- 12 Friday, February 18, 1983 - THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Book Award Nominees Announced nom irMif ffi NEW YORK — of the Holocaust" by Nominees for the 1983 Na- Leonard Dinnerstein SCHECHTER'S tional Jewish Book Awards (Columbia University have been announced by the Press); "Escape from JWB Jewish Book Council. Sobibor: The Untold Story K OSHER HOTEL The awards will be an- of Revolt in a Nazi Death QVGLATT nounced March 31 and pre- Camp" by Richard Rashke 'TOUR HOME AWAY FROM HOME , '" No nearby buildings shade our sented April 24. (Houghton Mifflin); and heated fresh water pool, patio and in the "None Is Too Many: Canada Nominees private sandy beach. Free parking • HEATED THERAPEUIIC WHIRLPOOL Holocaust category are: and the Jews of Europe • AIR CONDITIONED & HEATED "America and the Survivors 1933-1948" by Irving • COLOR TV & RADIO IN ALL ROOMS • DELICIOUS KOSHER FOOD Abella and Harold Troper • TENNIS AVAILABLE JUNKETS! JUNKETS! • WE CATER TO ALL DIETS (Lester and Orpen Dennys). 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Other National Jewish Under the grant program, Book Awards to be confer- UJA consults with com- red this year will be the munities to encourage one- award for Yiddish litera- time gifts to the Israel Spe- ture and the award for a cial Fund from funds that children's picture book. have not been allocated. Purely Commentary (Continued from Page 2) the events that followed did not have the concurr- ence or assent of anyone from the political or civi- lian echelon. • The commission of inquiry decided not to enter into the question of indirect responsibility of other elements besides the state of Israel, such as the Lebanese army, or the Lebanese govern- ment to whose order this army was subject, since despite Major-General Drori's urgings in his talks with the heads of the Lebanese army, thry did not grant Israel's requests to enter the camps before the Phalangists or instead of the Phalangists. It should also be noted that in meetings with U.S. representatives during the critical days, Israel's spokesmen repeatedly requested that the U.S. use its influence to get the Lebanese army to fulfill the function of maintaining public peace and order in west Beirut, but it does not seem that these re- quests had any result. • The commission established that the at- rocities in the refugee camps were perpetrated by members of the Phalangists, and that absolutely no direct responsibility devolves upon Israel or upon those who acted in its behalf. It is clear that the decision on the entry of the Phalangists into the refugee camps was taken without considera- tion of the danger — which the makers and executors of the decision were obligated to foresee as probable — that the Phalangists would commit massacres and pogroms against the in- habitants of the camps, and without an examina- tion of the means for preventing this danger. Similarly, it is clear from the course of events that when the reports began to arrive about the actions of the Phalangists in the camps, no proper heed was taken of these reports, the correct con- clusions were not drawn from them, and no energetic and immediate actions were taken to restrain the Phalangists and put a stop to their" actions. This both reflects and exhausts Israel's indirect responsibility for what occurred in the refugee camps. • The commission concluded that in the wit- nesses' testimony and in various documents, stress is laid on the difference between the usual battle ethics of the IDF and the battle ethics of the bloody clashes and combat actions among the various ethnic groups, militias and fighting forces in Lebanon. The difference is considerable. In the war the IDF waged in Lebanon, many civilians were injured and much loss of life was caused, despite the effort the IDF and its soldiers made not to harm civilians. On more than one occasion, this effort caused the IDF troops additional casualties. • The main purpose of the inquiry was to bring to light all the important facts relating to the perpetration of the atrocities, it therefore has im- portance from the perspective of Israel's moral fortitude and its functioning as a democratic state that scrupulously maintains the fundamental principles of the civilized world. We do not de- ceive ourselves that the results of this inquiry will convince or satisfy those who have prejudices or selective consciences, but this inquiry was not intended for such people, We have striven and have spared no effort to arrive at the truth, and we hope that all persons of good will who will examine the issue without prejudice will be convinced that the inquiry was conducted without any bias. • Various reactions from different quarters would appear to justify the assumptions of the commission regarding both those who have prej- udices or selective consciences and persons of goodwill. The truth must not be stifled and it is of the utmost urgency that all the facts be recorded and reiterated. There must be an avoidance of further distortions.