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Soldiers Need
Our Support
JOHN C. HART, JR, M.D., FAGS
BRIAN SYGIEL,
With Israel's people and economy suf-
fering, there is something we can do
to help ("Painting The Picture," May
10, page 22).
If we visit Israel, stop in as many
shops and restaurants as time and
budget will allow and purchase gift
certificates. Distribute them to Israeli
soldiers as a token of appreciation for
being on the front lines defending the
Jewish people.
This way, we help the economy,
shopkeepers, soldiers and we don't
have to shlep anything back except
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President George W. Bush and
Secretary of State Colin Powell call for
Israel to surrender the Jewish land
they had liberated in 1967 to allow
the establishment of an Arab
Palestinian state. But Palestine has
already been divided between Arabs
and Jews ("Painting The Picture," May
10, page 22).
If Israel surrenders and returns to its
1949 cease-fire lines as the president
demands:
• With the center of Israel only nine
miles wide, it would not take a major
military effort to slice the country in
half and destroy it.
• Every commercial and military
flight into and out of Israel will be
threatened by shoulder-held Stringer
missiles.
• Israel will lose its main hope for
survival if invaded -- its Jewish land
to hinder invaders while mobilizing its
defenses, the Jewish land that saved
Israel's life in the surprise 1973 Arab
invasion.
• The Jewish people will again lose
their holy Jerusalem, which Arabs
seized in 1948 — killing 1,490 Jews
in Jerusalem and destroying all ancient
synagogues, which Israel had liberated
in 1967.
• The 220,000 Jews living in their
1967 liberated land will lose their
homes, businesses, synagogues and
schools to the Arabs. No Jews in tradi-
tional Jewish land equals racism.
Israel has to lose just one war —
and that is the end of the Jewish state
and its people. To survive, Israel has to
deport those financing, inciting and
organizing the brutal murderous ter-
rorism against them.
Besides Arab Palestine-Jordan, with
less than half the population of Jewish
Palestine-Israel, the Arabs have 22 vast
oil-rich homeland states — sharing
family, language, culture and religion.
Such a transfer of Arabs will com-
plete the population exchange when
the Arab states drove out their Jewish
citizens after 1948, 860,000 settling in
Israel, their motherland.
Hymie Cutler
director, Michigan Committee
for a Safe Israel
Detroit
Israelis Need
Our Support
There seems to be no end to the
unique freedom drive being staged by
some residents of the West Bank, or
Palestine ("Palestinian Unrest," May
10, page 23).
These patriotic fighters have discov-
ered that negotiations are a dead end,
their rights have been revoked perma-
nently and they have nothing left to
make their life worth living.
Hmm. I can't figures this out. In
Jenin, a horrible massacre turns out to
be only 56 dead, most of whom were
not civilians, but gunmen. Palestinian
leader Yasser Arafat is released from his
siege and the standoff at the Church
of the Nativity is about to end with
the worst of the criminals inside being
offered sanctuary in Italy. I guess it
doesn't matter that the Italians weren't
asked in advance if they wanted to
harbor people who could easily begin
destroying Italian cities.
But in return for a troop pullback, a
release of Arafat and an agreement to
let criminals go free, the freedom
fighters of the Palestinian Authority
strike one of the most strategic of all
military targets. We all know that pool
halls harbor soldiers and specially
trained elite military troops. What bet-
ter staging area than the felt top of a
pool table where strategy is planned
over a game of eight ball CA Test For
Arafat," May 10, page 22).
Give me a break and give the Israelis
a break. We are striking back against
terror, and they must also. If we love
freedom around the world, let's start
giving more backing to the people
who are on the front lines every
minute of every day.
Zachary M. Davies
Oak Park
NCCJ Protests
Anti-Jewish Bigotry
The mission of the National
Conference for Community and
Justice is to fight bias, bigotry and
racism and promote understanding
and respect among all races, religions
and cultural groups.
Therefore, we have been deeply
troubled when at several southeast
Michigan and national demonstrations
regarding the Middle East, Jews were
referred to as Nazis ("Opposing
Voices," April 12, page 20). At one
location in West Bloomfield, demon-
strators held signs showing a Jewish
star and swastika with an equal sign
between them. There also have been
other forms of bias, such as flag burn-
ing and anti-Semitic bigotry during
these demonstrations.
NCCJ protested against the profil-
ing of Arab Americans and Muslims
after Sept. 11 when some people tried
to imply that most Arabs and Muslims
were responsible for those terrorist
acts. And we protest just as strongly
when some Arab Americans and
Muslims equate Jewish people here
and abroad with the racial war that
Nazi Germany used to exterminate
two-thirds of the world's Jewish popu-
lation. Leaders in the Islamic,
Christian and Jewish communities
need to speak as forcefully against this
type of bigotry, as do those religious
leaders who protest current religious
and ethnic discrimination against
Muslims and Arab Americans.
Rev. Daniel Krichbaum
executive director, NCCJ
Alan A. May
vice chair, NCCJ
Detroit
Story On Tappers
On The Mark
I await the delivery of my Jewish News
with eager anticipation.
Your article about the Tapper broth-
ers ("Silver Success," May 10, page
122) was right on the mark. Howard
and Steven Tapper always greet me
warmly and with great courtesy.
Estelle Fink and Stanley Berlin have
given wonderful service and shown
great patience. Add to this, the
Tappers' involvement in the Jewish
community. It is truly a "Silver
Success."
Trudi Messer
Oak Park