Clean Up For the New Year OTHER VIEWS 2 rooms of carpet cleaned only $4995 5 rooms of carpet cleaned only $ The Original Since 1939 99 95 KAUFMAN from HAGOPIAN page 73 CLEANING SERVICES IlaPP9 Rosh lia5lianah ` Bring your oriental or area rugs to one of our Rug Care Centers, and we'll clean every other one FREE For directions, or to schedule a cleaning appointment call: 1-800-HAGOP1AN (424-6742) ....Expect the best...Expect the purple truck! O Rug Care Centers: Oak Park 8 Mile W/Coolidge Birmngham Old Woodward & Lincoln co co Novi 12 & Novi Rd Ann Arbor the Courtyard Shops gottemple? Looking for a place to call home? A place to raise your kids (and your kiddush cup) among friends? Young Family Shabbat (perfect for ages 2-8 ), a compre- hensive Religious School and a dynamic Nursery School, as well. Even after- care on the days we need it. Our family has thrived here at Temple Emanu-El. got a temple? The very first paragraph of the road map agreement, just like all the very first paragraphs of all the duplicitous peace" agreements that the Arabs have signed before and the Israelis have swal- lowed since, says, "In Phase I, the Palestinians immediately undertake an unconditional cessation of violence according to the steps outlined below; such action should be accompanied by supportive measures undertaken by Israel. "Palestinians and Israelis resume secu- rity cooperation based on the Tenet work plan to end violence, terrorism and incitement through restructured and effective Palestinian security services. Palestinians undertake compre- hensive political reform in prepara- tion for statehood, including drafting a Palestinian constitu- tion and free, fair and open elections upon the basis of those measures." Has any of the above ever happened since the Oslo agreement and the Israeli-orchestrated return from Tunisia of a totally defeated Yasser Arafat in 1993? Of course not. Does any realistic political pundit or historian believe it will ever happen? Nevertheless, Israel marches on with its woeful policy of appeasement and defeatism. Recently, General Moshe Yaalon, Israel's chief of staff and another general who many of us thought genuinely embraced a policy of strength and con- tainment, and, most probably like Olmert, acting as point man for Sharon, declared that Israel could return all of the Golan Heights to Syria without you've got one now! compromising security! This statement is contrary to an eval- uation of a coterie of American military analysts that visited the Golan after the Six-Day War. Syrians for years, with the most modest of weapons, rained terror down on the Israeli farmers of the Hula Valley beneath the Golan Heights. Courting Egypt Equally outrageous is Sharon's court- ing of the Egyptians to take over polic- ing of Gaza and the underground tunnels that reach directly from Egyptian land in the Sinai through Rafah to Palestinian homes from which the weaponry is dis- persed! IMRA, the Independent Media Review and Analysis news agency, report- ed that the Israeli deputy director-gen- eral for information declined to raise the issue of Egypt's failure to act against the smuggling of weapons from Egypt to Gaza as the focus is currently on explaining the Israel Defense Forces operation in Gaza! Shades of Oslo. The Israelis deliber- ately turn a blind eye on complete non- compliance and continue on the inane path of appeasement and defeatism in the preposterous hope that their cen- turies-old enemy will simply change their minds and go away and leave the Jews alone! Where is this all leading? One can only shudder in contemplation. Perhaps the HaShem of those that truly believe will, once again, save the Jews from their own self-destruction? Israelis continue on the inane path of appeasement and defeatism with a preposterous hope. TEMPLE EMANU-EL • Oak Park 248-967-4020 • www.emanuel-mich.org H ✓ at FLOORS NiirNo mdPNIOF dirk an d INTERIORS 9/10 2004 74 Israel Insight Wishing a Healthy & Happy New Year to All our Friends and Customers 248-681-6460 • 3021 Orchard Lake Keego Harbor Fes, y 04ViAtil 44.4 Ot/q4,4e41 F . 0,44, 30 1 4414 , 884870 THE ISSUE This week's Israeli attack on a Hamas training camp provoked a troubling response from the Palestinian Authority that bordered on partnership with the terror group. Significant change must come to the Middle East before Palestinian behavior will improve. BEHIND THE ISSUE With the rising influence of radicals in Palestinian society, it is difficult for- tho erates to hold their ground. Pacifist Arun Gandhi's recent visit to the Palestinian Authority provoked the radicals to launch a bus bomb- ing in Israel. A major obstacle to combating the radicals is the silence of the Arab states. If they con- demned them, shut down their offices and warmed relations with Israel, that could provide cover for Palestinian moderates to act against the radicals. -- Allan Gale, Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Detroit