PROFILE I Shoval Continued from previous page Be sure your Shamir government's poli- cies. In an unusually harsh and personal outburst, a White House statement labeled Mr. Shoval's comments "outrageous and outside the bounds of acceptable behav- ior." In fact, most observers agreed that Mr. Shoval's comments were on target. But by speaking publicly, he gave administration officials an opportunity to ventilate long-simmering frustrations over a variety of issues. Mr. Shoval declined to discuss the incident, but he agreed that sometimes am- bassadors become easy targets for frustrations real- ly directed against their governments. friends and relatives are as informed as you on Jewish happenings all around the World! Give them a gift today! "Look, this is not a new thing for ambassadors from any country," he said. "The Israeli ambassador — or any ambassador, for that matter — is really the advanced outpost of his government and not just somebody who happens to be in Washington by happenstance. So he quite naturally becomes a kind of lightning rod." The ambassador copes with this occupational hazard in his usual pragmatic style. "I don't take it personal- ly," he said. "Nor do I take personally all the nice things that people say, be- cause I know they're aimed at my country, not at my person. I take everything in proportion." El NEWS I Arafat Seeks Pope's Intervention r To: The Jewish News 27676 Franklin Road Southfield, Mich. 48034 Please send a year's gift subscription to: NAME ADDRESS CITY STATE FOR• ZIP state occasion FROM 1 year - $31 — 2 years - $52 — Out of State - $41 — Foreign - $62 Enclosed $ FEDERAL FIREPLACE HOMESTEAD WIND 1 OR 2 A truly contemporary fan. A clean, sleek fan system whose design is both contemporary and elegant. No hum motor eliminates noise flutter, 3 speeds & reversing rotation w/6 high pitched blades. Your choice of several different finishes. Ref. 455.40 HOURS: MON-FRI 10AM-9PM •SAT 9AM-8PM•SUN 10AM-5PM In F&M Plaza • Southfield Rd. at 12 Mile Rd. 1 mile north of 1-696 557-3344 • PRIOR SALES EXCLUDED. 40 FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1991 0 Federal Fireplace) ( BARBEQUE & PATIO FURNITURE In Pine Ridge Center • Novi Rd. at 10 Mile Rd. 1-3/4 miles south of 12 Oaks Mall 348-9300 • SOME ITEMS NOT EXACTLY AS PICTURED• Rome (JTA) — Yassir Arafat has sent a letter to Pope John Paul II, asking the pope to intercede with the United States to prevent the "Judaization" and Israeli annexation of Jerusalem in any Middle East peace settlement. In the letter, sent last week, the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organ- ization impugned the Jewish religion as a usurper of Jerusalem, playing up to issues that have impeded the Vatican from establishing ties with the Jewish state. He accused the Jews of try- ing to remove all but Jews from Jerusalem. Mr. Arafat also asked the pontiff's help in overcoming Israel's refusal, with U.S. backing, to allow PLO repre- sentatives to attend the Middle East peace con- ference the United States and Soviet Union hope to host in October. "Your Holiness, we find ourselves facing an attempt to impose Judaism and the annexation of Jerusalem with the exclusion of any representative of East Jerusalem in the . negotia- tions of the peace conference set for October," he wrote. Dwelling on inflammatory concerns between Rome and Jerusalem, Mr. Arafat wrote that an imposition of Judaism "on the holy places without their community of faithful would be reduced merely to the status of mu- seums and tourist attrac- tions." He appealed to the pope's "high prestige the world over," to "intercede with the administration of the United States so that President George Bush does not become responsible in the eyes of history for the Judaization of Jerusalem and for the resulting evacua- tions of its Christian and Moslem inhabitants." He wrote that this "would be a step toward emptying out the entire Holy Land." The pope has met more than once with Mr. Arafat, much to the dismay of Jew- ish groups and Israeli offi- cials. The Vatican has also never accorded diplomatic recognition to the Jewish state. Neo-Nazis Seek Property Bonn (JTA) — The Nation- al Democratic Party, a neo- Nazi group active in West Germany before reunifica- tion, has filed a request with the German government to take possession of buildings and other property belong- ing to a former East German party with the same name. But the defunct East Ger- man party, known as the NDPD, had very different politics than the West Ger- man neo-Nazi party. It was widely considered a sister party to the West German Free Democratic Party, whose leader is Foreign Min- ister Hans-Dietrich Genscher. Sources here say a legal battle could ensue if both groups insist on rights to the property belonging to the or- ganization.