whom King David had vanquished. The revisionist name endured through several other non-Jewish con- quests and has since been adapted by the Arab movement of the 20th cen- tury, with a similar polit- ical agenda: recasting the return of the Jewish peo- ple to their homeland as colonial settling, and promulgating the fiction that the Arabs who migrated to the region several centuries after the Jews were conquered predated their cousins. Here we have the benefit derived from responsible readership. The author of this letter did not permit a misconception and geographically historic distortion to go unchalleng- ed. Blessings to all such responsible readers. ❑ NEWS Court Raises Doubt In Demjanjuk Case O Jerusalem (JTA) — The chief prosecutor in the trial of alleged war criminal John Demjanjuk urged the High Court of Justice once more to uphold his 1988 conviction and death sentence. But as state prosecutor Michael Shaked completed his arguments before the five judge panel hearing Mr. Demjanjuk's appeal, an unexpected initiative by a federal appeals court in Ohio cast some doubt over the strength of the case against the Ukrainian- born defen- dant. Acting on its own in- itiative, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati ordered the reopening of the case that resulted in Demjanjuk's 1986 extradition to stand trial in Israel. The U.S. court said the extradition warrant "may have been improvidently issued because it was based on erroneous information." The federal court acted in- dependent of any request for a rehearing from either side. Its action appears to have been prompted by newly available evidence from the archives of the former Soviet Union, which the defense counsel here says refutes the identification of Mr. Dem- janjuk as the sadistic Treblinka death camp guard, known as "Ivan the Terrible," who operated the gas chambers and tortured Jews on the way to their deaths. That evidence, which in- cludes testimony given by other Treblinka guards over 40 years ago, points to a Ukrainian named Ivan Mar- chenko as the dreaded "Ivan." So it was argued by Yoram Sheftel, Mr. Demjanjuk's Israeli lawyer, who last week urged the High Court of Justice to unconditionally acquit his client. Prosecutor Shaked obtain- ed a conviction two years ago on the basis of eyewitnesses who identified the 72-year- old Mr. Demjanjuk. Eyewitness identification was also responsible for his extradition, which the U.S. court has now called into question. Mr. Demjanjuk has in- sisted from the outset that he was a victim of mistaken identity. A longtime resi- dent of Cleveland, he was stripped of his U.S. citizen- ship in 1981 for having lied about his wartime activities when he obtained it. But the state prosecutor has dismissed the new evidence as irrelevant. He has said that Mr. Demjanjuk may have used the name Marchenko, which is com- mon in Ukraine and was his mother's maiden name. Moreover, he produced new evidence of his own purporting to show that Mr. Demjanjuk was a guard at the Sobibor camp in Poland, as well as at Treblinka. Mr. Sheftel demanded last week that the court disregard evidence of alleged offenses at Sobibor because it was not mentioned in Mr. Demjanjuk's indictment. The prosecution replied that was only because the evidence was not available then. When Justice Aharon Barak remarked that there may not be sufficient evidence regarding Mr. Demjanjuk's alleged service at Sobibor, Mr. Shaked replied that where offenses against the Jewish people are concerned. 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