8 Friday, September 17, 1982

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Turner Responds
to Complaint
Against Mayor

Purely
Commentary

The chairman of the
Wayne County Board of
Supervisors has responded
(Continued from Page 2)
to a letter suggesting that
Mr. Peres, long eager to withdraw from the
Highland Park Mayor
West Bank, leaped at the chance to become the
Robert Blackwell made an
State Department's best friend in Jerusalem. He
anti-Semitic remark in the
was the only Israeli politician with a clear idea
course of the meeting.
beforehand of Secretary Shultz's proposal to strip
Lois Stark,, president of
Israel of its rights in the West Bank.
the Association for Re-
Mr. Begin, deliberately kept in the dark,
tarded Citizens/ Downriver
reacted predictably and properly: the elected
in Wyandotte, quoted
prime minister noted that Israel was not Chile, its
Blackwell at an Aug. 25
government subject to American destabilization.
meeting of the Detroit-
Why have many leaders of Jewish organiza-
Wayne Community Mental
tions in the U.S. gone along with this blatant at-
Health Board as asking
tempt to undermine Israel's political indepen-
about the Jewish Voca-
dence? The answer: most establishment Jews, as
tional Service because he
well as most Israelis who live in the U.S., prefer
didn't think "Jews took wel-
the establishment Labor Party in Israel. Never
fare."
mind that the majority of Israel voters disagree;
County Commission
Chairman Samuel
dovish liberals — many of whom are Jews — who
Turner responded to Ms.
ordinarily oppose Mr. Reagan's hawkish stands,
Stark's complaint by stat-
happily embrace the Shultz-Peres attack on the
ing, "After examination
hawks and conservatives in Israel. .
of the entire matter, I
(On Tuesday, Peres denied that he was briefed in ad-
didn't find any evidence vance by the Reagan Administration.)
of suggestions of anti-
No matter how effectively this accusation may be re-
Semitism. In addition, I pudiated, the anti-Begin campaign has become too evident
have known Blackwell to be ignored. Therefore the concluding comment by Safire
for several years and must be viewed in all seriousness:
know that he holds no
Mr. Begin has made it known he is still avail-
such views."
able for autonomy talks. However, King Hussein
Ms. Stark complained to
will not come to the negotiating table. Thus, Mr.
Turner because Blackwell
Reagan's initiative seems now to have been a mis-
was appointed by the board
take. The search is on for a scapegoat. That object
of commissioners.
of fury will not be the Arabist who invented the
plan, or the establishment media who hailed it, or
the Israeli opposition who supported it, or the
Arab leaders who interpreted it as a sign of
American weakness. The scapegoat will be the
man the Israelis had the temerity to elect.
Two factors are certainties:
The villifications of Israel's prime minister can't lead
to good will. Neither will the poisonous propaganda for
which the Detroit Free Press may win a coveted PLO prize.
And it is of the utmost urgency that Jews and Arabs,
Israelis and Palestinians, sit together at the negotiating
table. Without it there can be no peace.
Thus reverting to old appeals that hitherto fell on deaf
ears, unless there is face-to-face negotiation treated with as
great respect as the U.S.-Israel cooperation, this genera-
tion may be robbed of the glory of peace.

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TEL AVIV (JTA) — The
Israeli Air Force carried out
a series of heavy bombing
attacks for about eight
hours Monday on Syrian
and PLO targets in the cen-
tral sector of Lebanon.
The targets included
tanks and armored vehicles
as well as artillery batteries
and missiles. One of the
targets included what at
one time had been a school
for nuns but which in the
past few years was used as
the headquarters of the
pro-Syrian Popular Front
for the Liberation of Pales-
tine - General Command led
by Ahmed Jabreel.
The raids followed a
statement issued by the
army spokesman, . pointing
out that since a heavy Is-
raeli raid on July 23, there
had been more than 98 vio-
lations of the cease-fire in
teh Bekaa valley. •
Twelve Israeli soldiers
have been killed and 20
wounded, while nine
have been captured —
the eight kidnapped last
week and a man who
drove by mistake into
Syrian-held territory a
month ago. The state-
ment noted that "the
enemy's aggression
reached a new climax last

Friday, when three Is-
raeli soldiers were killed
by a bazooka rocket fired
at an IDF vehicle north of
Amik."
Army officers and gov-
ernment officials have
stressed that Israel does not
want a war with the Sy-
rians, but neither can she
tolerate continued cease-
fire breaches and attacks on
Israeli soldiers in what ap-
pears to be the beginning of
a war of attrition.
The army spokesman de-
nied Beirut reports that the
air force had also attacked
Palestinian targets in the
Tripoli area ,of northern
Lebanon.
Only sporadic anti-
aircraft fire was directed at
the attacking Israeli planes
and this was ineffective,
causing no damage to the
aircraft. Observers noted
the absence of any Syrian
artillery response to the Is-
raeli attacks.

I have lived long enough
in the world to see that
necessity is a bad recom-
mendation to favors .. .
which as seldom fall to those
who really want them, as to
those who really deserve
them.
—Henry Fielding