8 Friday, January 1, 1983
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Your Guests Deserve
:::The Finest At
Your Party
Hussein Joining Peace Talks Linked to WB Freeze
To Add A Touch Of
Elegance
Include
(Continued from Page 1)
The Jordanian ruler is
expected to visit the White
House again before Begin's
visit now scheduled for the
third week of February.
Begin was to have met with
MUSIC
Call
BOB WEINBERG
559-7742
TamaRoFF
Leasins co
INFLATION BUSTERS!
1982 BUICK REGALS, SKYLARKS
AND CENTURY COMPANY CARS
All Equipped With:,
Radio, A/C, Auto Trans. PS,
PB, Rear Defroster and More
Priced from
$ 1 9
95
.0.
4%
Use Tax
• 36 Mo. Closed End Lease
• 15,000 Mi. Per Year
• FREE Service Loaners
• $300 Refundable Rebate Deposit
• License Plates Incl.
We Lease All Makes & Models
TamaRoFF
LEaSInG CD
28585 TELEGRAPH RD.
Across From Tel-12
Smithfield
(313) 353-1300
Ow •
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
161—
50%
Reagan in November but
was forced to cancel because
of the death of his wife,
Aliza.
Quandt, who met with
Hussein before coming to
Israel, said the King would
seek to obtain maximum
support from other Arab
leaders before entering the
peace talks. He also said he
was more optimistic over
the prospects of the talks
getting underway than he
was four their successful
outcome.
Israel Foreign Minister
Yitzhak Shamir warned
Tuesday night that if Hus-
sein entered talks with Is-
rael under an all-Arab
mandate, his proposals
would be unacceptable
"even to the most moderate
Israeli."
Addressing the sixth
international convention
of Bnei Akiva, the youth
movement affiliated with
the National Religious
Party, Shamir said Is-
rael's experience showed
there could be peace with
an Arab state only when
that state freed itself
from pan-Arab pres-
sures, as the late
President Anwar Sadat
of Egypt had done in
= WO = Me M EM UN Me IMMO
Off
On ALL Drycleaning'
3 locations
to serve you
23043 Beech
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1977. According to
Shamir, in terms of hopes
for peace, an Arab man-
date or a PLO mandate
"was an illusion."
Shamir claimed that over
the years, Hussein's posi-
tion over territorial com-
promise, in secret contacts
with Israelis, was always
"not an inch." The Foreign
Minister implied strongly
that this was also Israel's
position.
"Israel has no need for
such slogans," he told his
audience of Orthodox youth.
"We say Eretz Israel (Land
of Israel) and I don't have to
tell you in Bnei Akiva what
that means," he declared to
wild applause. "We learned
about it, we yearned for it,
we lived it and we shall live
it in the future. We shall
settle it and it shall all of it
be ours."
William Quandt told his
Tel Aviv audience that he
had asked the Jordanians
what message he should
take with him to Israel. He
quoted the following re-
sponse:
"Tell them that this
would be an historic oppor-
tunity which should not be
missed. After many hesita-
tions, we are now willing to
accept Israel and we feel
that we can develop much
better relations with her
than those which now exist
between Israel and Egypt.
"If this opportunity is
at 9 Mile, Southfield
DIAMONDS
Camp David accords.
Nor was it clear whether
Hussein's recent consulta-
tions with PLO chief Yasir
Arafat resulted in a man-
date, direct or implicit, for
Jordan to represent Pales-
tinian interests in peace
talks with Israel.
Most observers in
Jerusalem and in Washing-
ton believe that if Hussein
joins the peace negotiations,
his chances of getting U.S.
weapons would improve
considerably.
Until now, the King has-
spurned the Camp David
peace process. He still con-
siders himself bound by the
1974 Arab League summit
conference in Rabat,
Morocco, which designated
the PLO to be the sole and
legitimate representative of
the Palestinian people. The
Arab League summit in
Fez, Morocco last Sep-
tember did not rescind that
decision.
Meanwhile, in Cairo,.
Arafat was quoted in the
Egyptian political
weekly Rose al Yussef as
saying that the PLO
would continue its mili-
tary "option" against Is-
rael because the U.S. will
not pressure Israel,
"even within the limits of
the (Reagan peace) plan
which it put forward."
But he added, "We sup-
port every constructive as-
pect in any offered initia-
tive."
Historic Israel TV Documentary
Pillar of Fire' Released as Book
By J. CHESKY
World Zionist Press Service
Israel Television's largest
project, the 19-hour Hebrew
31555 W. 10 Mile
at 9 Mee, Oak Park
series aired last year on the
at Orchard Lake. Farmington
history of the Zionist
movement and the estab-
lishment of the state, is now
in book form.
