An Expose
The Big Lie
By HARRY HURWITZ
Minister of Information,
Embassy of Israel
Washington, D.C.
Jewish Unity
Reaffirmed,
Dissidents
Exposed in Their
Many Garbs
In World War II, Goebbels, the notorious head of Hitler's prop-
aganda machine, developed and exploited the "Big Lie" technique in
his psychological war against the Allies. The formula was relatively
simple: the more preposterous his story, the better; the more exagger-
ated his claim, the more acceptable; the more grotesque the details, the
more effective; the more often the "Big Lie" was repeated, the more
likely were the gullible masses to swallow it.
Thus, the Jews were destroying the world! Churchill was a mass
murderer! Roosevelt "the Jew" (!)was responsible for the war, etc., etc.!!
Goebbels could do it. He was the propaganda minister of the most
oppressive totalitarian regime in history. He had complete control of
the press and radio.
Germany and some of the countries under its jackboot had
no free press. They simply carried out the orders of the Nazis —
to publish the "Big Lie" and give it currency by repeating it day
after day, hour after hour with ever more shrieking headlines.
Now, more than 40 years later, the same technique is being employed
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THE JEWISH NEWS
A Weekly Review
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of Jewish Events
An End to
Indifference:
Barbara Tuchman
and Rita Hauser
Taking the Lead
in Israel's Behalf
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Critical Cabinet -Sharon Rift,
U.S.Wamings Faced by Israel
NCCJ Board Elects
J. Wexler President
JACQUELINE WEXLER
DR. DAVID HYATT
NEW YORK — Jacqueline Grennan Wexler, former
president of Hunter College,in New York City, has been
elected president of the National Conference of Christians
and Jews.
The election followed a nationwide search begun after
Dr. David Hyatt had announced his . decision to retire from
the presidency, effective Oct. 1, for personal and family
reasons.
Mrs. Wexler has been a member of the executive board
and has served as vice chairman and secretary of NCCJ
since 1980. During the past year, she conducted a study of
the mission, the administration, and the governance
'structures of NCCJ and presented the results of that study
at the NCCJ annual meeting in March.
As president of Webster College in suburban St. Louis
until 1969, with the support of the Sisters of Loretto and the
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — This week's intensification of the fighting in Beirut has brought with it an
intensification of the feeling among some Israeli Cabinet ministers that the Cabinet is not in control of the
situation. This feeling is gaining expression in private conversations — which are occasionally reflected in
press reports.
The issue was raised obliquely at Sunday's Cabinet meeting when ministers pressed Defense Minister
Ariel Sharon with detailed questions about the IDF's advance earlier that day to take Beirut International
Airport. Sharon maintained the advance was "tactical" and did not require a formal Cabinet decision. He
apparently argued the advance was covered by the longstanding decision-in-principle that Israel will not
agree to a one-sided ceasefire and that Israel's responses to PLO violations would not necessarily be
directly related in scope or area to the precise. violations.
The ministers were apparently unaware at the time of Sunday's meeting of the massive extent of IDF
bombing and shelling of west Beirut on Sunday. Their subsequent awareness — and the unprecedently
strong world media castigation of Israel over that bombardment — has left several ministers preparing
questions for Sharon to be asked at the next Cabinet meeting.
That meeting was expected to be yesterday or today following Foreign Minister Yitzhak
Shamir's return from Washington. Reports in the Israeli press from Washington on Wednesday
had Reagan warning Shamir that bilateral U.S.-Israel relations would suffer if Israel launches an
all-out assault on west Beirut. It is believed sanctions are being considered by the U.S.
The uneasy Cabinet ministers also want fuller information — and indeed a voice in prior decision
making — over what top military commentator
Zev Schiff in Haaretz called the IDF's ongoing
"salami" tactics in Beirut. Throughout the week
IDF armor and other units have been creeping
forward, taking parts of the Palestinian camps
and suburbs in south Beirut.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The bitter controversy over a
Sharon on Sunday apparently gave the
government-imposed ban on Sabbath flights by El Al was
ministers no word that this tactic would be
revived last week when Premier Menahem Begin promised
the Aguda Israel that it would take effect Sept. 1. While the
adopted at this time.
Orthodox party expressed satisfaction, the El Al workers
An IDF spokesman insisted that the heavy
committees vowed to fight the restriction and renewed
fighting was not the long-anticipated all-out as-
their threat to ground Israel's national air carrier perma-
sault on west Beirut, or even an attempt to split
nently.
the Lebanese capital into two or three sectors
The Sabbath flight ban, one of the concessions made by
with terrorist groups isolated in each.
Begin to bring the Aguda four-member Knesset faction into
,An army communique said that the at-
his coalition government last year, was to be implemented
tack had been launched "in view of the re-
last Sunday. But the Lebanese war intervened, burdening
El Al Sabbath Ban
Promised for Sept. 1
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the government with more urgent matters.
Sen. Levin Urges 'Americans'
to Speak on Behalf of Israel
By ALAN HITSKY
Sen. Carl Levin opened Sunday's Solidarity With Israel Rally in Oak Park with the
familiar salutation, "My fellow Americans." The fact that the more than -1,000 members
of the Detroit Jewish community who attended the rally in Shepherd Park have the same
- - ' ht to speak out as all Americans, and that Israel's operations in Lebanon against the
' terrorists and in America's interest, were the major themes of Sen. Levin's 25-
Mute speech.
- "James Watt to the contrary," Levin said, "this is a community which is a vital part
of this country. We have bled for this nation, died to preserve its freedom, and we intend
to contribute to its future."
The 40-minute rally drew an appreciative, sign-waving crowd who came to demon-
.
strate• their support for Israel.
Levin was emphatic in listing the many reasons why Israel's Operation
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Peace for Galilee was in the best interests of the U.S.
"It is not in America's interest to have Soviet surrogates assume power in the Middle
East," he said. "It is not in America's interest to have powerful forces in the Middle East
whose stated goal is the destruction of Israel and whose basic policy is to thwart any
attempt to reach a peaceful negotiated resolution of the issues in the area.
"But the PLO is comm _ itted to Israel's destruction and is committed to sabotage the
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Tauber Leads 1983 Campaign,
Robinson to Be Chairman-Elect
The appointment of Joel D. Tauber as general chairman and Jack A. Robinson as
chairman-elect of the 1983 Allied Jewish Campaign and Israel Emergency Fund has
been announced by Avern Cohn, president of the Jewish Welfare Federation.
The announcement was made as the Detroit Jewish community prepares for the
special Israel Emergency Fund appeal that ; accompanied by the 1983 regular Campaign,
will help the people of Israel to meet ongoing human needs in this time of crisis.
Tauber served as 1982 Campaign chairman and Robinson was co-chairman.
Jay M. Kogan, who last year served
with Tauber as general chairman,
will now head the Council of Cam-
paign Chairmen, past leaders who
continue in key assignments in the
Campaign.
Tauber, whose tasks as 1982 chairman
are ongoing until the final tally is in fcr
the year, said that the challenges for the
1983 Campaign and special Israel Emer-
gency Fund "will require the supreme ef-
A
forts of every member of this commu-
JOEL TAUBER
JACK ROBINSON
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