On the Shabbat of September 15
the following congregations in
Metropolitan Detroit
will salute
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pan-Arab nationalists and
Islamic fundamentalists
who find common cause in
"driving the American in-
fidel from holy Arab soil."
Profound mistrust, even
hatred, of the West cuts a
deep swathe through the
Arab world, where honor is
the highest value.
It is a world whose
;historical memory, a matter
of profound shame and
humiliation at every level of
society, is clouded by the re-
cent colonial domination of
the British, the French, the
Italians, the Germans and
the defunct Ottoman empire.
It is a world, so
misunderstood by the West,
where immediate loyalty
belongs to family, clan and
region, and where the
broader, idealistic loyalty
belongs to the Arab nation
as a whole.
It is a world where borders,
arbitrarily drawn on maps
in the imperial chancelleries
of Whitehall, Paris, Rome
and Berlin, are irrelevant to
the larger Arab nation —
united by a common re-
ligion, language, culture and
tradition — that stretches
from the souks of Tangiers
and Baghdad to Marrakesh,
Damascus, Tunis and Cairo.
Ultimately, the lasting
legacy of colonialism in the
Middle East has been the es-
tablishment of artificial
sovereign states and the
creation of "royal
households" whose source of
authority remains the
unlamented former colonial
masters.
The political survival of
these authoritarian rulers,
particularly in the wake of
the United States interven-
tion, are the living embodi-
ment and constant reminder
of past shame. As such, they
lack legitimacy and are the
objects of hatred and ridi-
cule.
Saddam Hussein,
whatever his shortcomings,
is perceived as an authentic
man-of-the-people; a leader
who has emerged from the
grass roots, who is prepared
to defy the West and pose a
credible challenge to Israel,
the universal emblem of
colonialism in the Arab
world. His rhetoric ignites
the imagination of the pan-
Arabists, fires the expecta-
tions of the fundamentalists.
Perhaps, after all, the
events that are now un-
folding in the most volatile
and strategically sensitive
region are entirely
unavoidable, the product of
an ineluctible historical pro-
cess whose seeds were
planted in colonial history
100 years ago. ❑
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Abraham Pasternak
Rabbi Efry G Spectre
SYNAGOGUE LIAISON
Rabbi Elliot Pachter
ADAT SHALOM SYNAGOGUE
Rabbi Eli M. Jundef
Rabbi Chaim Bergstein
CONGREGATION SHOMREY
BAIS CHABAD OF FARMINGTON HILLS EMUNAH•OHEL MOED
Rabbi Meilech Silberberg
Rabbi Noah M. Gamze
BAIS CHABAD OF WEST BLOOMFIELD DOWNTOWN SYNAGOGUE
Rabbi A. Irving Schnipper
Rabbi Martin Gordon
CONGREGATION BETH ABRAHAM.
UVONIA JEWISH CONGREGATION
HILLEL•MOSES
Mishkan Israel, Nusach H'Ari
Rabbi Martin Berman
LUBAVITCHER CENTER
Rabbi Milton Arm,
T'CHIYAH CONGREGATION
Rabbi Emeritus
Rabbi Benjamin Gorrelick,
Rabbi Daniel Polish, Sr. Rabbi
Rabbi Emeritus
Rabbi Julian I. Cook
CONGREGATION BETH ACHIM
Associate Rabbi
Dr. Richard C Hertz,
CONGREGATION BETH ISAAC
Rabbi Emeritus
Trenton
TEMPLE BETH EL
Rabbi Paul Stephen Reis
Rabbi Peter IC Gluck
CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL
TEMPLE
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Flint
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Rabbi leizer Levin
Rabbi Richard A. Weiss
CONGREGATION BETH TEFILO
TEMPLE
BETH JACOB
EMANUEL TIKVAH
Pontiac
Rabbi Morton F. Yolkut
CONGREGATION B'NAI DAVID
Rabbi Lane Steinger
Dr. Milton Rosenbaum,
Meyer Levin, President
Rabbi Emeritus
CONGREGATION B'NAI ISRAEL.
TEMPLE EMANU•EL
BETH YEHUDAH
Rabbi M. Robert Syme
Rabbi Dr. Sherman P. Kirshner
Rabbi Harold S. loss
CONGREGATION B'NAI ISRAEL
Rabbi Paul M. Yedwab
OF WEST BLOOMFIELD
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Rabbi Allan Meyerowitz
Rabbi Dannel I. Schwartz
CONGREGATION B'NAI MOSHE
TEMPLE SHIR SHALOM
Rabbi Chaskel Grubner
CONGREGATION DOVID BEN NUCHIM Rabbi Arnold Sleutelberg
TROY JEWISH CONGREGATION
Rabbi Edward H. Garsek
Dr. William leuchter, President
CONGREGATION Eli CHAYIM
YOUNG ISRAEL OF BLOOMFIELD
Toledo
Rabbi Leo Goldman
Rabbi Reuven Drucker
CONGREGATION SHAAREY SHOMAYIM YOUNG ISRAEL OF GREENFIELD
Rabbi Irwin Groner
Rabbi Eliezer Cohen
Rabbi William G. Gershon,
YOUNG ISRAEL OF OAK WOODS
Assoc. Rabbi
Rabbi Elimelech Goldberg
Rabbi Charles M. Diamond,
YOUNG ISRAEL OF SOUTHFIELD
Assistant Rabbi
CONGREGATION SHAAREY ZEDEK
Doreen Hermelin
Bernard H. Stollman
Rabbi Shaiall Zachariash
CONGREGATION SHOMREY EMUNAH GENERAL CHAIRMEN
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