THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Purely Commentary (Continued from Page 2) nians. This was an affront to Jordan. (Most Pales- tinians are Jordanian citizens, and most Jorda- nian citizens are Palestinians.) Today U.S. diplomacy, which is ineffectual without being innocuous, is resuscitating the PLO and preserving Jordan's excuse for not playing its indispensable role in any peace process worthy of the name. The PLO sits in west Beirut, holding perhaps 300,000 civilians hostage, issuing mands from behind the screen of Habib's mis- Meanwhile, back in Foggy Bottom, the State Department may be short on realism, but has lots of maps, none of which shows any land that can conveniently lac given to a "Palestinian entity." The map is even more full today than it was when Israel was shoe-horned into one-tenth of one per- cent of the land claimed by "the Arab world." That world consists of 21 nations with 175 million people and 7.5 million square miles. In the UN the PLO often enjoys the fervent sup- port of 42 Muslim nations with 80 million people. But there is zero desire to make room for the PLO. So Israel is left to deal with the PLO, that creation of Arab hypocrisy and Western appeasement. And • Israel still waits for Jordan and Saudi Arabia, two crucial nations of recent and prob- lematic origins, to acknowledge Israel's legiti- macy. Persons far from the theater of menace and vio- lence, persons making fine moral calibrations about Israel's conduct and fretting that Israel is "losing its soul," must hear Golda Meier's words: Jews are used to collective eulogies, but Israel will not die so that the world will speak well of it. Of course, the American legislators are the responsible people to be concerned with — that they will take into account all that has been said, what has happened in rela- tion to the PLO. That talk about an erosion of American attitudes toward Israel must be reduced to facts. Israel is the most responsible ally of the United States in the Middle East. No one should be permitted to undermine such roles in both the Israeli and American areas. Then there is the very important element called American Jewry. Its respectability must not be besmirched with divisiveness. This is a time for unity and it must not be turned into ignorance or bigotry or both. The call for action will surely, if experience teaches properly, be adhered to. The response for a philanthropic aid to Israel in this time of crisis will not be ignored. On the political scene Jewry will surely retain dignity. No one dare destroy it. No one dare undermine the unity that is so vital in a period of stress — neither the enemy, nor the mis- directed and uninformed media, and certainly not Jews who remain respectful to their legacies. Tauber and Robinson Will Lead Campaigns (Continued from Page 1) nity. "As an indicator of the fiber of our Campaign team, they have responded to Is- rael's emergency with the greatest dedication. They have worked very hard in a time of economic distress, and yet, without even a break in stride, they have gone on to mobilize for 1983. W which the way was cleared legally when Demjanjuk had his citi- zenship revoked by Fed- eral Judge Frank Battisti on June 23, 1981 after a five-month trial. Demjanjuk denied charges, some by surviving eyewitnesses, that he had tortured thousands of Jewish prisoners, and herded them into gas cham- bers in concentration camps in occupied Poland. The INS officer said the deportation proceeding will be held before Immigration Judge Adolph Angelilli and will essentially be a pm- sentation of the evidence which led Judge Battisti to strip Demjanjuk of his citi- zenship for lying when he applied for natralization in 1958. A man in old age is like a sword in a shop window. Men that look upon the per- fect blade do not imagine the process by which it was completed. Perhaps it's because they know they can count on the understanding and devo- tion of the Detroit Jewish community." Tauber, who served as co-chairman of the Cam- paign in 1981, is vice president of the Jewish Wel- fare Federation, a past president of the Jewish Community Center and a Leftwing Jews Take Blame for Attack on Envoy's Car PARIS (JTA) — Jewish members of an extremist leftwing terrorist organiza- tion, "Direct Action," claimed responsibility for the attack on an Israeli dip- lomat's car. Direct Action, a group which has carried out numerous attacks on west- ern diplomats in Paris, said that some of its "Jewish members carried out the at- tack to protest the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and to prevent the genocide of the Palestinian people." Three shots were fired Sunday evening at the parked car belonging to a low ranking-official serving with the Israel Embassy here. 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