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To stop terrorists, armies must reor-
ganize, he said, and they should look at
high-tech solutions to protect soldiers.
"Fighting terror is like fighting
crime',' he said."[We're] fighting a
criminal not bound by law.
"University research and nanotech-
nology groups came up with a fan-
tastic proposal to make arms that are
invisible to attack terrorists before they
arrive, to identify them, stop them and
actually, in a way, to have an army with
almost no soldiers," he said without
going into more detail.
The soldier of the future will have
clothing with strong resistance to bul-
lets that also warm a soldier in cold
weather and cool him in hot weather.
Citing the Israel Defense Forces,
which destroyed two generations of
Russian arms in previous wars, he said,
"I hope Israel will be among the first
nations to produce a new generation of
weaponry"
Joel Jacob of West Bloomfield
enjoyed the speech.
"He has a great speaking style and
is always fun to listen to',' he said. "It
was nice to hear from a dreamer, but
I think at this time Israel needs lead-
ers who are willing to deal with cur-
rent realities and make the important
changes that are needed!'

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September 28 • 2006

RENOVATIONS

Israel's Critics

The Charge:

The Lebanese terrorist group
Hezbollah claims it must continue
its armed "resistance" against Israel
until the Israel Defense Forces
leaves all of Lebanon, including a
plantation known as the Shebaa
Farms.

The.Answer:

Israel had previously withdrawn
from all of Lebanon in 2000, and
was certified by the United Nations
as having done so. NOW, after the
recent conflict with Hezbollah,
Israel will again withdraw, fol-
lowing the full deployment of
U.N. troops this month. As for the
Shebaa Farms, that matter is a pre-
text used by Hezbollah to prevent
its disarming, as the farms are
claimed by Syria and were occu-
pied by that country prior to the
1967 Mideast war.

— Allan Gale, Jewish
Community Council of
Metropolitan Detroit

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Brenda Rosenberg and Imad Hamad

Building Bridges

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n the spirit of the Muslim Holy
Month of Ramadan and the
Jewish High Holy Days of Rosh
Hashanah and Yom Kippur, an Arab
and a Jew are urging renewed dialogue
between the Arab American commu-
nity and the Jewish American com-
munity. Their goal is to understand
the perspectives and thoughts of one
another to help foster lasting peace in
the Middle East.
Imad Hamad, Midwest regional
director of the American Arab Anti-
Discrimination Committee, and Brenda
Rosenberg, Jewish executive director
of Reuniting the Children of Abraham,
issued this joint statement:
"We are not naive. We know that we
face fundamental differences related to
the unfortunate, ongoing Arab-Israeli
conflict and the most recent crisis that
impacted both Israel and Lebanon.
But we are prepared to reach out to
each other as human beings and as
Americans, despite the long, deep and
personal pain of our histories. We are
ready to work together, based on what
we have in common and also work
toward understanding our differences
with respect and empathy."
Their goal is "to dispel the ignorance
and prejudice that divides us, with the
hope that we may contribute to a last-
ing peace in the Middle East"
"As Americans, whether we are
Christians, Muslims, or Jews," they
stated, "we are all proud of our heritage,
faith, values and traditions and we care
to engage in dialogue and constructive
debate. It is our common obligation
and our collective responsibility to
embrace our rich diversity and uphold
respect for one another, especially dur-
ing the most difficult and challenging
times."
They ask the Muslim and Jewish
communities "to join us in building
bridges of reconciliation here in Metro
Detroit for the sake of a safe and prom-
ising future for all of our children." E