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CELEBRATING
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YEARS OF ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE
As
WE KICK OFF OUR JUBILEE YEAR,
INTIFIDA
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THE IRA KAUFMAN CHAPEL
planned the highly successful Miracle
Mission IV and this past summer's teen
mission, both Jewish Federation-spon-
sored events. I am confident that we
have turned a corner, and that Detroit
Jews are returning to Israel in significant
numbers.
Relationships
Intifada II has damaged local relation-
ships with other ethnic and religious
groups. To our dismay, we heard some
leaders of the local Arab American com-
munity attempt to justify the terrorism.
On several occasions, we saw anti-Israel
demonstrations by Arab organizations
on nearby college campuses and at
major intersections in our own commu-
nities. Clearly, cooperation between the
Jewish and Arab American communities
has been greatly handicapped by the
intifada.
Some local churches have focused
their "peace" advocacy on the Israeli-
Palestinian conflict. Instead of treating
the Palestinians as the true obstacles to
peace, they see them as victims of Israeli
aggression. Just in the past few months,
churches have hosted a replica of "the
Wall" and a hunger strike in sympathy
with Palestinian prisoners.
While the intifada has complicated
our relationship with the local daily
newspapers, I believe that a combination
of our effective advocacy and the lessons
of 9-11 have significantly reduced the
incidence of one-sided news articles and
editorials. Nevertheless, the net impact
has been to make readers feel that nei-
ther side has the moral high ground; the
public has adopted a "plague on both
your houses" attitude.
A recent national poll of Americans'
attitudes toward Israel and the
Palestinians underscores this point. Only
17 percent of Americans believe the
United States should take Israel's side in
the conflict, and 74 percent said our
nation should favor neither side.
All in all, Detroit Jews seem to feel
more isolated from their neighbors
because of the intifada. Assuming the
intifada peters out, as it seems to be
doing, it will take many years to restore
more hopefill- attitudes and rebuild rela-
tionships to the point they were five
years ago.
And to think that had Yasser Arafat
prepared his people for peace, and ulti-
mately accepted Prime Minister Ehud
Barak's offer in 2000, the Palestinians
could have had a nation celebrating its
fourth anniversary. Instead, Israel — and
Detroit Jewry — will never quite be the
same. Ili