Friday, Novembir 25, 1983 61
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Republic Security
The Arafat Example for Communism's Friends
By REV. FRANKLIN
LITTELL
The National Institute'
on the Holocaust
PHILADELPHIA — The
writer of this column is
shedding no tears as Yasir
Arafat goes down the drain.
The nasty little terrorist —
killer of school children,
women shoppers, Olympic
athletes and unarmed dip-
lomats — deserves every-
thing that's coming to him.
Yet the total cynicism with
which he has been dumped
by the Soviets and their
fellow-travelers deserves
notation.
Those of us who re-
member the assassination
of republican, social democ-
ratic and other non-
Communist leaders fight-
ing for the Spanish Republic
are not surprised. Nor are
those of us surprised who
remember the Soviet-Nazi
pact and the partition of Po
land before World War II,
when again the Soviets
threw their own to the
wolves for reasons of na-
tional self-interest. There
have been enough like bet-
rayals of allies, friends and
even indigenous Com-
munists since World War II
to fill an encyclopedia.
The ethics and morals of
the self-serving clique that
has run the Soviet Union for
decades is governed by the
same basic concern of every
20th Century dictatorship:-
survival. Unfortunately ;
dictators have learned that
to keep their own people
under control there are two
ready diversionary
strategies:
• Portray the Jews as a
Trojan Horse, a subversive
element, and center the
mob's attention on an anti-
Semitic campaign and its
shows.
• Launch a foreign war,
either directly or through
surrogates.
In recent months there
has been a marked in-
crease in anti-Semitic ac-
tions by the government
of the Soviet Union. And,
after the setback dealt
Soviet expansion in the
Middle East by the IDF
police action in Lebanon,
the Soviets have reco-
vered and are again on
the march. Last July, this
column pointed out that
the Soviets would have to
choose between Arafat
and Assad — and that at
that point the decision
had not yet fallen. Now it
has.
Arafat, who for years
commuted regularly to
Moscow for consultations,
whose terrorist camps and
officers were trained,
supplied and assisted by the
Russians at every turn, is
being destroyed. The fact
that some thousands of mis-
guided youths and helpless
civilians are dying in
Arafat's last stand does not
bother the Kremlin in the
least.
For the Soviet Union,
Arafat and his troops are
expendable, and so are the
helpless civilians of Nahr al
Bared, Beddawi and Tripoli.
Assad, the dictator over
Russia's Syrian satrapy, is
now more useful in keeping
the Middle East de-
stabilized and Israel's exis-
tence threatened.
All of this is clear, and
running true to the Soviet
record across many decades.
What is so stunning about it
is the ease with -which the
Communist and fellow-
traveling network around
the world has made the
same switch, overnight.
Where are all those
American Communists
and fellow-travelers who
just a few months ago
were still organizing con-
ferences, setting up
seminars, writing letters
to the editor, putting big
advertisements in the
New York Times and
Washington Post on
Arafat's behalf? They are
silent. Arafat and his last
loyal, misguided
youngsters are going
down to defeat and death
— and they are silent.
Jeane Kirkpatrick, chief
delegate of the U.S. to the
UN, recently gave the major
address at ceremonies in
New York City honoring
Lech Walesa. She outlined
the terrorist strategy spon-
sored by the Soviet Union
precisely and succinctly: the
pattern "is by now dis-
couragingly familiar:
choose a weak government,
organize a national libera-
tion front, add a terrorist
campaign to disrupt order
and provoke repression to
weaken an already weak
economy, then intensify the
violence."
Dr. Kirkpatrick went on
to comment on the difficulty
of developing an adequate
foreign policy in the midst of
widespread intellectual
confusion as to the values of
the free society and the na-
ture of the Soviet dictator-
ship. To this confusion,
which is moral as well as in-
tellectual, the Communists
and fellow-travelers in the •
West have contributed
mightily.
Who are they? Where are
they? Check your news-
paper clippings. Just a few
months ago their names ap-
peared on all the adver-
tisements and rallies in
support of Arafat. And now,
with the signals changed by
Moscow, they can be found
on a flurry of advertise-
ments and rallies protesting
U.S. action in Grenada and
calling for cut-offs of all as-
sistance to governments
and societies being "de:-
stabilized" . in Latin
America.
shielding its real thrust
by protesting against
"violating any nation's
territorial sovereignty."
As though every murder-
ous and criminal regime
on the face of the earth
were sacrosanct!
In truth, it was respect for
the "territorial
sovereignty" of the German
Third Reich that contri-
buted mightily to Hitler's
initial successes. As though
the persons and committees
listed in this ad were not
over recent years also listed
on every ad or rally to help
destroy Israel!'
The Nov. 6 ad, calling for
thousands to march on
Washington to protest U.S.
action in crushing a ter-
rorist regime in Grenada, a
regime which was part of a
master plan for Russian
penetration and eventual
domination in the islands of
the Caribbean, carries a
long list of persons and
committees. At least half of
the committees are frauds,
existing only on paper. And
the persons: how familiar
their names are!
If they have no stomach
for a principled defense of
the values of liberty and
self-government, let them
An illustration of the
point is an ad published
in the New York Times on
Nov. 6. The ad attacks
U.S. action in Grenada,
CJC to Aid
Cuban Jews
NtW YORK — The
Canadian Jewish Congress
(CJC) will send $30,000
worth of religious articles
and supplies to the Jewish
community of Cuba next
spring, the World Jewish
Congress (WJC) reported
earlier this month.
The CJC has looked after
the needs of Cuban Jews
since the United States se-
vered relations with that
country in 1960. CJC offi-
cials expect the shipment to
reach Cuba in time for Pas-
sover, which begins April
16.
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INVESTIGATION
at least observe in the fate of
Arafat what happens to the
tools of the Soviets when
they are no longer useful.
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