U P FRONT S

Peace Without Concessions

AFSI Executive Says 'Just Say No'
To Territorial Concessions By Israel

JENNIFER TAUB

Staff Intern

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Leonard Fein:
Knocking
rose-colored
glasses.

Liberal Publisher Sees Fewer
Blinders On The Community

ALAN HITSKY

Associate Editor

I

n our tradition there are two
Jerusalems, not one," intoned
Moment magazine founder
Leonard Fein in Detroit last week.
"There is the heavenly Jerusalem
and the earthly Jerusalem. How does
one adjust from myth to reality
without losing enthusiasm?"
, Fein believes that for most
American Jews the awakening that
Israel has faults — that there is an
earthly Jerusalem — began with the
invasion of Lebanon five years ago.
"While working on my PhD at
Michigan State in 1959, there were

six books on Israel and one foreign
correspondent in Jerusalem. Now
there are hundreds of books and cor-
respondents...It is hard to remember
the mythic stuff when a (Lebanon)
war is being played out on the TV in
your living room."
The American Jewish communi-
ty's perception of Israel has changed,
Fein said. "Israel tried to impose its
will on Lebanon...If I had said that
five years ago I would have been
hooted out of this room."
He said Israel has been displaying
an "ugliness and distemper" that has
been more visible to the American
Jewish community and had more of

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veryone deep inside is a hu-
manist," conceded Joseph
Puder, executive director of
Americans For A Safe Israel, "but we
don't live in a very humanitarian
world." Such statements serve to
justify AFSI's political stance regar-
ding the issue of Judea and Samaria.
Puder was in Detroit June 23 to
address a meeting of the Detroit
chapter of ASFI. Boasting 20 chapters
across the U.S. and Canada, ASFI has
evolved, since its founding in 1971,
from a think tank for experts and pro-
fessors of international affairs, to a
growing organization. Detroit's
chapter claims more than 70
members. AFSI publishes articles and
press releases, produces documen-
taries and television series, consults
with congressmen, organizes protests

and conferences, and serves as a
"media watchdog."
Born in Israel to Holocaust sur-
vivors, Puder served in the Israeli
military during the Six-Day War, liv-
ed in Europe and taught Middle
Eastern history at Portland State
University in Oregon before joining
AFSI. The group shared what he iden-
tified as a "belief and conviction I've
had for a long time."
Puder strongly believes that "the
Jewish future, stability and well-
being depend on a Jewish agenda. If
it means to exercise power, so be it."
The foundation of this agenda is
a secure and strong Israel. Only a
strong Israel can win peace from the
Arabs, Puder said. "Peace in the Mid-
dle East is not a function of Israel's
concessions. Peace is a function of .. .
Arab recognition of the reality of
Israel."
AFSI advocates the annexation of

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Memories Amid The Ashes

Staff Report

W

hen Isadore Mulius made his
routine announcement June
24 at 5:45 p.m. that Mulius
and Ellias Department Store would
close in 15 minutes, he had no idea
that his words would soon take on an
ironically literal meaning. Twelve
hours later the final flames of a stub-
born fire would die, after razing the
nearly 80-year-old Trenton depart-
ment store.
Mulius became aware of the ap-

proaching tragedy while he washed
his hands in the restroom shortly
after the announcement. He heard
pounding on the door and a janitor
screaming, "Fire! Police!" Smoke
emanating from the basement filled
the stairway near the cash checkout
counter. When he attempted to dial
the fire department, the phone went
dead. Fortunately his secretary had
already made the call.
"If you've got to find it, you know

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ROUND UP

Syria Closes
Abu Nidal
Headquarters

Washington (JTA) —The
State Department confirmed
last Monday that Syria has
closed down the Damascus
headquarters of the Abu
Nidal terrorist organization.
"We do believe that some of
the Abu Nidal organization
members have gone to Libya,"
Department spokesman
Charles Redman said.
He said there are uncon-
firmed reports that other
members of the group have
"relocated in a number of
locations around the Mediter-
ranean," but would not
speculate where. The terrorist
groups had a number of bases
of the Bekaa Valley of

Lebanon, which is controlled
by Syria.
The U.S. had urged Syria to
expel Abu Nidal last Novem-
ber when it announced a
series of steps against Syria
in the wake of the conviction
by a British court of Nazir
Hindawi, who implicated
Syrian in his attempted
bombing of an El Al airliner
at London's Heathrow Air-
port in April 1986.
One of the steps taken at
the time was the barring of
high level contacts between
the United States and Syria.
U.S. Ambassador William
Eagleton had been recalled
from Damascus earlier.
Redman said that of what is
seen as a change in the
Syrian attitude to terrorism,
President Reagan has written
to Syrian President Hafez

Assad in an effort to achieve
a "broadened dialogue" with
Syria. The U.S. has also of-
fered to send a special
emissary to Syria, Redman
added.

Linnas Moved
To New Prison

New York (JTA) — Deported
accused Nazi war criminal
Karl Linnas has been
transferred from his prison
cell in Tallinn, Estonia, to
Leningrad because of an
unspecified illness, according
to press reports. He is
awaiting judicial action on his
1962 death sentence,
rendered in absentia by the
Soviet government in 1962.
Soviet authorities have in-

dicated Linnas may appeal
the sentence.
Anu Linnas, his eldest
daughter, left Sunday to visit
him, accompanied by his
American attorney, former
U.S. Attorney General
Ramsey Clark. Linnas was
deported April 21 to the
USSR for having lied about
his wartime activities on
entering the U.S. in 1951 as
a displaced person. He is a
native of Estonia, where he
was commandant of the Tar-
tu concentration camp where
more than 12,000 people were
executed before mass pits.
Clark said the permission
to visit Linnas is unusual and
bodes well for the appeals pro-
cedure. He said he would
argue that "under interna-
tional law and general prin-
ciples" it was "too far after

the fact, and we need to stop
fighting the last war and
start preventing the next
one"

U.P. Synagogue
Has Anniversary

A synagogue nestled in the
Upper Peninsula's Keweenaw
Peninsula is preparing to
celebrate its 75th anniver-
sary. Temple Jacob in. Han-
cock will begin the celebra-
tions July 12.
Events will include folk
dancing, Klezmer music and
an open forum on contem-
porary Judaism.
The Conservative congrega-
tion founded in 1912, consists
of 45 member families, in-
cluding some who are not
local residents.

