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'This offr valid for persons or families who have not been a J.C.C. member in the past 12 months. 50% down required, balance due in 90 days. Alr a A y fir - Aware JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT 6600 WEST MAPLE RD., WEST BLOOMFIELD, MI 48033 Israel Psychoanalyzed Continued from Page 4 their Land — even the honor of the Arabs." During the same series of interviews, two Arab mayors — Shakaa of Nailus and Natshe of Hebron — informed Reich that the Israelis were interlopers on Arab lands and had no rights or legitimacy. While for Levinger the Arab was the stranger in his house, for Shakaa and Natshe it was the Jew who was the stranger in their Arab house. Reich was in Israel during the first trials of those reli- gious Jews who had plotted to destroy buildings on the Tem- ple Mount and who had been responsible for the bombing of Arab civilians. He detected among the Israelis with whom he spoke the same kind of di- vision of opinion on this issue as he did on the whole political scenario. Perhaps the most trenchant of Reich's interviews were with the Hebrew University academics, especially Ben- Porath, an American-trained Israeli scholar. With them Reich raised the major polemi- cal question animating Israeli society — How can one con- template giving back the West Bank to the PLO when that organization has repeatedly said that this would only be the first strategic step in re- gaining all of "the usurped land?" For Ben-Porath the answer to the issued dilemma is sim- ple. The alternative to the ced- ing of the West Bank to the Palestinians is a future Israel corroded by a loss of the spirit which is at the heart of the Jewish state. "I can envision a worse scenario," said Ben-Porath. "I can envision a scenario in which there is terror even under occupation. Riots. Kil- lings every day. And then Is- raelis will say to each other, `Jews have to do this or that. It's not pleasant but the situa- tion requires it. There have to be mass jailings. There have to be collective punishments. We don't like it but we have to do it.' So here I am again, a grandfather seeing my chil- dren and my grandchildren becoming the keepers of the population of the West Bank" Reich does not provide any easy remedy for the emotional explosions which he analyZed during his stay in Israel. He does suggest that one possible avenue of hope may lie in the disengagement of the Palesti- nian leaders from the PLO hierarchy and a concomitant subduing of right-wing Israeli militancy. 4 Copyright 1985, Jewish Telegraphic Agency NEWS Cardinal At Anniversary Of Death Camp Liberation Paris (JTA) — The 40th an- niversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp was marked by the French Jewish community Sunday and by Car- dinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, the archbishop of Paris, who recited Mass and a prayer for the Holocaust victims in his private chapel and later visited the Memorial to the Unknown Jewish Martyr. The cardinal, whose parents were Polish Jews, appeared de- eply moved as he descended into the memorial crypt where the names of the various death camps are inscribed. He stood with bowed head in what seemed deep meditation before the black draped tomb. Lustiger, who converted to Catholicism in his youth, told offi- cials at the memorial that he wanted to pay his personal re- spects to the Auschwitz victims. Shortly after his elevation to hed the Catholic hierarchy in France, he noted in a newspaper interview that he had lost many family members in the Holocaust and that he still had "strong senti- mental ties" with Judaism. The Jewish community in Paris marked the anniversary at a pub- lic meeting attended by represen- tatives of the Polish, British and Soviet embassies. A senior Soviet diplomat said later, "The world should not be allowed to forget that it was the Red Army which liberated Auschwitz." But he re- fused to answer questions about the present situation of Jews in the Soviet Union. When pressed, he left the meeting hall. Lightning Strikes Tel Aviv (JTA) — A lightning bolt striking a high tension line put the Hadera power station out of commission for several hours last week, forcing the Israel Elec- tric Corp. to impose temporary blackouts in various parts of the country. The utility restored full power by evening, but not before the failure of traffic lights caused mammoth traffic jams. I