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The Detroit Jewish News, 1988-07-29

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non-Jewish community. Shown at the dinner are (from left) Jack Stein,
Windsor JNF president; Ambassador Jacob Barmore, guest speaker at
the program; Freed; and Alan Orman, dinner chairman.

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COMMENT I

Zionists Call For Peace,
Arabs Are Intransigent

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FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1988

aifa — Not long ago
the leftist, Peace
Now-oriented Mapam
party published an earnest
appeal to the Arabs. It was an
open memorandum. "To the
Palestinians, From the
Zionist Peace Camp: Tell us
you are ready to abandon ter-
ror, and exchange the mutual
infliction of bloodshed for
negotiations . . . State your
agreement to abandon all
violence immediately, on a
reciprocal basis . . . Send out
the dove. The Israel Peace
Camp will respond with an
olive branch."
If they waited for a reply,
they got it with continued
barrages of stones, the bar-
- ricading of streets, the hurl-
ing of Molotov cocktails, the
burning of tires and more
violent riots.
There was also a reply of a
most revelatory nature, as
more and more Arabs are
beginning to speak up open-
ly, declaring their goals. In re-
cent weeks and months there
have been dozens, scores of in-
stances like the following:
"Palestine was and will re-
main Arab. Palestine is
Jerusalem, Jericho,
Nazareth, Hebron, Lydda,
Ramallah, Jenin, Jaffa and
Haifa . . ." the words of Abu
Iyad, second only to Arafat in
the PLO.
On the Dan Rather TV pro-
gram, "48 Hours," reporter
Dan Simon interviewed
several convicted Arab ter-
rorists who had been releas-
ed from an Israeli jail three
years ago as part of a prisoner
swap. They insisted that their
struggle was not simply for
the West Bank and Gaza, but

rather for all of Palestine.
They rejected the idea of any
Jewish state at all, and in-
isted that those Jews who
came to Palestine from
elsewhere had to leave the
country. "So the Israelis are
right," Simon said, noting
that the Palestinian objective
was to destroy Israel. They
nodded in agreement.
A Jewish professional liv-
ing in Upper Nazareth
reported: "I was talking to an
old Arab in Migdal Haemek,
and asked him what would
happen if there was a war and
Israel were weak. What
would happen if the Syrians
broke through and were
heading for the Galilee. He
said, 'Oh, we would slaughter
all the Jews and take back all
our land! "

A Jewish builder walked in-
to his house, under construc-
tion as usual by Arab labor.
He found that one of the
workers had left a message on
the newly plastered living
room wall. "I built this house,
and I will live here after the
revolution. (Signed) Mustafa."
One of the most
distinguished Palestinian
poets, Mahmoud Darwish, in
charge of cultural affairs for
the PLO, and sometimes
regarded as a moderate, wrote
a poem which was widely
published. "It is time for you
to be gone. Live wherever you
like, but do not live with us.
It is time for you to be gone.
Die wherever you like, but do
not die among us . . . So, leave
our country, our-land, our sea,
our wheat, our salt, our
wounds, everything, and
leave."
The result of all this has
been a growing sense of
disillusionment.

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