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Friday, August 3, 1984
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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Arab meeting lifts the veil
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the political and military
leaders of Israel told the ter-
rorists, 'We cannot do these
things, you have to do
them.' So they are in al-
liance. They were doing the
job the government wanted
them to do."
On the election of
Kahane, Nakhleh asked,
"What if someone said they
were going to expel the Jews
from the United States?
What would people say?
Here Kahane is saying he
will expel the Arabs from
Israel, the West Bank and
Gaza, and no one is saying
anything about it.
"The Jews are good
people. But the minority
who are Zionists are always
forcing their view upon the
Jewish majority."
Can a dialogue between
American Arabs and Jews
exist?
"I have a lot of Jewish
friends who have dialogue
with me," replied Nakhleh,
"and they think that what
Israel is doing and what the
Jews are doing is dis-
graceful. But they are af-
raid because the Zionist
machinery is very strong.
The Zionists can destroy
them economically, so-
cially. They threaten them
. . . They have brainwashed
the American people. They
have even brainwashed the
Jews."
Later, at a press confer-
ence, a "Call for Peace" was
made for the Iran-Iraq con-
flict. It was suggested by
several delegates that the
main international culprits
supplying the Iranian re-
gime of the Ayatollah Kho-
meini were Syria, Libya and
Israel. It was felt that Rus-
sia could use its influence
upon Israel's highly un-
likely bedpartners to stop
supplying arms to Iran, but
only the United States could
influence its client state —
Israel. Thus, by continuing
to supply arms to Israel
Indeed, Imam Karoub ap-
peared surprised when he
heard Nakhleh ask, "Don't
you think that this term
Judeo-Christian is a little
bit misleading as it has been
created by Zionists in order
to form an alliance between
Jews and Christians
against the Moslem world?
"There are more
similarities between Chris-
tianity and Islam than be-
tween Judaism and Chris-
tianity," continued
Nakhleh, adding, "So by
excluding Islam, the United
States is being unfair."
Rev. Gepford tried to field
the question by replying
that "Jesus was a Jew. He
was also a Palestinian. And
I tell my Christian friends
that with pride." But
•
Nakhleh was not satisfied.
Pre-conference publicity
"My point," said
had highlighted a panel of Nakhleh, "is that Muslims
Christian and Islamic cler- believe in all of the
gymen who were scheduled prophets. They believe in
to "consider human rights the Virgin Mary and in
violations and the desecra- Jesus Christ. The Jews,
tion of religious shrines in they deny the coming of
Jerusalem." Among the Christ and they say so many
participants were to be the bad things about Jesus
Reverend William Gepford, Christ . . . the Moslems love
director of Arab-American the Christians, but the Jews
relations at Dearborn's hate the Christians."
Littlefield Presbyterian
This was enough to touch
Church; members from the off an outburst of incoherent
Hartford Seminary Found- emotion from Hajji Abdul-
ation, Hartford, Conn. and lah Ahmad, a black dele-
the National Council of gate from Philadelphia. He
Churches in the United threw the anti-Muslim
States. Only Reverend Gep- Crusades at Rev. Gepford,
ford, a veteran of ten years' and asked what was the
experience in the Middle "difference between that
East, showed up.
kind of insanity and that of
There were no smoking Theodor Herzl, who was an
pistols in Gepford's pre- atheist when he created
sentation of Israeli viola- Zionism in 1895" along with
tions of the human rights of the "Yiddish people."
the Palestinians. His argu-
Rev. Gepford, whose
ment was presented force- Presbyterian stand on Is-
fully but without resorting rael was shattering before
to inflammatory rhetoric. him, tried to think of some-
Things went well until thing appropriate. Finally,
panel moderator Imam he looked at Ahmad and
Muhammad Karoub (an said, "I'm just as disturbed
imam is the spiritual leader as you are."
of a mosque) was queried by
On that optimistic note of
Nakhleh on Rev. Gepford's ecumenicism, the meeting
usage of "Judeo-Christian." was adjourned.
which in turn were being
sold "at a premium high dol-
lar" to Iran, the United
States was "interested to
continue the danger to the
Persian Gulf."
Several delegates argued
vehemently over Israel's al-
leged role in the Iran-Iraq
War. Ayube Ally, assistant
secretary-general of the
FIA and a leader of the
Canadian Muslim commu-
nity, told The Jewish News:
"My concern is how the
Zionists are playing poli-
tics, using and preying upon
one segment of the commu-
nity and developing hatred.
Some of my best friends are
Jews. But they are not
Zionists."
U.S. court action is urged
on Arabs' boycott of Israel
New York — The Anti-
Defamation League of B'nai
B'rith is urging the U.S.
Supreme Court to consider
whether private individuals
harmed by companies com-
plying with the Arab eco-
nomic boycott of Israel have
the right to seek damages
under the anti-boycott pro-
visions of the Export Ad-
ministration Act.
In their brief submitted to
the court, the League re-
quested a review of a
memorandum opinion of the
Second Circuit Court of Ap-
peals which limited the
power to sue to the Depart-
,
ment of Commerce.
In part, the brief stated
that if the decision of the
lower court is permitted to
stand, "actual victims of the
Arab boycott will be with-
out means to secure redress
for the damages they suffer
because others see fit to
comply with a boycott, the
roots of which stem from the
pernicious hatred the Arab
world has for the State of
Israel."
Other countermeasures
against the boycott include
an international conference
in Brussels earlier this
month for the purpose of es-
tablishing
a central
clearinghouse to monitor
the Arab boycott.
Under the clearinghouse
plan, information would be
gathered on the operation of
the boycott and on the re-
sponses to it by individual
countries as well as firms.
The conference adopted a
plan of action to persuade
the Commori Market and
major industrial nations to
pursue countermeasures
against the boycott.
The conference plan of ac-
tion also includes estab-
lishment of an interna-
tional steering committee.