MEDIA MONITOR The Jewish Home For Aged's Board and Staff announce the grand opening of its first Alzheimer's Specialty Care Unit for persons with mild to moderate stages of dementia. THE JEWISH HOME FOR AGED CONTINUES TO RESPOND TO OUR COMMUNITY'S NEEDS SO THAT A PERSON DIAGNOSED WITH ALZHEIMER'S DOESN'T HAVE TO BE ALONE ANYMORE Does the Media Ever Have To Say It's Sorry? ARTHUR J. MAGIDA Special to The Jewish News wurill "much of the Fourth Estate" apologize to Israel, as writer Steven Emerson urges in the Washington Journalism Review? Mr. Emerson is convinced journalists should apologize for falsely reporting that Israel had sold U.S. weapons technology to China. Such reports started with a March 12 Washington Times report that the Bush Ad- ministration was in- vestigating intelligence ac- counts that Israel had sup- plied U.S. Patriot missiles to China. Mr. Emerson asserts that the Washington Times had "exaggerated" allegations that China had possibly received Patriot technology from Israel, not the missile itself. On March 13, the Wall Street Journal reported that senior U.S. officials now claimed that Israel had im- properly transferred U.S. technology to China, Ethio- pia, South Africa and Chile. • Opening in Summer, 1992 • 24-bed self-contained unit • Located in Borman Hall's Fleischman Pavilion • Private Dining Room serving Kosher meals • Specially designed therapeutic activities • 24-hour licensed nursing staff • Specialty training provided by The University of Michigan Institute of Gerontology • Family support groups • Alzheimer's Association Resource Support OUR GRATITUDE TO ALL OF OUR FRIENDS IN THE COMMUNITY WHO SUPPORTED THIS COMMITMENT AND TO: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit Benefactors/Jewish Home For Aged Auxiliary/Jewish Home For Aged For more information, please contact Director of Admission,, Jerri Litt Borman Hall 19100 West Seven Mile Road Detroit, MI 48219 532-7112 18 FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1992 1907 1992 85 Years of Caring The Journal's article re- ferred to an upcoming report on technology transfer to Israel by the State Depart- ment's inspector general. A former government official told Mr. Emerson that the report was a "dumping ground for anyone that wanted to get their digs in on Israel." Mr. Emerson said jour- nalists reporting on the In- spector General report "largely overlooked evidence about the ac- curacy" of its conclusions and that they "generally disregarded the same in- dependent Israeli military analysts who are quoted ex- tensively when they criticize Israeli policies. This time, these Israeli analysts re- jected the technology transfer charges as entirely unfounded . . . ' Mr. Emerson also disputed a March 16 report on ABC's "World News Tonight" that Israel had secretly trans- ferred a laser-guided ar- tillery shell to China. Finally, on March 18, a Washington Post analysis noted that Israel and the U.S. had jointly researched and developed weapons for 25 years, and that it is "impossible to determine the exact nature of ... (their) parentage." Also, reported the Post, tl decline in internationc.:2 - arms sales means that the U.S. and Israel now compete for arms buyers and what better way to undercut Israeli competition than to assert U.S. parentage of technology? And on March 20, New York Times columnist A.M.- Rosenthal reported that Evans and Novak had falsely claimed on March 16 that Israel was covertly ne- gotiating to sell China its STAR missile, which used U.S.-developed technology installed in America's HAVE NAP missile. Actu- , ally, said Mr. Rosenthal, the American missile used Israeli-developed l technology. In early April, Pentagon and State Department in- vestigators said Israel had not made any illicit' technology transfers. Washington Times and New York Times editorials urged U.S. officials who ha. publicized false allegations, to apologize to Israel. But In early April, Pentagon and State Department investigators said Israel had not made any illicit technology transfers. apologies, says Mr. Emer- son, should also come from these papers — and all U.S. media that reported the bogus charges. In a letter in the May 6 1 New York Times, Rowland Evans and Robert Novak still backed their account of, Israeli technology transfers. They also rejected Mr. I Rosenthal's claims that they had tried to show "Israeli), duplicity" about the missile. "Israel's record on the question of 'duplicity' is open for public inspection," they stated, referring to Israel's 1967 attack on the ' U.S. spy ship Liberty. Th columnists have asserted that Israeli attacked the ship after confirming it was a U.S. vessel. Israel has re- jected such claims for 25 years.