20 Friday, February 4, 1983 THE 'DE11104" JEWISH NEWS Peretz Presents a Personal Criticism of Timerman "Solipsistic" means the theory that only the self exists or can be proven to exist. That's the definition in Random House Dictio- nary of the English Lan- guage. This is the term that was applied to Jacobo Timer- man by Martin Peretz, editor-in-chief of the New Republic. In an editorial BILL MEYER MUSIC 355-2721 PEOPLE'S CHOICE 459-7287 INNO- VATIONS 589-2478 note in the current issue of New Republic, Peretz wrote: "I've known Jacobo Timerman ever since he was sprung from Argentina. We met in Washington, New York, Israel; one of his sons visited my family for some days in Cambridge. I liked him, the way one sometimes likes a rogue, but I did not trust him. "He was self-indulgent, solipsistic; his speech was too rotund. I see that now almost no one trusts him, not even the book reviewer in the Village Voice, which is saying a lot. "Near the beginning of his new book, The Longest War,' Timerman tells of a lunch he shared with politi- cal philosopher and TNR contributing editor Michael Walzer at the Institute for Advanced Study: " 'I suggested to him that if the two of us decided to commit suicide and ex- plained in our wills we were killing ourselves to stop Sharon's War, perhaps we Wedding, Rehearsal and Ceremony Assistance Sharon Padzensky 559-4757 It's Here!! SAFE — EFFECTIVE CLINICALLY TESTED will Walzer. But some inno- cent soul might just be per- suaded to take up his pro- position. You can be sure of one thing: there'll only be one corpse, and Timerman will write a eulogy for the deceased in the New Yorker, amid the ads for fraises des bois. JACOBO TIMERMAN could succeed in stopping it.' "He does not say how Walzer responded because Walzer didn't respond; he was merely embarrassed. But Walzer's silence did not silence Timerman, or em- barrass him. 'We cut pathe- tic and ridiculous figures, Michael Walzer and I,' and the reader wishes Timer- man would speak only for himself. " 'Even if we had killed ourselves ... moving the conscience of mankind by the generous giving of (our) own lives ... what would the world, or Is- rael, or General Sharon himself have done with our two bodies?' "Don't worry: Timer- man's not about to kill him- self; he's not the type. Nor "The last time I saw Timerman was on the day he spent in Lebanon. We embraced, Latin style. There we were, standing not exactly surrounded by the stench of death, but close to instruments of killing, and he began: " Peretz, Peretz, why did we Jews come to this coun- try?"Jacobo, which coun- try?' I ask, 'Lebanon or Is- rael?' Not Lebanon, but Is- rael, Israel,' he answers, and I expect a long cosmic kvetch about Jewish de- stiny or Zionism or the Diaspora or the elephant and the Jewish problem — at any rate, something weighty. " 'What do you mean, Jacobo?' 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On the only day he troubled to look at the war he was writing a book about. Such a man will never kill himself. Don't Assimilate Re-Jew- Venate see page 27 JUDEA-SAMARIA, Some Call "West Bank" "And the truth is that a millenia ago there was a Jewish kingdom in Judea and Samaria where our kings knelt to God, where our Prophets brought forth the vision of eternal peace, where we developed a rather rich civilization which we took with us, in our hearts and in our minds, on our long trek for over 18 centuries; and, with it, wexame home . . ." Menachem Begin, Sept. 5, 1982 The names Judea and Samaria have been in continuous use for some 3,000 years. As a matter of course, they appear in books and documents issued during the British Mandate. In fact, the UN itself, in its uncorrupt younger days used precisely these names in its deliberations and documenta- tions . . . 3 After Jordan seized Judea and Samaria in 1948, they killed all Jews of the farms and villages in the Judean hills and expelled all the Jewish surivivors in Jerusalem's Old City. Jordan re- named the area "West Bank" . . . Under Jordanian law, Jews can neither be citizens or residents and it is a crime punishable by death to sell land to a Jew. During Jordan's 19 year occupation, they tried to destroy every trace of Jerusalem's ancient Jewish history. From this territory jutting into Israel's coastal plain, terrorist attacks were made against Israeli civilians. And from this territory on June 5, 1967, King Hussein's forces opened fire on West Jerusalem and joined with Egypt and Syria in a multi-front war to destroy Israel. Jordan's attack was repulsed and they were driven back across the Jordan River, liberat- ing Judea and Samaria. As is said in First Book of Maccabbees, 15:33-35. "We have neither taken other men's land nor are we in possession of other men's property, but of the inheritance of our forefathers: It was wrongfully seized by our enemies at one time, but we retrieved it . . ." ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA 18451 W. 10 Mile Rd. / Southfield, MI 48075 Your tax deductible contribution for the cost of this advertise- ment will be welcome.