• 7 hallucinations, paranoia, poor jilt:Igor:tent, RAGE depression, from page 25 feelings of worthlessness, „delusions, gasp disttatancet, ittpulehre, erratic behavior, grandiote ideas, inability to concentrate, =dada' thOilghtigy feelings of hopelessness. It's a lot to cope with. It's even harder to cope with alone. F lute Mental Illness. . Call Kadima to volunteer or find out, how you can support people with mental illness—so they are not alone. Please call Howard Silberman Development Director, 248-559-82SS, 15999 West 12 Mile Road Southfield, 111 480'76 :us ******* 1 I PARK . 1 1 1 ON- MIDDLEBELT ic************** 1 Serviott New Neil Grand 0 t Terminal Special Phis 30% Airport SHORT $200 Tax = $700/24 Hrs TERM: I I i. enc ed edi -Ischteoic ffi u A a pat g Exit 198 from 1-94 to Middlebelt Rd. South • Continuous FREE 24 Hr. 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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." ❑ . I I' 1 61 I I $538 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." C I of u 1 I One 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 a from page 19 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.