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Jerusalem Report editor-publisher offers insights into the Israeli situation.
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He told the reporter he had been promoted to the posi-
tion of a Palestinian prosecutor whose job was to bring col-
laborators to trial, Horovitz said.
"It was a graphic illustration of a Palestinian apparatus
far from helping Israel to prevent suicide bombings, but
devoting much of its time trying to stop the people whose
crime is to prevent the bombings.
"That shows how far we are from any kind of partner-
ship," he said. And stories like these are not reaching the
mainstream press.
Instead of seeing a CNN report showing more Israeli
reservists show up than called for during an emergency
call-up, CNN reports on the 400 soldiers who are refusing
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ffering insider insight, David Horovitz, editor-
publisher of the Jerusalem Report, gave his per-
spective on why the world wrongly perceives the
Israel-Palestinian problem.
Camp David's failure was not about the territories, the
settlements or the occupation but the right of return, he
told 25 people at a June 5 luncheon sponsored by the
American Israel Public Affairs Committee and the Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan Detroit's Ben-Gurion Club.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak would have made
almost any territorial compromise if he thought Palestinian
leader Yasser Arafat would reach a deal, the Israeli journalist said.
But Arafat didn't want the refugees to come to his new,
independent state of Palestine, "he wanted them to come
and live in our country," Horovitz said.
Arafat's position does not call for co-existence between Israel
and a new Palestine, he said. "It is a position that calls for a-
new Palestine and an Israel that would rapidly become
Palestine as well."
Using television and newspapers, which he controls very
rigidly, Arafat has created a sense of desperation among
Palestinians, Horovitz said. "It is manipulated desperation.
This is a leader who didn't tell his people that he rejected
what they think they are seeking to achieve."
It makes no sense to call terrorism "an intifada [uprising]
David Horovitz
against occupation," he said, because if it is, the
Palestinians "are following the wrong strategy and they're
to serve on the West Bank, he said.
much too smart for that.
Ill-informed reporters are misreading the situation as anti-
.. "If all they sought to do is force us out of the West Bank
Sharon
hysteria, Horovitz said, even though Sharon main-
and the Gaza, the way to achieve that would be to target
tained
a
partnership with Arafat for the first few months
the soldiers on the West Bank and Gaza," he said.
and
made
it clear that he did not seek to re-conquer
A debate would have started between a mother in Tel
Palestinian
areas.
Aviv asking, "Why is my son going there?" and a settler
"There's
a perceived support for the underdogs, but I
saying, "What are you talking about?"
think we're pretty much the underdog," he said.
If the terrorists would have kept the fight in the territo-
Horovitz scolded government spokesmen, saying they are
ries and against the soldiers, the Israelis would have unilat-
not
well coordinated and doing a bad job.
erally withdrawn by now, he said.
"It
is murderously unacceptable that 20 months after the start
"They're forcing the Israeli moderates who have never
of
the
conflict, there are still people in serious positions acting
had the slightest support of the settlements to say the last
for
Israel
who shouldn't be allowed near a television camera."
thing we should do is relinquish anything now because it
Speaking
of Jewish federation-sponsored solidarity missions,
would be seen as capitulation."
Horovitz
said
every one that comes to Israel bolsters the Israeli
Most Israelis are desperate for peace, said Horovitz, who
people. "Don't underestimate the psychological value for both
made aliyah from England in 1983. "The moment that Israelis
parties of those missions," he said. "Even in cynical Israel
feel there is an opportunity, I think they will rush to it."
where
the diaspora was not big news until recently, all the
But finding like-minded Palestinians is a different matter.
marches
and rallies and parades are widely reported in Israel."
While working on a cover story about Israeli hospitals treat-
Brad
Burdan
of West Bloomfield said the situation is
ing those injured in bombings, including the bombers, a
"devastating
to
Jews in the United States. It's devastating to.
Jerusalem Report reporter was at a hospital one day watching
people
in
Israel.
nurses treat a Palestinian who collaborated with the Israelis
"To live in fear is horrible, but what can you do? You
injured in a gun battle. A few rooms away, Palestinian
spokesman Saeb Erakat's brother sat with his young child born can't crawl under a rock and hide," he said. "I hope we can
do something about it, but what's the answer?" ❑
with a serious illness. The hospital was keeping him alive.
Martin Wenick leaves his post as
executive director of the National
Conference on Soviet Jewry and
becomes director of the 112-year
old Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society.
Temple Israel holds a special
Shabbat service honoring the 50th
wedding anniversary of Sonia and
Rabbi M. Robert Syme.
The National Council of Young
Israel opens a Torah tape library in
New York City with more than
1,300 titles of Jewish interest.
1972
Centennial Chapter of Bnai Brith
Women has completed a five-year
effort in publication of its recipe
book "Here's What's Cooking."
Rabbi Jacob E. Segal receives life
tenure at Congregation Adas
Shalom in Detroit.
Congregation Shaarey Zedek
removes its old Detroit cornerstone
containing historical documents and
adds current records to be deposited
at its new cornerstone at a ceremony
for the Southfield synagogue at
Northwestern Highway and 11 Mile
Road.
Montefiore Lodge, Brith Shalom
donates money to Fresh Air Society
to provide camperships for under-
privileged children.
Women pioneers of the agricultural
settlements in Palestine are
enrolling in the Palestine Auxiliary
Territorial Service to serve as nurs-
es, drivers and mechanics so men
can go to the front.
Classes in Home Nursing and in
Air Raid Precautions are some of
the new courses being offered at the
Jewish Community Center in
Detroit under the auspices of its
War Efforts committee.
— Compiled by Holly Teasdle, archivist
the Rabbi Leo M. Franklin Archives,
Temple Beth El
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