4460 Gel,ord Lake Rood West Bloomfield, MI 48323 Pkone: 248.683.1010 OPINION Arab Building Rush Pushes Capital Bounds /reel ofcluesi cHoomfigi Assisi-eel wig catered services Studios and suites with private baths Three well planned daily meals Emergency call systems Housekeeping and linen services Round the clock staffing Nurse manager Personal care assistance Medical supervision Spa with pool and exercise room Scheduled activities Game room Library Hair salon Sundries shop Transportation Valet parking for residents in beautiful surroundings created especially for older adults. Includes all utilities with the exception of telephone and cable television Call Renee Mahler at 248.683.1010 for additional information ARNOLD BLUMBERG Special to The Jewish News esident Clinton and Secretary f State Madeleine Albright have adopted a favorite expres- sion in their advice to Israel. They urge Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to "take a break" or to "take time out" and to cease building Jewish residences in Judea, Samaria and Gaza. The rationale for that advice is to freeze the situation until a final bound- ary line can be drawn. There might be some rationale for such advice if Yasser Arafat and his Arab constituents could be persuaded to do the same. Such, however, is not the case. The Arabs are building in the disputed territories as though they know that actual residence will determine future borders. Having returned from a 10-week stay in the territories, I have had adequate opportunity to see what Arab and Jew are doing to affect the future boundaries being set by the so-called peace process. Driving through Judea and Samaria on an almost daily basis, I witnessed a gargantuan Arab building race. Private homes, obviously very expensive, hug the roadside. The Arab building spasm presses the visible facts of ownership to the limit. Israeli building and spending is much less visible. To be sure, a bypass road has been constructed linking the Jews of Arnold Blumberg is professor emeritus of history at Towson University in Balti- more. PRESENTS LETTERS Is this then another example of "reporting" by Besser or, to my mind, his usual slanting of the news to fit his own political agenda through "colum- nizing"? Jerome S. Kaufman Bloomfield Hills Friday, July 31st 10:00 - 5:00 INSIDE ORCHARD MALL West Bloomfield Orchard Lake Rd., North of Maple 7/17 1998 32 248-626-0886 Kiryat Arba and Hebron to Jerusalem, L running through areas where Arab pop- ulation density is thin. As that bypass road approaches Jerusalem, two impres- sive new tunnels run beneath Arab towns through the earth itself, making it plain that Israel has no intention of sur- rendering the Etzion Bloc in the final settlement. However, when Israelis propose to build Jewish housing on Har Homa, on —\ land owned by Jews within the city of Jerusalem, a cry goes up from Ms. Albright and Mr. Clinton, that some- how the "peace process" is threatened. Their cheering squad pretends that Har Homa is in the middle of densely inhabited Arab towns. In actuality, if Israel intends to retain Jerusalem, undi- vided, it is essential that areas such as Har Homa become centers for Jewish residence. To be sure, it abuts upon an Arab village and is not far from Arab Bethlehem. However, it is also a short distance from Talpiot, a major Jewish commercial and residential neighbor- hood. The battle is already joined. If Mr. Netanyahu is frightened into non-action by the bullying of Mr. Clinton and Ms. Albright, the unthinkable will happen. Jerusalem will be divided. At the heart of this life-and-death battle for the survival of Israel is one essential question. When all is said and done, is Yasser Arafat a dependable part- ner who will keep his word if a final set- dement is ever completed? The answer screams out a loud "No!" Nevertheless, a majority of American Jews move Propaganda Hard To Take I had to laugh at "Palestinians Need a Change Of Heart" (July 10), former U.S. Senator Rudy Boschwitz's opinion piece. He so seriously tells us that Israel's peace partners, the Palestinians, as he thinks of them, are still acting like they're still completely committed to annihilating Israel. How shocking! But, you know, any group that deliberately takes its name — the Filistin in both Arabic and Hebrew — from the Bible's ancient Philistines has got to be pretty bad. Let's not swallow all the propaganda of our enemies. Politic a lly incorrect as it may be to poke fun at anybody's most cherished myths and values, this busi- ness of Palestinianism is a weird busi- ness. We need to deconstruct it. PLO Minister Hanan Ashrawi says that they're the Canaanites. False. Yassir Arafat says that our Abraham and the gentiles' Jesus — Yeshuaben Yosef, the Jew — were Filistin. False. Hundreds of millions of souls will swear that the whole land of Israel, almost from time immemorial, belonged to the Palestini- ans. False. Everybody knows that the Palestinians, thanks to the Jews, got a raw deal. False. That modern Jewish set- PROPAGANDA on page 34