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rael, while others went to
Europe.
During the Israeli invasion
of Lebanon, Israeli leaders ap-
pealed to the 100 Jews who had
remained in the country to
take the opportunity to escape
to Israel, but very few re-
sponded. Now, with their lives
in danger, the Jews are des-
perate to obtain (non-existent)
protection or leave the coun-
try.
The frantic Beirut Jews fear
that the kidnappers will soon
reappear, not to bring back
their victims but to take other
prisoners. Members of this
mysterious Moslem group act
brutally without any humane
feelings, as they showed when
they snatched one of their
Jewish victims in the middle of
the night, in front of his ter-
rified family. The Jews feel to-
tally helpless.
As the Lebanese Jews' appeal
emphasizes, there is, indeed, the
moral aspect, the urgency of ap-
pealing to the conscience of man-
kind. But there is so little hope for
relief! The American position has
weakened. Instead of exerting the
pressures that could bring
humane responses there is deter-
ioration in the U.S. position.
It's a grave. era for all con-
cerned. It diminishes the glory of
the United States. It provides
very little comfort either for Israel
or for the threatened Jewish rem-
nant in Lebanon.
Demolishing Canards:
Facts Versus Hatreds
Confronting Arab Malice
Utilizing the United Nations
General Assembly as the medium
for hate-spreading, Arab prop-
agandists are resorting to most
unusual and most shocking
venom. They have not even hesi-
tated to resort to the shockingly
atrocious blood libel in their at-
tacks on Jews and Israel.
The U.N. General Assembly is
not the only vehicle for these hat-
reds. The Christian Science
Monitor especially, as well as
other nationally circulated news-
papers, have been used as means
to advertise the hatreds. It was in
response to one such full page ad
in the CS Monitor that Phil Baum
and Raphael Danziger, writing in
behalf of the American Jewish
Congress, demolished some of the
claims in the anti-Israel-Jewish
canards. On March 26 the CS
Monitor published this Baum-
Danziger letter under the heading
"Questionable Ad?":
In a full-page advertisement
("Lebanon's Appeal," March
15), the National Association of
Arab Americans (NAAA)
makes a hypocritical and dis-
honest attempt to turn Ameri-
can public opinion against Is-
rael.
Even while departing from
southern Lebanon, many Is-
raeli soldiers continue to be
killed and maimed by suicide
car bombings, remote-control
bombs, and armed ambushes
originating in local Shiite vil-
lages. As would any other
army, the Israelis have gdne
after the initiators of these
senseless attacks in order to
protect their own lives; tragi-
cally, but inevitably, a number
of innocent bystanders have
been caught in the cross fire.
Omitting any mention of the
reasons for the Israeli actions,
the NAAA feigns moral out-
rage at the resultant Lebanese
casualties. Its selective com-
passion, however, permitted
no such sentiments to be ex-
pressed when the PLO at-
tacked countless civilians
when the Syrian Army
slaughtered 20,000 of its own
citizens in Hama, or when the
Iraqis employed outlawed
chemical weapons.
Even more hypocritical is
the NAAA's denunciation of
Israel's battlefield censorship
in southern Lebanon — con-
siderably less stringent than
was that applied by the United
States in Grenada or Great
Britain in the Falklands —
while finding nothing wrong
with the total censorship
routinely imposed by all Arab
states.
Finally, the NAAA seeks to
create revulsion against Israel
through partial, inaccurate,
and misleading quotes from
the New York Times and the
Washington Post. Thus, it mis-
represents the Post as reporting
on its own authority that Israeli
soldiers "struck a 4-month-old
baby with a rifle butt and fired at
a boy"; in fact, the Post quoted a
local doctor in a Shiite village as
making these totally unsubstan-
tiated allegations. The ad then
quotes the Times as saying that a
woman was "shot at the
checkpoint on the Israeli front
line Thursday," neglecting to
mention that she was the unfor-
tunate, unintended victim of the
heavy fighting that took place in
the area that day. And it conjures
up the image of brutal murder by
quoting the Times as saying that
a Shiite religious leader taken
prisoner by the Israelis "was
found a week later in an aban-
doned well," whereas the next
sentence in the Times makes clear
that the man was found alive.
The authors of such distortions
seek not to bring peace but to sow
further hatred and misun-
derstanding.
It's a pity that there are so
many demands for a hearing and
reading of facts and truth about
conditions affecting Israel. There
are so many opportunities for just
and friendly relationships. Yet
the propagandists, so many unfor-
tunately in this country, keep
spreading libels that lead to hat-
reds rather than mutual respect.
That the Monitor should have
placed a question mark after the
title to the published letter is also
cause for regret. Wasn't the factu-
ality of the letter's contents evi-
dent?
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