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. 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