critical Time

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July 16, 1982

U.S. Lebanese Unmask PLO,
Demand They 'Quit' Lebanon

Levin Message in Beirut:
People Now Breathe Free

- Sy SENATOR CARL LEVIN

Special to The Jewish News

On July 6, Sen. Dodd of_Connecticut, Ruth Broder of my staff and I
left the United States for a five-day trip to Lebanon and Israel. Instead
of making another formal report, I'd like to share some of my impres-
sions.
My first view of Tyre, for example, revealed nothing but devasta-
tion. As we drove up the main highway, all I could see was rubble and
bombed out buildings, skeletal remains
of structures. But as we left o _ ur car and
walked away from the center of the town
we found large sections of the city un-
touched by the attack. Homes were in
perfect condition; people went about their
lives in a normal and even routine fash-
ion.
In Sidon, for example, the Israelis
told us, and the citizens confirmed it,
that prior to the battle for the city,
Israeli troops had told residents to
evacuate and take refuge on nearby
beaches. As a result, the conflict had
spared most of the people.

SENATOR LEVIN

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NEW YORK — The American Lebanese League, which says it represents more th
vo
million Americans of Lebanese descent, published a full-page advertisement in Wednem
New York Times demanding that "The PLO Must Quit Lebanon!"
The advertisement listed the Lebanese casualty figures during seven years of Palestine
Liberation Organization occupation of Lebanon. The ad was signed by nearly 500 members of
the American Lebanese League from throughout the U.S. The 72 signers from Michigan
included Marcel Hage of Grosse Pointe, president of the league.
The group's advertisement stated:
"We speak as Lebanese Americans, profoundly concerned with the fate of family
and friends in the land of our fathers. Seven years ago Lebanon was occupied by PLO
terrorists who had been expelled from Jordan after failing to overthrow King Hussein.
During those seven years they committed an orgy of atrocities and desecration against
women and children, churches and gravesites.
"A sweet- and lovely land was ravaged. Those who dared to oppose the PLO were murdered.
Homes and farms and villages were pillaged. Lebanese governmental authority was defied and
ultimately destroyed. In collusion with the Syrian occupation army, ti.o PLO made war on the
people of Lebanon. From 1975 through 1981 the toll among civilians was 100,000 killed, 250,000
wounded, countless thousands made homeless. Thirty-two thousand children were orphaned.
And the world was silent.
"From the safety of Beirut, the PLO became the vital center of radical activity in the Middle
East, launching an international war of terrorism against the West and spearheading Soviet
penetration of the region. From refugee camps and occupied villages in southern Lebanon, they
bombarded Israeli towns and farms with Soviet-supplied arms — inviting Israeli retaliation.
Civilian casualties multiplied because the PLO used hospitals as command posts, schools as
barracks, apartment houses as ammunition depots, churchyards as missile sites.
"BEIRUT HELD HOSTAGE. Today west Beirut is being held hostage by PLO criminals

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WJC Reaffirms Local Agency, Israel Allocations Mideast Linked
Israel Support From $18.5 Million Campaign
to Palestinians

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PARIS (JTA) — The World Jewish
Congress Executive ended its two-day
meeting here last Friday by adopting a
resolution expressing "total solidarity
the state and people of Israel in its
gle to attain peace and security for
their country."
The Executive also dissociated it-
self from the statement issued a week
earlier by Nahum Goldmann and
Philip Klutznick, both past presi-
dents of the WJC, and former French
Premier Pierre-Mendes France, cal-
ling upon Israel to lift its seige of
Beirut and for mutual Israeli - Pales-
tinian recognition.
The WJC resolution stated, "The Jews
of the world recognize that Israel's cur-
rent military operations in Lebanon are
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A budget based on an estimated final 1982 Allied Jewih. Campaign achievement of
$18,500,000 was the basis for Jewish Welfare Federation allocations which include
$6,610,300 for local agencies and other domestic beneficiaries.
The remainder of available funds, after allowance for fund raising and related
expenses, will go to Israel and overseas beneficiaries. That total, which is still to be
determined, will exceed $10,000,000. Distribution for Project Renewal will add another
$1.2 million to this category.
Federation President Avern Cohn said there were many anguishing decisions in-
volved in determining the budget formula and the allocations within that balanced
budget. The effect of a depressed economy and the mounting appeals for help to our local
agencies added to the always difficult task faced by Federation's budget and planning
divisions, he said.
The Community Services Division recommendations for
the agencies under its umbrella were approved for an aggre-
gate total of $2,159,653 — an increase of $134,000 over last year.
It was noted that this figure takes into account sharp re-
ductions in the arrival rate of Russian Jews to Detroit, as well
as limitations in funding provided through this year's ad-
justed budget formula.
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WASHINGTON,
(JTA) — Secretary
of State-designate
tgaet es-
ti z g ntao l t e d
George Shultz
his Senate confirma-
tion hearing this
week that the situa-
tion in Lebanon has
demonstrated the
urgency of satisfy-
ing the "political as-
pirations" of the
SHULTZ
Palestinian people.
"The crisis in Lebanon makes painfully
and totally clear a central reality of the
Middle East: the legitimate needs and
problems of the Palestinian people must
be addressed and resolved — urgently
and in all their dimensions.
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