Why do some people succeed in
relationships and others do not?
Is your intimate relationship healthy?
How can you tell if you are doing it right?

Israel

`Islam Is The Answer'

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Find out the

Jewish Secrets

To Self Improvement

"How to Enjoy
Intimate
Pleasure"

With Noted Lecturer Rabbi Shmuel Irons

Tuesday, November 4, 1997
7:30 p.m.

Jewish Community Center
Ma i-Il/Drake Building

There is no charge for this progi.‘
Refreshments will be served.

Please call (248) 661-7649 to register for the lecture.

This lecture series is brought to you by Mr. Fred Ferber and the
Jewish Community Center.

Sperber's North Kosher Restaurant,
located inside the JCC, will be serving dinner until 8:00 p.m.

For the hearing impaired, an Infrared Sound System is available.

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1997

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Sheikh Yassin sits with his family in Gaza after, his release from an Israeli prison.

An exclusive interview
with the recently
released founder of
Hamas.

ERIC SILVER
Israel Correspondent

n the whitewashed wall out-
side Sheikh Ahmed Yassin's •
Gaza home his followers have
painted a map of undivided
Palestine in the rusty red of dried blood.
Beside it is a mural of the Dome of the
Rock, the logo of Arab Jerusalem, and
-- he_sIogan: "Islam is the answer."
1 - li„vear-old founding guru of
the militant ricu.—
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framed his message - more
Two weeks after he was releasengiii
an Israeli prison in exchange for two
bungling Mossad hitmen, captured after
trying to kill another Hamas leader in
Amman, Sheikh Yassin has ended his
convalescence and is coming out fight-
ing.
In an exclusive interview, he pledged
to continue attacks on Israeli civilians
and gave his blessing to suicide bombers
of the kind who killed 21 of them in
Jerusalem this summer. He denounced
the two-state solution implicit in the
1993 Oslo peace agreement as a betray-
al of Palestinians' title to their land.
The nearest he came to a concilia-
tory gesture was to offer Israel a

‘`temporary truce" if it accepted all
Hamas demands, and to promise
Yassir Arafat not to provoke a
Palestinian civil war.
A stream of supplicants and well
wishers still flows to the one-story
cement house in Zaitoun, one of Gaza's
poorest, most neglected neighborhoods,
where the sheikh lives with his wife and
11 children. Paralysed since his youth
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when he broke his neck doing acrobat-
ics on Gaza beach, he receives them in a
wheelchair. His beard is shading from
grey to white. He is smiling, relaxed and
paternal. A disciple feeds him slices of
guava.
The sheikh looks surprisingly robust
for a man the Israelis feared might die
on their hands. His hearing has deterio-
rated, however, during the eight years of
a life sentence he served for fostering
terrorism. Every question has to be
repeated by an aide.

said Islam fotl-EhLo„Gazia_, t6, .01eikh
civilians. Did that mean-re
Alin
off Hamas campaign of terror in Israeli
cities?
"Islam," he replied, "tells us not to
attack civilians, but it also gives us the
right to deal with an enemy the same
way that he deals with us. If the enemy
attacks civilians, killing them or demol-
ishing their homes, or confiscates their
land, or puts people in prison, or
besieges them and starves them, it is our 0
right to defend ourselves and deal with
them as they deal with us."
Did that include suicide bombings?