THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, March 11, 1983 29 Poll: Support for Israel Sustained, Modest Sympathy for Arabs, WASHINGTON (JTA) — A survey of public opinion in the United States finds that while there has not been "any substantial dam- age" to the support of Israel by Americans as a result of Israel's invasion of Leba- non, there has been "a mod- est increase in sympathy" for the Arabs and in particu- lar for the Palestinians. At the same time, the study finds that Americans view Premier Menahem Begin much more unfavor- ably than they do Israel. The study, "American Public Opinion and U.S. Foreign Policy 1983," was conducted by the Gallup organization for the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations between Oct. 29 and Nov. 6, 1982. It is sum- marized in the spring issue of 'the quarterly, Foreign Policy, by John Reilly, president of the- Chicago Council. At a breakfast meeting with reporters, Reilly said he was "surprised" that the report showed no "erosion of support" for Israel since the study was made just after Israel's invasion of Lebanon and NOW OPEN after the massacre at the Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut. But he said in all areas of U.S. foreign policy, the survey found Americans want a "continuation" of past policy. The survey is based on a nationwide sample of 1,547 adults plus personal and telephone interviews with 341 prominent persons from government, international business, labor, academia, religious institutions, pri- vate foreign policy organ- izations and special interest groups. When the poll asked the question about "Israel's re- cent actions in Lebanon," 55 percent of the public r- sponded that they disap- proved while 21 percent ap- proved. Among the leader- ship group, 68 percent dis- approved, and 27 percent approved. The survey showed that 48 percent of the public ap- proved of President Reagan's peace initiative while 21 percent did not. Among the public, 17 per- cent believe aid to Israel should be decreased and 16 percent want it stopped al- together. Among the lead- ers, 25 percent want to de- crease or stop aid. Forty-eight percent of the public said they sym- pathize more with Israel ' than they do with the Arabs while 17 percent said they sympathize more with the Arabs. Reilly, in the Council re- port, noted that ' various Gallup polls showed sym- pathy for Israel dropped after the Lebanese invasion in June to an all time low of 32 percent in September. But by the time the council survey was taken, it was back to where it had been before the operation in Lebanon. Reilly also noted that while sympathy for Arabs rose to 28 percent last Sep- tember, by the time the council survey was taken in November, it was 17 per- cent, which was still higher than the 10-14 percent it had been before last June. However, "while the pub- lic syrhpathized with Israel over the Arabs by 48 per- cent to 17 percent, they sup- ported Israel over the Pales- tinians by a lesser margin, 40 percent to 17 percent," the Council report said. "Opinion leaders were even more sensitive to the dif- ference in terminology. Their support for Israel over the Arabs (51-19 percent) dropped to 42-26 for Israel over the Palestinians." The survey also asked the public respondents to give a thermometer rating of how they felt Jewish Minister in France Defeated in Municipal Vote THE ULTIMATE IN JUNIOR APPAREL HUNTERS SQUARE 14 Mile & Orchard Lake Rd. Farmington Hills, Mich. open daily 10 a.m. PARIS (JTA) — France's only Jewish minister run- ning in Monday's nation- wide municipal elections, Culture Minister Jack Lang, was heavily defeated in 'Paris' predominantly _Jewish Third District. Lang, a Socialist, had wooed the Jewish electo- rate, which seems, accord- ing to first poll studies, to A Glimpse Into Darkness CONFERENCE ON THE HOLOCAUST SUNDAY, MARCH 13 MONDAY, MARCH 14 2:30 pm Rackham Amphitheatre 7:30 pm Pendleton Room Michigan Union Rackham Amphitheatre 7:30 pm "The Importance of the Holocaust to Christians" Reverend Franklin Littell, Temple University; National Institute of the Holocaust "Songs From a World That Is No More" Cantor Harold Orbach, Temple Israel of West Bloomfield. Original dance and poetry recitation by U-M students. "The Holocaust: A Jewish Response" Dr. Irving Greenberg, City