• c.if:111 H811V3., rffiTEC. 111" 4 Friday, January 10, 1986 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS THE JEWISH NEW S Serving Detroit's Metropolitan Jewish Community with distinction for four decades. Editorial and Sales offices at 20300 Civic Center Dr., `Suite 240, Southfield, Michigan:48076-4138 Telephone (313) 354-6060 isuse Of The 'Holocaust Infuriates One Sun/Ivor . PUBLISHER: Charles A. Buerger - EDITOR EMERITUS: Philip Slomovitz EDITOR: Gary Rosenblatt - CONSULTANT: Carmi M. Slomovitz ART DIRECTOR: Kim Muller-Thym NEWS EDITOR: Alan Hitsky LOCAL NEWS EDITOR: Heidi Press EDITORIAL ASSISTANT: Tedd Schneider LOCAL COLUMNIST: Danny Raskin 'OFFICE STAFF: Lynn Fields Marlene Miller Dharlene Norris Phyllis Tyner Pauline Weiss Ellen Wolfe ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES: Lauri Biafore Allan Craig Rick Nesse! Danny Raskin PRODUCTION: Donald Cheshure Cathy Ciccone Curtis Deloye Ralph Orme -« © 1986 by The Detroit Jewish News (US PS 275520) Second Class postage paid at Southfield, Halligan and additional mailing offices. Subscriptions: I year • $21 — 2 years - $39 — Out of State -423 — Foreign - $35 CANDLELIGHTING AT 5:02 P.M. VOL. D000/111, NO. 20 Dealing With Libya Why must Israel be the policeman of the world in combatting terrorism? That's a question being asked more and more in Jerusalem these days, but not enough in the capitals of other countries. In a way, of course, it's a compliment: if there is Arab terror somewhere, Israel can be counted on to respond, quickly and forcefully. Indeed, her policy has always been to respond to terrorist acts by striking back and letting terrorists know that such acts will not go by unpunished. That policy will not change, but Israel is anxious for other democratic countries to take up her cause — and their cause — rather than sitting back and allowing Israel to do all of the "dirty work" • , • If there is a long-term solution to state-sponsored terrorism, it can only be found in state-sponsored economic, diplomatic and, if necessary, military sanctions. But Israel is no longer the only targot and victim of Arab terrorism — in the most recent attacks in Rome and Vienna, for example, one Israeli and five - Americans were killed — and Israel must not be the only country to respond. Prime Minister Shimon Peres put it this way in a speech this week to the Knesset "The world is making supreme efforts to put an end to war," he said. "Countries are making supreme efforts to put an end to crime within their borders. Terrotism is a combination of war and crime. It extends across the entire globe, and the time has come to organize an international effort against it, to put an end to this ugly and dangerous hybrid. - – "Israel," he continued, "will neither rest until it catches up with , those who harass us, nor will it desist from calling on the_world to launch a proper international effort in order to free the world Of this terrible and unnecessary danger." The U.S. has shown some positive Signs of late, particularly President Reagan's strong statement Tuesday evening in which he called Libya a threat to national security and urged the nations of Europe to join the U.S. in isolating Qaddafi._ This was an important step and gives the U.S. the moral standing to preach to West Germany, Italy, France and England to end their greedy relationship with Libya, a relationship , based on appeasement. But Europe continues to ignore the growing threat that Qaddafi poses to the world. Reagan's statement this week marks a positive change in thinking in Washington regarding how to deal with Qaddafi. Initially, after the attacks at the Rome and Vienna airports, the U.S. gave off mixed messages, first talking tough about military options, then backing off and discusling economic sanctions. As one Mideast expert in Washington told us, "This kind of bungling response just makes Qaddafi look good — he can tell his people he has stood up to the U.S. and made - us back down." According to this Mideast expert, Qaddafi is no madman. He is a fundamentalist Moslem revolutionary whose goal is nothing less than dismantling the nation state system in Africa and the Middle East So he is as dangerous to his fellow Arabs as he is to Israel, if not more so. "He has a totally different value system, which we don't understand iso we call him crazy: But he is far from it," asserted the expert, who warns that America has dangerously underestimated Qaddafi. Now, by removing the 1,500 American technical experts in Libya, upon whom Qaddafi relies for his oil production expertise, President Reagan will have taken a major step forward in responding to the shrewd "madness" of Muammar Qaddafi. Let us see if the nations of Europe can overcome their combination of greed and passivity and take similar steps to voice their rejection of one of the world's most dangerous men. , , BY ALFRED LIPSON Special to The Jewish News There is a disturbing trend of using the Nazi Holocaust, an unparal- leled event in the history of mankind, and lumping it together with other un- related events. Cardinal John J. O'Connor of New York considers abor- tion "another holocaust." Cardinal John Krol went many steps farther when addressing 10,000 Jewish Holocaust survivors gathered in Philadelphia in April 1985 to mark the 40th anniversary of liberation from the Nazi death camps. Cardinal Krol Stated that the Nazi Holocaust was only a plat of a string of holocausts ; starting with the massacre Of Arme- nians by the TurkE3in 1915, the Gulags in the Soviet Union and culminating in the "murder of millions Of unborn" by abortion. These comparisons are linfortu-. nat,e and absurd. There is no analogy to the enormous ,evil, the organized slaughter of European Jews by the Nazis and their willing collaborators. One does not wish to enter into a dispute with cardinals, only to, wonder aloud: Where were the cardinals of Rome while six million Jews were being exterminated in the heart of Europe, in broad daylight, on the soil of devoutly Catholic- Poland? Thirty million Polish Christians watched with indifference, many of them with- delight, at seeing the "Christ-killers" finally. eliminated. The silence of the - Holy Church was devastating- and must hive been interpreted in Poland and elsewhere as encourageinent for this stand. The Vatican was not that far from Auschwitz not to have heard the deafening cries of the victims con- sumed by gas and fire. The Holocaust was a unique event with implications for the Christian world because of its historical tradi- tion of anti-Semitism which led to the Final Solution, Some Christian lead- ers and writers have, therefore, tried to universalize the Holocaust by "prov- ( , ing" that Jews were not the only vic- tims and thus they hope to diminish or completely erase the burden of guilt initially felt by the outside world. is a result, we now confront a tragic irony — requests to join in memorializing the "Armenian holocaust," the "Polish holocaust", and the "Ukrainian holocaust." Ukrainian holocaust? Does this refer to the Chmielnicki pogroms against the Jewish communities in the Ukraine and Poland in 1648-1649? Of course not. Or was it the Babi. Yar massacre of nearly 100,000 Jewish* . Some Christians have tried to universalize- the Holocaust . and thus diminish or completely erase the burden of guilt. men, women and children of the Uk- rainian city of Kiev? No, not one Uk- rainian Christian js buried at Babi Yar. Of course Ukrainians were killed by the Nazis — on the battlefield when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941. The Ukrainians - wore Soviet uniforms. Many of those who surrendere o Germans changed allegiance, donn S un- iforms and becaMe our executioners in the ghettos and camps. This attempt at historical re- . visionism and of distorting the Holocaust is an ongoing process/ It robs the Holocaust of its moral signifi- cance; it is a betrayal of the sacred memory of those who perished in the gas chambers, a profanation of the de- stroyed Jewish communities and their cultural values. - One despairs to see some Jewish' leaders join this obscene process of di- Continued on Page 18