UMW Jihad Distinctive gifts Continued from Page 1 unusual music boxes designer picture frames magnificent crystal nostalgia collection fine dolls cuddly bears handsome desk sets 67' bookends unique earrings bracelets jewelled ties hand-crafted items plus so much more complimentary gift wrapping I fine furniture, accessories &gifts always 20% off kerwaod studios Tel-Twelve Mall • 12 Mile & Telegraph Daily 10-9 • Sunday 12-5 • 354-9060 SAVE FROM Th 20% TO 50%* MARV SAYS CUSTOM WALL MIRROR SPECIALISTS TUB & SHOWER ENCLOSURES MIRRORED BIFOLD OR SLIDING DOORS INSULATED GLASS REPLACED MOBIL AUTO GLASS SERVICE TABLE TOPS STORM DOORS & WINDOWS • PATIO DOOR WALLS REPLACED • STORMS & SCREENS REPAIRED VISIT OUR SHOWROOM *Suggested List Price 18 Residential — Commercial Interior Design Ruth Schwartz , A.S.I.D., I.F.D.A. • FURNISHINGS • COLOR COORDINATOR • ACCESSORIES • INSTALLATIONS —SPECIALIZING IN ONE-OF-A-KIND ART OBJECTS— p GLASS & AUTO TRIM CUSTOM WALL MIRRORS TIRES & ACCESSORIES SOUTHFIELD: 24T/7 Telegraph 353-2500 Other locations: Wayne and Lincoln Park FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1989 "CREATE the possible when you thought it was impossible..." FOR CONSULTATION CALL 352-2264 sible for planning, organizing and executing the initial in- cidents which sparked off the intifada in the teeming refu- gee camps of Gaza. It was indeed clear in the early days of the uprising that the PLO was no less sur- prised than Israel by both the intensity and the extent of the violence. While the Israeli Army rushed massive reinforce- ments to the exploding towns and villages of the West bank and Gaza, the PLO leaders in exile, fearing they might miss the boat, sat on telephones and relayed instructions to their followers in the territor- ies, promising financial aid and warning of the conse- quences of disloyalty. No one was more central to the success of the PLO cam- paign than Khalil al-Wazir, known by the nom de guerre Abu Jihad, who was both Arafat's deputy and the leading Islamic fundamental- ist in the overtly secular PLO. It was the charismatic Abu Jihad, head of the PLO's mili- tary operations, who pro- videdthe conduit for fundamentalist support and a religious fig-leaf of respec- tability for the PLO. His assassination last March — allegedly by an Israeli hit team — is thought to have severed the vital link between the PLO and the fundamentalists. The devout, bearded follow- ers of the Hamas movement continue to revere Abu Jihad, but now they revile the PLO, the temporal aims of the revolt, the very word "inti- fada." Instead, they choose to describe the uprising as the "Mosque Revolution." lb the fundamentalists, the intifada is a purely political act which will ultimately be crushed by increasingly re- pressive measures; their con- cept of revolution, on the other hand, is spiritual, one that cannot be stopped until its goals are achieved. Moreover, Hamas leaders — most of whom have close links with the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood in other Arab countries speak with increasing contempt of the PLO and its political aspir- ations. "We are not a faction of the PLO, nor will we ever be," says Sheikh Khalil Koka, a guiding light of Hamas, who was expelled to Lebanon six months ago. "Rather, we are part of the worldwide Islamic movement." "We want an Islamic state," says Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, another spiritual leader of Hamas. "We believe that the power of Islam will be vic- torious." Gaza has always provided fertile soil for Islamic fun- damentalism and the Israeli authorities did little to discourage its development after they conquered the area from Egypt in the 1967 Six Day War. Ironically, it was the Israeli authorities themselves who assisted the advance of the fundamentalist cause. They believed that the religious leaders of Gaza would provide an obstacle to the inexorable march of the PLO, whose pro- mise of a "secular, democratic Palestinian state" was ana- thema to the ideals of fundamentalism. The real nature of the fun- damentalists became clear To the fundamentalists, the intifada is a purely political act. . .; their concept of revolution, on the other hand, is spiritual. three years ago when mili- tant Hamas youths embarked on a campaign of enforcing religious values and practices in the Gaza Strip. Liquor stores were burnt down, movie theaters were vandalized, wedding parties were broken up if modern music was played and women were threatened with violence if the young zealots considered that they were immodestly dressed. According to sources, it was only when the PLO leaders realized that the December 1987 unrest was not merely another isolated outburst — and that the fundamentalists were providing the impetus — that they hastened to get into the act and mobilize their lieutenants. A month after the intifada began, the PLO moved deci- sively to take control of its future direction. This task was assigned to Abu Jihad, who summoned a meeting of Palestinians at the PLO head- quarters in Tunis to formally create the Unified Committee of the Uprising. The committee — compris- ing PLO members, commu- nists and fundamentalists — was charged with setting the agenda for disturbances and coordinating the uprising. A hidden purpose of the PLO leaders was to absorb the fundamentalists and blunt