J'ACCUSE:
Expose of
Spread of
Shocking Libels
Against Jewry
and Israel
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VOL. LXXXI, No. 22
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July 30, 1982
► resident
Is Urged to Remain
Firm Against PLO's Terrorism
Sen. Levin Will Address
Solidarity Rally Sunday
Commending State Department and White House officials on their prompt repudiation of the
attempts by Yasir Arafat to attain credibility with the U.S., appeals mounted to President Ronald
Reagan this week to stand firm in opposition to the PLO terrorism, with its threats to security on a
global scale.
Taking into account the spreading distortions of Israel's current role in the Lebanese situation
Sen. Carl Levin will be the keynote speaker at a Solidarity
and relations with Egypt and the other developments, the appeals for retention of the U.S. policy
With Israel rally scheduled for 3:30 p.m. Sunday in Oak Park
rejecting the terrorist aims for recognition are supplemented by factual accounts of a continuing aim
Shepherd Park.
to destroy the Jewish state.
The rally is under the sponsorship of the Leadership Task
Recognition of the PLO threat is becoming apparent in the media and there is a documented
Force, a coalition of 14 local Jewish organizations who have
warning
in article, "Reagan Diplomacy and the Rehabilitation of the PLO,” in which Morton M.
joined together as an expression of Jewish communal unity in the
Kondracke, executive editor of the New Republic, writing in the Wall Street Journal, declared: --
face of the current crisis in Lebanon. According to the sponsors,
'The Palestine Liberation Organization has done nothing — ever — to merit sympathy
"the rally is designed to demonstrate Jewish solidarity with our
or support in the West. As a result of Israel's invasion of Lebanon, it's become clear how little
brothers and sisters in Israel."
Sen. Levin, a member of the Senate Armed Services real backing the PLO enjoyed even among other Arabs.
Committee, has just returned from a fact-finding mission to
"The Israelis have destroyed the military strength which formerly made the PLO a force to be
Lebanon and Israel. He will report on his experiences and
feared, if not respected. And yet, at its moment of maximum weakness, the PLO is brazenly
observations at the rally.
demanding that the civilized world guarantee its survival, find it . a new base of operations, accord it
Other participants in the program include David Lebenbom, '
expanded diplomatic recognition and further its political aims. Incredibly, the world seems to be
president of the Jewish Community Council; Mrs. Norman
giving in, with the United States leading the way.
Rosenfeld, vice president of the Jewish Welfare Federation;
"The American media still have the sense not to glorify a gunman who uses hostages to shield
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himself from the police, but everyday they are making Yasir Arafat out to be a
plucky little hero, even as he hides behind the innocent civilians of west Beirut.
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"Meanwhile, the Reagan Administration has eased the pressure on Arafat
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to give up by urging Israel not to launch a final attack. The Administration is
hinting that if Arafat will merely mutter some magic words — "I accept UN
Resolution 242" — he can get a full pardon, a military escort out of town and a
sponsored membership in the club of world statesmen.
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A monumental community undertaking that will benefit hundreds of elderly per-
"This gangland boss with his back to the wall may end up being given
sons will get underway Sept. 12 with the groundbreaking for two major facilities oper-
American support for a PLO state in the West Bank.
ated by the agencies of the Jewish Welfare Federation near Maple and Drake roads in
"It's hard to believe that President Reagan and the belatedly influential
West Bloomfield.
The two buildings, forming a complex, are a Residence for Jewish Elderly (RJE),
Henry Kissinger actually will permit U.S. policy to go so far awry, but rehabili-
constructed by the Jewish Home for Aged, and Phase III of Jewish Federation Apart-
tation of Arafat and the PLO is underway. It has been practically a non-stop
meets. They will be located on the 160-acre Jewish Community Center site.
project in the U.S. media ever since Israel invaded Lebanon.
Federation President Avern Cohn said that the range of services that will be
"The media more or less uncritically accepted assertions that Israel killed
provided for the independent elderly through Jewish Federation Apartments and for the
10,000
Lebanese civilians at the outset of the war. It is only now becoming clear
semi-independent aged through the RJE "will enable our community to truly say that we
that those early estimates came from the PLO, not (as widely reported) the
are providing a continum of care."
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Nicholas Pastor and Associates has been chosen as architect for the corn-
plex. The contractor is to be selected by the project's joint building committee
which is headed by Michael Perlman. The joint building committee was formed
out of the agencies' individual building committees, headed by Perlman and
Samuel Hechtman for Jewish Federation Apartments and Robert Steinberg for
Jewish Home for Aged.
With construction scheduled to begin in September, occupancy is anticipated by
January 1984.
The Jewish Welfare Federation has been involved in the project since its earliest
discussions. A Maple-Drake Study Committee, chaired by Mandell L. Berman and Dr.
Conrad L. Giles, examined the relationship of the agencies involved and recommended
ways that their services could best be provided by developing plans together.
Detroit's Allied Jewish Campaign and its sponsoring Jewish Welfare Federation
Federation's United Jewish Charities, headed by Joseph H. Jackier, owns the
this week merged efforts with a worldwide $300 million emergency drive to meet the
Maple-Drake property and will fund the RJE capital project. The U.S. Department of
needs created by the current situation which called for military action by Israel to end the
Housing and Urban Development will fund the apartments.
PLO threats.
As its share in the emergency fundraising effort, American Jewry is asked to provide
$200 million through the United Jewish Appeal and the Metropolitan Detroit Jewish
leadership, at meetings held Sunday, Monday and Tuesday of this week, issued a call for
the emergency solicitations to start this Sunday.
At the Tuesday gathering, a seminar for 150 Allied Jewish Campaign leaders,
A three-story Residence for Jewish El-
The third phase of Jewish Federation
a series of events was set in motion. Besides fundraising meetings, these will
Apartments -2— 103 subsidized one- derly, accommodating 100 or more per-
include a mission to Israel on Aug. 8 and a national briefing in Cleveland on
bedroom units for the elderly — will be sons, will rise on the Jewish community's
Aug. 10, which will be attended by a large group of Detroiters. Led by Larry
constructed as part of the Jewish commu- Maple-Drake site.
Jackier, regional chairman, the local group will hear Shimon Peres, head of the
Marvin H. Fleischman, president of the
nity's Maple-Drake complex.
Labor Party in Israel.
JFA President Sheldon P. Winkelman Jewish Home for Aged, said this project
Campaign General Chairman Joel D. Tauber described the nature of the forthcom-
said that with the present JFA towers in follows several years of planning and be-
ing
Campaign.
"Israel is hurting, and we have no time to lose. We must begin im-
Oak Park, the new facility will bring to gins a new chapter in the Home for Aged's
mediately to raise the dollars she needs so desperately. We are talking about an infusion
more than 425 the number of residents in 75-year history of services. Fleischman ex-
of cash through the Israel Emergency Fund that will see every dollar going directly to
Federation Apartments, all of them capa- plained that the RJE becomes the interim
con-
Israel. If we are going to take our responsibilities seriously in this effort,
step in services between the home's care for
ble of independent living.
tributor must search his heart — and respond with his checkbook. We will have to see
Like its neighboring Residence for dependent elderly and Jewish Federation
dramatic results.
Jewish Elderly, the JFA structure will be Apartments' offering of apartment living
wn own" "A key to this Campaign is facts. We must combat misinformation in the media,
three stories. Its residents, persons of mod- to those who are able to maintain their
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Set for Main Center Site
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Emergency-Fundraising
Campaign Starts Sunday
With Worldwide Action
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100 Seniors in
Home for Aged