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Terror in Jerusalem
continues tragic spiral
BY BARBARA PASH
Special to The Jewish News
Mideast experts insist on putting
last Monday's terrorist attack on a
busy Jerusalem street in "its proper,
historical context" — a tragic but ac-
cepted fact of life in Israel. At the Is-
raeli Embassy in Washington, Consul
General Yosef Yaakov told The Jewish
News, "Jerusalem has never been free
of these terrorist incidents, but the
vigilance of Israeli forces has thwarted
them.'
This is the same brand of ter-
rorism that has been practiced in
Lebanon for so may years," Yaakov
continued, "and which caused the col-
lapse of that country. The PLO calls it
`armed struggle' but it is really armed
terror against innocent civilians."
The terrorist attack occurred
around 10 a.m. on King George Road
near the busy intersection of Jaffa
Road in the Jewish, West Jerusalem
area. Two Arab men entered a small
clothing store and asked, in English, to
try on some clothes.
Police and the shop owner gave
the following account: The second man
suddenly drew a hidden automatic
weapon, ran to the shop door and
began firing indiscriminately at
passersby.
The first man, who also was
armed, soon joined his comrade and
began firing. Stepping outside the
shop onto the street, they continued
firing. One terrorist threw two gre-
nades into the crowd. Meanwhile, Is-
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Calm mood dominates
Arab-Israeli dialogue
BY HEIDI PRESS
Local News Editor
The impish world
of Art Buchwald
BY ARTHUR MAGIDA
Special to The Jewish News
The outer sanctum could be a
front for a numbers operation or a
fly-by-night publishing company. A
few file cabinets crammed next to
each other. A wooden chair almost
blocks the door, loaded with several
feet of old copies of the Washington
Post and the New York Times. The
walls are lined with framed letters
that one could easily assume were
flowery testimonials to whatever
product is hyped in these parts.
But hold on. Take - a good look at
those letters. No compliments here.
No encomiums. No accolades. No
sky-high praises. This isn't fan mail.
This is hard stuff, the sort of material
you would send home to mother only
if you were conspiring to give her a
coronary.
"Smart Aleck; Sadist; Stupid,"
goes one epistle. "Check one or
more."
"Compassion, sympathy and
understanding is totally lacking in
your makeup,"
"Take a good look at yourself in
mirror and then bang your thick
skull into it."
Another writer notes that he
"read your sickening attempt at
What dubious sense of
humor gets a kick out of
papering his walls with
this venom?
humor on Monday, August 8th. We
are not a family that usually writes
to socialist slobs like you . . . You're a
jackass."
A few inches down the hall is
another letter from the hinterlands.
By now, you know enough not to ex-
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Calm prevailed Monday night at
what liad the potential for being an
explosive forum on the topic of
"Israeli-Palestinian Dialogue: Pros-
pects for a Negotiated Peace."
Held at the Birmingham Temple,
the forum, which featured Mordechai
Bar-On, an activist in the Peace Now
movement in Israel and member of the
Hebrew Univerity faculty, and
Mohammed Milhem, expelled mayor
of the West Bank town of Halhoul,
only drew one outburst from the audi-
ence. (Mounir Fasheh, who was an-
nounced last week as the speaker for
the Palestinian viewpoint, was re-
placed by Milhem when Milhem's
scheduled allowed him time for the
Detroit engagement.)
The outburst came following re-
marks by Milhem when he said that
although the Arabs and Palestinians
are divided now, "in 15-20 years they
won't be divided and that will be the
end of Israel." A voice from the back
room shouted "all right" to which the
audience responded with a loud hum of
disapproval.
The evening began with a wel-
come by Jan Sherman of the temple,
who introduced the guest speakers
thus: "Mordechai Bar-On, a distin-
guished Israeli, and Mohammed
Milhem, an equally distinguished
Palestinian."
Bar-On opened his remarks by
denouncing Monday's attack on civi-
lians in Jerusalem. He called it "a
stupid act even in terms of Palestinian
interests . . . Those who made the at-
tack this morning don't want to kill
Mordechai Bar On
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Israelis, but to kill peace."
He said the attack highlighted
what he called a zero-sum conflict,
"everything I win you lose, everything
you win I lose," which he said was a
viewpoint that prevailed both among
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