The Cultural Commission of
'Moses
Congregation Beth -fibraham
Proudly Presents The
8th ANNUAL
WALTER LITT
MEMORIAL
CONCERT
Le Handshake Redux
ARTHUR J. MAGIDA SENIOR EDITOR
have abrasive chapters in their
resumes," wrote Mr. Aban, "but
so do their more empowered in-
terlocutors. It is more fertile to
confer with radicals who repre-
sent their constituencies than
with amiable 'moderates' who do
not.
`The current Israeli leaders de-
serve their plaudits, but if they
Pianist
PETER in SIMON
"ConcerTales
Sunday. October 2. 1994 - 7:30 p.m.
Nusbaum Hall
ConcerTales recounts and demonstrates the many humorous, unexpected and
sometimes touching moments that occurred while touring on the international concert
circuit. Interspersed with some of the world's most beautiful music, Peter Simon
reminisces about these many true events, including flying bats, falling while performing in
a foreign embassy, losing an entire audience, re-meeting a 5 year-old Mexican girl and
performing in a French chateau with counts, countesses and archdukes.
This unique presentation of music and dialogue weaves a colorful kaleidoscope of
touching moments, incredible experiences and beautiful music performed by the artist on
five continents.
Peter Simon in ConcerTales is unparalleled in content and presentation. His
performance has been described as "Hilarious," "Poignant," "Enthralling," "The Most
Unique and Innovative Classical Music Program in the Country Today!"
ConcerTales is the 8th Annual Walter Litt Memorial Concert, presented by the Cultural
Commission of Beth Abraham Hillel Moses, and sponsored by the Litt family. Refresh-
ments. There is no charge. Tickets may be obtained from the Synagogue Office. Please
join us for a wonderful, unforgettable evening.
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A.M. Rosenthal:
Convinced of a double-cross.
S
ept. 13, the Day of The
Handshake, came and
went — and so did the not
unexpected opinions about
what has transpired since Israelis
and Palestinians signed their De-
claration of Principles a year ago
— and about what lies ahead.
In his New York Times col-
umn, A.M. Rosenthal was whol-
ly cynical about the entire Middle
East process, convinced that PLO
and Fatah officials "still see any
peaceful settlements as they al-
ways have — the first step to-
ward eliminating Israel."
Mr. Rosenthal was irked that
Yassir Arafat has not kept his
pledge to Israeli Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin to delete from the
PLO charter the call to "liberate"
the entire Palestinian "home-
land" — that is, Israel — and to
swear continued "armed strug-
gle" to achieve it.
Mr. Arafat, noted the Times-
man, "says the covenant will be
so revised — in July of 1995 if he
can swing it. Some Israeli officials
give him the benefit of the doubt,
others see it as a barely camou-
flaged double-cross meant to
squeeze more concessions out of
Israel and the U.S."
Of Israel's present dealings
with Mr. Arafat, Jordan's King
Hussein and Syria's President
Hafez al-Assad, Mr. Rosenthal
cautioned, "If I were an Israeli,
and I felt I had to dance with
wolves, I would certainly keep
counting my ties."
In a Washington Post op-ed, Is-
raeli Abba Eban, a former foreign
minister and ex-ambassador to
the United States and the Unit-
ed Nations, extolled the virtues
of negotiating with one's enemy
— as Israel has done with the
PLO, as F.W. de Klerk has done
with Nelson Mandela, as Britain
is doing with the Irish Republi-
can Army.
"The IRA, the PLO and the
ANC [African National Congress]
David Bar-Ilan:
Doubts about Rabin.
had accepted dialogue with the
PLO earlier than they did, many
lives would have been saved ...
Diplomacy should be judged by
what it prevents, not only by
what it initiates and creates.
Much of it is a holding action de-
signed to avoid explosion until
the unifying forces of history take
humanity into their embrace."
And in Commentary, David
Bar-Illan, the editor of the
Jerusalem Post, is convinced that
Mr. Rabin's pledges about guar-
anteeing Jerusalem's unity are
mendacious:
"Skeptics may cavil that an-
other Labor Party pledge —
never leave the Golan' — was
also inviolable until it ceased to
be so.
"Yet ... Israelis have learned
that the more vocally the gov-
ernment proclaims a particular
`red line' uncrossable, the more
likely it is to be crossed."
"... If the forfeiture of 22 [pre-
dominantly Arab] neighborhoods
in east JE rusalem ultimately ap-
pears as the only obstacle to com-
prehensive peace and idyllic
prosperity, chances are that the
withdrawal momentum will pre-
vail, Jerusalem will be divided
again and the sovereign in the re-
linquished side will not be King
Hussein but a dictatorship run
by Hamas or the PLO."