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Council re-elects Lebenbom 8
Jesse Jackson's anti-Semitism 22
Cairo gunmen shoot an Israeli diplomat 33
JUN 11
1984
Truth and the Justice 40
SERVING DETROIT'S METROPOLITAN JEWISH COMMUNITY
rens flatly denies
Israel-Iran link
Washington (JTA) — Israeli De-
- fense Minister Moshe Arens flatly
last week that Israel has been
iC=iiiipplying Iran with arms or with
spare parts for the weapons that
--- country received from the United
States under the Shah.
Arens', answering questions
•from reporters at a Thursday press
conference, also denied that there are
•"any flights between Israel and Tehe-
ran carrying weapons to Iran directly
or through a third country. He re-
_ peated the denial when asked the
same question in Hebrew by Israeli
reporters.
Arens, who met for 45 minutes
earlier in the day with Defense Sec-
retary Caspar Weinberger at the
Pentagon, said he expressed Israel's
opposition to President Reagan's de-
cision to send 400 Stinger anti-
. aircraft missiles to Saudi Arabia.
"Our concern is that these mis-
siles could fall into the hands of ter-
, rorist groups," he explained. He said
Israel feared the terrorists would use
the easily affordable weapon against
civilian aircraft and this "could be a
_ danger to us, but not only to us."
Arens also stressed that in the
•
•"escalating" situation in the Persian
Gulf, in which ships are under attack
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Did an unholy alliance of Nazis and
Zionists create Israel, or did leading
Jews make' the' only choice they had?
Moshe Arens tells reporters Israel has no
dealings with Iran.
.
from Iran and Iraq, the shoulder,.
fired Stinger would not be effective
since its range is only three miles.
The Israeli official suggested
that the Saudis will not be "effective"
in defending the Gulf as the United
States is counting on them to do. He
noted that the Iran-Iraq war has been
going on for nearly four years and
while the Saudis have a great deal of
American equipment, they don't
have the "capability, the desire or
maybe the motivation" to use it.
He conceded that the "Saudis
have a problem" in the Persian Gulf
but said they have "a very effective
system" with F-15 fighters, which he
BY JOSEPH AARON
Special to The Jewish News
I
t sounds like a plot for a movie
on the late, late show: A
secret deal between the Third Reich,
headed by Adolph Hitler, and the
Zionist movement, founded by
Theodor Herzl. A deal calling for a
halt to an international Jewish-led
boycott of German goods that might
well have meant the end of the new
Nazi regime in 1933, in-exchange for
the transfer of German Jews and
money to Palestine, providing the
foundation for the State of Israel.
But our story does not stop there.
.
,
Add the twist that the existence of
the deal, unknown for 50 years, is
uncoverd by the son of Holocaust
survivors who also happens to be an
ardent Zionist.
One thing, though. It's not a
movie plot. It's true. All of it. And all
of it is detailed in a controversial new
book, The Transfer Agreement: The
Untold Story of the Secret Pact Be-
tween the Third Reich and Jewish
Palestine by Edwin Black.
Black, a Chicago freelance
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Anti-Catholic posters
smeared around Detroit
BY ALAN HITSEY
News Editor
A 20-state campaign of bias
against Catholics and the Vatican,
with a familiar anti-Jewish refrain,
has spread to Michigan according to
the Greater Detroit Round Table of
the National Conference of Chris-
, tians and Jews (NCCJ).
Seven young volunteers from
. Jewish and black organizations on
Monday joined Robert Arcand of the
NCCJ and Allan Gale of the Jewish
Community Council in ripping down
or covering over anti-Catholic post-
ers which were glued to buildings in
the Monroe block in. downtown De-
troit.
Arcand told Thee Jewish News
that leaflets charging Catholics with
controlling the media, banks, labor
unions, the Mafia and drugs have
been distributed nationally by the
Tony and Susan Alamo Foundation
of Arkansas. The posters, with the
same message but not carrying the
Alamo name, have been found in De- -
troit in the downtown area, near
Tiger Stadium and thefl Livernois-
Fenkell area; in Ann Arbor; and in
the Flint area in poorer neighbor-
hoods and near the soon-to-be opened
Autoworld park.
The NCCJ is trying to remove all
the posters. Those that cannot be re
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Uniformed Nazis plastered boycott signs on Jewish stores lit Germany after Hitler
took control of the country. in 1933.