26 Friday, January 14, 1983 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS The Arab Case for Saying Jordan Is Palestine By CARL ALPERT HAIFA — False Zionist propaganda! That is the reply from anti-Israel cir- cles whenever it is pointed out that the Palestinians do have a homeland, three times larger in size than Is- rael, namely, those 35,000 square miles which are today artificially called the Hashemite Kingdom of Jor- dan. There is room enough there to absorb all the Palestinian refugees, and that in a ,country which until 1921 had constituted the major part of Palestine. But if our assertions to that effect are dismissed out of hand, how about citing other authorities, perhaps more acceptable to Wash- ington, to neutral states, and even to the PLO? Philip K. Hitti, perhaps the leading historian of the Middle East in our times, himself of Arab de- scent and certainly never a friend of Zionism, tells the simple truth in his "History of Syria, Includ- ing Lebanon and Pales- tine" ". . . In 1921Trans- jordan, with a Bibli- cal name but no real historical existence, was in turn amputated from Palestine and placed under Emir Abdullah . . . In 1949 it became the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. 9 9 STARTING JANUARY 14th 40% OFF ENTIRE STOCK INVENTORY LIQUIDATION SALE WEST BLOOMFIELD STORE ONLY • WATCHES - Pulsar, Citizen Mark icwcIers appraisers • DIAMONDS - Rings, Earrings, Necklaces • 14K GOLD - Chains, Charms, Bracelets, Earrings • TRI-GOLD - Bracelets, Necklaces • GEMSTONE - Bracelets, Earrings 6353 ORCHARD LK. RD. W. BLOOMFIELD, MI. MON. TUES. WED. SAT. 10-6 THURS. FRI. 10-9 SUN. 12=5 (313) 855-2099 "Great Mom In History" So you think it's easy running an Empire? At the end of the day I'm not just tired, I'm beat. The running, the battles, the decisions, it never stops. That's why I go to the Bath House, to relax and get away. There's nothing like it. Sauna, whirlpool, big screen T.V., friends and the restaurant is better than any country I've conquered. The Bath House, when you're feeling short on relaxation, there's nothing like it in the world. And I should know. • • • 91 east the country ex- tended into the desert. The vast stretches of no-man's land had never been settled and seldom explored. There was no place to draw the eastern boundary line until this was finally done (on maps) after World War I. The Jordan River ran down the length of the country, roughtly separating the western fourth from the eastern three-fourths. The case is irrefutable. A Palestinian state already exists, although under a misnomer. It comprises 35,000 of the original 46,000 square miles of tra- ditional, historical, geo- graphical Palestine. An editorial in The Economist (not a Zionist or- gan) on July 19, 1975, put it this way: "How much better off Hussein would be if he had been induced to aban- don his pose as a benevolent `host' to 'refugees' and to af: firm the fact that Jordan is the Palestinian Arab nation-state, just as Israel is the Palestinian Jewish nation-state." Jordan is Palestine! Who says so? Well, Philip K. Hitti, King Abdullah, King Hussein, Prince Hassan and President Bourguiba of Tunis, among many others. * * * - NEW YORK — The dramatic 74-year history of Israel's oldest and foremost technological university is now available in a new book, "Technion: The Story of Israel's Institute of Technology," by Carl Al- pert. Alpert's chronicle, traces the Technion's growth from a small technical school, struggling to meet the engineering demands of the burgeoning new nation of Israel, to its present-day status as an international center of technology, CARL ALPERT engineering, medical re- search and applied science. wars, the Holocaust and the Among the many fascinat- birth of the state of Israel. It ing items Alpert recounts is, ultimately, the story of are: the Jewish people's deter- • How the Institute was mination to establish itself created out of the same in its ancient homeland political turmoil and rival- using the tools of modern ries that also set the stage of technology. World War I. • How three successive occupying armies used the buildings and facul- ties of the Technion for purposes quite different The Jewish community's than education. - response to the Allied • How Hebraists strug- Jewish Campaign's 1982 gled to