20% OFF .1146 COUNTRY GARDEN SHOPPE I I Oki'l • • • I FLORAL ARRANGEMENTS VII It • ( \RI \ 30720 Orchard Lake Road Farmington Hills, MI 48018 (313) 855-0444 LOCAL NEWS " BIRMINGHAM GARDEN & FLORAE 11A ■ KI•1 • (; 111 SI 111111 • • ci N-11 . k Eban Probes 1280 South Woodward Birmingham, MI 48011 (313) 540-0090 Just S Of Lincoln In Front of K-Mart, S. of 14 Mile Rd. Continued from Page 1 10% OFF PUMPKINS, FIREWOOD, BIRDSEED AND BIRDFEEDERS, SCENTED POTPOURRI, CUT FLOWERS & GIFT ITEMS. GOOD THROUGH 12/31/86 40% OFF Linda Radin NAME BRAND FURNITURE & ACCESSORIES Oct. 31st-Nov. 8th Abba Eban speaking in Ann Arbor: Failed revolts should not be glorified. T'•• ti r 14 et. CC located within Claire Pearone Somerset Mall O IH • 2773 W. Big Beaver Rd. OFFERED FOR THE FIRST TIME! roily ootca re p.c. ... ► Your First Step To Better Health" IS PLEASED TO OFFER FOR THE FIRST TIME, AFFORDABLE ORTHOTIC INSERTS FOR YOUR SHOES O O ee CAN BE USED TO HELP .. . / -4k4 J. / • PAINFUL BUNIONS • HARD CORNS • SOFT CORNS • HEEL SPUR • HEEL PAIN For Only • FLAT FEET • ARCH PAIN • CALLOUSES 49.95 21700 NORTHWESTERN HWY. (DELTA DENTAL BLDG.) AT J.L. HUDSON DR., Southfield 557-4300 FREE TRANSPORTATION 24 Friday, October 24, 1986 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS ciated with the Jewish people, according to Eban. The first is the mystery of preservation, of how the Jewish people managed to re- tain its identity under condi- tions in which no other people has preserved its iden- tity. Second, the mystery of re- sonance. You cannot look at the history of civilization, without coming face to face with what the Jews have said and written and produced and suffered," Eban asserted. Suffering is the third mys- tery, the Jewish people's "seemingly magnetic" ability to attract "impulses of vio- lence" to itself, "culminating in the greatest martyrology of all," the Holocaust. And finally, "the greatest mystery of all," the mystery of renewal: the reunion of the Jewish language, land and people "in a unique bridge thrown across the gulf of generations." The rise of the State of Israel," Eban said, is the "only time in history the world has witnessed the re- birth of a nation." Looking back to the ear- liest eras of Jewish history, Eban finds three main con- tributions made by the Jews: the concepts of moral choice, social justice and interna- tional peace. He sketched the uniquely Hebrew "revolt against de- terminism ... to choose the good and reject evil," and its corollary, the concept of pro- gress in history, resulting in "a march toward unattaina- ble perfection," the Messianic Age. The idea of social justice — enshrined in the biblical pre- cept, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself" — arose "in an environment in which social injustice seemed to be a part of everyday life," Eban told his listeners. It was "a revolt against past civiliza- tions." So, too, was the concept of international peace, as em- bodied in the prophecy of Isaiah: "nation shall not lift up sword against nation ..." In all other civilizations," said Eban, "war was consid- ered to be a part of man's na- ture." No notion of pacifism is to be found in any other ancient nation's literature. It is a "unique impulse that was born in Judaism." Eban the diplomat resur- faced when he spoke of the period of the kings of Judah and Israel. Eban did not bask in the glory of those days, but called the Hebrew kingdoms a "total failure in political organization and interna- tional diplomacy." According to Eban, the monarchy was a "ramshackle device" which boasted "a long list of kings with unpro- nouncable names, about whom even the Hebrew scrip- tures have very little good to say." And the histories of the kings were written by men who sought to put their mas- ters in a positive light. In the arena of interna- tional statecraft, the Hebrew kingdoms invariably made the wrong choices, Eban said. If one of the two great em- pires — Egypt and Babylonia — were about to go to war, the Jews always allied them- selves with the one who was going to lose. Of all the ancient Hebrews, only the prophet Jeremiah could have been called a dip- lomat, Eban argued. Jeremiah told his fellow Jews to make the best of exile, and to wait patiently for better days; self-preservation rather than salvation, in other words. The opposite was more often the case in the early period of Jewish history when Jews revolted "when there was no chance of success." Eban the diplomat warned against glorifying these failed revolts — the uprisings of 70 Continued on Page 26