4 Friday, April 20, 1984 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Confronting Middle East issues in Washington THE JEWISH NEWS Serving Detroit's Metropolitan Jewish Community with distinction for four decades. Editorial and Sales offices at 17515 West Nine Mile Road, Suite 865 Southfield, Michigan 48075-4491 TELEPHONE 424-8833 PUBLISHER: Charles A. Buerger EDITOR EMERITUS: Philip Slomovitz EDITOR: Gary Rosenblatt BUSINESS MANAGER: Carmi M. Slomovitz ART DIRECTOR: Kim Muller-Thym NEWS EDITOR: Alan Hitsky LOCAL NEWS EDITOR: Heidi Press EDITORIAL ASSISTANT: Tedd Schneider OFFICE STAFF: Marlene Miller Dharlene Norris Phyllis Tyner Pauline Weiss Ellen Wolfe ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES: Drew Lieberwitz Rick Nessel Danny Raskin Segthour Schwartz PRODUCTION: Donald Cheshure Cathy Ciccone Curtis Deloye Ralph Orme BY WOLF BLITZER The Jewish News Washington correspondent Washington — Republican Sena- tor Bob Dole of Kansas, usually an ef- fective and entertaining speaker, badly bombed the other night when he addressed more than 1,600 guests attending a dinner at the 25th annual Policy Conference of the American Is- rael Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the pro-Israel lobbying organization in Washington. He delivered a decidedly "evenhanded" speech on U.S. policy in "4 " © 1984 by The Detroit Jewish News (US PS 275-520) Second Class postage paid at Southfield, Michigan and additional mailing offices. Subscription $18 a year. CANDLELIGHTING AT 6:58 P.M. VOL. LXXXV, NO. 8 Terrorist cycle • The danger is that with the tragic frequency of these attacks we may come to accept them as inevitable. But we must never become numb enough, deadened enough to react with anything but outrage. If there is any positive aspect at all to this increase in terrorism, it is in the corresponding increase in awareness among the powers that be in Washington, among the press and among the citizenry of this country that dealing with the Arab psyche requires power and courage in addition to logic. Surely there has been a renewed respect for Israel's dilemma and Israeli methods in dealing with the Arab world in order to survive. • Day schools' progress More than a quarter-century of serious concern with the educational processes here now account for progress meriting recognition of dedicated labors for the advancement of educational efforts for the youth in this community. Three school systems operating as day schools have emerged as leaders in maximizing teaching programs for the youth. The decisive step now announced by Hillel Day School, formalizing planning for expansion of facilities which will assure provisions for increased enrollment, is especially significant as an emphasis of the progress made by the day school movement. The planned cQnstruction of the William Davidson Wing to the Hillel Day School is the encouraging move in the progressive efforts, with additional wings already envisioned by Hillel's leaders. The quarter-century of dedicated labors leading to the impressive role of the Hillel Day School in American educational tasks recalls the interesting background in the history of this progressive school. The new development for the advancement of the school's needs serves to recall its foundation, which was an inspiration from the Zionist Organization of America and the Detroit District, as well as leaders in other areas in the community. Abe Kasle gave it impetus, and early leaders in the movement included Leon Kay, Morris Schaver, Wolf Snyder and Rabbi Jacob Segal. Carmi Slomovitz was the first chairman of the Development Fund. • The beginnings were inspirations from leaders with vision, and the current achievements are a credit to the community's understanding of the basic educational needs. That is how progress is attained when there is both vision and devoted identification with duty to assure maximum educational services for the children. i - What can be said about the latest terrorist attacks in Israel? That they are deplorable? That hijacking buses and shooting men, women and children on a Jerusalem street corner are the antithesis of civilized life? And we must remember, and remind the free world, that this terrorism is not directed only at Israel but at democracy. Even now the organizing committee for the Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles is preparing against terrorism at the games. Millions of dollars are being spent; a security force of more than 17,000 people is being organized to protect the 10,000 athletes expected to participate. This is the madness of our time. night, Dole received a clearly cool, if cordial, response. There were many; negative comments. He picked up his wife's briefcase by mistake," one AIPAC delegate commented, referring to Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Dole, a former White House public affairs liaison. Another person wryly said that Senator Dole might have mis- takenly thought he was speaking be- fore the National Association of Arab-Americans. Pro-Israeli Democrats attending the dinner were pleased. Earlier in the day, Vice President George Bush had scored some points before the same group when he lashed out against — Democratic presidential candidates Walter Mondale and Gary Hart for r supposedly reacting so silently to the Rev. Jesse Jackson's refusal to totally - disassociate himself from a spate of anti-Semitic comments made by Black Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan. Dole's remarks seemed to rein- force the impression that the Republi- cans also were far from perfect as far as Israel was concerned. "If Dole was pre- pared to say such things this year, be- fore that group," one Democrat com- mented, you can imagine what the Republicans will do next year, when they won't have to worry about getting re-elected." President Ronald Reagan is bar- red by the Constitution from seeking a third term in the White House. Demo- cratic Representative Tony Coelho of California, a young leader in the House, warned the national Jewish leaders who gathered at the Washing- ton conference that Reagan would simply roll over Israel during a second four years in the White House. That, of course, is a possibility, al- though Administration officials deny it. Israeli officials also are proclaiming their confidence that that will not oc- cur, given the increasingly improving U.S.-Israeli strategic relationship. Thus, they pointed out, without any Bob Dole: You might have thought he was speaking to the Natio-nal Association of Arab-Americans. the Middle East — not exactly what his audience had expected to hear, especially duringthis election year in the United States. In the process, he urged support for U.S. arms sales to "moderate" Arab states, for retaining the present loca- tion of the U.S. Embassy in Israel and for becoming more receptive to the "legitimate interests" of the Palesti- nians. In contrast to the warm reception given to Democratic Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, who spoke first that Continued on Page 10