OPINION rCONTENFSF 24 CLOSE-UP Chemical Nightmare HELEN DAVIS Israel is surrounded by enemies equipped with 'the poor man's bomb." EDUCATION Paint & Paste HEIDI PRESS Nursery schools are teaching kids about Judaism and values. 47 BUSINESS Mental Anguish Bloomfield Saving was a costly mistake for several businessmen. Arab and Jew: The impossible dream? NOTEBOOK Democratic Palestinian State Will Not Defuse War On Israel Era's End MICHAEL DRISSMAN T he suggestion by Reuven Kimel- man (Page 1, Jan. 13) that peace between Israel and a Palestinian state will result through the imposition of democracy upon the Palestinian Arabs is seductive in its simplicity. However, it is er- roneous in premise and absurd given history and reality. The basis of Kimelman's theory is that if a Palestinian state in Judea-Samaria ("West Bank") were democratic, it would, by its nature be peaceful because democracies "are notorious for their in- ability.to conduct offensive warfare." This is a fallacious assertion even disregarding the fact that the dispute between Israel and the proposed democratic Palestine is not related to the fact of the Arabs being under autocratic regimes. The issue that generates continual war between Israel and the surrounding Arab governments is the Arab belief that the Zionist state is illegitimate on what they consider Arab soil. Were Arabs to embrace Thomas Jefferson, the outrage over Jewish intrusion would not diminish. And con- trary to Kimelman's contention, democratic states as well as autocratic states, will fight offensive wars when pa- tional interests and territory are in jeopardy. Grenada and the Falkland Islands are a case in point. The British would have reacted that way if any government, dic- tatorial or democratic, had so threatened its territorial integrity. Parenthetically, one wishes that democratic Israel would act so Michael Drissman is a political science and psychology professor at Macomb County Community College and directs the local chapter of Jewish Idea. forthrightly when faced with the intifada, a much more dangerous threat to its ter- ritorial integrity than any faced by Great Britain with the Argentinian incursion on- to the Flakland Islands (Maldives). Kimelman's premise that Japan's democratization can provide a pattern for Israel to follow with the proposed democratic Palestinian state fails because it is an extrapolation from the wrong ex- ample. The circumstances which allowed the imposition of American values of political democracy resulted from the military subjugation of Japan. After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese na- tional will was broken, and the Japanese faced an American conqueror and occupier willing and able to impose its political values on a demoralized population. None of these factors apply to the Zionist-Palestinian equation. Certainly, the Palestinians have not been defeated by the Jews. Quite the contrary. The fact that the intifada (uprising) has been maintained for over one year, understandably has made the Palestinians feel victorious with espirit de corps and visions of martyrs. The intifada has captured Arab, if not world, imagination with images of rock- throwing women and children pitted against the tanks of the Jewish occupier. Also, the Arab states which have at- tacked Israel in several wars have not been made to suffer defeat or military subjuga- tion. Even Jordan can claim it was not defeated. The West Bank of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, while "occupied;' still is run according to Jordanian law as if the King Hussein of Transjordan still retain- ed sovereignty. This charade is maintain- ed by the Israeli Government and perpetuates the claims of Arab rights. Further, Palestinian spokesmen of the Continued on Page 11 42 52 GARY ROSENBLATT The Jewish Student Press Service's demise silences a campus voice. ENTERTAINMENT Sound Of Music STEVEN M. HARTZ Catherine Rollin's favorite thing is to make music. 59 77 ANN ARBOR Sharing Identity SUSAN LUDMER-GLIEBE Being Jewish in non-Jewish schools is discussed by Washtenaw students. GENERATIONS The Screening 80 ALAN HITSKY Annual tests may be the long-term success of the Tay-Sachs program. DEPARTMENTS 92 92 94 96 120 28 Inside Washington 30 Synagogues 39 Sports 82 Lifestyles 84 Engagements Youth For Seniors Births Single Life Obituaries CANDLELIGHTING 5:21 p.m. January 27, 1989 Sabbath ends Jan. 28 6:25 p.m. THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 7