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On TIME BOMBS
and JEWISH LEADERSHIP
A Message from Milton S. Shapiro, President
ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA
Once again Israel is confronted by violence, to the clear
delight of the media. As Israel approaches her fortieth
anniversary. her enemies remind the world that they
have not yet accepted Israel's right to live.
At this moment true friends of Israel will not panic, nor
be "embarrassed" or "distressed." It is rather, a time to
strengthen our resolve, stand with Israel and make
certain that the American-Israeli alliance remains firm.
Jews in the Diaspora cannot solve the problem by
sending warnings to Israel or by writing op-ed pieces in
The New York Times. American Jewish leaders are not
military or security experts. While all Jews feel
responsible for one another. those of us 6,000 .miles
away from the danger do no service to Israel with
gratuitous advice. Self-appointed Jewish mediators who
suggest that the violence should "shock Israel's
government" into action fail to understand that all
political parties in Israel seek a peaceful solution.
Israel's Courage
We take pride in the courage of Israel's leaders, who --
despite regrettable pressure from Washington,
hypocritical UN resolutions and biased reports in the
media -- remain united in their determination not to
capitulate to Palestinian terrorism. Jewish leaders in
the Diaspora should be equally united.
Rather than criticize Israel, American Jews should send
a message to their elected officials and to the media: it
is the Arab world (except for Egypt) that rejects peace,
bars negotiations and is responsible for the violence.
If the fate of the Jewish people Is inexorably tied to the
future of Israel -- as we in ZOA believe it to be -- those
who speak for the great organizations of American
Jewish life must get their priorities straight. We dare
not forget who is the victim of aggression and who vows
violence, who seeks peace and who rejects it, who asks
for negotiations and who spurns them.
Who Is to Blame?
Jewish leaders should know better than to apportion
blame for the violence equally, as some seem to have
done. Israel declared war on no one; it is the Arab
nations and the PLO that have made war on Israel for
four decades. Only recently the "moderate" King Fand
of Saudi Arabia urged the Arabs to "liberate" Jerusalem.
When the United Nations condemned Israel by its
resolution attacking Zionism in 1975 and invited to its
podium the arch-terrorist Yastr Arafat. international
terrorism was legitimized. Arafat is still received with
honor in world capitals while young Palestinians
programmed to commit violence against Israel are
urged by their parents to die rather than let Israel live.
This is the "spontaneous" uprising that Israel faces.
None of us is immune from sadness when young people
die senseless deaths. (Some Palestinian "youths" are
hardened criminals and veteran terrorists.) But their
eagerness to become martyrs does not ennoble their
cause. Should we not be equally concerned when
equally young Israeli soldiers and civilians become the
victims of Molotov cocktails, stabbings or shootings?
Stones can maim, rocks can kill. Anyone who has ever
been mugged will understand what it means to be
accosted by young toughs with murder in their hearts.
Time bombs -- including human ones -- can be defused.
Some Jewish leaders seem to believe violence is
inevitable. thus making it acceptable and expected.
This serves only to encourage Arab intransigence,
leading to more violence.
Instead of seeking ways to explain and mollify Arab
unrest, responsible Jewish leaders should be exerting
all their influence to convince Americans that the
answer to fighting is negotiation, that Israeli officials
who call for face-to-face talks are not warmongers but
peacemakers, and that Arab spokesmen have a
responsibility to call on their fellow-Arabs to abandon
the path of violence and seek peace. We have yet to
hear such words from any Arab-American leader.
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FRIDAY FEBRUARY .5 1988
How much suffering must the Palestinian Arabs endure
before those who claim to speak in their name accept
Israel's right to exist? How much longer must the
people of Israel wait before the Arab world finds the
courage to make peace? And where is "moderate" King
Hussein? Like Sadat, he too could be a catalyst for
peace -- if only he had the courage to act. Must Israel
be held responsible for Hussein's weakness?
