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our months after Jews
vigorously protested
the Public Broad-
casting Service's broadcast
of an overtly pro-Palestinian
film about the intifada,
American Arabs are furious
that PBS will air a pro-
Israeli film next month
about the uprising without
the same efforts at balance
that accompanied the first
film.
Unlike the pro-Palestinian
film, Days of Rage, for which
PBS commissioned two brief
pro-Israeli documentaries
and two panel discussions, A
Search for Solid Ground:
The Intifada Through Israeli
Eyes will feature only a
panel discussion. The docu-
mentaries and discussions
surrounded the 90-minute
Days of Rage and cost almost
as much money to produce as
had the film.
A Search For Solid
Ground will be aired nation-
ally on Jan. 16. Detroit PBS
station WTVS Channel 56
will carry it at 10 p.m.
"I'm confused and
befuddled by PBS's logic
here," said James Zogby, ex-
ecutive director of the Arab-
American Institute. For
months, he said, PBS
delayed the broadcast of
Days of Rage because it was
skewed toward the Palesti-
nian version of the intifada.
PBS eventually tacked on
pro-Israeli segments before
and after the film to placate
critics of the film.
Richard Hutton, director of

public affairs programming
of a New York PBS affiliate,
WNET-TV, said A Search for
Solid Ground does not re-
quire an extensive wrap-
around because it begins
with a declaration that its
producers have not inter-
viewed Palestinians and
that the film will show
"mainstream Israeli views."
The obviousness of the
film's bias, said Hutton,
precludes the sort of pro-
gramming produced for Days
of Rage, although New York
Timesreporter Jeremy
Gerard commented that this
latter film's "title alone was
a strong signal to many
viewers that it was sym-
pathetic to the Palestinian
cause."
But - Zogby of the Arab-
American Institute said,
"What's at issue is equal
voices and equal rights. It
reduces one side [that of the
Palestinians] to being less
human and less legitimate
than the other."
PBS also seems to be
treating the funding of the
two films differently. It had
appeared to many critics of
Days of Rage that the film
had violated PBS guidelines
regarding editorial in-
volvement, or the ap-
pearance of editorial in-
volvement, by underwriters
of programs shown on the
network. Jo Franklin-Trout,
the film's producer and di-
rector, had said that she
financed the film with her
own money. But questions
about the propriety of her
activities were raised when
her position as a director of

