NEWS I Bring 'Em Back Alive - Then We'll Celebrate Shabbat Please join us with family and friends on August 25, at 6:15 p.m. for our Prospective New Member Family Picnic. You supply the food and papergoods, we'll supply the beverages, wine, good company and a super atmosphere for the celebration of Shabbat. Then join us at 7:45 p.m. for Shabbat Services and learn more about Temple Emanu-El. Come and worship with us tonight and see how nice our family oriented Temple can be. Also plan on attending our New Member Open House this Sunday, August 27, 1989 from 9 a.m. to 12 noon for Coffee, Bagels, a New York Times and a look at our Temple. Temple Emanu-EI 14450 West Ten Mile Road Oak Park, MI 48237 • (313) 967-4020 Rabbi Lane B. 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It is believed that at least one of the three Israeli soldiers in Hezbollah's hands is dead and has been for many months. Up until now, no Israeli of- ficial would comment on this report, in order to protect the feelings of the three families involved. But Hezbollah toys with human life and is play- ing the same kind of transparent trick it did with Col. Higgins. Any day now, we may be treated to another seedy snuff film — authentic about the sacrificial death, but nefarious about when and how it occurred. Lova Eliav would neither confirm nor deny the report that one of the three Israelis died of his wounds or was kill- ed long ago. Eliav, with the late Shmuel 'Pamir, conducted the negotiations with both the Palestine Liberation Organization and Ahmed Jibril's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine- General Command. "Begin asked me, because of my con- tacts with the PLO?' said the leftist MK, whose humanitarian efforts have won him the respect of people across the political spectrum. But there was also a great deal of criticism over the two previous exchanges. In 1982, when Moshe Arens was defense minister, 4,500 Palestinian, Syrian and Lebanese prisoners kept at Israel's Ansar camp in southern Lebanon and 100 terrorists in Israel — in- cluding 50 serving life sentencees for murder — were exchanged for six Israeli cap- tives. In 1985, 1,150 Palesti- nians, including Jibril's cap- tured terror legions, were freed in exchange for three Israeli soldiers. Yitzhak Rabin was defense minister then as now. Many of these trained terrorists were allow- ed to return to their homes in the territories as part of the deal, and some of them played a major role in turning the spontaneous intifada into an organized uprising. Eliav doesn't see it that way. "It's demagoguery to say that. The Palestinians rose up because they have been enslaved for 1?- Special to The Jewish News 20 years?' The Arabs, he says, know exactly how valuable their Israeli captives are, that the Jewish religion and the Israeli army tradition re- quires the Jews to pay whatever price is necessary to redeem their captives. "It is in the Talmud that we should go sell Torahs in the marketplace if it is necessary to get the money to pay ran- som." He suggests that when the next deal is arranged, the matter be brought to the Knesset for a vote, so that there will not be any recriminations. "The families of the two or three Israeli POWs should sit in the gallery. I guarantee the vote will be something like 119-1 — only a complete demagogue like Geula Cohen would vote against the mitzvah of pidiyon ha'shevuim (redemp- tion of prisoners)." One Israeli bereaved parent, Eliezer Whartman, a journalist whose son was kill- ed in a firelight with ter- rorists in South Lebanon in 1975, says it would be a great tragedy if Israel again gave in to blackmail and released masses of terrorists. "We have to explain to the families the cost of yielding to the ter- rorists' demands. It means that far more soldiers will die, and far more civilians if these professional killers are unleashed once again." He believes that only Obeid and his two assistants should be traded for the same number of Israeli. "Of course we have to bring our boys back; we have to do it, but in such a way that the terrorists don't appear as victors," he said. The Hezbollah is demanding the release of thousands of terrorists: Shi'ites, PLO, Islamic Jihad, Hamas, the rejectionists, all the members of that big hap- py family. Near the top of their list are the Bus 405 at- tacker, responsible for killing 16 Jews last month, and another Moslem fanatic who stabbed to death two elderly lawyers (one of them was 90) at a Jerusalem bus stop in - May. Many Israelis want the death penalty for such men, who otherwise will be walk- ing free after a few months of playing ping-pong in an Israeli prison. Obeid is a big fish, and he is singing away in the villa north of Tel Aviv where army intelligence is interrogating him. The Israeli commandoes also brought back the holy man's files, and more raids on the mafia clans can be expected. ► A LOUIS RAPOPORT