the right • ATTITUDE • TIME •PLACE • PRICE distressing inhumanities in Crown Heights caused Ab- raham Foxman to declare: On Aug. 30 the Anti- Defamation League broke its silence, angry because we saw anti-Semitism flow- ing freely, almost un- challenged, even offensive- ly excused, in the very shadow of murder. We had had enough. As Jews we have had enough of that double stan- dard that condones some bigotry while decrying another. We have heard enough Nazi slogans; they hurt just as much from the mouths of any race, from the rationale of any cause. As long as decent people hesitate or rationalize in the face of hate and vio- lence, they are in fact responsible for the consequences. There are voices of mod- eration, voices of respon- sibility. We're waiting for them to grow louder. Warning against all manifestations of hatred means identification with the lessons taught us by George Washington and all decent citizens of all time. Protection of these sacred principles is a duty not to be shirked by any of us who Must never tire from ad- vocating and supporting basic human principles. 0 NEWS I Germany May Release Hamadei Brothers Bonn (JTA) — Germany has turned down a demand by Shi'ite groups holding Western hostages in Leb- anon to release two brothers imprisoned here for terrorist activities. But according to diplo- matic sources, the German government is not ruling out an eventual pardon of Mohammed and Abbas Hamadei, whose freedom has been pegged by Shi'ite groups to the release of the Western hostages. That appears to signal a change of position for Ger- many, which has come under pressure from the United States not to give in to the terrorists' demands. In mid-August, German authorities totally rejected any suggestion that the Pa- lestinian terrorists be in- cluded in any global prisoner swap. A -high-ranking offi- cial said then, "We can't compromise on murder." The United States is par- ticularly interested in the case, because Mohammed Hamadei is serving a life term in a German prison for the 1985 hijacking of a TWA jet to Beirut and the killing of a U.S. Navy diver, Robert Stethem. The United States relin- quished its request for his extradition only after what was then West Germany promised he would be treated as a criminal and ac- cordingly punished. Bonn's refusal to turn Hamadei over to Washing- ton had been premised on the fact that the United States imposes the death penalty, which Germany has banned. Mohammed Hamadei's brother, Abbas, was ap- prehended in January 1987, shortly after his brother was arrested, and sentenced to 13 years for his role in kid- nappings of two German businessmen in Lebanon following his brother's ar- rest. The two Germans kid- napped on Abbas' interven- tion were subsequently freed. However, two more Germans, humanitarian aid workers in Lebanon, were later kidnapped and remain in captivity. Bonn is seeking their release. It is believed the Germans and other hostages are being held by the Shi'ite funda- mentalist Hezbollah. Last week, the group's spiritual leader, Sheik Mohammed Fadlallah, told German journalists that the release of the Hamadeis is one of the conditions for freeing the Western hostages. "Either they all enjoy freedom or none, " he was quoted as saying. Sheik Fadlallah accused Israel of blocking the effort to free the hostages by refus- ing to release Arab de- tainees and by demanding hard evidence about seven Israeli servicemen long missing in Lebanon. The Hamadeis' release also was hinted at in a letter the Islamic Jihad group had freed British hostage John McCarthy to deliver to U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar. SAVE Up., 66 0 /0 LARGE SELECTION OF SAMPLE FURS & LEATHERS AT COST and BELOW COST! 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