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LONNY GOLDSMITH
Staff Writer
A
local Jewish tennis entrepre-
neur who helped build 14
tennis centers in Israel has
agreed to help a new
Palestinian organization create a simi-
lar center in Gaza City.
Seymour Brode, chairman and
owner of the Franklin Racquet Club in
Southfield and chairman of the inter-
national board of trustees of Israel
Tennis Centers, hoped the effort with
the infant Palestinian Tennis
Association (PTA) would build sports-
manship in place of mistrust.
"We have the right reasons for
wanting to build this," Brode said, cit-
ing overcrowding in Gaza schools,
which limits students to two hours of
school per day, and the growing youth
population.
"The children of Gaza represent 50
percent of the population," he said.
"Tennis is a gentleman's game and,
hopefully, their children can learn what
ours did."
"It's a very important partnership
because they are going to be neigh-
bors," Brode said of Israelis and
Palestinians. "Neither are going away,
and they have to learn to live together.
Aiman Arafat, PTA vice president,
contacted Brode for his expertise. The
Palestinian Authority is giving the land
for the center to the PTA, and the
money is being privately raised.
"The idea was to reach out to any-
one who's willing to help," Arafat said.
"Naturally, they (the ITC) are the clos-
est to us. We are a small organization
that is in need of help."
Arafat likens the relationship to
"Ping Pong diplomacy" that brought a
dialogue between the United States
"