22 Friday, May 13, 1983 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS BEADS BEADS BEADS Come see our new beautiful collection of CRYSTALS & JETS! Bess Orman Jewelry Lebanon, the Holocaust and the Media By REV. FRANKLIN LITTELL National Institute on the Holocaust PHILADELPHIA — A small newspaper item re- ports that the assassin of Bashiz Gemayel has been located. Most newspapers have not carried the item at all. None has given it the front page, headline treat- ment which they have ac- corded reports and rumors and invented reports hostile to Israel. Hersch's Lawn Spray 32800 Franklin Rd., Franklin 855-5558 Tues.-Sat. 11-5 Kills dandelions! Call 557-8890 When Bashir Gemayel — who alone possessed the authority to hold Lebanon together and thwart the Russian/PLO ambitions in that area — was assassi- nated, the terrorist Arafat immediately accused Israel of the deed. His press con- ference was well attended. So also was his press session to accuse Israel of master- minding the bombing and murders at the American Embassy in Beirut. CBS, which like the other mass media seized the opportunity to assault Is- rael for the police action against the terrorists in Lebanon, has recently ad- mitted publicly its false- hoods in a 60-minute pro- dinettes galore! corey has more for less! ELEGANT RATTAN WITH A DASH OF BRASS Table and Four Chairs! = Marble-Top WINE TABLE $50 Value Fine furniture quality! The 13" dia. genuine marble top is pol- ished to a rich gloss. The 20" base is rich Mahogany. COMPLETE SET! A $799.95 Value A fcr . O'' TRULY MAGNIFICENT in design and quality! The construction is solid rat- tan, with peeled rattan windings and hand-tied knots. The 45" x 45" table features a crystal-clear, ultra- thick glass top with rounded corners. The matching chairs feature tubular- brass frames with thickly-cushioned seats covered in suede-like nylon. Upholstered in butter-soft vinyl! 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By refusing to publish the statements of prominent Christian leaders who support Is- rael, and therefore creat- ing the impression that only Jews despise ter- rorism and love Israel (a lie by implication), the mass media attempts to insure itself against any appearance of wide- spread and interfaith outrage at their mendac- ity. They think the public at large will not come to "merely Jewish" pro- tests. The assassin of Bashir Gemayel turns out to be a member of a Syria- sponsored terrorist gang. Syria, a Russian depen- dency, occupied most of Gemayel's country after an invasion in 1975 — and, with PLO assistance, killed over 100,000 people who be- longed in Lebanon (as they did not). This the media ig- nored at the time, later to attribute much of the devas- tation of 1975-1976 to the IDF action in 1982. To me, visiting Junieh, Alley, Tyre and Sidon and other places during the Is- raeli police action was an education in journalistic ethics. It is an uncanny feel- ing to see a city virtually in- tact, a city which jour- nalists have reported as "to- tally destroyed," "another Dresden," etc. My objection to the media handling of the IDF police action in Lebanon is not that their editorials were biased: their unconscious and unexamined anti- Semitism is, unfortunately, to be expected in a society that has not yet drawn the knife on its Kulturan- tisemitismus. The major newspapers are not, with a few excep- tions, deliberately anti- Semitic: they are simply suffering from the malaise of centuries of unthinking anti- Semitism in Chris- tendom. But the slanting of news reports, the pub- lishing of news items full of rumors and false "facts," the prominence given the wildest in- terpretations of "high government officials who ask not to be identified" (!), the failure to include important countervailing information, the wholesale lying — yes, let it be called by its true name: lying! — reveals a lack of professional ethics which is appalling. One of the lessons of the Holocaust is this: the atten- tion to technical skills, to cleverness, in total aban- donment of wisdom and truth, is the besetting sin of the professions today. The journalists are not alone in this: physicists, theolo- gians, engineers, teachers, doctors, lawyers and other technicians of the Third Reich equally displayed the corruption of Wissenschaft. But we are speaking now of journalism. What do they learn in school beyond grabbing the headlines at all costs, if necessary in dis- regard of the truth? If sheer skillfull technology is the only standard, they should admit frankly that that master technician, Josef Goebbels, is their patron saint.