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Detroit Papers Examine
Israel's Problems

ARTHUR J. MAGIDA

Special to The Jewish News

L

ast month, the Detroit
Free Press and the
Detroit News ran a total
of 112 editorials and 133
op-ed pieces. Of specific con-
cern to the special interests of
Jews were three editorials
and three op-eds.
Of the editorials, one ap-
peared on April 13 in the
Free Press. An appeal for
electoral reform in Israel, it
stated that the last six years
of "so-called unity govern-
ments in Israel . . . were, in
fact, shotgun marriages

A.M. Rosenthal:
"Clear as 'Mein Kampf. "

between the Right and Left,
producing impotent cabinets
divided by ideological dis-
agreements."
The "paralysis" that has
attacked Israel's govern-
ment, said the paper, "has a
lot to do with the indecision
among mainstream Israeli
voters about the most fun-
damental question of all:
whether Israel should trade
the occupied Arab territories
for peace with the Palestin-
ians." " . . . The desire by
many Israelis to protect the
small parties as the
repositories of the nation's
religious heritage," warned
Free Press editors, may pre-
vent electoral reform
"anytime soon — unless the
deadlock drives even more
Israelis to desperation."
The two Free Press op-eds
about Israel came from syn-
dicated columnists Garry
Wills and A.M. Rosenthal.
On April 6, Rosenthal
warned that the world
should take seriously Iraqi
dictator Saddam Hussein's
threat to use chemical
weapons to wipe out half of
Israel. Hussein, wrote

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Rosenthal, "has made that
as clear as Mein Kampf."
Rosenthal urged a total
export and import boycott by
the West and the USSR
against Iraq, a ban on all air
traffic with Iraq — and a
warning that if he unleashes
his weapons against Israel,
"he can expect strong and
swift military retaliation
from the nations that armed
him."
On April 24, Gary Wills
stated that Israel's future
lies with its soldiers who
refuse to participate in their
government's policies
against the intifada, espe-
cially since "the killing of
children has been made a
military duty."
Wills reported that more
than 100 Israeli soldiers
have balked at serving in
the West Bank and there
were twice as many suicides
in Israel's army last year as
in 1988.
"In a country with a small
manpower pool," said Wills,
"lives cannot be wasted .. .
Even winning is not winning
if many Israeli lives are lost
. . . Yet now, the Israelis are
losing lives without even go-
ing into battle —killing
themselves."
In the News, an April 10
editorial celebrated
Passover ("a reminder of the
greatness that human be-
ings are capable of when
they hold fast to their faith")
and an April 15 editorial
urged welcoming Germany
into "the family of nations

"Those who insist that
Germany is uniquely evil
and must be treated as such
might end up encouraging
the very thing they seek to
avoid, which is a frustrated,
alienated Germany . . . The
Holocaust should be re-
membered, its lessons learn-
ed and those who actually
perpetrated it punished. But
the sins of the fathers should
not be visited forever on the
sons and daughters."
And an April 3 column by
syndicated writer Charles
Krauthammer denounced
Arab and PLO claims that
hundreds of thousands of
Soviet Jews were settling on
the West Bank as "a big lie."
The actual number who
have settled there is 68, said
Krauthammer, adding that
the Arab campaign is
"against immigration to
Israel, not the West Bank. It
is part of the 40-year cam-
paign to prevent anything
that will . . . [strengthen

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