I OPINION
CONTENTS
FRONTLI N ES
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Tough Issues
ELIZABETH KAPLAN
Young Jewish leaders were confronted
by difficult questions in Washington.
CLOSE-UP
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Six Sides
SUSAN WEINGARDEN
Mediation and Judaism are central
to these labor-management specialists.
INSIDE WASHINGTON -
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Too-Narrow Approach?
JAMES DAVID BESSER
Critics worry that "The Jewish Lobby"
is concentrating too heavily on Israel.
ENTERTAINMENT
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Puppeteer
Rel ig ious News Service
DEBBIE WALLIS LANDAU
The show is in front of the stage
for puppeteer Maureen Schiffman.
SPORTS
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Special Hall
Palestinian women and children throw rocks at Israeli soldiers.
Right Lessons, Wrong Lessons
From Generation Of The Stones
IRVING GREENBERG
T
he uprising in Gaza and the
territories has cost both sides
dearly. Israel's costs include a loss
of political grip on the West Bank, a tar-
nished moral image, injuries and damag-
ed morale for its soldiers and civilians and
labor shortages. Despite their offsetting
gains, the Palestinians' losses are grimmer
— more than 70 lives, countless injuries,
many arrests and lives disrupted, heavy
loss of wages and business, curfews and
food shortages.
For the international community as
well as for the Israelis and the Palestinians,
there are right lessons and wrong lessons
to be learned from Gaza.
The wrong lesson for the "generation
of the stones" would be that their rock-
throwing victory over soldiers, acting under
restraint, proves that they can "liberate"
all of Israel. American and Israeli sym-
pathy for the Palestinians stems from the
sense that they seek self-determination.
Emotional empathy will fade rapidly if the
goal is identified as destruction of the Jews.
Rabbi Irving Greenberg is founder and president of
CLAL — the National Jewish Center for Learning
and Leadership.
The right lesson would be to turn the
inchoate rage at subordination and pover-
ty into a positive program for peace, self-
help and autonomy as the first step toward
national independence. A mature inter-
pretation — based on the true strength of
self-control — would be to admit that the
demonstrations were made possible by
Israel's moral controls, by the fact that its
conscience would not allow the kind of
murderous suppression. of riots that a
Syrian government allowed itself at Hama
or that Hussein visited on the PLO in
September 1970.
It is easier to throw rocks at Israelis
who retaliate in a limited- way. It would be
more appropriate to throw them at the
hardliners in the PLO and the Islamic
Jihad who have repeatedly refused to
negotiate peace and have murdered Arabs
who sought to carve out a moderate,
peaceful alternative.
MIKE ROSENBAUM
A new project means new life
for the Jewish Hall of Fame.
ANN ARBOR
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Yiddish Wonders
LINDA BENSON
Aliza Shevrin brings old Yiddish
treasures to the English reading public.
AROUND TOWN
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Hand In Hand
A photographic
portrait and
reminiscence
of a special
weekend.
Bryan Conroy, Harry Goldberg
SINGLE LIFE
Winning Proposition
102
HEIDI PRESS
Successful relationships were the focus
of a recent Detroit singles conference.
The wrong lessons would be: if only
Israel had cracked down even more strong-
ly at the beginning of the uprising, the
uprising would have never spread; the
Arabs know only the language of force; ex-
clude the media; the whole world only
hates Israel; and if Israelis were like
CANDLELIGHTING
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March 18, 1988 6:24 p.m.
DEPARTMENTS
36 Synagogues
94 Engagements
100 Births
132 Obituaries
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