Uoupon must be iiresentea with order — Expires January 21st
In Ea IN •••1111111•1•111111=1•11111111111111 1011111111=111•1101111
• 1•01110 =1 • 111•=1111111111•11=111•
The 550-page picture
• • •• •, • • • • •
• • • • • •
• .•
book is reviving many of the
.• ,• •
controversies that sur-
•
•
rounded the "Pillar of Fire"
•
documentary epic.
"Pillar of Fire" was con-
ceived in the wake of the
LAWRENCE M. ALLAN
President
Yom Kippur War and the
UN resolution of November
1975, equating Zionism
GEMOLOGIST & DIAMONTOLOGIST
with racism. The creator
and script writer, Yigal
Lossen, who was an Israel
•
Radio and Television re-
•
porter in the early 1970s,
•
was appalled how few Is-
•
raelis were equipped to
GOLD BEAD
•
argue the country's case
NECKLACE &
against anti-Zionist claims.
•
EARRINGS
"I realized that our educa-
A SUPER
tion in Israeli schools was
•
deficient," he explained.
VALUE!
•
•
"We learned about battles
for Israel's establishment,
•
but not about events like
•
the Evian Conference of
•
1938."
•
That meeting was called
by U.S. president Roosevelt
to try and find a solution for
OUR SPECIALTY
the thousands of Jewish
•
30400 TELEGRAPH • BIRMINGHAM
refugees from Hitler's
•
LOCATED AT 12 1 /2 Mile SUITES 104/134
Europe who plied the high
seas aboard rickety refugee
Awarded Certificate by GIA in Grading & Evaluation
ships in search of a haven.
642-5575
The book outlines the
controversy between
• • • .•
..••'. ,•\ ;:fa'; ,•••:
Theodor Herzl and Ahad
__
momossomm,_
22185 Coolidge
missed, we do not know
whether our young gen-
eration, which is much
more extremist than us,
will be ready to do in 10
years what we are pre-
pared to do now."
Quandt expressed confi-
dence that Hussein would
indeed join the peace talks
because he realizes that
maintaining a passive atti-
tude would cause him more
harm than becoming in-
volved.
However, Quandt added,
prior to announcing Jor-
dan's participation in the
talks," Hussein would seek
to obtain maximum support
from other Arab leaders —
and at least a tacit agree-
ment from the PLO. The
only country which Hussein
feels will not support him in
this venture is Syria,
Quandt said.
He predicted a "big
argument" between Israel
and the United States,
should Hussein decide to
enter the peace talks, over
the issue of Israeli settle-
ments on the West Bank.
During his visit to
Washington last month,
Hussein reiterated his
support of President
Reagan's Mideast peace
plan. But after meeting
with Reagan, there was
no indication that the
Jordanian monarch was
willing or able to join the
U.S., Egypt and Israel in
negotiations based on the
Haam near the turn of the that some of the problems
century. Herzl wanted a the Jewish people are
haven for the Jewish struggling with today, such
people, foreseeing the as justifying the existence of
tragedy that was to befall the State and the problem of
them. On the other hand, assimilation, have answers
Ahad Haam wanted a . . . in the past."
land for the spiritual re-
When Lossen started
vival of the nation, with research for the series
its own language and cul- seven years ago, he went
ture.
to then Prime Minister
"Pillar of Fire" has been Yitzhak Rabin and later
criticized for stressing to Prime Minister Begin
Herzl's point of view in and to numerous Israeli ,
Zionism. Lossen argues that Zionist and Jewish in-
the impression left by the stitutions. None of them
film was an emphasis on the would provide funds for
negative reasons for found- the project. So it was
ing Israel. However, he done on a shoestring
maintains this is due to the budget of $2 million, ap-
nature of the medium and proximately one-tenth
that the book gives a better what such a production
balance.
would cost in the United
Another major criticism States.
is that the series did not put
"In making the series, we
enough emphasis on the scoured the film archives of
role of the Oriental Jews in Europe and the U.S. and
the creation of the State. brought home more than
The matter was even taken 1,500 films that have histor-
to court by a group that de- ical importance to the
manded equal time with Jewish people."
European Jewry, arguing
Lossen is currently trying
that Sephardim comprise 50 to raise funds to have the
percent of the population of series translated into
Israel. The case was thrown English. He believes the
out on the grounds that the film has enormous educa-
judiciary could not inter- tional / value for the Jewish
vene in television broad- communities of the Dias-
casting.
pora. Within the coming
Lossen believes the main months he will tour Jewish
effect of the series is that it communities outside Israel
popularized Zionism, mak- to try and raise the money.
ing the facts available to Is-
The best education in the
raelis who do not read his-
tory books. "In bringing world is that got by struggl-
Zionism into every Israeli ing to get a living.
—Wendell Phillips
home," he says, "we showed