College, CUNY TUESDAY, MARCH 15 7:30 pm "The Holocaust Through the Eyes of a Survivor" Mr. Jack Eisner, author of The Rackham Amphitheatre Survivor Additional related events: Films: "Now . . . After All These Years" documents different percep- tions of life in Rhina, a German village, through interviews with those Germans who still live there and their erstwhile Jewish neighbors. Thursday, March 10, 7:30 pm & 9:00 pm at The Hill Street Cinema, 1429 Hill St. ($2.00) "The 81st Blow" consists of Nazi footage and is a chronological documentary of the Holocaust which was produced by survivors living in Israel. Wednesday, March 16, 8:00 pm at The Hill Street Cinema, 1429 Hill St. ($2.00) . SPONSORS B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation, Lord of Light Lutheran Church, Canterbury Loft, Congregation B'nai David, Temple Kol Ami, Congregation Beth Shalom, University of Michigan Office of Ethics and Religion, LSA Student Government, Temple Israel, Temple Beth Emeth, Campus Chapel, Michigan Student Assembly, Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs, Beth Israel Congregation, Wesley Foundation, Jewish Community Council of Washtenaw County. Individual Donations may be sent to B'rith Hillel Foundation 1429 Hill Street, Ann Arbor, Mi. 48104 about various countries, with 50 degrees being neutral and anything above being warm and below cool. Israel was rated at 55 degrees, the same as Italy. It had been rated 61 degrees when the council took its last survey in 1978. The countries rated above Israel were West Germany, 59 degrees; Mexico and France, 60; Great Britain, 68; and Canada, 74. Among- the Arab countries, Egypt pmweinammm OM OM 1•111 • III MN ., and Saudi Arabia were Those rated above Begin rated at 52 degrees; Jordan were Pope John II, 70 de- at 47; and Syria at 42. grees; British Prime Minis- When the question was ter Margaret Thatcher, 61; asked about political lead - Cand'dian Prime Minister ers, Begin was rated at an Pierre Elliott Trudeau and unfavorable 45 degrees; 12 Secretary of State George degrees below the favorable Shultz both 55, President rating he received in 1978. Reagan, former President But he was above former Carter, former Secretary of President Nixon, 38 de- State Henry Kissinger, and grees; the late Soviet leader UN Ambassador Jeane Leonid Brezhnev, 31 ; PLO Kirkpatrick, all at 45; Sen. leader Yasir Arafat, 28; and Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) the Ayatollah Khomeini, and French President Fran- 11. cois Mitterrand, 49. as .= • asp mom MO MO MI am gme gm es on 44 4R me IRO' . 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A Socialist, he also Biblical Archaeology Dr. Joseph Gutmann, counted on the area's Professor of Art History, Wayne State University Jewish vote and even took time off during the Martin Buber: Rochelle Millen, Director of Special Projects, UHS campaign to pay a brief The Man and His Ideas Doctoral Dissertation on Martin Buber visit to Haifa, Israel, to which his city is twinned. Topics in Anti-Semitism Dr. Jonathan Fishbane, Local observers say some UHS & Shaarey Zedek High School Principal Jews failed to support him Ph.D. in Intellectual European History because for the first time he headed a list which included Yiddish Literature in Aliza Shevrin, representatives of the Translation Communist Party. Translator of Isaac Bashevis Singer The government's three and Sholem Aleichem other Jewish ministers, Socialists Robert Badinter WHERE: Midrasha College of Jewish Studies and Laurent Fabius, and Communist Charles Fiter- 21550 West Twelve Mile Road mann, either did not run or Southfield - 352-7117 or 354-1050 did not head a list. Fabius, budget director, was elected municipal counsellor in a Registration small city in the north of 7 T France. The cost of mini-courses and lunches is $36.00 The Minister for Foreign The cost of mini-courses without lunches is $15.00 Checks can be made payable to the Midrasha Affairs, Claude Cheysson, Nome the man the Jewish com- Home Ph. Business Ph. munity generally blames Address City Zip for what they see as an anti-Israeli turn in France's I would like to register for: First Choice (10:30 am) or Middle East policy, was elected as mayor of the Second Choice (10:30 om) small city in which he ran. L_ LUNCH and LEARNING SERIES .