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though it's scary. Our extended family
in Israel is feeling pretty abandoned by
the rest of us. We need to take a stand,
and one way is to go there," she said.
We know that people want to go,
but many have a wait-and-see atti-
tude," said her husband, David Gad-
Harf, executive director of the Jewish
Community Council of Metropolitan
Detroit. "But the worse it gets there,
the more important it is for us to go.
Otherwise, we're sending a message to
Israel that the terrorists are winning."
West Bloomfield's Ed Kohl says he
is seriously considering going to Israel
for two weeks to volunteer "in any
capacity." He's awaiting information
from an organization that coordinates
American volunteers.
"I've never fought in a war, but I'm
a soldier," Kohl said. "I hear a lot of
A Full Telling
Israel advocacy consultant Don Cohen
of West Bloomfield prepares /AN, an
Israel Advocacy Network newsletter
for the JCCouncil that is e-mailed
weekly to more than 700 people in
Detroit. He sent out an issue on
March 13 responding to the Free Press
primer.
"The issues they highlighted were
the top issues on the Palestinian agen-
da, not the top issues on the Israeli
agenda," Cohen said.
"It's a mindset that if only the
Palestinian grievances can be
addressed, then there will be no fur-
ther conflict — and that is a terrible
oversimplification and misrepresenta-
tion of the conflict. That's the type of
view that permeates the entire page.
"My belief is that they should re-edit
the page and rerun it," Cohen said.
"We want a fair, accurate and as
complete as possible representation of
the Arab-Israeli conflict. I am confi-
dent that a full telling of the story will
come out in Israel's favor."
The disputed primer was not a last-
minute production by the Free Press,
Gad-Harf said.
"They had prepared it and intended
to run it last September. And then
Sept. 11 hit and they decided to put it
on the back burner. So they've had
months to consult, to improve, to
expand, to update, to do what they
needed to do," he said.
Arthur M. Horwitz, publisher of the
Jewish News, said, "It's understandable
at times when the pace of the daily
newspaper business requires you to
come out with incomplete informa-
tion. But what made this particular
package of stories in the Free Press so
troubling was that they did not face
the normal day-to-day pressures of
deadline or breaking news — and
therefore had time, if they so chose, to
carefully craft this particular package.
"The fact that it was crafted in a
fashion that was so unbalanced and
that so sanitized Yasser Arafat, one can
only conclude that most senior editors
and leadership of the Free Press signed
off on it." ❑
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pleased they acknowledged that the
primer was not as complete as it
should have been.
"We feel that our work with the Free
Press is never ending," said Gad-Harf.
"We have to continually monitor their
treatment of Israel and the Mideast.
We need to let them know, as I know
we have, that there is that continual
monitoring process going on. And we
need to bring to their attention specif-
ic examples of inaccurate or biased
reporting.
"The message we got [from the
primer] that was most disconcerting
was the almost dismissing of terrorism
as the primary issue of the conflict,"
Gad-Harf said.
"We in the Jewish community have
come to the realization that the key
problem over the last several months
has been the terror inflicted upon the
Israeli people by not just the so-called
terrorist groups, but instigated and
encouraged by Yasser Arafat himself If
you read the primer, you would not
get that view at all. That's the big mes-
sage of the primer, and the big prob-
lem we have with it."
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trasting biographies of Arafat and
Sharon. "Arafat's biography made him
out to be a statesman and Sharon's
biography made him out to be a war-
rior," Gad-Harf said.
'Another major concern was how
they characterized the Palestinian
groups Hamas, Al Aqsa Brigades, Fatah
... They did not use the word 'terror-
ist.' That was a grave concern of ours."
Said Meriwether, "We had a full and
rigorous discussion about the primer
with members of the Jewish commu-
nity and the Jewish Community
Council. Much of that discussion con-
cerned information we had not
included in the primer. As a result, we
published a clarification that included
additional information we felt should
have been included in the primer."
The Free Press printed four points of
"clarification" on Page 2A of its March
27 paper. The clarifications touched
on these issues:
• That three Islamic groups men-
tioned are listed as terrorist organiza-
tions by the U.S. State Department.
• That the PLO renounced its long-
time advocacy of Israel's destruction in
1993.
• That it was the Lebanese militia
that killed 800-2,000 at two refugee
camps near Beirut in 1982.
• That Arab forces attacked Israel in
1948, beginning a war.
Said Gad-Harf, "The Free Press
acknowledged there were shortcom-
ings with the piece and they printed a
clarification a few days after our meet-
ing that spoke to four different points
that we made.
"I would categorize it as not nearly
what we were hoping for. But we were
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scheduled to travel with the May 19-
24 solidarity mission sponsored by the
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan
Detroit. Although numbers are down
significantly for the teen mission this
July (11 participants compared to 282
two summers ago), as of now there are
no plans to cancel that trip.
Fifty-eight supporters of the
American Technion Society (ATS) from
all over the United States, including 14
metro Detroiters, are planning to par-
ticipate in the annual mission at the
end of May in support of the Technion-
Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa.
According to Nancy Gad-Harf, ATS
East Central Region director, "the
group is even more intent on going
now. It's very, very important, even
excuses from people about why they're
not doing anything, and none of them
are good enough. If you care, you do
something." ❑
For information on how to get
involved in advocating for Israel,
visit the following Web sites: All
You Can For Israel, a Web site
prepared by Don Cohen,
wvvw.AYC4Israel.org; for volun-
teer opportunities in Israel,
www.vfi-usa.org; American
Israeli Public Affairs Committee,
www.aipac.com . Or, call the
Jewish Community Council,
(248) 642-5393; or the Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan
Detroit, (248) 642-4260.