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PHONE ORDERS ACCEPTED • UNITED PARCEL DELIVERY ASK ABOUT OUR PERSONAL CHARGE ACCOUNTS. CALL AND MENTION THE JEWISH NEWS AND WE'LL SEND YOU A FREE CATALOG. 41:= LACO•WAYNE MEDICAL BOOKSTORES 4 EAST ALEXANDRINE • DETROIT • 494-0367 50 FRIDAY, SEPT. 18, 1987 Arab Propaganda Takes The Low Road ROBERT E. SEGAL T wo decades after the attack on Israel launched by Nasser's Egypt — a conflict referred to recently by columnist George Will as "six days that shook the world" — a coalition of pro-Arab groups based in Cambridge, Mass. has placed posters in metropolitan Boston subway lines bewail- ing Washington's continued support of Israel. The coalition is said to con- sist of the American Friends Service Committee, the Lebanon Emergency Commit- tee and Mobilization for Survival. The uninformed may ask why a peace-loving group like the Quakers (AFSC) is a part- ner in that venture? Why do those who march under a Quaker banner champion a terrorist cause mounted by Yassir Arafat's PLO? And why has this Quaker group campaigned against U.S. assistance for Israel while claiming its goal in the Mid- dle East is humanitarian and not political? Some answers can be found in the strongly biased book, Search for Peace in The Mid- dle East, published in 1970 by AFSC. (Among those inter- viewed by the authors was Rabbi Elmer Berger, spokesman for the American Council for Judaism, foe of the State of Israel.) That misguided study plac- ed upon Israel the burden of making peace. If only the Israelis would make the first move, if only they would withdraw from occupied ter- ritory, Arab terrorism would cease to exist and peace would reign — thus ran the book's central theme. The Boston transit line pro- Arab advertising cards are only one example of recent ef- forts to win Americans over to a pro-Arab stance. The pro-Arab cause has been advanced over the years by Dorothy Thompson, who headed the misnamed American Friends of the Mid- dle East even though she had earlier referred to opponents of Zionism as hypocrites; Virginia Gildersleeve, famed dean of Barnard College, who felt sorry for Nasser and in- sisted Jews had a deadlock on the American media; Under- secretary of State George Ball, who criticized Israel for having the nerve to defend itself against Arab attacks; and Sen. J. William Ful- bright, who frowned on Washington's prudent habit of aiding Israel and went on to serve as an agent for Saudi Arabia. In more recent days, key lawmakers such as Sen. James Abourezk and Rep. Paul Findley have fought vigorously for the Arab cause. Harold Minor, chief of the U.S. Office of Near Eastern Affairs, raised a powerful voice for Arab nations. And as one who toiled for ARAMCO, he recalls for us the powerful American oil barons who had the money to put Madison Avenue ad agencies to work devising Arab propaganda. Today the anti-Israel drums beat on, with foreign cor- respondents leading the parade. In his book The Arabs, David Lamb insists that Israel must bear blame for "making peace impossi- ble." Edward Tivnan has dish- ed up a frontal attack on the duly-constituted lobbying agency, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, for working to defeat the AWACS sale to Saudi Arabia. Yet, Tiv- nan failed to recall how hard Saudi potentates worked over U.S. Senators to get the armaments. Compared to the heavy pro- paganda firepower discharged by senators, authors, educators, foreign cor- respondents, TV celebrities and some Americans who un- fairly blame Israel for their captivity in Lebanon, the sub- way ad cards are pop-gun shots. Copyright 1987, JTA, Inc. N EWS Goldfish Point The Way Rehovot, Israel — Israeli scientists are learning lessons from goldfish that may help man in re-growing nervous systems. Neurobiologist Professor Michal Schwartz of the Weiz- mann Institute of Science, became interested in the fact that while major nerves of mammals do not repair themselves, fish can regrow damaged nervous systems. Her study of goldfish showed that tissues surrounding damaged nerves release natural substances which are essential to the healing process. The next step of research was to determine if natural products from goldfish could contribute to the process.