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August 20, 1982 - Image 27

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1982-08-20

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SARAFAND, Lebanon —
This modest town, located
between Tyre and Sidon,
looks nothing like the pic-
tures of Lebanon that tele-
vision viewers overseas
have seen. A Shiite Moslem
town, with a population of
15,000-20,000, there is not a
single building which has
suffered any damage what-
ever, except perhaps one.
structure on the outskirts.
And so Sarafand has been
bypassed by the television

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CONG. BETH ACHIM
HIGH HOLIDAY SERVICES

in the

Main Sanctuary
Will Be Conducted By
RABBI MILTON ARM
and
CANTOR MAX SHIMANSKY

Membership Available

AUXILIARY
HIGH HOLIDAY SERVICES

# 1

Auxiliary Social Hall
RABBI'BENJAMIN H. GORRELICK
and
CANTOR DAVID TANZMAN

will officiate .

Tickets

#2

$60.00

La Med Auditorium

at United Hebrew School
Rohlik Building

RABBI HERBERT ESKIN
and
CANTOR BARRY ULRYCH

will officiate

Tickets

$40.00

Tickets available at:

21100 West 12 Mile Rd.
Southfield, Michigan

for further information or
inquiries concerning
memberspip and seating
call synagogue office:

352-8670

crews and the journalists
who ' were looking for
dramatic and sensational
stories. \
There are dozens of towns
and villages like this in
south Lebanon. What
spared them? We walked
the streets and queried the
people. The answers were
simple and unanimous.
When the PLO , invaders
first came here, the local
population made them feel
unwelcome, and as a result
-the terrorists never estab-
lished themselves in depth.
At first news of the Israeli
invasion, the PLO simply
ran away. There was no
fighting here, no sniping
against the Israelis, and
hence no damage.
By contrast, this ex-
plains what happened in
other places where the
PLO dug in, fortified
homes which they had
commandeered, and
compelled battle on civi-
lian premises.
It has become almost em-
barrassing —to have the
Lebanese thank us, the Is-
raelis, for liberating them
from the terrorist occupa-
tion, and we seek to avoid
the subject in our conversa-
tions. Instead, we tried a
new tack. A group of young
men gathered around us
and we directed a controv-
ersial question att them,
through our interpreter.
"Beirut is under siege.
What should Israel do about
the PLO there?"
The answer was almost
identical from each: "Get
them out — kill them —
finish them off."
"But to do so will mean
large civilian casualties
— your own Lebanese
who are being used as
hostages. What about
them?"
•_ There was some -hesita-
tion, but the consensus was
that Israel should once and
for all stamp out the terror.
"Even at the cost of many
Lebanese civilian lives?" we
pressed.
There was silence, and
then one man spoke up:
"You Israelis, somehow, you
can do a miracle!"
It was a point of view
we were to hear again
and again. These are
stories the visiting jour-
nalists did not get.
They saw the hundreds
and hundreds of wrecked
automobiles which line all
the highways of the country
and photographed them and
described them as lurid evi-
dence of the enormous dam-
age wrought by the Israeli
forces. If they had investi-
gated their "evidence" they
would have found that a
considerable number of the
hulks had been there for
years, victims of the long-
standing civil war, as evi-
denced by the bad state of
rust.
An additional large
number were simply obso-
lete, abandoned vehicles,
which for lack of a junkyard,
had been abandoned by
their owners. The explana-
tions would have detracted
from the news value of the
pictures, and so the horror
stories continued.

We are reminded of a
parallel situation in the
early history of Israel. Dur-
ing the siege of Jerusalem
in 1948 a number of Israel
armored cars which sought
,to.break the Arab blockade,
and_ bring supplies to the
city, were hit and-destroyed.
It was decided later to leave
these wrecks by the side of
the road, in tribute to the
brave men who lost their
lives.
A couple of years later
a visiting American Con-
gressman being driven to
Jerusalem through the
Shaar HaGai cleft, made
careful, note of the rust-
ing hulks.When he-got
back to Washington he
wrote a scathing report
in criticism of U.S. aid to
Israel, remarking that he
had personally seen dis-
used, broken-down ag-
ricultural and other
oquipment, provided by
America, neglected and
left to rust by the side of
the road!
Life in southern Lebanon
has quickly been returning
to normal. Colorful beach
umbrellas have returned to
the seaside resorts which
line the coast, and Lebanese
may be seen enjoying the
sun and surf. War or no war,
a people must keep clean,
and the omni-present
clothes lines, with their dis-
plays of white and colored
pieces waving and drying in
the wind, present the best
evidence of normalcy.

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IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE

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with our Rabbi Charles H. Rosenzveig

AND CANTOR SEYMOUR GREENSTEIN

Rosh Hashonah: September 11, 18, 19, 1982
Yom Kippur:' September 26, 21, 1982
1982
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To be held at the
Glenn Schoenhals School

16500 Lincoln Drive
Southfield, Mich.
Donation $25.00 per person

The High Holidays will soon be here. Please make your
reservations today by calling any of the following:
Gedale Elbaum
Jack Waksberg
Sol Kleinman

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Chairman
356-3383 _

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Ticket Chairman

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545-1244
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will go toWardethe Memorial Center

Spend your Holidays with your friends and dear ones,
Remember how warm and "hamish" our services are.

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Oneg Shabbat to Follow

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Friday, August 27
8:00 p.m.

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