Middle East Experts at Community Forum Feb. 6
CARL LEVIN
Tzedaka
on Agenda
as Stimulant
to Humanitarian
Aims in
Wholesome
Communities
To proyide the community with infomiation during a
challenging period in U.S.-Israel relations, the Jewish Wel-
fare Federation and Allied Jewish Campaign are sponsor-
ing a unique community forum at 9 a.m. Feb. 6 at the main
Jewish Community Center.
Featuring Sen. Henry 'Scoop" Jackson, Ambassador
Sol Linowitz and Dr. Joseph Sisco, and moderated by Sen.
Carl Levin, the forum will explore the critical issues of"The
United States and Israel in 1983: Time of Decision." The
program is open to the entire community. No fund raising
will take place.
Chaired by Merle A. Harris, the forum will feature a
meet-the-press format following the presentation by the
speakers. There will be an opportunity for the audience to
ask questions. • A special session for students also is
planned.
Jackson has had a long career in politics. The
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of Jewish Events
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JanUary 7, 1983
Hussein Joining . Peace. Talks
Linked to Settlement Freeze
Palace Is Unearthed
in Jordan Valley Dig
JERUSALEM — The remains of a palace from the
Hasmonean and the Herodian period were unearthed in the
recently-concluded second season of excavations at the for-
tress of Sartaba-Alexandrion, overlooking the Jordan Rift
Valley. Heading the dig were Dr. Yoram Tsafrir of the
Institute of Archeology at the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, and Itzhak Magen, staff officer for archeology
in Judea and Samaria. -
An important fortress in Judea during the Second
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By DAVID LANDAU
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The possibilityfthat King Hussein of Jordan will
soon make a move to join the Middle East peace talks is gaining ground among
some Israeli government analysts. They expect he will do so on the basis of
support for - President Reagan's initiative, announced Sept. 1, and on condition
that Israel freezes settlement activitiy on the West Bank and Gaza Strip, as
Reagan had urged.
The analysts seem to be in agreement with William Quandt of the Brook-
ings Institution, who predicted in a lecture in Tel Aviv on Sunday that Hussein
would shortly announce his intention to join the peace process. Quandt was the
National Security Council's Mideast expert in the Carter Administration.
That possibility received further support Wednesday from Sen. Paul Tson-
gas (D-Ma-Ss.) who is currently visiting the region. He told reporters at Kibutz
Afikim that "a decision has been made (by Jordan) to negotiate as soon as the
environment is correct." Tsongas said he was informed of this in conversations
with top Egyptian leaders in Cairo earlier this week. The most important part
"of the correct environment" is the situation in Lebanon, according to Tsongas,
KING HUSSEIN
who went to Amman Wednesday for talks with Hussein and Crown Prince
Hassan. Tsongas was expected to meet with
Premier Menahem Begin today.
Acc-ording to Israeli analysts, Palestine
Liberation Organization chief Yasir Arafat
will continue to insist publicly that he has
given Hussein no mandate to negotiate on
NEW YORK (JTA) — The Forward Association an-
behalf of the Palestinians. Privately, how-
nounced Monday that, because of continuing increases in
ever, the two men will have reached an
operating costs, it was giving up its "struggle" to continue
understanding,
the nature of which Hus-
publishing the Jewish Daily Forward on its current Tues-
sein
is
expected
to convey to Reagan and
day through Friday basis and would begin publication as a
Secretary of State George Shultz when he
weekly on Feb. 4.
Makes a return visit to Washington later
The association noting that the Yiddish daily had
this month or early in Februaiy.
begun publiCation, as a daily, on April 22, 1897, said the
Last Yiddish Daily
Goes Weekly Feb. 4
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U.S. Media Held Hostage by PLO, Ant-Semi
By ALFRED ERIS
(Editor's note: Eris is editor of the financial magazine Public Register and a
longtime international reporter for Hearst publications. He lived in Israel for
several years and wrote for the Ministry of Tourism.)
Whatever else may be said of 1982, it was undoubtedly the first time that fear of
reprisals dictated the line of news coverage fed by U.S. correspondents to the American
public.
From the very first day of fighting in Lebanon, U.S. journalists began to trace a
pattern whiCh can only be called "unprofessional," to put it kindly. They cabled and
broadcast highly exaggerated reports of C- asualties which, eventually, were scaled down
to fractions of the original estimates. Where had the figures come from? The Palestine
Red Crescent. And who was the president of the Red Crescent? No one bothered to
inquire. Only after two or three months did the U.S. public learn that the source for the
overblown figures was none other than Yasir Arafat's brother, the Red Crescent
president — and that the organization itself is an arm of the PLO.
United Press International released to its clients on Aug. 1 a photograph of a
"Lebanese child that had lost both arms in the accidental bombing of east Beirut
by an Israeli warplane." The suspicious Israelis investigated and found that the
infant "had not lost both arms but had only suffered slight injury to the wrists."
On Aug. 31, the news agency confirmed that the original caption was "inaccu-
rate" and concluded, "UPI regrets the--error."
Had this been one of the few instances of its kind, one could tie this to the "usual
suspects" — communications difficulties, wartime pressure and such. The record,
though, is packed with sins of both omission and commission, distortion, fabrication and
anti-Semitism (a charge hotly denied), customarily cloaked as moralizing reaction to
Begin and/or Sharon, other Israeli "hawks" and such.
It is difficult to view the U.S. media as objective when, for example, ABC suggests
that Israel is bent on murdering Arab babies on the West Bank by keeping the hospital in
Ramallah down to one respirator. The authority for that disclosure was one Arab doctor
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