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FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1989
in Lebanon. Perhaps we
should have done what many
in Israel wanted, namely stay
out of Lebanon and let Israel
directly engage the PLO
forces?
The next distortion was
"Israel's employment of
American Jews as spies
against our country." As far
as anyone knows, there has
only been one incident of
unauthorized communication
of classified information by a
U.S. citizen — the Pollard af-
fair involving Pollard passing
information about Arab pro-
duction of chemical weapons.
The evidence suggests that
Pollard approached the
Israelis. Furthermore, let's
not forget that Israel is our
military ally, and therefore
the actual damage to U.S. in-
terests is questionable .. .
The next lie was "The re-
cent acts of killings . . . all
against unarmed Palesti-
nians." In fact, twenty Israelis
have been killed by Arabs in
the past year, some by guns,
some by clubs, some by stab-
bing and, yes, some even by
bricks being dropped on their
heads. Also, every person who
has watched enough TV has
seen Palestinian rioters with
Molotov cocktails, hardly
unarmed.
In addition, the juxtaposi-
tion in the ad of the Holocaust
with the intifada is another
attempt to trivialize the
Holocaust. The Holocaust
was both qualitatively and
quantitatively different from
the intifada .. .
But the final and most im-
portant distortion is the idea
that the Jewish Committee
on the Middle East is
anything but an Arab pro-
paganda toolinvolving a
relatively small group of
naive and self-hating Jews
that are as far from the
mainstream of informed
American Jewish views as
night is from day.
The vast majority of Jews
including this writer, his
family and • friends, support
Israel, and admire the
courage and perseverance it
takes to survive in a land sur-
rounded by enemies.
Martin Leaf
Southfield
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On behalf of Labor Zionist
Alliance Branch 960, I object
to the nature of Milton J.
Steinhardt's letter of March
3, which criticized The
Jewish News report of
Menachem Rosensaft's visit
to our branch.
I was at the meeting. I can
attest to the fact that Rosen-
saft made it clear that at all
times during his discussions
with PLO representatives he
held himself as representing
solely himself. He did not pro-
fess to negotiate for Israel,
nor did he claim the power to
do so. While his actions have
hardly met with unanimous
approval in the LZA, here and
nationally, we believed he
merited a hearing.
Steinhardt's letter unwit-
tingly illuminates Rosensaft's
main point. PLO diplomacy is
entering a new and hitherto
unsuspected order of
sophistication. In the Shamir
government's rote intonation
of the standard shibboleths
and catchwords it fails even to
recognize this challenge,
much less begin to deal with
it. The eminently predictable
result has been Israel's in-
creasing diplomatic and
political isolation, which
serves the interests only of
Israel's enemies. Attempting
to squelch debate by invoking
Israel's security, when it
becomes increasingly ap-
parent that the real issue is
ideology, is not only unseem-
ly but dangerous.
Steinhardt is welcome to op-
pose Rosensaft!s opinions, but
his attack on the one who
reported them fairly is war-
rantless. Everyone who was
at the meeting will agree that
Elizabeth Kaplan's article
reflected her professional ob-
jectivity. She accurately
reported Rosensaft's remarks,
and can in no wise be said to
have defended his views, or
indeed to have evidenced any
stand on the matter.
Alexander R. Bensky
Detroit
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Museum Slated
For Nuremberg
Bonn (JTA) — The town of
Nuremberg, a place fixed in
history as the locale of the
Nazi trials, plans to build a
museum of modern German
history on the site where neo-
Nazis have formerly held
yearly conventions. _
The town's ruling Social
Democratic Party (SPD) an-
nounced plans drawn up last
week for the museum, which
would stand on a site that is
largely unused.
German commentators
have remarked that the site
has until now been an embar-
rassment, something to be
hidden from the public.
Still visible in the place,
known here also as Zep-
pelinfeld, are ruins of a col-
ossal, pseudo-antique Nazi ar-
chitecture, including an un-
finished congress hall that
has become headquarters for
a local orchestra.