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stensibly, China and
Israel have little in
common: Different
languages, different cultures,
different histories. But New
York Times television critic
Walter Goodman has un-
covered one similarity:
American television's handl-
ing of recent events in China
and the Palestinian intifada
in the West Bank and Gaza.
"Television," writes Good-
man, "is like some dumb pet
that slobbers up to any guest
who throws it a scrap of food
. . . The camera chooses its
favorites not on the basis of
politics but on the basis of
drama or personality."
. The clashes in China and
those between Israeli soldiers
and Palestinians youths, says
Goodman, are tailored for
television because it "thrives
on strong pictures. But there
are instances when a clash
between little guys and big
guys calls for something more
in the way of knowledge than
the images alone can pro-
vide."
"The Israeli-Palestinian
confrontation is a troubling
case in point," says Goodman.
"Here is meat for television's
love of uncomplicated drama
— boys armed only with
stones against an army .. .
The pictures from the West
Bank are inherently on the
side of the stone throwers,
those post-Biblical Davids. It
is no surprise that youngsters
will act up in response to the
presence of cameras or that
Israelis will from time to time
ban them as incitements or
just bad public relations."
The "drama of the moment"
emanating from China and
Israel — or from South Africa,
Iran or the Philippines — is,
writes Goodman, "like a hand
that obscures complexity.
What interests do those dar-
ing Palestinian rockthrowers
represent? What principles
are at stake beyond the
slogans? Would their victory
. . . advance the cause of
freedom . . . ? Would it bring
peace or greater turmoil? The
answers provided by the pic-
tures in Gaza as in Belfast are
not enough."
Circumcision
Still Debated;
Kindest Cut?
The current issue of Paren-
ting magazine presents both
sides of the brewing medical
debate over circumcision. Un-
til 20 years ago, conventional
medical wisdom held that cir-
cumcision was a routine pro-
cedure that enhanced per-
sonal hygiene. Then, the
American Academy of
Pediatrics stated that the
operation lacked any medical
benefits. Some authorities
argued that it caused psychic
trauma for the infant. Yet, 59
percent of U.S. parents still
choose to have their boys
circumcised.
Now, according to Paren-
ting, there is a growing move-
ment to rescind the AAP posi-
tion. This is based on research
that indicates circumcision
cuts the incidence of urinary
tract infections, penile cancer,
and sexually transmitted
diseases.
The anti-circumcisionists
say all this is nonsense, while
Bernard Ohanian, who wrote
the article, backs away from
endorsing either position.
PLO Charter
Not Nullified
Says PLO Rep
Just what did Yassir Arafat
mean when he recently used
the French word caduque to
refer to the Palestine Libera-
tion Organization charter's
intentions to establish a
Palestinian state according to
the 1947 United Nation's
partition?
Many assumed that Arafat
meant that the charter's pro-
visions had been "nullified"
since that is one of the word's
many definitions. But this
was denied in the Tunisian
newspaper, Al-Sabbah, by the
PLO representative in
Tunisia, Hakim Balawi.
"The west," said Balawi,
"can choose whatever defini-
tion it desires. The Palesti-
nian leadership, however, has
the right to adhere to the
definition which it believes to
be correct and which ex-
presses its intentions."
Balawi did not offer the
definition favored by PLO
leadership.
A few days later, the Egyp-
tian weekly, Rose el Youssef,
had an interview with Nabil
Shaath, an Arafat advisor
and chairman of the PLO's
Palestine National Congress
(PNC) Political Committee, in
which he said that Arafat
"did not give up the charter.
However, its first five articles
have become aged" since the
PNC has opted for a "two-
state" solution to Israeli-Pal-
estinian tensions.
"All Arafat did," said
Shaath, "was to clarify to the