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media to sanitize Mr. Arafat and
humanize his people. The success of
this campaign can be seen in the over-
whelming electoral victory of Ehud
Barak. As pointed out by Molly
Resnick, president of MATCKH,
there has been no attempt on the part
of the Palestinian Authority to
humanize the Jews. Just the opposite.
You speak of "repressive actions by
Israeli soldiers." The only repressive
actions taken in the last few years by
the Israeli army have been directed
against the Jews that live in Gaza and
the West Bank, not the Arabs. These
actions included disarming the Jewish
settlers, which resulted in the deaths
of Dov Drivan and Harel Nun,
among others. The Israeli army has
also carried out a regime of strict
enforcement of minutiae of the law
directed against only the Jews of
Hebron and not the Arabs. What
more do you want from Israel?
Rabbi Edo Elba wrote a paper that
he stated was for study and debate
only, not a guide for action, which
was dealing with killing the enemy in
wartime. For this "crime," the Israeli
authorities imprisoned him for two
years on a charge of incitement. Yet
Muslim religious leaders have called
daily for the slaughter of Jews without
response from Jewish or Arab authori-
ties.
Many years ago, the great Jewish
thinker and writer Maurice Samuel
had a debate with a rabbi from the
anti-Zionist American Council for
Judaism. In exasperation, the rabbi
asked Samuel, "How would you feel if
This letter is in response to your e di-
you were an Arab?" Samuel replied,
torials ("Pipe Dream Or Pipe Bomb?"
"Rabbi, how would you feel if you
and "The Wrong Lesson," June 4) and
were a Jew.
a news story ("When The Syllabus Is.
Unfortunately, we must address the
Hatred," May 14), which questioned
same question to the editorial staff of
the efficacy and relevance of the
the Jewish. News. It is time for the Jew-
MATCKH program.
ish community of Detroit to stand up
In the news story, your reporter felt
and say to you, "Enough already!
compelled to seek out Arab and Jewish
Whose side are you on anyway?"
opponents of this program to present
H. L. Schlussel
the other side." It should be standard
Southfield
procedure for reporters to attempt to
present both sides of a controversial
topic. But surely, in this day and age,
we can all agree that reaching children
to hate another group of people and
to see as their life's mission to grow up
In "A-Changed Man" on May 28,
and liquidate this group is unaccept-
Torn
Diaz re-assessed his life and con-
able.
verted to Judaism; that is fine. But
Your attempt at "moral equiva-
how do you reassess an honest, law-
lence" in your editorial of June 4 is
abiding citizen's right of self-defense?
especially objectionable. You call on
The Second Amendment makes
Israel to rid its textbooks of prejudice.
specific
reference to the right of people
What prejudice? Since 1992, there has
to
keep
and
bear arms. I think Jewish
been a deliberate campaign by the
people everywhere should exercise that
Israeli educational establishment and

school textbooks, television program-
ming, etc. So far, so good. Then they
proceeded to intimate that Israel must
do this as well.
Excuse me! Has anyone document-
ed any official statements - as in
schoolbooks or on children's television
- of Israeli government-sanctioned
hatred? Has there ever been any offi-
cial praise by any Jewish head of state
for terrorists and terrorism? Where
does this insane urge to equate Israeli
policy with-Arab propaganda come
from?
If we wish to make comparisons,
how about this one: Israel is included
in the New York Times list of the
humanitarian countries accepting
(Muslim) refugees from Kosovo; not
one (Muslim) Arab nation is listed. Or
perhaps we should discuss how safe an
Israeli might feel while walking down
a street in Gaza, as opposed to how
safe an Arab might feel while walking
through Jerusalem.
Let's do a reality check, please. And
let's stop accepting the lies generated
and trumpeted by our enemies from
both within and without. Let's stop
prefacing them by some small truths
that make us seem so evenhanded in
the eyes of the world and which make
these lies so respectable and accepted.
Chaya Sarah Silberberg
West Bloomfield

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