The Western powers -- including our own country --
must insist that the Arab world accept Israel's challenge
to negotiate. Jewish organizations must do no less.
Jewish leadership requires Jewish responsibility.
Our enemies must not divide us.
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Detroit Free Press
Draws Mixed Emotions
Many Jews love their morning paper
despite its unsettling coverage of the
Middle East
DAVID HOLZEL
Staff Writer
D
an Rather was not the
first news gatherer to
make news when he
went one-on-one with Vice
President George Bush last
week. The Detroit Free Press
has put itself on its front page
repeatedly in recent weeks in
its quest for approval of the
Joint Operating Agreement,
whereby the business func-
tions of the Free Press and the
Detroit News would merge in
order — says the Free Press —
that it might survive.
When it comes to the Free
Press, everybody has an opi-
nion. Many Detroit-area Jews
appear to be operating under
a JOA of their own with
regard to the morning jour-
nal: They dislike or deplore
its coverage of Israel — par-
ticularly the recent Palesti-
nian rioting — but they re-
main staunchly loyal to
"their" daily newspaper.
This week, The Jewish
News took a non-scientific
survey of Jewish opinions of
the Free Press, owned by
Knight-Ridder, Inc.
Norman Naimark, presi-
dent of the Detroit Zionist
Federation, for example, finds
the newspaper's coverage of
Israel "very disturbing.
There's an appeal to sensa-
tionalism which I understand
but don't approve."
Pictures of Arab women
crying in supplication, for ex-
ample, seem to appear in the
paper almost daily. "Why
didn't they ever show photos
of Jewish women crying for a
soldier blown apart by a
bomb, or a Jew who was
stabbed to death in Gaza?"
asks Sol Lachman, a former
DZF president.
"What bothers me the most
is that nobody has even
bothered to recount what hap-
pened 40 years in the past,"
says Fred Goldenberg, chair-
man of the Jewish Communi-
ty Council's community rela-
tions committee.
The lack of historical con-
text when recounting the
Palestinian disturbances also
bothers Annie Friedman, a
Jewish educator, who finds
Free Press coverage "horren-
dous. The media has created
this. Nobody wants to
remember what Gaza was
before 1967."
She
believes
the
newspaper's coverage of Israel
is "biased by intent." Her
husband, Oak Park District
Judge Benjamin Friedman,
has even stronger words, call-
ing the daily "a house organ
for the PLO. Their anti-Israel
stuff almost borders on
anti-Semitism.
"They take something un-
true and put it on the front
page," he charges, referring to
the Jan. 18 front-page story
jarringly titled, "Violence
Fuels U.S. Fears of Arab-
Israel War."
"It's an embarassment to
me that the Jewish communi-
ty and Jewish advertisers let
"Why didn't they
ever show photos
of Jewish women
crying for a soldier
blown apart by a
bomb?"
them get away with it. They
don't put any pressure on
them."
Goldenberg feels the Free
Press has followed the Palesti-
nian riots story obsessively, to
the detriment of coverage of
other world events. "Now
we're not hearing about
South Africa. Now we're not
hearing about the Philip-
pines. Does this mean the rest
of the world has stopped? It
certainly seems that way."
Not everyone agrees with
Michael Dallen, vice chair-
man of Americans for a Safe
Israel, Detroit chapter, when
he charges the Free Press and
its Mideast reporter, Tom
Hundley, with "prejudging
the issues. I think they are
misled into an intentional
bias" against Israel, he says.
Nancy Barr of Franklin
does not see any bias, but con-
cedes that the daily "used to
be a lot more pro-Israel than
it is today."
Despite his criticisms, Sol
Lachman comes to Hundley's
defense. "It seems to me that
he is trying to be pretty
straight. I think his stories
are more balanced than they
were three or four years ago."
"I don't think there's any
question that the general
feeling in the community is
that the coverage has not
been balanced and is insen-
sitive," comments Leon
Cohan, president of the
Jewish Community Council.