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serious about peace after eight years of
acting this way?" he said. "It seems to
me that Israel should make clear to the
Palestinian Arabs that if you want seri-
orton Klein doesn't
ous negotiations you'd better pick
understand what the
someone who's serious about peace
fuss is all about. To
with us — not a clone of Saddam
him, the Israeli military
Hussein and Muammar Qaddafi, and
is not responding strongly enough to
that's who Arafat is."
Palestinian Arab mortar attacks.
Klein is equally
"If Mexico and Canada
contemptuous
of
were shelling El Paso and
the findings of the
Detroit with mortars,
Mitchell
killing our people, I know
Commission, a
that America would
fact-finding com-
respond with severe force,"
mittee led by for-
said Klein, national presi-
mer U.S. Sen.
dent of the Zionist
George Mitchell,
Organization of America,
that called for an
who stopped in Detroit for
end to Jewish set-
a national committee meet-
tlement building
ing and two speeches on
on West Bank and
May 14.
Gaza Strip land.
For Israel to respond
The report
with minimal force "sends
"totally
ignored
a message to the Arabs that
Arafat's
culture of
we are weak and not will-
hatred"
that
pro-
ing to defend ourselves and
motes
violence
we are willing to tolerate
and murder of
the murder of our citi-
Jewish people
zens," he told the Jewish
Morton Klein
through the
News, shortly before he
Palestinian leader's
spoke to 175 people at a
speeches,
Klein
said.
"The report says
ZOA-Michigan Region leadership
both
sides
complain
of
hate being per-
luncheon on May 14 at Adat Shalom
petrated
against
their
people.
Arafat
Synagogue.
can complain all he wants, but it's not
He also commented on Palestinian
true."
Authority leader Yasser Arafat's power,
On the settlement issue, the
and the findings of the Mitchell
Mitchell report goes beyond the Oslo
report.
accords, he said.
He doubted the thoughts of some
"Oslo makes it clear that settlements
who think Arafat has lost control of
can
continue to be built by Jews and
the Palestinians, calling it nonsense.
Arabs. The Mitchell report says, 'No,
If Arafat began to make speeches
you should reward people who have
deploring the violence that took the
just committed murder on innocent
lives of the two Israeli teenagers and
people,"' he said. "... Arabs are build-
the 10-month-old baby girl in recent
ing at 10 times the rate of the Jews in
weeks, if he tried to close down the
Judea
and Samaria — on disputed ter-
Palestinian children's camps promoting
ritory
— and Mitchell says nothing
murder of Israeli citizens, and the vio-
about
it. We found that quite abom-
lence still continued, Klein said it
inable."
would be different.
According to Klein, Israeli Prime
"We would say, 'Look he's trying,
Minister Ariel Sharon shouldn't have
and obviously he's trying to control
anything to do with Arafat "until the
it,"' Klein said. "But he's not doing
violence
and promotion of violence in
any of that. He just made a speech in
their
culture
ends for a minimum of
Saudi Arabia saying five times that
months
or
more. Otherwise, you're
six
`Our jihad will continue until we have
sending
a
message
that there's no con-
all of our land back.'
sequences for violence."
"Does anyone really believe he is

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