adapt an ancient cash drive in December has language to express scien- produced record results. tific terminology and con- The year-end "wind-up" cepts. was initiated by I. William • How Technion's work- Sherr, collection review shops supplied war material chairman, and Louis Berry, to the British to stop Rom- cash mobilization chair- mel before he reached man. During December, Palestine. more than $7 million was "Technion: The Story of received. Israel's Institute of Campaign General Technology" is also the Chairman Joel D. Tauber story of one of the most criti- said that the outpouring of cal eras in all of Jewish his- cash is an expression of the tory, spanning two world community's "rallying once Alpert's 30-year asso- ciation with the Technion has enabled him to wit- ness and participate in much of its history, as well as draw upon the reminiscences and per- sonal recollections of the men and women who shaped the course of the institute. Alpert has served for many years as executive vice chairman of the Techn- ion's Board of Governors. His column, "Report from Israel," is extensively syn- dicated throughout the Jewish press, and he is the author of many books on Is- rael and Zionism. "Technion: The Story of Israel's Institute of Technology" can be. ordered from the American Techn- ion Society, 271 Madison Ave., New York 10016. Campaign Record $7 Million Collected During December THE BATH HOUSE (Formerly Stanley Steamer) 13425 Capitol, Oak Park (at Coolidge between 8 & 9 Mile) Phone: 548-2890 Hours: Tues.- Fri. 10 AM -11 PM Sat. 9 AM-6 PM Sun. 7 AM-4 PM • Meetings • Private Parties • $10 per visit • Steam Bath • Whirlpool • Massage • Plaitza Be sure to pick up your special FREE 4th Visit Card... At the Bath House. 3 visits and the 4th is on us! . S... SCV-1....a.. . For centuries, writers, historians, theologians, ar- cheologists, travellers, geographers all spoke of the entire as one country, some- times broken down into Western Palestine and Eastern Palestine. Practi- cally every book on the Middle East published be- fore the birth of the Zionism movement identified Pales- tine as did Rev. Michael Russell in 1837, as that por- tion. of the Turkish empire which "extends from the Mediterranean to the Sy- _rian Desert, eastward of the river Jordan and the Dead Sea." In my own small library I have at least twenty 19th Century books which use similar language. Practi- cally every map produced before 1920 shows Palestine as spanning the Jordan River. As recently as 1946 the Franciscan Press produced a "Guide to the Holy Land" for Christians in which Palestine is defined geo- graphically as extending "from west to east between the Mediterranean and the Syro-Arabian desert . . ." There was never any doubt, never any ques- tion as to the area encompassed by histori- cal Palestine. The only vague point was how far Alpert Book on Technion History The Bath House Presents 44.. (K. a 4 .. King Abdullah himself said in Cairo in 1949 and again in his memoirs: "Palestine and Jordan are one, for Palestine is the coastline and Transjordan the hinterland of the same country." The present King Hus- sein himself now con- veniently forgets that in his own memoirs he wrote: "Palestine and- Jordan were both (by then) under British Mandate, but as my grandfather pointed out in his memoirs, they were hardly separate countries. Transjordan being to the east of the River Jordan it formed in a sense the inter- ior of Palestine." King Hussein's brother, Prince Hassan, speaking to the Jordan National As- sembly on Feb. 2, 1970: "Palestine is Jordan and Jordan is Palestine; there is one people and one land, with one history and one and the same fate." President Bourguiba of Tunis was quoted in Le Monde of July 7, 1973: "With all due respect to King Hussein, I suggest that the Emirate of Transjordan was created from whole cloth by Great Britain, who cut up ancient Palestine to do so 1.. .1.. 7 . . again to help those locally and overseas who depend on our outstanding network of Campaign-funded services and agencies." He said that the nearly $20 million collected in 1982 is a tremendous ac- complishment, especially in light of economic condi- tions. Play Catalogue NEW YORK (JTA) — A new catalogue of "Plays of Jewish Interest" has been published by the Jewish Theater Association. -