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Lessee responsible for excess wear and tear. 15c per mile over 10,000 miles per year. LOSSMON SO R B On Telegraph at the (81 Tel-12 Mall, Southfield 0) 354-3300 Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 9-6, Monday & Thursday 9-9 Saturday 10-4 Styles As Fashionable As They Are Adorable. • DOLE page 51 Over the years, Buchanan's hostility towards Israel has been open, relentless and mean-spir- ited. He has claimed that Israel is an albatross around America's neck and made the outrageous claim that Jews and Israelis were the only ones urging Amer- ica to take action against Sadaam Hussein. He has re- peatedly called for an end to for- eign aid, singling out Israel as an unworthy recipient. He has shown utter contempt for what he claims is undue Jewish political influence, as dis- played by his urging President Reagan not to abandon his ill conceived plans to visit SS graves at Bitburg; he argued that Reagan must not cave to "Jewish pressure." He has re- peatedly denigrated and ridiculed Holocaust related is- sues, and has unabashedly de- fended of a wide array of Nazi criminals. As the former head of the Office of Special Investiga- tions in the Justice Department, I can attest to Buchanan's shameless intervention of behalf of those who took part in the Fi- nal Solution. Even while serv- ing as Communications Director of the Reagan White House, he leapt to the defense of a con- centration camp chief and a Nazi rocket scientist who ad- mitted working slave laborers to death, both of whom were be- ing pursued by my office. I must concede that during the 1996 campaign Buchanan has, for the most part, avoided some of the crude anti-Semitic rhetoric which he freely doled out as a journalist and TV corn- mentator. And, he has not blast- ed Israel as he has done in the past. That is not to say that the leopard has changed his spots. Buchanan has always prided himself in "saying what he means and meaning what he says." But part of his current politi- cal agenda, the isolationist and xenophobic America First doc- trine, does pose a grave threat to Israel, not to mention Ameri- ca's strength abroad. (By the way, Buchanan's choice of the slogan America First is telling. The original America First movement in the 1930s, whose leaders praised Hitler and op- posed U.S. intervention in Eu- rope, was overtly anti-Semitic). Buchanan's disdain for U.S. global leadership and his advo- cacy of head in the sand isola- tionism would spell nothing but disaster for Israel. The strong U.S.-Israel relationship and strategic reliance would be put at risk. Not only would Israel be weakened, but the U.S. position in that volatile region would be jeopardized. Make no mistake. Buchanan and Buchananism pose serious threats to us, not only because of his repulsive rhetoric, but also because of his wrong headed no- tions of foreign policy. Right now Buchanan is in an acrimonious battle with Jewish positions. They should make it clear that whatever successes the Republicans have accom- plished in our community will be in jeopardy if they do not do so. Too much is at stake to straddle the fence. ❑ On The West Bank Will Israeli expansion on the West Bank be driven by Ariel Sharon's bulldozer or tied up in political red tape? T HE D ETR OIT JE WISH NEWS INA FRIEDMAN ISRAEL CORRESPONDENT 52 ® • • Ki DDLYW I :•••••••-• 286 West Maple • Birmingham (810) 540-1977 Mon.-Sat. 10-5:30 • Thurs. 10-9 S hai Peled, a handsome 24- year-old Tel Aviv Univer- sity student, has taken on a tedious, thankless, and potentially dangerous job. Twice a week, he sets out for the Israeli settlements in the West Bank or Gaza Strip to count building starts, uninhabited new houses and flats as a coordinator of Peace Now's Settlement Watch Team. "We're trying to capture a base-line picture of the situation on theground before the next round of construction begins," Mr. Peled explains as we clamber out of the transporter hired to bring him, Meretz Party Knesset Mem- ber Dedi Zucker, and other vol- unteers to the West Bank town of Ariel. "Many of the settlers refuse to talk to us," Mr. Peled says. "Others deliberately lie when they find out who we are. And although we often get infor- mation from real-estate agents and laborers on construction sites, there's nothing like coming out and counting for yourself." "I never thought I'd be out do- WEST BANK page 54