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Why is this Thanksgiving Night different from
Bernstein
It's 9:00 p.m. The last of the turkey has been. gobbled.
What'll it be—"Cheers" or "It's A Wonderful Life"?
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But Wait...
W uldn't it be great to get
together with old friends?
Friends you've lost touch with
since you've been away at
school or out of state?
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It is a privilege to send
greetings to your guest of
honor and to the members
and friends of the America-
Cultural Foundation.
You are effectively help-
ing to establish mutual
understanding among all
peoples through the
medium of the arts.
Recalled and recorded here
is more than a musical
episode about one of its most
distinguished personalities. It
is a panegyric also about a
hero and his great cause. This
is an advocacy to remember
Leonard Bernstein and the
America-Israel Cultural
Foundation that was among
his favored Israeli
movements. El
Israel, Lebanon
Maronite Link
A
major tragedy in
Lebanon, one of tens
of thousands of
casualties of the civil war, was
a reminder of the decades of
friendship which existed in
that embattled country bet-
ween Jews and Christians
with an emphasis on a
veritable accord with Israel.
The murder in Detroit of
Danny Chamoun, a most ac-
tive Maronite Christian
leader and his family adds to
the sadness of hearing and
reading about the Lebanese
drama. Danny Chamoun, a
devout Maronite Catholic,
was the son of a former presi-
dent of Lebanon. Neither was
ever involved in comforting
anti-Israeli Arabs or en-
couraging them in plotting
Israel's destruction.
- - A matter of established
fact. Lebanese are not Arabs.
We are advised:
An interesting feature
of Maronite society
strangely reminiscent of
the Jewish, is their far-
flung "diaspora" outside of
Lebanon — especially in
the Americas. There are to-
day more than 1,000,000
Lebanese emigrants in the
New World, or Americans
of Lebanese descent. They
are about_ evenly divided
between Latin America on
the one hand, the U.S.A.
and Canada on the other.
Almost all of them are
Christians, in great majori-
ty Maronite Catholics. It is
therefore quite misleading
to describe them as "of
Arab descent," which they
are not and do not claim to
be.
Tht- Maronift. .-2.nnist-Israel
1-0w- 1.o -fish cp developed from
riencisi-up advocated by a
ri
s•paper published in
.V.abtc and English and its
Maronite Catholic editor and
publisher, Cherki Kanaan.
In his newspaper, the
Lebanese Gazette, which was
one of only two such Lebanese
newspapers sponsored by
Lebanese Americans in sup-
port of Zionism in this coun-
try, Mr. Kanaan rejected anti-
Israelism whenever it was
preached.
He went so far as to reprint
my Jewish News editorials,
and when I asked him why lie
did not credit them to me, he
said: "It sounds better when
I say I wrote them."
He was in constant danger
from his antagonists, and his
printing plant on Gratiot
Avenue was often bombed.
The type of articles and
editorials he published ap-
peared under headlines like
these quoted with dates from
his Lebanese Gazette:
April 9, 1970 — - Israel
Can't Give Up Square Inch'
Says Rep. Scheuer
Sept. 25, 1969 — An article
by Robert St. John 'An
American Liberal Speaks Out
— Israel/Arab Conflict
Clarified'
March 13, 1969 — To Our
Lebanese Fellow Citizens: An
Appeal For True Brotherhood
Feb. 20, 1958 — Now Is The
Time For Lebanon To Make
Peace With Israel
Feb. 27, 1940— 'Eminent
Catholic Describes Christian-
Jewish Relations With Em-
phasis on Jewish Rights' by
Rev. Edward Flannery
Chekri Kanaan could not
survive the onslaught, and
his paper collapsed about 15
years ago. He retained a
following; his son became
president of the Maronites of
America.
The official attitude on
Jews, Zionism and Israel is
the importance desired for
the Maronite-Zionist-Israel
connection compiled here.
Maronite leaders in church
and government continued
support for Israel, and
Lebanese criticism in the UN
was restricted.
When the Commission of
Inquiry on Palestine met in
Beirut in 1947, Monsignor
Agnatios Moubarak, Maron-
ite Archbishop of Beirut,
made strong statements in
support of Zionism. For
decades there was a retention
of the Maronite-Jewish
friendship. Then came the
terrorism of the PLO.
Silently, our goodwill con-
tinues, and the Jewish hopes
and prayers are for an end
to the horrors in Lebanon.
The memories about the
Detroit experience with a
devout Lebanese remain
memorable. El